Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-03-10
NEWS IN a NUTSHELL.

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worthy Happenings and Events.
Democratic club representatives will or
game at indianapolis early in March.
The president has approved of the postal
| convention between the United States and
Canada
Kitty Anderson, a Greensburg, Ind.
school ma'am, has been arrested for padding
Clifford Dixon
kentucky dfstillers are hopping mad over
the failure of half dozen firms to keep the
agreement to refrain from making any
whisky this season.
Marshal Carr, of Purcell, Ind, had his
morse shot under him while pursuing Muir
derer John McGrew. He retaliated by send
ing a bullet through the fleeing criminal
The New York Democratic state commit
tee is tie between the administration and
the Hill factions
stella NJ Barnes, a handsome young widow
OF jackson, Mich, has fallen heir to an estate
valued at $780, 600
Inc Grant Monument association of New
YORK propose to erect memorial structure
at contemplated cost 90 100000
Forty-two prisoners at the Jacksonville
penitentiary had planned to make their es-
cape, and an accidental discovery by the
warden was made just in time to prevent the
success of the scheme which included blood
shed and murder
A steamer arrived at San Francisco from
Japan with smallpox ON board She was
quarantined
The design submitted by Bruno Schmitz,
OF Berlin, has been accepted by the Indiana
Soldiers Monument commission. The work
is to cost 100000
The Ohio Patriot, at New Lisbon, is in its
elghtieth year, and the Steubenville
Herald has just entered upon its eighty-third
year. The State Journal was established in
1911
Count George DeWolfe has been SEN
fenced from Wilkesbarre, Pa, to eighteen
months in the penitentiary
Over two hundred bills, calling for appro-
prlatlons aggregating twenty-eight millions,
have been introduced in congress.
The jury in the Indianapolis tally-sheet
cases brought in verdict convieting Coy
and Bernhamer and acquitting Matter
The officials of Logan county, West Vir-
ginia, have called upon Governor Wilson for
aid to suppress parties from Pike county.
Kentucky, engaged in a local warfare
The vendetta between the McCoys, of Pike
county, Kentucky, and the Hatfields, of Lo-
gan county, West Virginia, has grown to such
proportions that it has been found necessary
for the officials Of Logan county to call upon
Governor Wilson, of West Virginia for aid
to suppress the parties engaged in this war
fare.
Charles Crecelius, living near Boston, Ind,
who deserted his wife and eloped with an
other woman, was taken out by White Caps,
Sunday night, and given fifty lashes on the
bare hack
AS James +. Rule, city editor of the Knox
willie Team. Journal, WAS entering church
with his wife he was assaulted Inv John West,
w llham West and man named Goodman,
and IN the fight that ensued John West was
shot through the body, Goodman was
wounded in the shoulder and Rule received
ball through the wrist, was cut in the back
seven times, and bullet grazed his scalp
Tremendous volume of gas is coming
through hole in H. f. Bucklan's farm. at
Francisville, Ind
County Clerk Sullivan accused Judge
Claypool, counsel in the Indianapolis tally
sheet cases, of calling him bad names, and
emphasized his accusation by splitting in the
face of the judge and following it up with a
ringing blow
Eight afiidavits have been prepared asking
for new trial for Coy and Bernhamer the
convicted tally sheet forgers at Indianapo-
lis
Lewis Swith, sawmill man near Bloom
mgton, Ind, was attacked by am employee,
who dealt him blow in the head with a
handspike, which it is thought will prove
fatal
The supreme court of Wisconsin, in an
elaborate opinion, has held that the legisla-
ture did not contemplate to extend the same
suffrage to females as the males enjoy, but
that female voting was restricted to school
matters only
DIR, AcGlynn and Henry George are not in
accord on the tariff question.
Miss Grace Smith, of Plainfeld, Ind, fell
in fainting ft on a hot stove, and was
burned so badly as to cause her death soon
after.