Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-05-02
FUGITIVE PARAGRAPHS
1F VARIED INTEREST CAPTURED BY
THE CAREFUL CONDENSER.
Clicked Personals and Political Pointers.
Breaiyinners' Battles and Trades
Tribulations -RaiIroad Rumblings
and Foreign Filtcrings

Tie product OF gold and SILVER Tor the year
vas respectively $50, 800,0 900 and Sos, 100000.
Lightning rod swindlers are at work in
ane vicinity of Liberty, Ind.
United States Deputy Marshal Bowman,
hded by posse, arrested forty Illicit distil-
ers in the mountains of Tennessee.
Tho president of the board of police COM
Miss. oners St Louis, asks the cooperation
n Secretary Bayard and the British minister
n efTeciing the arrest of murderer Maxwell.
A testimonial fund is being raised in New
York for the benefit of James Stephens, who
vas expelled from France on suspicion of
connection with the London dynamite explo-
eons.
John Talbot and wife, an aged couple liv-
ne near S5eubenville, O., were murdered in
heir beds, it is supposed for their money,
hcugh everything in the house was found in
Grtect order
The measures TO keep pleuro pneumonia
Mi of Galloway county, Mo-, have failed,
ND cattle men in other sections Of the state
se alarmed at the possibilities of disas-
cous spread.
An imbecile in the employ Of A. t. Went
ai, who owns truck farm near Reading,
Pa, accidentally fred the house in which
dept his two sons and two work hands. All
our we're burned to death.
Silver mining is the craze at Petersburg,
nd
Dandy, tho brother of Duke, the twin
aeers of Loudonville, o., is dead. Their
D1nhined weight was over 1900 pounds.
William Webb, who killed Charles Foster
It Centerburg, o.. was captured in a swamp
ear the place He is held in 5000 bail for
rial.
George Delvin, aged twenty-five, held at
huntington, Ind. for murder, broke ont of
lil as the sheriff's wife was letting his wife
n to visit him
Kenward Philip has recovered verdict of
5000 against the New York Tribune for
tnnages suss aimed by the charge of having
written the Morey letter
III. r. Wells, postal clerk running be-
Eeen New Orleans and Port Eads, has dis
appeared, taking with him the contents of a
registered letter pouch, amounting to several
thousand dollars
Pleuro-pneumonia is spreading in Mis-
souri.
Forty moonshners were captured in the
Mountains of Tennessee.
The Ind annapolis postoffice has been turned
aver to Aquila Jones, the new postmaster.
Judge Green Brantby, eighty, of Sanders
Ille Ga, has welded Bessie King, sixteen
plains of insufficient food, and threatens to
90 right home, even if it shall have to walk
Lere.
John Talbot and wife, seventy and sixty
i've, were found dead in bed in Steubenville,
q J., with no signs of violence. It's nine-day
mystery.
The indianapolis light infantry the crack
company of Indiana, has withdrawn from
The |. n. G. and becomes municipal reserve
company.
Decatur, H., police are mystified over
baby corpse packed in salt and found in the
house of widow She says woman left it
with her year ago.
Twenty-eght thousand tons oe coal of the
Boston gas company are smodering from
spontaneous combustion. Workmen are
working day and night carting Off what re-
nains uninjured.
John Lewis left wife and four children at
Niles, o., four years ago for California.
Nothing was heard of him. A year ago Mrs
Lewis married again. Now John comes
Back and finds bis place taken.
The state senate committee to investigate
Me affairs at the Xenia, O., orphans home
Is in session at that institution.
The Cook county grand jury has returned
Gree indictments against participants in the
hte election frauds in Chicago.
A colony Of farmers from the vicinity of
Lonton, O., are organizing to emigrate to
some portion of the west this spring.
The United States courts at Philadelphia
must close on account of the failure of
congress to appropriate the necessary funds.
Preparations are being made in many
parts Of the country to celebrate the birth
day of Gen. Grant, which falls ON next Mon
day.
The comptroller Of the currency has author
lied the Abilene national bank, of Abilene
Tex, to begin business with capital o
100000
Charley Mitchell wants to fight Capt DAILY
six rounds with hard gloves in San Fran
cisco
Bishop Jabez p Campbell, of the A. NJ. E
church, was acquitted Of perjury at Phila
delpha.
Hal to the depth of three inches fell a
admission, Ga, doing much damage to grow
M crops.
The catholic clergy of Worcester, Mass.
appeared before the aldermen and protested
aga INST the granting OF liquor licenses.
Miss Mary Moorhead, daughter of Gen. j
K. Moorhead, after suffering thirty year
from disease, has been cured by prayer.
Mrs OBrien, The giantess wife Of Pa
o brien, the giant of Jonesboro, Ill. ha
aided to the family fifteen pound giantlet
There are olGnteau cases Of smallpox 81
Montreal. all new within week.