Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-17
THE WEEKS HAPPENINGS.

atty for murder was passed.
Three hundred clerks have been
dismissed from the Census Bureau.
and more discharges are expected.
A Texarkana dispatch says Sheriff
Dixon, who was tried for killing A.
5. Johnson in the court house there
Thursday, was acquitted Saturday.
The jury was out fifteen minutes.
Augustus Porter, Democratic
policeman, who killed a colored man
at the polls in Frederick last fall at
the election, has been acquitted of
murderous intent by the grand jury.
The citizens committee of Wash
ington, which has been investigat-
ing The collision between the detec.
tives and thieves, has adopted the
report Of the president submitted
Monday, asking the prosecution of
all such cases brought to light.
A Congressman, who is supposed
to be well posted, is responsible for
the statement that Representative
Carlisle, of Kentucky, stands the
best chance for the speakership of
the next House, and that Randall is
out of the race.
The sensational story that an
Irishman named Michael Holmes,
who was killed in a row in Milwaukee
last week, had confessed that he was
connected with the Phoenix Park
assassinations, proves, on investiga-
ton, to have been entirely without
foundation.
James Wren of Grafton, an engi-
neer on the B. q 0. railroad, on
Tuesday, to avoid being killed in
wreck, seeing a large rock on the
track, jumped from his engine, and
striking an embankment, was
thrown back Under the train and in
stantly killed. The engine and cars
kept to the track.
| The city of San Francisco was in
total darkness for several days last
week, the gas company refusing to
light their lamps. The company
even went 80 far as to remove the
tops of the lamp-posts and plug the
| pipes. This proved costly expert
ment, however, for many of the
plugs were pulled during the night
and the gas allowed to escape.
James s. King, who, it is alleged,
recently by threats of shooting fore
ed DR.. A. A. Roth, of Frederick,
Md, to sign a five thousand dollar
note in satisfaction for alleged adul-
| try with his wife, was indicted on
Saturday by the grand jury for as
sault with intent to kill. After get
ting possession the note King gave
it up, and is now suing Roth for ten
thousand dollars damages.
A sensation was created in the
Massachusetts legislature Wednes-
day by message which Governor
Butler, presented, vetoing the bill
making appropriations for the ex-
penses OF various charitable and re-
formatory institutions of the state
He declines to sign it for various
reasons, chief among which is that
the salaries paid State officials in
charge of the institutions in ques'
are too large.
AT the regular monthly meeting
of the Triennial Conclave Commit.
tee of Knights Templar in San
Francisco Wednesday the value of
the four trophies was fixed at $500,
$500, $500 and $500, respectively.
The Committee of Transportation
reported that they had secured the
following rates A round trip tick
ct to New Orleans, $50; st. Louis
and return, $75; from all points not
specially fixed one fore for the round
trip, not to exceed $50 from points
west OF Omaha.
In 1875 Ramey Thomas killed
Joseph Deal, a clerk at the Maxwell
House in Nashville, Tenn, for in
sulting young woman TO whom lie,
Thomas, was engaged to be married.
He was sent to the penitentiary for
twenty-one years, but his sentence
was commuted to ten years 10y Gov
ernor Porter, and the term having
been again reduced for good behavi-
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