Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-06-06
NEWS m A NUTSHELL.


Fresh, crispy GIeaninss or Recent Noss-
worthy Happenings aud Rycnss.
| The terrible fever plague at Plymouth,
Pa, still continues undated. Nine deaths
on Sunday and four on Monday.
A colored lunatic started or freight train
on Georgia road, ran it for five miles at the
rate of forty miles an hour, when the steam
gave out
Another terrific rain has prevailed
throughout Texas.
Seventy-five towns in southwestern Mime
sofa report that the wheat crop is looking
we'll
The railroad conductors are thronging to
Minneapolis, Mimi, to attend their annual
convention
John LOOMS Shock, aged a5. lieutenant
in the United States Navy, committed SUI
eide in London
The international rowing regetta Of New
Orleans, under the management Of the St
Johns club, has commenced.
The official census of the District Of Column
bia, as ascertained by the police census
makes the population a03, 49,
A reward of $1,000 is offered for the ar
rest of the persons who attempted to blow
up the Rio Grande passenger train near
Denver.
Capt Clarence r.. Dutton, of tho ordinance
department of the army, has started for Cal
! ifornia, TO make a study of the geological
phenomena presented by the Cascade noun
| tains, the greatest volcanic range upon the
| globe
! Mrs Frank Vanderbilt left no will Her
estate is valued at ST ,0S0,00o
| Sixty priests are la attendance at tho Co
iumbus, O., Catholic diocesan convention.
Allen Bramnl, near Wilkesbarrs, Pa, beat
out the brains Of his sweetheart with re-
volver and fed.
The next mayor OF Philadelphia will have
control of all the important departments OF
the city government.
Both seven and seventeen year locusts have
appeared in Fayette county, Ohio, and horti-
culturists fear the worst.
One train from Southern Illinois brought
to Chicago 10000 quarts OF Strawberries,
and the season has not yet opened.
Riel claims that as an American citizen ho
cannot lie considered a Canadian rebel, and
this will probably be his line OF defense.
Two hundred armed men landed in Cuba
Monday, and the usual rising and usual
hangings are expected to follow III short
order
The young tramp fatally shot at Anderson,
Ind, proves to DO Johnny Kathmanny, Gin
cinnati He was removed to his homo in q
| dying condition
-Four horses of Il. Mcclure, Shelby county,
Ohio, were deafened by lightning and can
not be dubbed into the barn where they re-
ceived the shock.
Lonia Rogers was acquitted Of the murder
Of old man Brehm, near Columbus, Ind.
The defense was that, though she bought tho
poison, the old man suicided.
The Mexican war veterans will meet at the
Dennison house, Cincinnati, O., on Saturday,
May 30, Mt $50 a. m, TO attend in body the
memorial services at Spring Grove cemetery
"LyncLe- y unknown parties" was the
coroner's verdict on tho bodies Of Hicks and
Taylor, whose removal from Franklin, KY,
Jail and subsequent lynching just over the
line id Tennessee
1t Is reported that tho Mormons are en-
deavoring to sell out to New York capitalists
and intend moving into Mexico. Brigham
Young's Oldest son Is now in the east carry
| ing on the negotiations.
| When soldier entered the Office Of the
commissioner of pensions and asked that his
pension might be stopped, ON the ground
that he was now a sound man, Cen Black at
once vouched that he was lunatic and sent
him before the medical board to have him
examined.