Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-05-30
NEWS IN A NurehELL.
Fresh, crispy cIeaninxs Of Recent N0te-
worthy Happenings and Events

Eresh, Crtspy CIcantngs OF Recent Nooo-
worthy Happenings and Events
Miss Matilda Overlook, q nun, Is the
woman who drowned herself at milwaukee,
Temporary insanity.
Episcopal Women's Auxiliary convened at
Delaware, O., Mrs. Montgomery Rochester,
OF Cincinnati, in the chair.
Solid tract Of zoos acres in Iowa, Nebrasks.
Kansas and Missouri, reports the WORSE
wheat prospect for ten year.
stephen Barr, a countryman, was bunkoed
out Of 81 500 at Mernon, O., and didn't re-
port until too late
Louisiana supreme court confirms the
lower court decision which hangs Ford and
Murphy and imprisons Judge Ford, Caul-
field aud Buckley twenty years each.
The holphin has been given third trial
and developed another hot journal
Col Otter has captured Poundmaker,
Riel's ally, against orders. The latest ad-
vices from Battleford stated that everything
was quiet.
Police Sergeant Crowley has been taken 70
Sing Sing penitentiary to serve seventeen
and half years for criminal assault upon
Maggie Morris.
Interstate commerce committee OF the
United States Senate IL in session at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York. Views Of promi-
nent merchants win be taken,
The sentry on duty on the Garnet has been
sentenced To forty-two days close conflne-
ment for neglecting to prevent Paul Boyton
for approaching the ship and placing o sham
torpedo under the vessel in New York har-
Dor.
Brigadier General Hazsn has brought
suit for libel against the New York Times
ala sfa
concerning the management Of the CARING
ton relief expedition. Ho claims 100000
damages
In an encounter in the Indian Territory
between a posse and band at thirteen cat
tie thieves, two OF the leaders lost their lives
and third was captured. Bella Star, an
ex-Confoderate female spy, who was living
with the outlaws, was also taken prisoner.
Edward Santa Rosa, sixteen, Of New Or.
leans, tells fearful story Of kidnapping OF
laborers by the captain OF the steamer Ella
Knight, which sailed to Guatemala, where
they were forced 10 do railway construction
without pay lie says 670 were entrapped
into this slavery from New Orleans alone.
The story viii be investigated.
Charles Cox was killed ut Steubenville, o.,
in an elevator accident.
The Grand Lodge OF Odd Fellows OF Mis-
souri, Is in session in st. Louis.
The Great Council of Ohio Improved Or
der of Red Men Is In session at Marys
vile, o.
The total exports OF produce from the New
York port for the week ending May 10, were
"a, 005, 759
The twenty fifth convention Of the United
States Association Of Brewers has assembled
ia New York.
The contributions 10 the fund for the 70.
| Lief Of the Plymouth Pa sufferers have
reached the sum Of 10, 1853.
Germain Vincent farmer, living near
Richmond, Ind, committed suicide by split
| ting his head open with an OK.
| w. l.. Reider, cashier OF tho defunct Penn
bank, of Pittsburg, who is charged with en-
bezzlement, has been surrendered by his
| bondsmen.
John Coffee and James Dennis, who muir
dered James McMullen and wife near Craw-
louisville, Ind, are sentenced to be hanged
Thursday September g.