Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-01-30
State News.


have purchased the Charleston State
Tribune, and will take possession
February lst.
The train dispatchers at Grafton,
recently presented superintendent
Capt. Charley Dunlap, with hand
some easy chair.
The grand jury have found $50
indictments, and the mill continues
to grind. The grist on Thursday
was 49, Clarksburg Ne,os.
West Virginia has eight blast fur
naces, four of which were in opera
ton in December last. The output
during the year 1885 was 67,007 tons
of pig iron.
The railroad from Fairmont to
Morgantown is at last about to be
completed. The people have waited
long enough to appreciate the road
when it is finished.
The Wheeling Register has just
been sued by Miss Elsa Nixon and
her mother, Mrs. Williams, both of
Wheeling, for libel, claiming dam
ages in the sum of $4,000.
Recent heavy rains in Monroe
county caused rise in Indian creek
that exceeded anything since 1861.
Several acres of fodder and consid-
cradle fencing were swept away.
Rev. j. r.. Thompson, formerly
President of the West Virginia State
University, now of Brooklyn, has re-
ceived an invitation from the Wash
lngton Square Church of New York,
to become its pastor.
Earl Golden and Miss. Columbia
Jones, poth of Barbour county, the
for Jagged % and the latter Is, ran
away to Oakland and were married.
The brides parents objected to the
union.
On Tuesday last brakeman A. s..
Dumire, while passing through cut
which was spanned by bridge near
Benwood, was almost instantly kill
ed. His head striking the bridge
was terribly crushed.
President Cleveland was present
ed with an immense bronze turkey
that was raised in Mineral county.
This turkey was served on Christ
mas day in the White House. No
doubt His Excellency and Miss Rose
ate large share of the white meat.
Thomas McCreery, one of the
most promising deaf and dumb
mutes of West Virginia, is the pub
Usher of the Buckhannon Banner,
which is an excellent county paper
He has a fine wife, who is also a
mute lady. In his office he has a
mute printer employed, who was for
ONE time gardener in Texas In
stitute.
Last week w. G. Roles, of Raleigh
county, caught in steel traps very
large female wolf The animal had
been committing depreciation ON the
sheep folds of the neighborhood in
which it was caught, for some time
1t was thought the raids were by the
dogs, as the wolf had become very
daring and a fondness had sprung
up between it and the dogs of the
neighborhood, for they we're often
known to be together.
Mr.. James O'Brien, of Riverside,
sent to this office two living grass
hoppers on Monday which were cap
tured on Saturday, Jan End. This
is an unusual winter and perhaps
there has not been cold weather suf-
ficient to freeze these hoppers, or it
may be that the democratic admin
istration has something to do with
it. Mr.. O'Brien did not say any
thing about that. He says there
were thousands in his yard where
these were caught and lots of toads.
Romney Reaieac.
A death under exceedingly sad
circumstances occurred in the neigh
borhood of Gainesville on Monday
Mrs. Ruckman; daughter-in-law of
Mr.. James Ruckman, and daughter
Of Mr.. Richard Wolford, was out rid
ing with her eleven weeks infant. The
child cried for the breast and she
nursed it. She afterwards wrapped
it carefully, tight and warm as she
thought, but two hours afterward,
upon arriving at her destination she
unwrapped the lifeless form Of her
little one. 1t is thought the babe
was suffocated. We feel assured that
Mrs. buchanan has the sympathy Of
every mothers hearts. B. IpteIIi-
geracer.
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