Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-04-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Of VARIED INTEREST cAPTuREp az
THE CAREFUL CONDENSER.
Picked Personals and Political Pointers.
Breadwinners' Battles and Trades
TribuIations Rumblings
and Foreign Tilterings.

Indians az Frog, Lake, b. A., killed eight
whites, among them Indian Agent J.sJ.
Turin. Other forts are surrounded, and set
lers are in great danger ##fs#
The wheat crop of 1885 will fall thirty per
,ent. short Of that Of 1884 IA
James Ellis & CO., flour merchants OF
Bradford, Pa, have failed, with liabilities
amounting to 100000.
An epidemic of black tongue fever is rag
ng in Overton county, Tenn. Over thirty
leaths in the past few days. Physicians are
puzzled and unable to manage 1t. every case
proving fatal
Theodore Taylor, the horse thief, who es-
.aped from the Allegheny penitentiary, was
ecaptured at Salesville, O.
Hiram Foulks was murdered on his farm,
lear Independence, Kas, and his body
brown into well All the mans wealth
LOO was found in a bag concealed on his
,erson.
The body found in Coney island creek, and
supposed to be that of S. s. Conant, the miss
ng editor of Harper's Weekly, has been
Identified as that of Erastus Hart Haight, a
Jersey City stenographer, who has been miss
ng since the 9th Of February last.
Rich gold fields have been discovered in
he Santa Rosa mountains, Mexico. The
,old lies in quartz, and is described by old
,alifornians to be the richest they have ever
cen.
The death sentences against William Mead
,ws Fred NJ Ray and Mason P. Holcomb,
Who were sentenced to hang at Fort Smith,
Ark, have been committed to life imprison-
nent
The Baltimore and Ohio telegraph COM
pany is extending its lines from Seymour to
Indianapolis, by way of the Jacksonville,
Madison and Indianapolis railroad.
The imports of general merchandise at the
,ort of New York for the week ended April
II, were 81, 732, 092, and of dry goods, 81, $685.
%.
Frank Rankin, Of Shelbyville, KY, was
sentenced to life imprisonment for the muir
Ter of Martin Cody
A supposed case of cholera in Cleveland,
D., proved to be only a case Of coli an i'm
antile disease
The Excelsior knitting mills at South Beth
chem, Pa, were destroyed by fire Loss
s25 600.
The Akron, tO) vol8sJatt suspended pub
ication Saturday.
Thomas Williams and his nephew, near
nan whom he had employed about the place.
The man attempted to kill Mrs. Williams
md niece. He also fired the house. but the
Ire was extinguished.
Miss Irons, Jarvis, Ohio paralyzed from
he waist down, resorted to prayer for cure
.fter giving NJ the doctors. Wheter faith
n not she is irel. Great excitement and
zig religious revival
colony of al ola. ,.to xyiner n, xyoo IA
he sheep in Clay coausy, w. Va. Some of
he eagles are tr enough to carry off
heep weighing loo pounds.
John Pickersgill, Mufflintown, Pa,
reathed his last with whispers that he was
ne of party who murdered a negro thirty
rears ago at Mexico Landing, Pa.
Medical college students of Chicago send
INITIATED remains of their 'study" to friends
throughout the country by express. An In
resignation is going on and arrests win fol-
ow.
Steps are being taken to prosecute some Of
he lepeaters at the late city election in Gin
innati Much evidence has already been
collected
Richard Fraser and Columbus Crawford
'olored, were hung in South Carolina for
murders committed.
The red skin with his war paint is becom,
ng rampant in Dakota and along the north
IN boundary
The Miami savings bank at Marshall, Mo,
vas robbed of $4,000
Alonzo Young was drowned in the river
ew miles below Bellaire, O.
A gang of lightning-rod swindlers have
cen working Greene county, o., for the past
week or two.
Bud Farrias and Freeman Ward, two
hieves, We're taken by a masked mob and
hanged near Union City, Tenn.
Prof. Anderson, principal of the high
chool at Narbonne, Mo-, committed suicide
IN account of business troubles.
By prompt action of the constituted au-
horities the pleuro-pneumoni that broke
nut in Missouri some time ago has been con-
lned to one county
The Cincinnati Presbytery selected the 9
owing as commissioners TO the gener, ~
emily, which convenes in Cincinnati May
(; Rev f. c. Monfort, DID,; Rev. r. H.
leonard and Rev. DIR. Scott, and Elders
VIM. McAlpin, John Chidlaw and J. W.
Caldwell
The new elected trustees OF the Soldiers
Orphans Home and Predetermined Institute,
session at Knightstown, Ind, appointed
Thomas M. Smith, Of Warrick county, super
ntendent.