Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-03-11


yard on Saturday night, had his
right hand badly mashed. Mr.. Long
was serving his first day in the ca
pacity of passenger conductor.
The Stars and Stripes were raised
over the tadrail of the steamship
Paris, of the new American Line, at
New York, by Miss Frances G Girls
eom, daughter of the president of the
International Steamship Company.
The shipment of gold from New
York aggreg ates So, 300, 900. In spite
OF tight money, arrangements are in
progress there to export $1,000,000
next Tuesday. Money continued
high, loans being made at 35 per
cent.
To-day is the day upon which the
citizens and farmers will meet at the
Court house to consult and be heard
as to the lettering of the condition
of the roads of Berkeley county.
We trust their efforts may be of
great good.
On account of alleged disgraceful
conduct duriog the encampment of
the National Guard at Washington
for the Inaugural ceremonies Capt.
Brazer, of the State Fencibles, is
preparing charges against Lieutcn-
ant Colonel Streator of the Tenth
Regiment.
BAPTIsMAL SERvIoEs.-Last Sun
day night Rev. j. W. Hundley adj
ministered the ordinance of baptism
to six of the converts of his recent
protracted meeting. The church was
crowded, and the congregation is
much gratifed at the success of the
recent meetings.
AS a result of the cyclone of Fri.
day night last more than three hun
dred families in Mississippi are des
titute. Relief movements have been
started in the South. When the de.
tails come in from the isolated local
tiles it is feared that the havoc will
assume still greater proportions.
All lovers of the artistic and the
elevating will particularly enjoy part
first OF the evenings entertainment,
in witnessing the magniticently vivid
creations, illustrating the Carnival
of the Passions, from the cradle TO
the grave.
Central Opera House, March Is.
John Cline, of this county, has re-
ceived telegram from Mercy hos
pital, Chicago, announcing the death
his son Bert. who was fata ly iniur-
ed by falling from a building upon
which he was employed os a carpen-
ter. The remains will be brought
east and inferred at Green Castle,
Pa.
Ex-President Harrison arrived at
Indianapolis, which was gaily bedeck-
ed in his honor, and was given a roy
al welcome by his friends and fellow
citizens. The legislators passed a
resolution in his honor, and in the
evening he was rendered reception,
and formally welcomed back to the
State and city.
The SOUTH BEFORE THE WAR;
"The South before the War" opened
a weeks engagements at the Lyceum
Theatre to a packed house The
peice was very good 1t is something
new on the stage Of to-Hay.- Wash
dngton Post.
Will appear at the Martin Street
Opera House, Wednesday, Mar. Is.
Socialists and anarchists might
have their opinions of millionaires
changed somewhat, the Chicago
Herald thinks, by learning of the
act of Moses Loria, born in Mantua
in 1914. Loria died recently in Mi
Ian, Italy, leaving 100000 to the
city to establish an international
home for laboring people out of en-
ployment.
Anthony n. Brady, the New York
millionaire and street car railway
and gas Spectator, was born in Troy
Of poor parents. He is 48 years of
age and made the greater part of his
fortune in the last five years. Re-
Gently MIR. Brady put down his ST.
100000 check on the purchase of
street car franchise on Lexington
avenue, New York.
His experience in Mesmerism ex-
ceeded anything Of the kind ever
before witnessed here, and show him
to be as near master of the art as it
is possible to get. The subjects were
chosen from the assembly, and were
so completely under the control of
the operator as to do anything he
ordered.-EG.
j. Prescott Eldridge, Central OPP
era Houee, March l6.
Bob FitZsimmons knocked Hall.
the Australian champion "cean out"
in the fourth round, in the fight at
Crescent Athletic Club, at New Or
leans, and waved the American flag
over his victim. Fitzsimmons won
a purse of $40, 900 and bet OF Sl0.-
600, making $4,000 in four short
rounds. Charlie Mitchell, whose
coming fight with Corbett is awak-
ing interest in the pugilistic world,
was hacker of Hall.
Parents of girls will be especially
interested in practical article on
"What it Costs to Dress a Daugh
ter" which Mrs. Mary C. Hunger
ford will contribute to the forth com
ing number OF Harper's Bazaar, pub
lished March 18th. Another pleas
ing feature OF the same number will
be short story, full of viyacity and
strength, by Anne Richardson Earle,
entitled the World of Error"
Col. Jos. A. Mutton, of the End
Va. Regiment, died in Winchester,
last Friday night, after brief ill.
ness of pneumonia. Col. Mutton
was in the late war an officer of the
y