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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1891-03-07
UNNECESSARY ALARM


1t will be well for our people to
note the fact, that q few alarmists
can do more injury to our home in
terests, than several regiments of ac-
tive practical, energetic, enterprising
business workers can do good. Long
since, it was published that the b.
& o. r. r. Company had no inten.
ton of injuring Martinsburg. Yet
q few people have been Industrious
ly, cutting their own Threats and in.
juring all other persons by circulat-
ing reports of changes, changes, and
there has not been any change, and
it is more to the interest of the R.
R. Company to help build up Mar
tinsburg than it is to tear it to pieces.
From Washington to Wheeling, next
to Cumberland, our town is one OF
its best patrons and feeders, and
there is no plausability Of even o
remote possibility, Of the B. & O.
turning down or throwing away the
large revenue realized by it from our
town. Mr.. King, one of the Vice
Presidents is one OF the promoters
of boom here and is aiding to adj
vance our interests and has in con-
sistent way, assured our Senator,
that no injury was in contemplation
for Martinsburg. People who want
cheap property and want values re-
duced, might reap profit this way,
but it is unnecessary alarm, doing
our town harm and should cease.
Work with the workers, not with the
GROWERS and the future of your
town will be merited success.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1891-03-07
Shooting ARRAY at a Wedding

CHARLESTON, W. VA, March L.
The wedding of John Robinson and
Rosella Harris lat Pocahontas, Sat.
urday, almost ended in a tragedy. A
difficulty arose between Samuel
Freeman and Jas. Harris, two of
the groomsmen, and, when Freeman
left, Harris procured double-barre
ed shotgun, and while John Green
held a lantern close to Freeman's
head, Harris shot him through the
neck, inficting q serious wound.
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Correspondence.

EDITOR INDEpENDENT.-DEAR SIR !:
in perusing the last issue of your
paper / noticed paragraph stating
that "there is complaint among the
people that it is Impossible to get
medicine at drug store during
the night"
In reply to this / beg leave to in
form the public that The Peoples
Drug Store, on East Burke st, is
provided with an electric bell, which
is always answered promptly, and
medicines can be obtained at all
hours of the night. Respectfully,
CHAs. r. RHODES, Manager.
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The Civil Service Sham.

If there is any newspaper in the
United States in a position to know
the workings of the civil service law
and the fraud it maintains known as
a "Civil Service Commission" the
Post is that paper. The Post is pure
ly an Independent paper and cannot
be charged with having partisan mo-
tives when it lays bare the impracti-
cal workings of the law and shows
that the so-called "reform" does not
reform, never has done so, and never
will, SO long as the impractical, dis
honest, hypocritical Mugwum plan
theories govern its methods. The
Post cannot be accused of having a
partisan motive in publishing the
following vigorous denunciation in
a long editorial on the com mission
ers of the sham civil service reform:
The whole thing is humbug, and Sena-
tors know it. 1t is builded on hypocrisy
and cant, and Senators know it. tits un.
American in sentiment, and Senators
know it. The law has been eyaded and
laughed and sneered at on the sly, and
Senators know it. 1t is an illegimate brat,
and Senators know it. When Democrats
are in power the Republicans lay it on the
formers doorstep, and when Republicans
are in power vice versa, and Senators
know it. 1t is cruelty aggravated n its
workings, and Senators know it.
The people are not fooled by the men
who, pretending to be for it, secretly re-
joice when it is battered over the head and
in both eyes. The farce cannot be kept up
much longer, and Senator'S ought to know
that also
This was just as true under the
Democratic administration as it is
now and ever will be, and as long as
parties exist. In this respect no
party, as whole, is better than
another. Politicians wherever you
find them, and the offices will be
always at their disposal whether
they are Democrats or Republicans.
--Intellagencer.
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Al Joke Led 10 His Suicide

HAGERsrowN. February 49, DAN
iel Furley, a wagon. maker, aged 35
years, committed suicide here this
morning at the shop OF bis father,
VIM. Furley, by cutting his throat
with penknlfe. No one but the
suicide was about the premises at
the time. He was naturally weak
minded. and his act is attributed to
a joke thoughtlessly rracticed upon
him.
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TAKE NOTICE

The Second Series of the Improvement
Loan and Building Association Will be-
gin March Esd, 1891. Any person desiring
to take shares can do so by calling on any
of the Officers of the Association. This
will be known as Series B of this Associa-
ed to said membership All members are
expected to be present and pay for their
shares on the above date. Officers III.
I. Cushwa, J. W, Bishop, q. A. Young, L..
C. Gerling, j. H. Gettinger, j. IL. Shatfer,
N. d. Baker. Geo. E. Gaver. G. W. Bux-
ton, H. G. Berry, w. 0. Nicklas and T.
Q. Curtis. 2-14tf.
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New Tin Plate Establishment !.

