Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-02-18
NEWS IN a NUTSHELL.

worthy Happenings and events.
| Marion Browning shot and instantly killed
Louis Shanks near Owsnsboro. KY. Both
farmers and had quazTeled.
| Claude Smith, Of Scotssburg Ind, 10 the
latest gay dscsivsr, and Ruth Whitelatoh,
the lovc-lorn maid, requires HIN TO pay
| for every line Of those tender spistles written
to her at the regular advertising rates
| The Pullman Palace Car company claims
| to Be exempt from the operation Of the inter
| state commerce law.
| Women OF 81. Joseph, Mo-, are circulating
petition to have Hooneck and Bselling, the
| wife murderers, lynched.
The MERGED canal, to convey water from
| the foothills OF the Sierra mountains, at San
| Joaquin, California, was opened Wednesday.
| The canal win irrigate over quarter Of q
| million acres.
Indiana Republicans met by congressional
| districts Thursday to elect a delegates to q
| state convention which will select delegates
to the National convention State Central
committeeman were also chosen
Governor Wilson, Of West Virginia, has is
| sued requisition on Governor Buckner Of
| Kentucky, for the release of parties impris-
| onsd in Pike county toawait trial who are all
legged to have been implicated In the Mccoy
| Hatfield war.
Mrs. Minnie Franklin sewed an augur in
| her hustle and went to Walhalla, s. c., Jail
| to visit her husband imprisoned for peddling
without license. Next night, aided by the
contents of the hustle, the peddler and four
other chaps escaped from the jail.
Pierre, Oak, sent two carloads of potatoes
| to Kansas blizzard sufferers
Halle Barnes, only daughter Of A. G
Barnes, wealthy banker of Taylorville, H.,
hac y,,ft fba byyp al nnr hav
fathers horse trainer George l.. Banks.
Lexington has royalty entertained rand
dined the Kentucky legislature at the citys
expense in the hope Of having the state CAPT
tai removed to that place.
Ex-Policemen Ulysses Cleveland, at Mobile,
Ala, had heroic whisky in his stomach and
pistol in his pocket. Arthur Glennon is
therefore dead, having ventured to pass
along the street. When the flowers bloom
again sympathetic ladies will send the dear
drunk bouquets and petition for his pardon
The Cerneaus got another black eye at
Cleveland through the Grand Lodge of Ohio,
which declares the Cerneau rite to be "il-r
legal, clandestine and unmasonic,n and Mr.
Hillman, as grand high priest of Royal Arch
Masons therefore, annulled the election Of
the Newark lodge, and ordered that a new
one be held
The postoffice department has decided to
arm postal employees ON routes in the west,
where train robbers seek to rob the mails
This is done at the urgent solicitation of Gen
eral Superintendent Nash.
Hon. Sam T. Leavy, state senator of Wood
ford county, Kentucky, has been called to
answer the court for improper language to a
juror. His prominence causes considerable
comment in that part of the state from which
he comes
Governor Buckner has refused the demand
of Governor Wilson, of West Virginia. for
the surrender of the members Of the Hat
field gang, now in Jail at Pikeville He re-
fers him to the courts for settlement of the
matter
A company is being formed at Chicago
with the object of purchasing and removing
to that city of the famous Libby prison, of
Richmond Va.
The jury in the Ben Hopkins trial at Gin
cinnati, has returned verdict of guilty as
charged in the indictments. Hopkins coun-
sci have moved for a new trial
The death of the Mexican bandit chief,
Eracho Bernal is fully confirmed at the
department of state at Washington.
William Salane, q negro desperado in at
tempting to escape from the Vicksburg Jail,
was shot by guard and instantly killed.
course for women
Another plot to entrap young women for
the dives os northern Wisconsin, has been
discovered at Eau Claire, Wis
!. G. Parker, presiding judge of the United
States district Court at Fort Smith, has an
nounced his opposition to the bill before con-
gress to establish court in Indian Territory,
and desires to have the matters pertaining to
this subject more fully investigated before
it is acted upon. He cities that though there
are more Indians than white men in the ter
ritory, yet seven out of ten men brought in
from the territory and tried in his court are
sent to the penitentiary, and search of the
records demonstrates that this proportion is
white, and that they will, under the senate
bill, be the unnecessary to form justice in
the territory.
Miss Josie Holmes, exchange clerk Of the
late Fidelity bank, at Cincinnati, refuses TO
plead guilty and be released, but wants to be
ell