Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-05-01
state News.

George Frasher of Fort Gay,
Wayne county, was killed by fall
ing tree.
Sheep killing by worthless ours is
the order Of the day in Greenbrier
county.
Forest fires are beginning to am
noy the farmers in the interior.
There was a large blaze in Jackson
county few days ago.
Wade Crigler, Of Hardy county,
was sentenced to one years imprison-
ment for shooting and wounding q
young man named Evick.
A bullet, with tuft of beers hair
clinging To it, was found in the CEN
ter of a Cabell county tree, where it
had lain for nearly one hundred
years.
The Superintendent ofthe Calhoun
county schools is blind, but the in
trinity does not keep him from be-
ing one of the best Superintendent
in the State, according to reports.
The shaft, tipple and buildings of
the Rush Run coal company, near
Wheeling. burned to the ground by
an explosion of fire damp. The ac-
cident is said to have been caused by
a boy dropping light down the
shaft
A mysterious and fatal disease has
made its appearance in Rowlesburg
within the last few DAYS which baf-
fles the physicians. The victims are
first attacked with severe pain in
the head and are q corpse within IL
hours, after which they become spot
ted.
There was recently RATED down
Greenbrier river lot of exception
ally valuable black walnut logs,
among them being tree fIom which
in 1876, block was cut for exhibit
tion at the centennial rs sample Of
West Virginia's cabinet wood
A tramp machinest by the name
Of Carver. was struck by mi engine
on the B & III. near Austen. and lit
orally cut 20 pieces. He got cntan-
gled in the engine and was dragged
nearly two miles, his remains having
been scattered along the road for
that distance.
A lead mine of considerable mag
nitude and Importance has been dis
covered on the waters of Lynn Camp
in Writ county, says the Elizabeth
Times. 1t adds that some Of the
citizens there have known it for fif-
teen years and kept it secret until
recently. 1t is said TO be fifteen
inches or more in thickness.
Mrs. Martha Turner, who died re.
Gently in Jackson county at the age
| OF ninety, was named after the wife
Of Washington. The Father of his
Country visited her fathers house
when she was an infant, and kissing
her, hoped she would be as good a
woman as her namesake. This was
shortly before his death, in 1899.
j. S. Pancake, of Hampshire coun-
ty, found on his farm, five miles from
Romney, the skeletons of three per.
sons, supposed to have been Indians.
There was found around the neck
bone of one of the skeletons, string
of beads made of different kinds Of
stones. Another one of the skeletons
had bullet imbedded in the back
bone, which is supposed to have been
the cause of his death. There were
also lying near the skeletons an In
dian pipe and other relics that are
supposed to be over hundred years
old. During the heavy floods on the
South Branch about the first of the
month, it is thought the water wash
the earth off these skeletons.
John Peters and William Fl. Nc
Clintic, of Pocahontas county, brought
to Ronceverte O raft of sixty three
black walnut logs gathered on Swago
creek, in the upper Greenbrlar Val
ley, which they sold at the yards of
the st. Lawrence Company. The
logs averaged three feet in diameter
and sixteen in length, and were esti-
mated to yield about $4,000 feet of
sawed lumber. They were all sound
and of fine quality. One of the lar
gest was cut from the tree which
yielded the block exhibited at the
Centennial exposition Of 1876 in Phil
adelphia as sample of West Vir
ginia cabinet woods. This firm dur
ng the season collected 10000 feet
of walnut in Pocahontas county.