JOLIET, Ills, March "A con
tract has just been executed between
several Joliet property owners and
Lewis bros, of Pittsburg, Pa, and
Wales, England, by which South
Joliet has secured a 100000 tin
plate plant, to occupy twenty acres
and furnish floor space of over
100000 square feet. The Lewis
Brothers are from a family who have
been manufacturing tin plate for
many generations in England.
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MARTINsBURa. March /, 1891
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased the Su-
preme Architect of the Universe to
remove from our midst our esteemed
brother, Adam Schmidt; therefore
be it
Resolved, That whilst We bow with
humble submission to the dispense
tion of Divine Providence, we feel
that it is meet to say, that we have
lost a worthy brother.
RESOLVED, That we deeply sympa-
thize with the family of our deceased
brother, and devoutly submit to the
decree of Him awho doeth all things
well.n
RESOLVED, That the lodge be drap-
ed, and the members wear the usual
badge of mourning thirty days.
RESOLVED, That copy of these
resolutions be sent to the family OF
our deceased brother, and that a
copy be furnished the newspapers OF
the city for publication.
j. P. GEYER,
F. F. KE1sEooME, Com.
K CIRQUE.
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Business Men and Farmers at War.

DUBUQUE, Iowa, March "A war
to the knife has been commenced in
this State between the Business
Mems Association and the Farmers
Alliance. The latter is engaged in
establishing cooperative stores
throughout the State. To this the
Business Men 5 Association has sent
notice to all jobbers that they must
sell either to the alliance alone or the
association. The alliance threatens
to retaliate by refusing to patronize
the association.
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AUCTIONEER.

JOHN W. DODD is a Licensed Auction
eer in Berkeley and Jefferson counties,
w. Va, Clark and Frederick counties,
Va, and Washington county. Md, and
solicits a share of the public patronage.
Will sell on per cent, or lump the job. Sat
istaction guaranteed.
yGs Address, JOHN w DODD, Mar
tinsburg, w. Va, or call ct the CoNTI-
MENTAL HOTEL. dec. 10, 90-tf.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 7. 1891.

We understand the West Virginia
Legislature continues in session.
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Congress adjourned sine die on
Wednesday at noon. The closing
scenes were noisy.
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MORE m EN- WANTED.

HIRE men on salary and pay their
l. travelling expenses (unless they prefer
commission) and give them employment
twelve months in the year. | now wantssa
large number to solicit orders for full
line Of nursery stock which we guarantee
true to name and first-class in every
particular. No experience needed. Full
Instructions. furnished. Good references
required. Address (stating age),
.. n. PATTY,
NURSERYMAN,
22S-tf. GENEVA, N. Y.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE

COMM ISSIONER'S NOTICE.
COMMISSIONERS OYrIcE,
MaItinsburg, W. Va, Feb. 10th, 1891
E BcYD FAULKNER L D. s In The Cir
GRIFFITH, Adm'fs of cult Court
nj s. Grantham, of
deceased, B erk e e y,
VS.. County,
MELyINA GRAKTHAs, EFT AL West Virginia.
To Thom 1t Nay Concern
You and zach of you are hereby notified
that, pursuant to a decree of the Circuit
Court of Berkely County. W. Va, rendered
in the above entitled cause on the 18th day
of January, 1891. requiring the undersigned
commissioner first, 10 ascertain and report
all the real estate of which Moses S. Gran
than died seised and possessed, its location
and value; secondly, to audit all the debts
against the estate of said decedent in the
order OF their respective priorities,, together
with aay other matters that he may be
specially reqn ired to state by any person in-
terested in this cause, or that be may deem
pertinent thereto; have fixed upon the Goth
day of March, 1891, at my office 10 Martins
burg, " Va, TO execute the said decree of
reference. at which time and place you and
each of you are required to be present.
Given under ny hand the day and ,ear
first above written.
ADRIAN G. NADENBOUSCH,
teb I4,-4t. Com'r in Chancery.
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J.N. wIsNER, Editor and Proprietor.
North Queen ST., Martinsburg, w. Va
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-03-19
WICkEDNESSES-

