Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-04-04
FUGITIVE PARAGRAPHS
OF VARIED INTEREST CAPTURED q,
THE CAREFUL CONDENSER.
Picked Personals and Political Pointer
Breadwinncts' Battles and Trades
Tribulations Railroad Bumbiings
and Foreign Fiiterings


Los Angeles, Cal, for murders committed
last year.
T. G. Obear, st Louis real estate dealer
was arrested on an indictment charging tbs
embezzlement of s., 900.
VIM. Pitts who was shot by man named
Allen, died at Bloomington, Ind, Friday
Allen was arrested for murder.
Thos Brownfeld and Frank Hopkirk, two
Missouri murderers, had their life sentences
committed to life Imprisonment
An effort is being made to divert the cattl,
trade of Texas from st. Louis and Chicago
to Cincinnati
An attempt was made to blow up the skat
ing rink at Girardsville, Pa. by dynamite
Mrs T.. b. Croker, of San Francisco
offers to present the city an art gallery ane
her collection of paintings il fund at 800,
900 is raised within three months 10 maintain
the gallery.
Clarke county, O.. farmers will vigilance
against horse thieves.
Frank NJ Cottrill, an actor, committee
suicide at Ellenboro, w. Va
The Democratic administration Is examin
ing the accounts of the U. S. treasury.
John Clark and George Kline are accuse
Of long series Of bnrglaries at Canton, O.
A Cleveland, O., judge gave white wife
divorce from lazy, brutal Indian husband
James Pearce killed ON a pond near Co
lumbus, Ind, white swan measuring sever
feet six inches between wing tips.
Mrs. Kreuger, wife of a farmer living neal
Pacific, Mo-, murdered one of her children
and attempted to kill two others.
The receiver Of the Harrison wire works
IF 81 To1Iig bnc gun1 ha -r.rariIapt fot
$1oa,279 alleged to have been overdrawn.
Moses Cabon was convicted of wife murder
Morganfieid, KY
The Freethinkers' annual convention IL
called for September II at Albany.
Famine is reported in the back counties OF
West Virg mia, and people and stock are per.
ishIng Of starvation
Joseph Fisher and Mrs. Vinches were ar
rested near Canton, Ohio. charged will
poisoning the latters husband
Thomas j. Marvin, ex-mayor of Adrien
Mich, pleaded guilty of forgery and wal
sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
Joel Anderson and Laurel Raugh were con
victsd of killing John Rea and sentenced t.
ninety-nine years in the penitentiary each.
Two young children of George Spooner,
near Ithaca, Mich, were burned to death In
Brother Charles Lee, of Lawrenceburg
Ind, mas converted 2l7.
At Chicago Greenfield and Burke Tough
seven rounds to draw
Ida Flick for murder in the first degree
will be tried at Hamilton, o.
An insane patient nearly succeeded il
firing the indianapolis asylum.
Mr.. Chloe Anzier, Pomeroy, o., is 101 an.
recently rode eight miles on horseback.
Garnet Taylor, son of a prominent mer
chant of Chattanooga, Tenn, was burned t.
death
The San Jacinto tin company, California
won the 81 900, 900 suit of the United States
against it,
Additional mounted police have been hur
ried to the seat of the Saskatchewan revof
in Manitoba.
The U. S. supreme court holds that con
gress has the right to say whether polyga
nists in Utah shall vote in the elections o
that territory
Two rifei mail pouches were found in
deserted cabin, near Wapakoneta, o.
An explosion of natural gas demolished a
two-story frame house in Beaver Falls, Pa
A new protective tariff morning daily will
be i'1ed in New York beginning in April.
- eventh annual state oratorical con
test OF Indiana is set for April o. at Indian
apolis.
The va ne of produce c ports at the port q
New York for the week ended March "a, wa
$6,907,0O0.
Andrew jackson was convicted at Bryan
Tex, o. the murder of Jerry Russell and sen
fenced 10 death.
The steamer City of Para is detained in
quarantine off New York with two cases OF
yellow fever on board.
John Pearce, ef Rock Creek, Tenn, COM
mite suicide in the presence of a younl
girl because she refused to marry him.
Acting Gov. Hindman, Of Kentucky, re
fuses to further interfere in the execution OF
VIM. Neal, the last of the Ashland murder.
ers
Mr.. OMumma, living near Barnesville,
o., had several head of fine sheep killed and
his flock badly injured by dogs.
Frank Hatfield, son of prominent mer
chant, married Ida Benson at Richmond
IND, TO settle criminal proceeding.
Mrs. Eliza Bayh, living near Newbern
Inf. while getting supper was badly burned
and is now lying in dying condition.
A colony of colored families left Nicholas
vI}le Ky, for settlement in Kansas. Thel
are leading people of their race in that sec
ton.
AT Warren, O., a company of prominen
citizens decided to build a $4,000 opers
house. Ex-senator Perkins backed the pro,
leet by taking oDe-third of the stock.
Charles w. Gould, butter anu cheese man
uIaeiprer at Elgin, ILL.,, assigned witn 800.
oQe liabilities y
The Eastern rubber COMPANY of Boston
has gone into insolvency. Liabilities SlOl.
eo2; assets, $4,000
AN EDITORS TRIBUTE.-Theron 2.
Heater Editor, Of Ft. Wayne. Ind.