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

| VINO GOOk an dcLlVo part In politics
in violation of the fire ordinance.
At large meeting of citizens of
Cincinnati Monday it was agreed to
create street and sanitary commits
sion for two years, and to place ST.
10000 at its disposal.
Several of the ex- detectives charg'
ed with the stealing and receiving
and receiving stolen goods were ar
rested in Washington Tuesday, and
released on bail.
r. j. Fisher, Jr., a principal ex-
aminer in the Patent Office, has been
appointed examiner in-chief in place
of Mr.. Dyrenforth, promoted to be
assistant commissioner.
Senators Beck and Bayard with
drew from the tariff conference COM
mittee Wednesday night. The COM
mttee, however, continued in SEES
sion for some time thereafter.
The convention of public school
superintendent of Virginia met in
Richmond Tuesday for the purpose
of comforting on subjects looking to
the improvement of the public school
system of the state.
VIM. Helloran, who is alleged to
have personated Thomas Michael,
who died in April last, in order to
obtain $4,000 benefit from the Amer
lean Legion of Honor, was arrested
in Philadelphia Monday night and
held in SIS, 900 for hearing.
The Republican State Committee
of Connecticut Wednesday night
| elected Senator Orville II. Platt, a
member of the Republican National
Committee in place of Hon. Mar
shall Jewell, deceased.
Charles Emory Pattison, the
youngest son of Governor Pattison,
of Pennsylvania, was very i'll with
diphtheria Wednesday at Harris
burg, and it was thought could not
recover. The boy is five years of
age and exceedingly bright.
| The bill regulating the civil ser
vice of Pennsylvania was defeated
in the state House of Representa-
tives Friday by vote of Y yeas to
81 nays. The bill was an adaptation
to the needs of the state of the ma.
| tional Civil Service bill.
Senator ingalls, last Friday repor.
ted a bill from the District Commit.
tee for the removal of the depots OF
the Baltimore and Ohio and Balti-
more and Potomac Railroads from
their present locations in Washing
ton to points on the outskirts of the
city.
In the Supreme Court, New \ DIRK
last Friday, John M. Martin obtain
ed verdict for $4,000 against the
| Pennsylvania Railroad Company
and the Norwich and New York
| Transportation Company, for injur-
| les received in a collision two years
ago.
| Another victim of the Western
Lunatic Asylum poisoning died
Tuesday, making the sixth person
who has died at Staunton. The 9th
er two inmates who were poisoned
have recovered. The mystery sur
rounding the poisoning, has not yet
been cleared up.
Hon. d. n. Speer, treasurer Of
Georgia, has sold in Wall street
New York, $4,000 United States
bonds for the state of Georgia, ant
placed the proceeds, exceeding $780,
600, in the Fourth National Banl
of New York to reduce the debt O.
the state.
In the star route trial in Wash
: ington Wednesday Colonel Ingersol
and Mr.. II. L. Merrick got into {;
personal alteration, in the course o
which Merrick called the former {
puppy, and Ingersoll called Merricl
a dirty dog. Order was finally re-
stored, and both gentlemen apollo
gized to the court.
The Democratic members of tn,
Pennsylvania legislature have pu
themselves on record as opposed tx
a civil service commission for th,
examination of all applicants FOL
nOsitions in the executive depart