The president has refused to pardon John
Q. Emo of New York, who was convicted of
bank wrecking.
EDWARD ROGERS, at Saginaw, Mich, ia
tally shot Hattie Mores, and subsequently,
committed suicide.
DANIEL P. GoULD1NG, clerk in the East
port, Me-, postoffice, has been arrested for
depredations on the mails.
Gov. HILL. of New York, has committed
thesentence Of Frank Fish, convicted of
murder, to Imprisonment forlife.
SIDNEY LEWIS, the young fellow who shot
and killed his father, Judge Lewis, in Har-
din county, KY, is in jail at Knoxville,
Tenn.
AT Wheeling, w. Va, the coroner's iurv
in the case ofex-mayor DR.. George Baird
Who was killed recently, has returned YER
dict against DR.. George I. Garrison
ALL preparations for the lynching of q
negro named Wellban near Williamson. s.
C., had been made, when the mob changed
its mind and gave some 500 lashes with a
cato -nine-tails. He had confessed to an
attempted assault on young lady.
AARON GILBERT and s. w. Calvert.
brothers-in-law, quarreled over a game O
cards at Gilberts house in Wheeling. w.
Va. Calvert drew knife and disembowled
Gilbert who will die. The mur1 ~~er is in
iail $40
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-03-19
EVENTS OF A WEEK.
Flashed by the Wires Of the Telegraph
Condensed and Classified for
Convenience of Readers.
Washington, Foreign, Accidental, Per-
sonal, Criminal and Other
News Of Importance.
WASHINGTON,

SECRETARY BLAINE says the Behring sea
difficulty will be practically settled by arbi-
tration.
A LIVELY fight occurred in the Arkan-
sas house of representatives, in which ink
stands, spitoons and other articles were
used as missiles.
The commissioner of Indian affairs has
awarded contracts for furnishing the Sioux
Indians with beef and corn under recent
act appropriating $780, 600 for that purpose.
AT the meeting of the directors Of the
Western Union Telegraph company in New
York q quarterly dividend of IT per cent
was declared, payable April Is.
THE change of calvary troops on duty at
Washington will be deferred some weeks.
Lieut.. Col. Hare, of the Ninth, will prob
ably be placed in command of the post
when the change is made.
IT is announced that the Jefferson Insur-
ance Company of New York will retire
from business. It's risks are reinsured in
the Home Insurance company. The COM
pany has been in business for sixty-seven
years.
EDISON, Bell, Corliss, Simms, Westing-
house and Carnegie are to attend at Wash
ington April to 10 the celebration of the
beginning of the second century of the
American patent system, at the opening
m Getting of which President Harrison will
preside.
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SPORTING TRIPLES

MANAGER MUTR1E offered Keefe, the star
pitcher, $500 to sign a contract to plav
with the New York Giants but Keefe re-
fused to sign for less than $4,000.
A cABLEGRAM from London says that Ed
Pritchard and Jack Burke agreed to post
pone their contest for few days. The fight
twenty persons on each side are to be pres
ent.
KANE F., the phenomenal gelding owned
by Peter Olinger of Dubuque, Iowa, has
been sold to Everett L. Smith of Boston
for SIS, 0O0 The horse has a record of 2:17.
He was purchased for $3.50 three years ago.
He was sired by Little Moak, dam unknown
AT Joint meeting Of the Potomac Col
umbia and Analostan Boat clubs an invita-
ton was unanimously extended to the
National Association of Amatt ur oarsmen
to hold its regatta on the Potomac river at
Washington in August next.
JIMMY lARK1NG of Jersey City, 122-pound
champion boxer, and Jimmy Hagen, the
Philadelphia who knocked Tommy Dan
forth out, were matched to meet in glove
contest of twenty rounds for 81 900 a side
and purse of 81, 900 in about four weeks,
They will weigh 122 pounds five hours be-
fore entering the ring.
BERT WALKER of Cincinnati and Mike
Mooney of St. Louis both welter-weights,
wrestled in the latter CITY, The "Jap'' ref
creed the match, which he gave to Moon
ey in spite Of the fact that the last fall was
hardly square one. The decision was ne
cessitated, the referee evidently thought by
the threatening appearance of the crowd,
which seemed bent on having Mooney win.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-03-19
RAILROADS.

