Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-03-29
News of the Week.

A Doom TOT Ten. f1dWlty Is mdbuT-
ing in Connecticut.
Augustus Schell, of New York, is
reported to be dying.
A Philadelphia church is to be
converted into brewery.
Orrin Carpenter has been acquitted
of the murder Of Fora Burns.
A Mollie Mcguire scare has been
started in Pennsylvania.
whippers will be exempt
from the lash in Massachusetts.
John j. Cisco,a we'll known bank
Ell of New York, died.
Dayton, o., afflicted with the cpl
zooty to remarkable extent.
The reported reduction Of rail
readers wages is discredited at
Pittsburgh.
The ship Bombay, of Bath, Me.
with a crew of eighteen men, is Civ
en- up for lost.
Two children, Alfred and William
Sharp, were kidnapped at Camden,
N. j.
The Chappell acid works, at Balti-
more, were destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
Arrangements are now in progress
for the Republican National conven
ton at Chicago.
A Chicago thief was arrested
while pawning a lighted lamp he
had Just stolen from j hall
Reports to Brodstreet's complain
of the lateness Of tie opening of
spring trade in all directions.
Half the stake money is up for the
fight between Sullivan and Thomp-
son, the Cleveland man.
Edmunds and Lincoln are the
choice of Massachusetts Repub-
licans for President and Vice Pres
ident.
Deputy Marshals are allowed
twelve hundred dollars year under
the proposed new appropriation bill.
The county Jail, engine house and
ten other buildings were destroyed
at Greenville, Texas, on Saturday.
Six hundred employees are thrown
out of employment by the stopping
of the Woonsocket (R. ~ rubber
works.
Leaders of the colored people com
plain that President Arthur has
ign ored them completely in the dis
tribution of offices.
Reports from Boston speak of the
wool market as being duller than a
week ago, with the market in the
buyers favor.
Samuel Fryer, the murderer of the
Pennington family, at Marysville,
KS, was lynched by masked party
on Saturday.
s Ht9ladfR and farmer aFteswa Lying ne
tempted his own life. He is threat
ened with lynching
| Mrs. A. H. Foote died at Law
renee, Kansas, Friday, from blood
poisoning, caused by wearing green
veil which rubbed against "a tender
spot on her face.
The tariff reforners insist that
the Morrison bill represents the ut
most compromise they can offer, and
that nothing less will Sal isfy their
constituents.
The transportation lines having
head quarters in Bwffalo, N. Y,
have decided to employ foreigners
non union men in preference to
Americans who are union men.
The wrestling championship of the
world now rests with Duncan G..
Ross. of Cleveland. who last night
defeated j. H. Mclaughlin, Of De
trOit, the champion heretofore. An
other match has been arranged be-
tween these parties, 10 come off in
three weeks.
Several children from the village
OF Valoria, Pa, near Mradvi lie,
went out in search of sugar water.
Not finding any the boys tapped
some kind of tree with pocket
knives, and all the children slipped
the juice. All Were taken sick.
George Curtis is dead and three
others are expected to die.
The veterinary surgeons investi-
eating the cattle disease at Neosho
Falls, Kansas, suddenly happened to
think of examining the hay fed to
the sufferers. There they found
wild rye containing twenty times
more ergot than was ever before
known in feed 1t is claimed that
the feet of the cattle froze because
the ergOt contracted the blood yes
sells and retarded the circulation
The following which weclip from
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