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town has chosen Democratic mayor.
A number of laboring men of Middlewsy
have found employment in Martinsburg.
Mr.. c. o. Lambert of Martinsburg, kill
ed hog last week that Melted 577 pounds.
The feet that recently passed Wheeling
for the South via the Ohio river carried ten
million bushels of coal
Hon. Jno. X. Cowen lives in Baltimore
was born in Ohio. He is president of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Col. VIM. C. Knight, father-in.law OF
Governor O'Ferrall, died in Richmond last
week of paralysis, aged rs years.
Mr.. Chas. T O'Ferrall, Jr., son of the
Governor of Virginia, and Miss Irene Rec
tor Bizzell were married in Richmond.
A chapter of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy has been organized at Lexington,
Va, with Miss Mildred Lee, daughter OF
Gen. R. E. Lee, as president.
The street railway of Martinsburg is q
thing of the past. 1t didn't pay. 1t cost
the promoters about $4,000. The rails are
being taken up and will be sold.
Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston has been
appointed confidential clerk to the U. S.
Commissioner of Education. He is rs years
of age, but still possesses a vigorous intel
lect
The general merchandise store of J. NJ.
Canoe, at Tabler's, Berkeley county, was
burglarized recently and $50 worth of goods
taken. This is the second robbery of that
store.
1t is said 100, 900 persons visited the recent
bicycle show at Madison Garden, New York,
at so cents, each, admission fee. That was
almost equal to the flesh -and-blood-hors
show.
Mrs Belya A. Lockwood, once the wom-
ans suffrage candidate for President for
Improperly accepting So fee, has been
debarred from praciicing before the pension
bureau.
A cable from Rome 20 Archbishop Kahn
announces that the pallium, the insignia Of
his Archbishopal rank, is now on It's way to
-. Louis. 10 is thought the iuvesiive cere-
monies viii not take place until May.
A folding bed In Fostoria. Ohio, closed
up with two ladies in it one night last week.
one OF them kicked the end out aud made
her escape, but was fatally injured The
other was injured but is expected TO recover.
a woman confined in the Jail at Wheel
ing last week, at night made her way to the
roof and attempted to slide down a rope
improvised out Of her bed clothing. The
rope broke and she fell 20 feet, but she made
her escape.
j. W. q. Beckham, Democrat, Of Nelson
county, Kentucky, has been elected to the
legislature TO fill a vacancy occasioned
by death. His majority was 700
That makes the Kentucky assembly tie on
joint ballot
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Tennessee,
in session at Nashville last week, sent greet
ings to the Masons throughout the world,
counseling brotherly love and expressing
the hope that war clouds may be dispelIed
by the white wings of peace.
At a wedding near Sandusky, Ohio, last
week, the floor of the reom in which a COM
pauy of more than hundred guests had
assembled gave way and precipitated many
into the cellar, where they were piled -four
or five deep. One lady was fatally injured
and others sustained severe hurts.
In the Berkeley circuit court on Saturday
Samuel May was fued $3.50 aud sentenced
to 10 months in Jail for shooting with intent
to kill Baker Beaver in December last The
prisoner is nearly so years old, and Judge
Faulkner considered his old age aud phys.
ical iudrmities in pronouucing sentence.
At Vancleavesyile, Berkeley county, on
Wednesday evening last at go o'clock
Miss Minnie Il. Small, daughter Of Mr. r
w. Small, aud Mr.. John y. Mason, of Maj.
tinsburg, were united in marriage by Rev
DR.. j. A. Hof helms Miss Bette Small
sister Of the bride, was maid of honor, aud
Mr. Stewart Cushwa best man. Miss Lola
Hardesty played the wedding march
There was pathetic incident at the fu.
neral Of Mrs. Betsy Moody at East North.
field, Mass, one day last week. As Evan.
gelist Dwight Moody, standing over the open
coffin which held the body OF his dead moth,
er, paid touching tribute to her life of self
sacrifice and devotion, and recounted, in hi:
simple language, the story of his own early
life of priyaiiou, the hundreds Of people
who filled the church were moved to tears
The tillibusteringsteame Hawkins, bound
for Cuba and having on board 125 men, a
million pounds of ammunition, hundred.
of guns. etc p hours after leaving New
York sprung .esk and went TO the bottom
of the sea-a la McGinty Ten person;
were lost-the Others were rescued. The cost
of the muuiiiou lost was $50, 900 Generals
Garcia aud Rosa were on board. The fail.
ure of this expedition is a serious blow to
the Cubans-e-pecially SO as supplies are