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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-03-15
INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY, MARCH 15.s189o.
Queer Cunshot Wouoas.

"Lieutenant Muncie, OF the sixty
first Georgia regiment said Captain
Tip, twas one OF the most remark
able men / ever knew. He was
slender, cadavorous-looking man,
with apparently no physical strength,
yet he lived through what would
have killed dozen ordinary men,
and is alive to-day. In the early
part of the war he was shot through
and through. The ball struck the
breast bone and shattered it, passed
through his body and came out with
in an inch of his spine between two
ribs. After desperate struggle for
life he recovered and rejoined his
regiment. At the battle Of Monoca-
cy he was again wounded, the ball
entering between the corresponding
ribs on the other side of his spine
issuing from the same hole at which
the first ball entered. The second
shot must have taken the passage in
side Muncie's body that the first ball
made in going Ia the opposite direc-
ton. He was in prison with me later,
and appeared to suffer no unusual
pain.
Lieutenant Leath was another man
with a remarkable experience. He
was leading his men into battle, when
he received the order to charge. The
noise Of the guns and the sbrieks of
the wounded made it necessary for
for him to give his orders at the top
of his voice. He had his mouth
wide open, calling out the word
charge, when silver from shell
struck him III the cheek. 1t passed
through his mouth without touching
a single tooth, and came out through
the other cheek, leaving on each side
of his head cash as clean as if cut
by razor. The wound became in.
famed, and Leath, who WAS at the
time near his home, was given leave
of absence for two or three days.
When he rode up to his mothers
house his head was tied up with ban
dages.
The old lady rushed out when she
saw him coming out and cried; ooh,
my son, where are you wounded?"
"Right through the head,' he re-
Piled
His mother, thinking the wound
must be fatal, sent for doctor with
out waiting for explanations. When
the medical man arrived he found
Leath sitting at the dinner table eat
ing hearty meal,-Atlanta Constr
tuition.
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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-03-15
A Children's Paper

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German chemists have discovered
in the cocoanut fatty substitute for
butter, and now The United States
Consul at Mannheim, Germany, re-
ports that the new product has be-
gun to be manufactured on large
scale in that city. A single factory
produces 5000 pounds of it per day,
worth on the market fifteen cents
per ID.
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The growing belief that consump-
ton is contagious promises to lead
to many embarrassments. The pco-
pie of Southern California, which has
hitherto been place ofrefuge for
consumptives, now declare that the
invalids must be excluded, since they
spread the disease among the origi-
nal settlers. Similar results, though
in lesser degree, have been observ-
ed in the Andirondacks, N. Y.
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-30

ing first acted upon. After some dis
cussion Mr.. Aldrich modified his re-
quest and simply asked that the formal
reading of the bill be dispensed with,
and that the bill be read bv
paragraphs for consideration. It
would be open to amendment as
read, under the rules of the Senate, and
this was agreed to. Mr.. Vance opened
the discussion. He was followed by
Senator Mcpherson, who moved that
the pending bill be recommitted to the
committee on finance with instructions
to report, at the earliest practicable
moment, bill to reduce the revenue
and to equalize duties on imports on the
basis that the average rate of duty
should not exceed the average adj
valorem war tariff rate Of 1864. After
some further discussion, and without
action OH Mr.. McPherson's motion
(which is pending) the Senate ad-
journed.
SATURDAY, July 26.-The Senate talked
tariff for couple of hours, but the bill
went over till Monday. On motion of
Mr.. Wilson 0a) the House amend
ments to the Original Package Bill"
were non-concurred in and a confer
ence was ordered. Messrs Wilson ia. i,
and Mr.. Edmunds and Mr.. George
were appointed conferrees on the part of
the Senate. A bill passed granting
pensions of $1,000 year to the widow
of the late aj.-Gen George Crook, to
Mrs. Fremont and to Mrs. Mcclellan.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-30
NOT HAPPY YET.
Blarsted Britishers After All the Sto
Yards.

Yards.
The new Chicago Stock Yards syndi-
cate has begun negotiations for the pur-
chase outright of the National Stock
Yards at st. Louis, the Union Stock
Yards at st. Joseph, Mo-, the Union
Stock Yards at South ST. Paul and the
smaller yards at Iowa City. These are
the locations of definite negotiations; it
is stated further that the immense cor
poration contemplates the netting of
every cattle pen in this country.
cate, Messrs. Seward, Da Costa q
Guthrie, have been directing the nego-
tiations along this line, and have now
practically settled the sales. During
last week John B. butcher, president
of the St. Louis National Stock Yards,
has been in the East comforting with
the representatives Of the syndicate,
and has gone home to prepare papers
for transfer of the stock of those
yards. Two weeks ago the Jarvis-Conk-
lin Mortgage Company, of Kansas City,
was given orders to close the deal for
the purchase of the Union Stock Yards
of St. Joe, Mo-. for the sum of 81, $780,
600. kilograms have been sent East
notifying the syndicate that the sale
had been made and papers prepared.
While the perfection of the corpora
ton is being effected by the representa-
tives the subscription of the stock has
gone merrily on, until now the whole
$4,000 900 have been subscribed With
offers for nearly as much more. The
of salable stock The Englishmen who
started the deal will not control the cor
poration. They get only $2,500,000 of
stock
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-30
STORM IN LAWRENCE
Eight Persons Killed and 500 Homes De-
GtrOVed.

A dispatch of the 26th from Lawrence,
Mass, says: A cyclone, the first of any
considerable Importance within memory
in New England, and one equaling in
destructive power those so frequently
reported from Western communities,
visited the suburb, South Law
renee, this morning at about
9:15 O'Clock, and in fifteen min
utes had killed eight people,
seriously injured from fifteen to TWEEN
ty, slightly injured at least twenty
more, cut a swath through a thickly
populated section 200 feet wide and a
mile long, rendered 500 people home
less, destroyed or greatly damaged from
Is to 100 buildings, mostly dwelling
houses, leveled beautiful square of
over 500 trees, and entailed a property
loss now estimated at 100000, all of
wind and storm. The calamity is the
greatest which has visited Lawrence
since the fall and burning Of the Penn
berton mills, thirty years ago.
South Lawrence is that section of the
city lying south of the Merrimac River.
At this point the main line of the Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad takes sharp turn
to the eastward, and, following the Mer-
rimac, crosses the river at Bradford. A
railroad bridge connects the suburb
with the city proper and with the rail
road lines north. The point is a busy
railroad junction and in the vicinity
where many wooden houses occupied
mainly by well-to-do mechanics, and
among these the air fend spent his
greatest fury The northern boundary
of the belt Of destruction was but three
streets south of the lofty mills with
their busy throngs of thousands of work
ers, showing how narrow was the escape
from more appalling loss of life and
DrODertV
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-30
other Powers Lethargic.

In the French chamber of deputies
on the 21st, M. Ribot, minister Of for
eign affairs, replying to the interpella-
ton of M. Dupuy in regard to negotia-
tons with the powers relative to the
American customs administrative bill,
said that the government had been in
negotiation with the other European
powers with the object of trying to
concert collective action against
the bill. The other powers, he said,
were averse to entering into any en-
gagement in connection with the mat
ter. M. Ribot declared that he feared
further action would defeat it's own OBJ
iect. M. Dupuy said he hoped that NJ.
Ribot would strenuously try to secure,
from the United States government, a
moderate application Of the provisions
Of the bill. In any case, he declared,
the French customs committee knew
now what course to adopt.