Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-04-05


THE Government has issued an
order to stop Indians from engaging
themselves to wild West shows.
TIE Navy Department advertises
for bids for supplying $4,000 pounds
of plug tobacco.
Mr.. Westphal has been elected a
Director in the National Bank. A
good selection.
SEND One Dollar to J. n. Thatcher
and get two horse-load good sawed
and split wood before it is all gone.
ct.
SATURDAY last the Pennsylvania
road issued a circular forbidding
News Agents to sell anything but
papers, periodicals and other itera-
ture on their trains.
The Maryland Legislature adj
journed on Monday last. The House
presented its Speaker with hand
some gold watch and the Senate pre-
sented theirs with silver tea set.
THE Standing Committee of the
new Building and Association of
this city, met on Monday night. The
object being to confer with the Ho
siery Manufacturer.
THE "John Browns Fort" at Har-
per's Ferry, w. Va, has been sold
to Chicago syndicate, and will be
moved to that city in the next sixty
days.
SAM'L. Hepburn, who has died
last week was the father of Sam'l.
Hepburn, Jr., of the Martinsburg &
Winchester r. r. Survey Corps,
well known to many of our people.
The Farmers Hotel, one of the
oldest taverns in the city will be con-
verted into a business block by its
owner, Mr.. A. Gardner. He will
tear out the front and fit up two
store rooms ninety by thirty feet.
THE most terrible storm known TO
the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Ar
kansas, occurred on Thursday March
28th, carrying destruction of life and
property in it's path.
HUGH. the youngest son of Mrs.
Ell. A. Frazer will start for California
next week. Mr.. F. will will leave to
visit friends along the Cumberland
Valley, expecting to reach San Diago
in about thI4# weeks.
THE Attorney General will take
an appeal from the decision Of the
Court of Claims, which makes the
| Government responsible to the men,
bers of Congress. for their losses
through the Silcott defalcations.
THE order from the Mayor request.
ing the obstruction of low awning
fixtures to be removed, is being
rapidly complied with, and in the
future high hats and umbrellas will
pass along Main Street in safety.
Mrs. G. Maslin, of Hardy county,
accompanied by her daughters,
Misses Sadie and Leila passed thro'
this city on Friday, to make Mrs.
Jas. Strong.ofthis county and friends
in Winchester, Va, visits.
We were in error in last weeks
edition, in stating the distance be-
tween the trains on the misplaced
switch at the G. V. Il. Il. yards, it
was $50 yards instead of ten feet as
stated.
MANN & BELL DIssoLvE.-The
barber business conducted in this
city for many years past, by the
above named parties, was on April
1st dissolved, Bell continuing the
business.
THE late President Mr.. Oscar See
ly, of the Board of Gas Trustees of
Wheeling, w. Va, has been accused
of using $500 worth of piping, paid
for by the city, in his private bust
ness.
SUNDAY morning an intoxicated
colored man wandered into the stable
of ] as. Carder at Oldtown, struck a
match to see where to lie down and
threw the burning match among
straw. In a short time the stable
was on fire, and before the alarm was
given it was burnt to the ground
destroying three horses, all the har-
ness, hay and grain in the stable.
The colored man made his escape
Romney Intelligencer.
500 Reward. 800.