ENGINEERS Of the Omaha line are urv ey-
ing route through Durand, Wis. They
are pointing for Mondovi.
JOSEPH J. HULL has received the appoint
ment of assistant superintendent of the
Northern Pacific on the Manitoba division.
THE annual report Of the Cumberland
valley railroad company for the year end
ing December 81, 1890, shows earnings of
main line and leased road ST. O63 .2A.76, an
increase of $177,645.1O. The net earnings
per mile of road were So, O61.14.
AT the annual meeting of the Missouri
Pacific the other day in st. Louis the fol-
lowing directors were elected: Jay Gould,
Sidney Dillon Samuel Sloan, Russell Sage
John H. Mum, Thomas T, Eckert, A. L.
Hopkins, Geor ge Gould, John G. Moore
D. D.. Parmalee, Edwin Gould of New
York, G. S. Greedy, S. H. Clark of st. Louis.
A COMPANY has been organized with q
capital of SIS, 100000 to provide Kansas City
with a belt line and railway terminal facil-
tiles: The company is known as the Kan
sas City circular railway. The promoters
Of the scheme are Michael McAlpin, A. P.
Fonda and the Wabash railway Bon ds
amounting to $450, 600 have been placed by
Mr.. McAlpin in London.
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counr Hnnprnr BISMARCK is Ut Mic. i.

Count HERBERT BISMARCK is ut Nice ~.
ranging tor visit to his father, who ia.
sires to meet Queen Victoria on her comina
visitto the Riviera.
The St, Johns press urges withholding Of
bait from foreign fishermen in order to
starve them out of contiguous waters and
so help local fishermen.
The London police have stopped the
proposed driving match between Lord
Shrewsbury and Lord Lonsdale for $500 on
the ground of hindrance to public traffic.
In the house of commons in committee
of supply Mr.. Balfour, chief secretary for
Ireland, asked credit of f55, 831 for the re-
liefo distress in Ireland. The credit was
adopted. a.. ~..'s.-.
In the reichstag recently DIR. Won Boet.
ticher, vice president of the ministry Of
state said the government did not intend
to rescind the Prohibition placed upon the
importation of American hog products.
THE London Standard says that Mr.. Par
nell, in his speech at Newry, forestalled Nh,
Gladstone's expected final declaration to
shake off Mr.. Parnell by himself shaking
off Mr.. Gladstone as useless any longer foP
an instrument with which to obtain home
rule. -.5 49,. ."-
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IN GENERAL.

AT New York the consolidate on Of the
Lackawanna Coal and Iron company and
the Scranton Steel company is effected
THE California state citrus fair was form
ally opened at Hazards pavilion, Los An
geles, Cal.
FORTY million dollars have been SUBJ
scribed to the new Argentine loan. The
financial situation in the country is clear
ing rapidly.
LELAND's famous Ocean Hotel at LONG
Branch, was sold recently at foreclosure
sale for $685. to Col. George w. Bliss, of
New York. W
THE Jewish community of Sam francisco
is divided in opinion as to what attention
should be shown to the czarowitz, the cid
est son of the emperor of Russia, who will
arrive in that city on the China steamer in
about two weeks. ~ .s-. 80,
TIE lower house of the Missouri leeisla-
ture has passed bill requiring all foreign
corporations doing business in that state
other than insurance companies to file ar
tlcleS OF association with the secretary ~
state and be incorporated under the laws of
Missouri. -. .s.u. a ST.
AT Chicago, recently, Charles E. Cook.
formerly an officer of the defunct Park Ma
,tional bank, and part owner in two Wis
eonsin banks that failed when the park
National went under, was arrested on n re-
QUESTION from Wisconsin. The charoa
against Cook is illegal banking.
BANKER JESSIE SELIGMAN ofNew York
has drawn by cable on Baron Hirsch If
Paris for the 81, 400, GOO which comnriso. ~ q
fund, the income of which is to be used to
assist poor Hebrew Immigrants in America
Inc draft was immediately honored.
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has taken place for years. and it is suppos-
ed to be the richest iron land in the state.
The graduating class of the state normal
school at Mankato has elected the following
officers: President, J. M. Davis; secretary,
Miss Stella Porter; treasurer, Miss Minnie
Moon; orator, Wells Ruble; poet Miss
Made Davis; historian, Miss Hattie Noble;
songstress, Miss Fife Warner; prophet,
Miss Lizzie Coleman.
At sensational criminal suit tr' ID be-
fore Justice Daley at Madison, the jury aft
er being out short time, found the defend
ants guilty. The complaining witness was
B. Nichols. Mrs. J. R. Pope and c. D.
Bensett, an attorney Of Montevideo, were
the defendants. The charge was blackmail-
ing. The woman was bound over to the
district dist court and the attorney was fined
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-03-19

