Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-03-08
State News

A six-year-old boy was seen drunk
on the streets Of Guyandotte few
days ago.
Two men waylaid Height Mich
olson near Ravenswood, last Sunday
night and robbed him of $2S.
The Chicago Journal Of Commerce
says: S. I. Williams, of Wheeling,
w. Va, having been granted $I0,-
900 bonus, will erect rolling mill
at Muskegon, Mich, to cost $4,000.
The Linden Coal & Coke Co., has
been incorporated in Chicago, ILL.,, it
is stated to operate coal mines and
coke ovens 10 miles north of Fair
mont, w. Va. The capital stock is
| $50, 900.
A Pittsburg young lady. who is
visiting in Harper's Ferry, yawned
q few days ago and dislocated her
jaw. After suffering intense pain
from the dislocation for nine hours,
the jaw was replaced,
Joe Plymale has instituted suit
against the County Court of Wayne
county for $4,000 damages, for in
juries to his shoulder, received from
the falling of his horse through
bridge in Ceredo district.
james Dobney, of Keyser, had q
narrow escape from being drowned
a few days ago, He started to ford
a stream with wagon and team.
The wagon was washed away, and
Dobney had hard work to reach the
| bank.
There is rumor in Kingwood that
work 10 to be resumed on the propo.
sed and partly graded "Black Bottle
Railroad" Engineers are going over
the ground, and the Preston county
Journal says ex Senator III. G. Davis
was in the party.
Col. j. l.. Mclean leased recently
to q wealthy oil company $4,000
acres of land in Union district. The
company will begin developing the
territory as soon as spring opens, and
is very sanguine ofstriking oil. This
makes the third good oil company
that will develope Putnam oil lands
next spring.-Putnan Democrat.
Huntington is to have a paper
published in the interest of the Grand
Army of the Republicans. Captain
Mark Poore is to be the editor. We
are afraid from the result of such en-
terprises in the past that the gallant
Captain will have an "r" added to
his name before he has been with his
paper long.-Wheeling Register.
Lumbermen in the Maine woods,
in Pennsylvania and Canada have
cut millions Of logs, but in the alb
sence of snow are apprehensive that
the spring flood viii not be sufficient
to float them to market. In West
Virginia lumber has been marked
with much more regularity than
usual The snow plays no important
part in the industry in this State.
There was a land-slip last night on
the land of Andy Toothman, just on
the east side Of Worthington Greek
near the railroad and the Staunton
pike, and this morning stream of
oil was discovered flowing out of the
rocks where the slide had occurred.
There is considerable excitement
over the unusual occurrence, and
Mr.. Toothman's farm in the last few
hours has increased fabulously in
Notwithstanding Journal.
The West Virginia Methodist Pub
fishing Company was incorporated
on the Ord inst, by the Secretrry Of
State. The purpose of the Compa-
ny is the publication at Barboursville,
of weekly newspaper and the doing
of such job work and other printing
as may be deemed expedient. The
entire net earning Of such corpora
tion is to be applied to the relief of
superannuated preachers and the
widows and orphans of deceased
preachers of the Western Virginia
conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South. The capital stock
is 81, 900 with the privilege of in
creasing to $4,000.