Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05
News Of the Week.

United States free of duty.
Laurens county, Ga, has been sha
ken by an earthquake.
The trade dollar bill was passed by
the House.
Bismarck's withdrawal from the
Prussian ministry is considered prob.
able.
The Dyer Rubber Company, of
Andover, was scorched by fire to the
extent of $4,000.
A bill prohibiting the importation
of contract labor is now before Con
gress.
Schaeffer and Slosson will play
billiards for the championship at
Chicago May Z.
At Dover, N. H., the water in the
Cocheco is at the highest stage
known in thirty years.
Prince Leopold, the youngest son
of Queen Victoria, died last Friday
at Cannes, France.
At Topton, Pa, there is almost an
epidemic of diptheTia. Three chill
dren of one family were buried in q
single grave.
G. w. Sample, Dan Down, VIM.
Dillane and Dan Kelley were hanged
at Tombstone, Arizona, for the Bis
bee murder.
The public debt was reduced $14-
228,34 during March. The decrease
since June 20, 1888, amounts to $S1, :
828, 29S.
There were 8 ,696 business failures
in the United States during the first
vuarter of 1882, with liabilities
amounting to $40, 100000.
A fve.story building, occupied by
III. Hamburger, fancy goods. dealer,
Broadway New York, was damaged
$4,000 by fire.
Lewis Enos, financial manager of
the st. Louis and Cairo railway, at
st. Louis, is missing, and his &C
counts show deficit of $4,000.
Another murder was committed
in Cincinnati A colored man
named Lightfoot killed Hugh
Toomey, "a white man, with a blow
from a shovel.
1t is asserted that a woman in
Appleton, Me-, was married to
soldier nine hours after his death in
order to obtain pension as his
widow.
She Grand Trunk road daily takes
from Lontreal twenty five families
and their household effects, bound
to New England for permanent set
Element.
Land seekers are gathering in
Blackbird county, Nebraska, to Sc
cure portions of fifty thousand acres
of the Omaha reservation, which are
to be sold to actual settlers in June.
Leslie Lavender, a desperate of 16
years, fatally wounded Mrs. Owens
and her mother, near Salem, Roam
oke county, Va, the other day, while
they were resisting his attempts to
rob their dwelling.
In suit at Wabash, Indiana,
verdict of $4,000 was rendered
against the Wabash road and the
Western Tnion Telegraph Company
for causing the death of John Brad
ley by a complicated accident.
A bill will be reported from she
House Committee on Labor making
it unlawful for any person in the en-
ploy of the United States or any
State to contract with anyone to hire
out the labor of prisoners confined in
any prison or Jail.
During the court house fire at
Cincinnati, Saturday night, five at
Cincinnati, Saturday night, five men
were on the roof of an adjoining
building. Their only avenue of es-
cape being blockaded by fire, they
leapsd to the dense mass of telegraph
wires that ran along the front of the
building, and every one made his
escape.
Dispatches from Indiana, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Alabama
and South Carolina show that the
cyclone has caused great destruction
of property and the loss Of large
number of lives. Oakville, a village
in Indiana, has been almost entirely
swept away, while in Pennsylvania
Pittsburg has been the chief suffer
or. The number of killed and
wounded cannot yet be accurately
stated-the former may reach
score or more, and the latter over
one hundred.