A MUssELMAN is travelling through
India collecting money for a Moham-
medan mission to England. Part of
the funds will be invested in building
a mosque in Liverpool. If this pro-
cess Of evangelization is kept up
darkest England" may yet be en-
lightened in the way it should go. 1t
is just about as reasonable to send
English missionaries to Turkey and
India. The Moslem is as steadfast in
his faith as rock, and there are lust
about as many chances for his con-
verting the giaour as there is of the
Christian converting hina-infdel that
he is.
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A NEW plan for raising the mona

A NEW plan for raising the money to
build the Grant monument has been
adopted for the New Workers.. They
want to collect it now by series of
entertainments, and SO confident are
the managers of success in this way
that they announce their intention to
break ground for the monument
April 81. This is an admirable spirit
of enterprise. Still, there are a great
many entertainments nowadays that
do not pay expenses, to say nothing
of profits. In case this bright propo-
sition should fail, the wise managers
have still another plan to try. They
can then fall back upon the donation
party.
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PEOPLE PRINT.

WILLIAM O'BR1EN has been adiudged a
bankrupt in an Irish court
THE death of Theodore Faullain de Ran
vile, the French writer, is announced. He
was born at Moulins March IA, 1923.
MINISTER to France Whitelaw Reid has
written an historical essay as an introduce
to the Tallerand memoirs.
CHARLES A. Dams editor of the New York
Sun, and number Of prominent railway
officials are visiting at Birmingham, Ala.
IT is asserted that the wife of Grand Duke
Sergius, of Russia, who is a granddaugh-
ter of Queen Victoria, is about to be con-
verified to the Greek faith.
P. T. SHERMAN, son of the late general,
writes to the statue fund committee asking
them to rescind their resolution to devote
the surplus to the family.
AT Chicago, Mrs. Norton, the fashionable
dressmaker, has proved her claim that she
is the mother Of young Harry Ferguson,
the bell boy who lately fell heir to large
amount OF money.
REV. JOHN S. SMALLwooD, the young COL
ored orator, signed a contract at Boston
recently to deliver lectures in Europe on
''Ihe Race Problem in America" for Sc, $50
and expenses.
JOHN FRANKLIN SWIFT, minister to Japan,
whose death has been announced, was
prominent lawyer and politician of Califor-
MA. He was born at Bowling Green Mo-,
in 1929
SENATOR DAVIS, who is member of the
committee on territories, was asked to be
one of the subcommittee to visit Alaska
this summer, but declines because he in
tends to devote his attention to his law
practice in st. Paul.
AD1sPArcH from Tonquin says that body
ofrebels numbering 500 men made an at
tack on Bobo, overcame the garrison and
sacked the town, killing the French Of
ficials. Several Europeans escaped by
swimming the river.
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LABOR CIRCLES

AT Ottawa, ILL.,, 300 employees of the
Labastle Glass works have been locked out
Failure of one of the men to pay his dues
to the Union caused the trouble.
SIX thousand miners in the four coal
pools in the Monongahela valley of Penn
sylvania have resumed work at the in
creased rate OF wages conceded by the oper-
atOrS.
THE strike of the linemen of the Munich
pal Electric Light and Power company OF
st. Louis has been declared off, the COM
pany granting the mems demands of $3.50
instead of $$2.35 per day.
THE Master Carpenters and Builders Asso-
citation of Chicago has appointed commit
teeto meet delegates from the journ eymen's
organization with a view to arbitrating the
differences that threaten to lead to a huge
strike.
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CASUALTIES.

BUFFALO, N. Y, is visited by 1925, 600
fire, destroying the Burt Building.
The printing house of Gibson, Miller G.
Richardson at Omaha has been destroyed
by fire. The loss is $780, fully insured
AT Augusta Ca, Henry G. Lamar and
Mis- . Louise k!ing Connolly were drowned
the city.
CONSIDERABLE damage was done in Ban
gor, Me-, recently, by flood The tide was
one ofthe highest known since the food of
1917.
EIGHT men descending a coal shaft in
La Sale Ill.,, fell distance of 400 feet, All
were badly bruised, several having broken
legs.
THERE is mad dog scare at Johns, Pa,
and every canine in the town has been, or
will be, killed: A fine bird dog was seized
with the rabies and bit several children,
also all the dogs and number of valuable
CATTLE
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In India the most popular form of
gambling is betting on the weather.
We know, from some ofKiplingfs tales
more particularly, that India was not
a land where the Y. NJ. G. A. would
love to disport himself, but to gamble
on the weather-the atmosphere of
moral depravity that environs a peo-
pie capable of gambling on the weather
is simply appalling.