Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-07-03

Fire destroyed r. r.. Thompson's
business building in San Francisco /;
loss nearly 100000.
4 call for S4,000,000, three per
cent bonds was issued by the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury yesterday
The editors Of the Hooking Val
ley, Ohio, start this morning on an
excursionfor Charleston, " Ea
A market special from New York
says every one is beginning to note
an Improvement in general business.
All the window glass factories in
the country viii close down on the
30th inst, for The usual two months
vacation
The steamer Miranda ran on the
rocks and was wrecked. The pas
sengers we're safely landed, and TAX
en- to Boston by train.
The President, besides voting iif-
teen pension bills, has put his foot
down on the bill providing a public
building for GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
j. Harris Rogers, inventor Of the
Pan Electric Telephone, has brought
suit against Attorney General Gar
land, Senator Harris ant others for
the recovery Of large amount of
money.
The National Gas Companies hay
ing pipes laid in Pittsburgh are con-
sidering the adyisability Of forming
q pool TO prevent the cutting Of
rates and to regulate prices. Sever
al meetings have been held, but
no agreement has been reached as
yet.
Among candidates for the Ohio
Supreme Court are Judge Knowles,
Of Marietta Judge Dic<man, Of
Cleveland; Judge Haynes, Of Day
ton Judge Williams, OF Washing
ton, c. H.; Judge Cox, Of Cincin-
natl, and Clement Bates, also of Gin
cinnati.
A large mass-meeting at Spokan
Falls, W. T., passed resolutions
against the passages of the Land
Forfeiture bill
The international French Conven-
ton, composed OF French speaking
people Of the United States, will
meet this week at Rutland, Vt.
Hon. S. j. NJ. Major, ex-Public
Printer and Binder, member of the
Kentucky Legislature, died Mon
day at Frankfort, Ky.
At Jefferson City, Mo-, Sadie
Hayes, a negress, recently sentenced
to be hanged for the murder of Po-
liceman jerks, two years ago, was
granted new trial.
The preliminary hearing of the
Pan-Electric case will be held in
Cincinnati.
James Muldoon, runner for II
Logansport hotel, was run over by a
Vandalia passenger train and killed.
Next Thursday the National Con-
vention Of Catholic Knights will be-
Gin in Cincinnati.
A favorable invitation will be
made for the location of the Ohio
Soldiers Home at Yellow Springs.
Col. John w. Chapman, editor of
the Council Bluffs (Ia.) Nonpareil,
is dead.
A gold mine is said to have been
discovered near Lexington, Ind.
Prof. Arthur Mees has resigned
as conductor of the Cincinnati Fes-
tival Chorus.
Almost all the miners along the
B. & o. are still out for the Column
bus scale.
Mrs. Rachel Rhodes hung herself
at Chippewa township, Pa, yester-
day, because of criminal in
timacy into which she had been
forced by neighbor who knew Of
capital crime committed by her
twenty years ago.
A plot for general escape of the
inmates of the county Jail has been
discovered at Cincinnati.
George Van Fleet, brother of Mar
tin Van Fleet, the defaulting treas
urer of Huron county, o., was ar
rested at Norwalk and taken to
Cleveland on a charge of forgery.
A monument to the memory of
Joseps Med. Matthews, erected by
the alumni of Hillsboro female col
lege. was dedicated in Greenlawn
cemetery, Hillsboro, G., Friday
The body Of Davis Hutchcraft, an
attorney Of Paris, Ky, who myster-
iously disappeared at Chicago two
weeks ago, was found in Lake Mich
igan. He had been murdered and
robbed.