Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-04-11
FUGITIVE PARAGRAPHS
OF VARIED INTEREST CAPTURED BY
THE CAREFUL CONDENSER.
Picked Personals and Political Pointers.
grcadwinneis' Battles and Trades
Tribuiations Kumblings
and Foreign Fiiterings

The body of George Basching, the four
and a-half-yearold boy VINO has been miss
ing from his home in Cincinnati since No
vember 10, 1884, was found in the canal.
The wonderful infant that was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Harmon, of Granville, o.,
is living and thriving finely. 1t has neither
legs nor arms though IN other respects per-
fectly formed.
David Allen, who has been in jail at Bloom
iagton, Ind, for The past week on the charge
Of numbering, w w. Pits, was admitted tc
bail in the sam OF $4,000, which he inlme
diately gave and left his home
Troop arc drilling at the city of Mexico
and preparations are beiug made to enforce
the position of the government. against
Barrios.
Representatives Of the soldiers OF the Ger
man army, in America, met at Chicago and
formed national organization Officers
were elected.
Thomas c. Fletcher, ex-governor Of Mis-
souri, is missing from his home II st. Louis,
and has not been heard Of by his friends and
relatives in that city for zine days.
A Chu salmon, weighing sixty pounds, has
been shipped from Por,lanI, Ore. TO Presi-
dent Cleveland and it is expected to reach
him in time fer dinner Sunday, April 5.
The total national debt in round figures, is
s0000, eco, including the Pacific railroad
indebtedness
The total exports Of specie from New York
for the week ended Marcn %, were 1898, 900,
and the imports s242, 000!
City Treasurer Crawford, of Owego, N. Y,
has absc oEded, beng $4,000 short in his &C.
counts of the public money
Commissioner of pensions Black has de-
ci1pd that 81 nothnr cnn mt ia allowed a
pension as a dependent mother and the ac-
crued pension of her deceased husband for
the same period of time.
The English government is chartering
American steamships for use in the event Of
war with Russia.
Henry Irving addressed the students of
Harvard university on Monday, on the sub
iect of ''Actingn
Ten million bushels of coal are loaded al
Pittsburg, ready for the lower ports as soon
as there is sufficient water.
The Windsor salt furnace was sold to the
Pomeroy (O.) National bank for $4,000, at
sheriffs sale. The furnace cost $4,000
George Rouse, the negro ex-conyict who
outraged and murdered the wife of Jessie
Doles, living near Vienna, Ga, was taken by
mob, his body mutilatei and then hung.
Ice gorges are about to move in the Sus
Quehanna river, and serious consequences
are feared at Fort Deposit and other places.
Edward W. jenkins, of the Boston com
mon council, has sued Patrick Magure, OF
the governors council for So, 900 damages for
libel for asserting that Jenkins charged
$1,000 for renewing an appointment for
city Office.
w. d. Hoyt who shot and killed an un.
known man at Cleveland Sunday night while
nj. III
has been released in "a, 900 on the charge Of
manslaughter. The body has been identified
that of Charles Stanley, colored
The coinage at the Philadelphia mint in
March amounte to 2,2o0, 1872.
The legislature Of Colorado passed resolu
tions of sympathy for Gen. Grant.
The new asylum at Greenfield Ind has
been condemned as insecure by the county
gland jury
Col. j. ii. Masil!, Cincinnati agent o. his
American yXpresS company, has rendered AIS
Resignation. to take effect April Is
Thre SparaioaS chlrgsl with six muir
Gers, escc ped from the Jail at Mt Sterling
Ky. Rewards are offered for their capture,
and posses are searching the county.
The senate is hesltating h. confirm certain
appointments in by the president. on the
e. ound that in cases of removal where terms
are uueApired no Gauss IS stated, which Is II
violation of the tenure of Office act. The 70
pIb.icans viii caucus to determine what
cougse 10 pursue.
The ,,i~tiilery at Shelbyville, Ind, paid
druing March 81, s23 30 internal revenue.
Shelby county, Ind, is being almost de
populated by the Kansas fever, large partie
leaving every few days for that state,
Hiram H. kimpton, formerly a Wal
street broker, and worth about g., 0O0,0oC
was committed to the care of the comm
sioners % charities and corrections of Ne,
York cry. He beggarei himself by drin b