Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-12-29
MARTmsBuRG W. VA SATURDAY DECEMBER 80,


river by steamer Joppa; N. r. Harrison Gar
rett, OF Baltimore, drowned
Rev. DR.. Layton Coleman made Protestant
bishopsS Delaware.
10. Train robbery at Muscogce, l. T.
II. Train robbery nea- junction City, NJ. r.
Is Nine and Gen, Diss Dchar sentenced to the pen
itentiary for six months
q. Disastrous foods in Mexico Many hundreds
drowned
Of. HoIbrooK, A. T., nearly destroyed by-tire.
%. Paying Teller Pitcher. OF the Union bank OF
Providence. r l., Is . defaulser and fugitive.
yurv.
9. JohraF Van Loan OF the Second Nasonai hnnk
OF Jersey city, defaulter in $4,000
4. Mrs. James X. Polk, widow of President Polk,
at Nashville, started the machinery OF the
Cincinnati Exhibition by electricity
VIM. r, Flack lost his life trying "a navigate
the whirlpool rapids Niagara.
0. Cal Thos. L. Casey made chief sc engineers
Of the army.
1s More than 500 killed by volcanic ernptions in
Japan
II. Hronel Cheboueh, and Chapel. three Bo-
hemian Anarchists, arrested in Chicago.
charged with conspiracy to burn tho city.
AUGUST.
Bilnky Morgan hanged in Columbus o.
Twenty-one lives lost in fire on the Bowery,
New York
4. Terrible tornado in Cuba Heavy loss of life.
0. Yellow feverwell under way at Jacksonville,
Fla
10. Ten persons burned TO death at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Hugh NJ Brooks alias Maxwell. hanged at So
Louis.
is Woman suffrage declared unconstitutional N
Wyoming
10. Collision of steamers Geyser end Thingvala.
More than 100 lives lost.
81. Bill Miles, anti-Bald Knohber shoots and kills
RaId nj
Ozark, Mo.
Severe storms on the gulf and Atlantic coasts
%. Gigantic opium smuggling scheme tinearthed.
Frank Gardner and other guilty parties after
ward convicted and imprisoned.
Thirtyfour lives lost In steamer collision In San
Francisco bay.
%. Fourteen killed by boiler explosion at Neemah,
Neb.
90. Quarantine ordered against Jacksonville, Fla
Robert Garrett reported demented.
81. Charles H. Litchman resigns general secre-
taryship of the Knights OF Labor.
SEPTEMBER
Q Battle between outlaws and vigilantes near
Palladora, No Mans Land. Seventeen out
laws killed.
8. Sarah Althea Fiji Jailed for three days for
contempt Of court Judge Terry, her hus-
band sent up for six months for brandishing
a knife in the court room
II. Floods In Mexico. Many lives lost.
10. Disastrous floods In Georgia.
20. John G. Parkhurst of Michigan. appointed U.
s. Minister to Belgium
"a The lone highwayman OF Texas killed by Mrs.
Lizzie Hay.
90. j. H. Oberly appointed Indian commissioner.
q. w R. Foster OF New York. defaulter In $16S,-
600
Old Hutchs wheat corner begun In Chicago.
%. Sioux Indians decline to accept the terms Of
the proposed treaty.
OCTOBER.
1. Traders bank at Chicago suspended I.iabili.
ties, 100000.
@ Severe storms on the great lakes Many
lives lost
10. seventy-elght killed in railroad collision. Mud
Run, Pa
is. H. s. Briggs of Rochester, defaulter I'm St4,-
COO
49, j. D. Mcclure and Hugh Flanagan robbed Of
$4,000 and murdered near Wilkesbarre.
Train robbery at Peru, Ind
%. Thos. Axworthy, treasurer, of Cleveland, O..
defaulter in $4,000.
rs. Daniel Hand, of Connecticut, gave 100000
for the education of the colored people In the
former slave states.
3D. Lord Sackville given his passports
q. Steamer ITaytian Republic seized BY the Hay
tians.
1. Serious trouble with oyster dredgers on Cbes-
apeake bay.
L. Sixteen killed by mine explosion ut Cooks
Run, Pa.
o. One hundred killed by mine explosion at Pitts
burg, Kan.
IS. Marriage of Joseph Chamberlain and Miss En-
dicott
Failure of the bank of Durham, N. O. Ilabili-
ties $40O, 900, involving other failures aggre-
eating 100000
H. Perry Belmont appointed minister to Spain.
90 A. II. Colquitt reelected United States senator
from Georgia.
g. General Master Workman Powderly Of the
Knights Of Labor reelected
j. E. Bedell mortgage forger In New York, SEN
fenced TO twenty-five years and four months
imprisonment
"a, Is. 2e Terrible storm on the Atlantic coast
"a. Fisk win case decided against Cornell univer-
sity.
Jacksonville reports clean bill OF health
30 Calumet and Hecia copper mines fred by In.
cendiaries.
Treasurer Chas. O. winchell, of Sphinx county
Dakota, defaulted In $4,000
DECEMBER
5. Frank II. Bates, employed by Old Hutch. do
faulted In $4,000
2. Wholesale arrests of White Cappers In Craw-
ford county, Ind
0. Mob attacked the fail at Birmingham, Ala,
and attempt to lynch a murderer named
IIawes The sheriff fred on the mob. killing
nine anf wounding thirty.
10 Whit. Cap outrages becoming prevalent In
many parts OF the country.
Rear Admiral Luce ordered TO proceed with two
N@s ships 70 hayti and demand the release Of
tho steamer Haytian Republic. Sailed the
18th.
IA Fifteen burned to death at a fire at Neumuns
ter, Prussia
II. Beginning OF trouble between whites and no
grocs In Mississippi
ACROSS THE MAIN.
JASrARY.