Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-03-29
news OF THE WEEK.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GATHERED
IN SMALL COMPASS.
The Latest Happenings at Home and Abroad
Collected and Presented in Terse and
Readable form-What is Going
on in the Sporting World.
General Notes.

lar drawn royalties amounting to 1000.
A New York drummer won a suit
against a man who offered to pay him
800 to keep sober for year.
Heavy rains and melting SHOWS pro-
duced extensive floods in Pennsylvania
and West Virginia the past week.
Wire nail-mills all over the country
have been shut down to compel the in
dependent houses to join the Trust.
General Francis II. Smith, for fifty
years superintendent of the Virginia
Military Institute, died on the 21st inst.
Aunt Matilda Ruby, of Kentucky, has
just died at the age Of 1875. She chowed
and smoked for century and a
quarter.
President Harrison has given 5000 to-
ward fund for the relief of the families
of the firemen who were killed at In
dianapolis.
President Harrison returned to WASH
ington, after three days ducking expo
dition in Maryland, bringing 65 ducks
with him as evidence of his skill.
g. H. Poindexter, proprietor of large
tobacco ware house in Danville, Va, has
left the city, leaving behind him debts
amounting to several thousand dollarA
General Robert C. Schenck, o former
member of Congress from Ohio and ex-
minister to Great Britain, died in WASH
ton, d. c., on Sunday with pneumonia
Secretary Proctor has authorized an
expenditure of $4,000 for the protection
Of the levees on the Mississippi river in
the third and fourth districts, making the
total allotment for this purpose $170, 900.
The Richmond and Danville Railroad
company propose to build new road
from Danville to Gastonia, town just
beyond Charlotte, N. c., where oonnec-
ton will DO made with the main line to
Atlanta.
John Wesley Haslett, of Kansas City,
claims the championship belt in novel
branch of industry. He is the "sticker"
for packing company, and claims that
In fourteen years service he has slain
8, 400, 900 hogs.
The West Virginia court Of appeals in
the case Of the Fidelityfinsurance and
trust company, against the Shenandoah
Valley railroad company, rendered ade-
cfsion awarding the Central improve
ment company $649, 2s4.
Sister Rose Gertrude, the English girl
who went to Hawaii to nurse lepers, has
not been allowed by the Hawaiian gov
eminent to enter the leper settlement
but has been given place at the receiv-
ing station for lepers at Kalili.
Great CONSERVATION has been caused
among boomers by an order from Gen.
oral Merritt to the troops sweeping over
the Cherokee strip to take all names ON
stakes in order to cause a forfeiture to
such claimants of all homestead rights.
The trial, by court martial, of Lieuten-
antSteele, at Chicago, for knocking down
private Wilde, has resulted In sensa-
honaI developments, showing the utterly
worthless character and bad habits of
Wilde, also that he had boosted that he
would get Steele into trouble
The trial of Sheriff William L. Flack,
In New York City, together with his son
William, and Joseph Weeks, the referee
In the famous fraudulent divorce case,
resulted in q verdict of guilty in the case
of all three prisoners. The verdict was
accompanied by recommendation to
mercy.
B. G. Wood, the ballot-box forger,
concerned in tho scandal developed in
the late Ohio elections, is exhibiting him
self on the stage, in a Cincinnati dime
museum, in connection with life-size
wax figures of the persons engaged in
the investigation Of the forgery at Wash
ington.
The recent Hamilton failure in New
York is said to have been due to Eva
Hamilton, the imprisoned wife of Robert
Ray Hamilton. The latter is a brother
of Schuyler Hamilton, and was willing
to help him out of his financial troubles,
but could not raise the money on his
property because his wife's signature was
necessary to mortgages and deeds.
Major General George Crook, of the
United States Army, died suddenly of
heart failure, at the Grand Pacific hotel,
Chicago, Saturday last He was 81
years old. He was noted Federal cav
airy officer during the civil war, and
has since gained wide reputation as the
most successful modern Indian fighter.
He commanded the department Of the
Missouri
John F. Plummer q Co., one of the
leading dry goods firms of New York
City, has failed with liabilities Of 81, $780,
900. Mr.. Plummer is well-known as q
merchant and politician, and was presi-