Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-10-02
NEWS SUMMARY.

discovered at Pompeii, near the east
ern gate.
| Numerous destructive forest fires
are raging in the Yellowstone Nation
al Park
The Rhode Island census shows a
preponderance of 1900 women in
the State.
The tariff question is entering into
the congressional contests in New
York and Brooklyn.
Secretary Manning's illness was
caused by defective sewer pipes con-
nected with his private Office
A letter has been received in Hull,
England to the effect that the Fen
ians intend to burn the city.
The business failures throughout
the country in the last seven days
number for the United States I65.
An Iowa druggist has been fined
on thirty counts for violating the
prohibition law. The total is 81, 800
]. George Settlers $4,000 barn,
near Womelsdorfs, Reading county,
Pa, was fired by tramps and destroy
cd
Riley and wife, blew the gas out
| at Shiolx'a Hotel an Now York. Riley
was found dead and his wife insensi-
BILE.
Mary Gray, of Chicago, is charged
among other cruelties to five-year
old boy, with drawing his finger nails
out by force.
Henry Howell, who shot and kill
| ed William Click at Huttonsville
last spring is now on trial in Ran
dolph county.
The contract has been let for o one
million dollar bridge over the Mis-
souri, river at Kansas City for the
New st. Paul line.
Henry George, the labor candi-
date for mayor of New York, will
make q vigorous canvass, and ex-
| poets to poll 5000 votes.
Miss Esther Richardson, of Nor
folk, Va, was severely and perhaps
fatally burned while attempting to
| kindle fire with kerosene.
| An explosion Of fire-damp occur
red in coal pit near Schalkd, Ger
many, Friday of last week, and forty.
five persons were killed and sixteen
injured.
Frank Raft, youth Of eighteen,
fell dead at Rockville, Pa, on Mon
day night, after swallowing plate
of ice cream in one minute and half
for wager.
/ 1t is announced that the 2Sth of
October has been decided upon by
the government and the American
committee for the Inauguration of
the statue of Liberty.
Advices from New leland say that
the White Island volcano is in a
state of active eruption, and that a
column of flame and smoke 100 feet
in diameter issues from the crater.
Pawnee, Sioux and Commanche
Indians who have been on exhibition
on Staten Island, have started back
for their reservations. Saturday they
had grand medicine dance around
an eagle feather.
The salesmen's early-closing move
ment in Pittsburg is likely to result
in strike, as number of prominent
firms have ordered their employees
to stay until 8 o'clock in the even
ing. The statesmen have resolved to
resist any attempt to keep open after
O'clock.
Frederick Meier, farmer of Ken
tuckey, recently wore a red shirt
while walking through his meadow,
where a young bull was grazing.
The animal enraged at the sight,
made furious attack, and gored and !.
trampled him to death. The farm
er's son afterwards killed the bull.
Mayor Grace, of New York, in de-
nying that his wife engineered a lot
of silverware through the custom
house without paying duty, says that
she has not been in Europe for q
dozen years; that she never brought
any silverware from there, and that
all the silver they own is not worth
500.
BY the breaking of platform in
the shaft of a Missouri mine, Charles
Libby commenced what would have |
been a fatal accident but for his good
luck. He started headforemost, but
his foot caught between broken
timber and the wall of the shaft.
His boot was big and strong, and
there he hung, looking down the one
hundred feet that were between him
and death at the bottom, until work