Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-01-21
State News Notes.

destroyed by fire few nights since.
Col. Nat. NJ. Cooper has started q
new paper, the Mountaineer, at Ra-
venswood.
Lewis is the only county in cen
trail West Virginia that giants Ii
cense to sell liquor.
There is good prospects of an cleo
trio railway between Ronceverte and
Lewisburg.
Mrs. Susan Sturgeon died at Sis
tersville last Thursday, aged SO
She was pensioner Of tie war OF
1912.
Two bears were seen on Town
Run last week. They crossed over
from the Stone Coal side to the riv-
er.-- Weston Democrat.
Fourteen oil wells are going down
at Wyatt, Harrison county, closn to
the big 1000 barrel well on Whet-
stone creek.
The venerable bear killer, joseph
Linaweaver, succeeded in slaYiag
another 'bruln' last week.-Berke,
ley Springs Mercury.
Congressman Anderson, of the
Third district, is the proud father Of
the seventh son, who arrived Al his
house one day last week.
Frank Smith. lunberman at one
Of the camp, on lie Thompson road j,
! in Tucker county. was kiIed by the
fall of a tree, Friday la t.
The total number of weddings in
Lewis county fer 1892 was l02. Not
withstanding the fact that it was
leap year there was slight falling
of in the marriages
On last Thursday evening, John
Kerns and - Tiller, who we're con-
fined in the Logan county jail on
charges of felony. made their escape
They had, in some manner, unlocked
their cell and came ont into the day
hall. and when Tailor Kemper White
went in to take their supper they
ran ont over him and made their es
cape.
Miss Ida Davis, Is. daughter Of
the late Hon. Albert G. Davis, Of
Morgantown, was last week placed
in the county Jail. at Morgantewn,
to await room at the insane asylum.
She has been adjudged a luDatic
She is one of the best known litera-
ry ladies in the State. and is said to
have lost her reason by too close at
teution to her literary labars.
W. Collins. of Lewis county, died
leaving an estate valued at $4,000
He mad been going with Minnie Col
Inns, who now springs letter on the
Probate Court like this: Il now
state what l told you before if
leave this world before we are mar
ried, and we are still corresponding,
/ will you my all after my expenses
are paid" She claims the money.
On Tuesday afternoon last, about
4.30 o'clock, Willie Peal, the ten
year-old son of George W. Peal, of
Brownstown, Summers county, was
struck by shifting train and killed.
He was attempting to cross the rail
road track to place where his faith
er and brother we're, when he slipped
and fell on the icy track in front of
the moving cars, which crushed out
his life instantly.
A little child of JEFF Miller, of
Morgan county, aged five, had one
Of her hands almost severed with an
axe, by her brother, October 29th
last. The surgeon, DR.. j. II. Hun
ter, found that the left hand was al
most severed at the wrist, nothing
but the integuments on the lower
side sustaining it. The first i'm
pulse was to amputate, but taking
int consideration that two out of
three arteries remained intact, and
the healthy condition of the child,
it was determined by him. with the
acquiescenee of the attending physi-
clan, DIR. Rau, to try and save the
member. After sewing the middle
artery the parts were brought into
position and retained by sutures and
adhesive plaster. placed on perfor
ated metallic splint, antiseptics free
ly given, aad the little sufferers
strength sustained by generous d.
ct with suitable tonics. In six weeks
the parts were healed and at present
she has some motion of the thumb
and fore finger, with the possibility
of useful hand This case is re-
markable from the fact that it is
well-estsblished fact in surgery that
when joint is opened, amputstion
is the only remedy in large major
! ity of cases.