Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-03-14
THE PITH OF THE NEWS.
PIouANT PARAGRAPHS FOR POPULAR
PERUSAL-.
Being Summary of the Principal Happen
ings and Noteworthy Events of the
Past Week. Boiled Down for
the Hurried Reader

the Hurried Reader
A fire IN Albany. =. =. DESTROYED s4OO,0O
worth of properly.
The six-day roller skating tournament has
commenced in New York.
The murders Of Marshal Gosling in Texas
have been remanded to Jail without bail.
There is scramble for Senator Garlands
vacated shoes in case he goes into the cabinet
There is universal regret in England caused
by the sad news Of the approaching death OF
General Grant
Father Charles Driscol, for thirty-six
years pastor of ST. Xavier's church, Gin
cinnati, o., is dead
Dynamite experimenters have been testing
their machines near Huntington, Pa, with
satisfactory results.
Neal Dow, temperance advocate, has de
serted his old political party on the grounds
Of intemperance.
Michael Bailey, of st. Louis, shot himself
through the head and viii die. The cause is
drink and financial troubles.
AT Rockdale, Tex, in a dance row, Zed.
Stephens killed Buck Scales man by the
name of Hodges, and a little girl.
Henry Ward Beecher offered a beautiful
and fervent prayer in behalf of Gen. Grant a:
his church in Brooklyn, Sunday
intense excitement prevails at Helena,
Mont, by the announcement of the
capture of two more of the escaped jail
breakers, Edmundson and Dwyer
England resents Russia's demand for ces-
sion Of territory.
A Swiss by the name of Butt has gone mad
in the jail at Reading Pa. Love is the cause.
Jacob Beard fell into his sugar kettle, in
Gibson county, Ind, and was cooked to
death.
Indiana Legislators are being paid out OF
money borrowed by the treasurer; general
fund is exhausted
A belt hook went through Richard Will.
sons leg in the Sidney, O., wheel works,
leaving wound like that of bullet.
A peculiar cattle disease, fatal in twenty
four hours, and resembling decomposition Of
the legs, is raging about Vincennes, Ind.
Somebody has stolen from the Indiana SEN
ate hall Elys bill prohibitory of Sunday ball
playing 1t was passed by the house a month
since.
The Rainwater- Marmaduke imbroglio in
ST. Louis is developing into white heat OF
anger, and the two men are at daggers
points.
The Oklahoma boomers are in arms, and
have made arrangements to move on the
Oklahoma lands on the 9TH of March, from
Caldwell.
The friends of silver in the house of repre-
sentatives, have decided to reply openly te
the parts of Mr. Cleveland's silver letter with
which they do not agree.
Private letters from Mrs. Lila Mary Pavy,
widow of the late DR.. Pavy, of Greedy expe-
dition fame, disclose some secrets in connec-
ton with the horrors of the expedition.
Thomas j. Murphy, Kansas City drover,
was found ON Saturday night lying insensible
in Broadway, New York. He died without
recovering consciousness. Foul play.
Wesley Bellville went into room of Ben
thy Rags house at Deshler, O., and in row
which followed. came near killing Racy with
a iack-knife. They are brother-in-laws Nc
arrests
Five men were arrested in Detroit for the
murder of Jacob Scheffele.
The Illinois legislature in joint session took
no vote on United States senator.
All cabinet officers placed their resignation
in the hands Of President Arthur Tuesday.
A successful public test of a newly-invented
incandescent gaslight was made in Cincin
natl.
Hon BENZ Butterworth, of Ohio resigned
as commissioner of patents to enter the new
congress.
B. T. Avery. founder of the Avery pillow
mandatory, Louisville, died at the age Oh
eighty-four.
The Vulcan boiler and sheet iron works,
Pittsburg, were totally destroyed by fire,
Loss, $4,000.
The striking employees of the Laclawanna
and Pittsburg railroad were paid in full and
returned to work.
The supreme court Of California has de
cided thai Chinese children must be admitted
20 the public schools.
cow owned near Barnesville, O., gave
birth to a calf with two heads, four eyes, four
ears, five legs and no tail.
Daniel Engle died at Lancaster, o., of an
overdose Of morphine administered TO relieve
from an attack Of cramps.
George Bradley, of Jacksonville, O., shot
Matt. Bennett through the left lung. They
quarTeled about Benefits wife.
The striking employees of the Texas Pacific
railway carried out their threa, to stop all
trains but those carrying mail.
The Bellaire (O) steel works were com,
PEELED to close because the men objected to q
certain boss, and went out ON a strike.
A strike among the employees of Harry
Ferris cooper shops, Logansport Ind
throws eighty men out of employment
The Massachusetts, house of representa-
tives passed a resolution requiri ng all Liquor
saloons to close betweet IL p. m. and a. IN
George Barnard, living near Findlay, O.
shot himself with rifle, saying he was tiret
of life. He died in a few minutes afterward
The court Of appeals of Toronto announce