Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-10-23
state News.

seems to be on the increase.
! ID. b. Hart has been appointed
Mayor of st George, in place OF HUI
Maxwell, resigned.
James Mansfield, Mineral county
miner, was killed while at work by a
fall of stone. He was about 40 years
old and leaves large family.
Senator Camden spent two or three
days in Wetzel county last week lay
ing the ropes to have an old-time
Democratic majority piled up against
General Goff.
The church building in Buckhan-
non, belonging to the nj. e. church,
South, is advertised for sale or rent
by n committee appointed for that
purpose by the Quarterly Conference
of Phillippi circuit.
The dwelling house of George Nj.
Haines, of Hamphire county, was
burned to the ground while the fani-
ly was at church. The cause is I'M
known. The building was insured in
the Peabody Insurance Company
The commercial travellers of Parkers-
burg are making great separations
for the first meeting of the drummers
of the State which is to be held there
November 10, for the main purpose
of forming State association.
The Monroe county Watchma,a
says that great damage has been done
to the fine tobacco crop in that section
of the State by the heavy frosts.
Messrs Weishaupt q Martin who had
100 acres in tobacco at Red Sulphur
Springs lose about $500 worth.
A party of Germans representing
about one dozen families were in
Monongalia and Preston counties re-
Gently looking for land to settle on.
They were coal miners, and live in
Westmoreland county, Pa, but are
Disguised with the strikes and labor
troubles of that region.
Alta special term of the Nicholas
county court, in response to the
prayer of hundreds of petitioners, it
was ordered that at the coming cleo
tion there be d vote Of the people on
the question Of adopting the Alter
native Method of Constructing and
Keeping in Repair the County Roads.
West Virginia Masons will be
pleased to know that this State has
been honored by having member of
the Supreme Grand Council Of the
A. and A. Scottish Rite, in the per-
son Of George Davis, 33 of Charles
ton, who was recently elected Grand
Standard Bearer of the Supreme
| Council.
Mr.. Thomas Homer, Of Waynes.
burg, aged II years, and Miss Car
sander Emery, aged CT, have just
been married. The ..old gentleman
requested the Waynesburg Republic.
can to say that both he and his bride
were alone in the world and that
while neither were in the bloom Of
youth, they saw no harm in joining
their fortunes and endeavoring to
make life pleasant for each other.
Secretary of State Walker has is
sued certificate of incorporation to
the Bank of Piedmont, organized for
the purpose of carrying on the bust
ness of banking by discounting pro
missory notes, negotiating drafts,
bills of exchange and other business
connected with bank of deposit.
Fifty thousand dollars have been
subscribed and $50 900 paid in. The
stock is divided into shares of 800
and held by twenty-six citizens of
Mineral county.
Abbie, daughter of William Coch
ran, of Batesville, Belmont county,
returned home about 2 o'clock in the
morning from tobacco cutting.
She remained only long enough to
write a short note stating that she
| intended to commit suicide because
her troubles were greater than she
could bear She was found about s
o'clock by one other sisters in a corn
crib in very low condition, having
seriously cut her throat with q razor.
The case is a very mysterious one.
The store of Hon. G. e. Wells and
the Glover's Gap postoffice in the
same building were burglarizcd a few
years ago by one Dick Rice. Dick
was convicted and sent to the peni-
tertiary for the store robbery, and
his time of imprisonment expired a
few days since. No sooner was he
released than he was rearrested by
Deputy u. s. Marshall Sine for rob-
bing the postoffice. He was taken to
Clarksburg for trial andswiil proba-
bly, be sent back from there to
Moundsville for a term Of years.