Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-04
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Fresh, Crispy Gleanings of Recent Note
ryortby Happenings and Events.


worthy Happenings and Events.
The stages have been taken Off Broadway,
New York, and the street car line began
operations.
The Hunter g. Evans Land and Cattle
company has been incorporated at st. Louis,
WITH q capital OF 81, 100000
The board of public commissioners Of
Xenia, o., have ordered ell saloons closed at
7 O'Clock in the evening.
The blood stained flag of the Ffftv-third
illinois Infantry, held by the war depart
ulent, has been returned to the survivors OF
that gallant organization.
Epidemic diphtheria is prevalent at La
porte, Ind.
Cora Hinton shot and killed Jennie Scott
in Cincinnati.
commission will be appointed to in yes
tigate the troubles existing at the Cheyenne
Indian agency.
Mrs. O'Day, mother of John O'Day, who
shot and killed his father at Sharon Pa, is
q raving maniac.
Thirty-four more disnissals from the
treasury department have been ordered by
Secretary Manning
G. M. Steadman, farmer, living near
Pomeroy, o., attempted to commit suicide
by the use Of strychnine.
Gen. Cook will endeavor to prevent the
return to the United States of those Indians
who may be driven out Of Mexico
The epidemic at Plymouth, Pa, is dimin-
ishipg in fatality, and the indications are
that it viii soon be entirely eradicated
The internal revenue receipts for the year
ending June 80 will be about $40, 600, 900
less than was calculated by Secretary Nc
Culloch.
The Massachusetts insurance commissioner
has reported to the attorney general that
the management of the Peoples Benefit
company, Of Boston, is grossly incompetent.
Benjamin Caskey, an aged citizen of
Akron, O., was arrested and bound over to
the grand jury, on the charge of assaulting
Mrs Caroline Conrad with criminal intent
The Italians arrested for completely in the
murder of Filippo Caruso, whose remains
were found in a trunk in Union station,
Pittsburg, are ON trial in Chicago for the
crime
A cold wave, with snow, exists in Grand
Travers county, Mich.
The Ninth biennial saengerfest of the state
of Indiana begins at Fl Wayne, to continue
four days.
Ansel lookout, of Blountsvile, Ind, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself through
tub HttTt.
st. Joseph's academy, at Frankfort, KY,
closed after one of the most successful ses-
sions since its foundation.
In the Canadian house of commons a con-
tract was ratified with the Allan Line Steam
ship company to carry the mails for sub
sidy of Sl2G, 900 per year for five years.
A party of sub-lieutenants of the navy, at
Portsmouth, forced an entrance into the
residence of an editor and assaulted him, in
revenge for some published criticism on
their conduct.
The citizens of Nashville, Tenn, have SUBJ
scribed $1,000 to prosecute the three police
men who are charged with the murder of r.
c. Schneider Alexander Bolton is supposed
to be the guilty man.
AT Stamford, Conn, the body of an I'M
known man was found by some boys in a
well, head downward The mans arms and
legs were tied with rope, and his head
wrapped in piece of carpet. The premises
where the body was found have been unoc-
cupied for some time