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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
PERSONAL MENTION.
Your Friends Coming and Going,

Hon. j. I. Hoke, of Kingwood,
spent Sunday in this city.
Mr.. j. n. Parks returned from
college last Saturday night.
Mr.. Il. C. Ward, of Towanda, Pa,
visited this city, this week.
Miss May Thomas, of Baltimore,
is visiting Miss Louise Snodgrass.
Miss Bette Hunter visited the
family OF Mr.. ii. A. Riddle last
Sunday.
Miss Sallye Faulkner returned
home for the summer vacation, last
Saturday.
Mr.. Harry Bowers, OF the r. r.
Postal Service, visited his parents
this week.
Mr.. Clarence Martin has returned
from the w. Va. University, for the
summer vacation.
Miss Lorena Flick attended the
Commencement exercises at Wilson
College, this week.
Miss Mamie Vanmetre, Lo.lie
Legg and Marie Baker are visiting
Miss Amelia Boak.
Miss Bette and Mrs. Arthur
Wild, OF this city, are visiting
friends near Bakerton.
Mrs. G. D. Buckles has returned
from a visit to friends and relatives
in Washington and Alexandria.
Rev. Henry Thomas and Mr.. Her.
bert l.. Alexander returned from
Point Pleasant, last Monday night
Misses Salye Aud and Mae Scott
spent Sunday last with the family of
Mr.. VIM. Small, at Writings Neck.
Mr.. Wiloughby Santman end Mr..
Lloyd Dorsey, of Germantown, are
visiting Mr.. G. W. Santman in this
city.
Mr.. A. Fl. Woods. student in
the Medical Department of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, returned
home Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris johnson and
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Hoge, with their
children, are visiting their relatives
in this city.
Messrs. George W. Johnson and
II. Ii. Emmert attended the Com.
mencement OF the W. Va. Univer,
sity, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. U. S. G. Pitzer are
visiting the family of Mrs. Pitzer, in
New Richmond, O. They will prob
ably be gone for two weeks.
Mr.. A. B. Smith, editor of the
Herald, was called to the home of
his sister in the western part of this
state, on account OF her serious i'll.
ness.
Messrs. r. K. Robinson, B. L.
Tabler and j. L. Daniels paid US a
pleasant call yesterday morning.
They are just home from the W. V.
o., where they are students.
Mr.. V. D. Miller, of Mason and
Dixon, Pa, visited friends in this
city, last Monday and Tuesday. He
was on his way home from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, where he is
q student.
Mr.. David Holt, Jr., of White
Hall, Va, is home from the W. Va.
University. He gave US a pleasant
call on Friday. We were glad 10
see him looking SO well, and to have
a hearty shake of his hand.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

The town is progressing and all
the factories are going, and even the
B. & o. r. R. has not abandoned
us. OF course, to require any kind
of prosperity requires work, energy
and even economy. The prosperity
that leads to extravaganza is as fatal
as the cobra's sting. Enthusiasm,
work and concentration of power in
the proper direction is what is need.
ed, and cool judgment to prepare
our people to not take advantage
of it, but to use it usefqlly.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
PUNOTUREs.

Are you tired or has the wind
eyaporated
Always give out at good place
where you smell ham and hear the
hens cackling.
Old Sol declines thus far fervent
embrace, and the boys and girls
cody enjoy their runs.
"Give us piece" that's what
the tires said when the breath went
out. Had to have it, too.
You ought to look st the fat edi-
tor when he gets on bike, but you
might just as well look at the man
in the moon, for vacancy will stare
you the other way.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
Dismissed From West Point.

West Point, N. Y. June 10.-The fol-
lowing members of the fourth class
were found deficient and discharged
from the military academy yesterday:
Thomas A. BARGE, Ohio; Alfred j.
Ehrmen, Maryland; Edward s. God
frey, Missouri; George Kershaw, Geor-
gia; James Prentice, New York; Will
lam S. Root, New York; Gordon A.
Dennis, Louisiana; Harry f. Gilmore.
Wisconsin; Michael Luery, Illinois;
Frank A. Thompson, Maine; George
C. Wright, New York; Robert F.
Henry, New York.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

1t seems that Gov. Atkinson will
rot call an extra session Of the Leg
islature to act on the Constitution
ofthe Amendment Committee. MANY
prominent Democrats gave their sug-
gestions for amendments, and the
most Of them so far as known, were
endorsed by the leaders of each par
ty. However, we don't believe in
paying the expenses of the commit
tee for an extra session. Business
is business.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

DEATH OF Mrs. MARGARET La
FEvRE.-On last Friday Mrs. Mar
garet Lafevre received a very severe
stroke of paralysis, at her home on
Maple avenue. Mrs. Lafevre was
80 years of age, and had poor health
for some time. She failed TO i'm
prove any after the stroke and pass
cd quietly away at eleven O'Clock
Wednesday morning. The funeral
took place Friday morning at niue
o'clock from the house, Rev. F. NJ.
Woods officiating, the interment
was in Falling Waters Graveyard.
Mr.. o. B. Latevre, her son, who
lives at Bunker Hill, is the only
member Of the family who survives
her.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
Fiduciary Notice.

The following Fiduciary account is
before the undersigned Commissioner
of Accounts Of the County Court Of
Berkeley county for settlement !:
Charles Matthaei, guardianship, Ed
ward NJ. O'Neal and Daisy A. O,Neal.
(wards.) Given under my hand, as
Commissioner of said court, at my Of
fee at the Court House of said county,
the 18th day of June, 1897.
]. T. PICKING,
6-12-2t. Commissioner
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

Where is the committee that was
going to fill all the offices in the
county? Have they abolished them.
selves, abandoned their claims or al.
legged right to name individuals for
office and position J.? Better get to-
gether again, and have full supply
OF X-rays, study the municipal cleo
ton, or get horoscope for the next
county election, with plenty of rays.
There will be some need of inquiripg
Waterman, what of the night 2"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
Five Hundred rishermen n,.ounan

Victoria, B. c., June 10.-Meagre par
ticulars were brought by the Empress
of Japan of q disaster which befell the
fishermen of Chusan archipelago, off
the coast of China. On May Is, when
most of the fishing boats were out on
the fishing banks, q terrific gale sprung
up. Of the several hundred boats out
at the time, very few returned, and 1t
is estimated that some five hundred
men lost their lives. Their light boats
We're smashed, and they were left to
fight a hopeless battle with the merci-
less waves. Several large junks were
lost, in which scores persisted.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

Yes, cut down the levy, gentlemen
of the County Court, for these are
the hardest times our farmers have
ever seen. Reduce expenses when.
ever possible. Give more commits
sions to place the county bonds.
That is an economic salvage.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

The people are beginning to won
der if President Mckinley judged
the Congress properly. We believe
ia protection, but We do not believe
in wearing our coat and undercloth-
ing off in trying to get it, and the
other fellows getting $4,000 a year
and clerk hire. Better stop it, and
get quietness among the people and
in business.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

Promises of prosperity pay no
debts-ShepherdstOacn Register.
Brother, let us know what you
have been banking on the past years,
and if you are expecting anything
better? What have we all been pay
ing with. Promises or expected
prosperity. You are right on the
debt business, for even the prosper
Gus, proud people will neither econ
omize or pay their debts. Truth.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

"For three years we have never
been without Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy liz
the house" says A. Fl. Patter, with
E. G. Atkins Il Co., Indianapolis,
Ind, and my wife would as soon
think of being without flour as a
bottle of this Remedy in the sum-
mer season. We have used it with
all three of our children and it has
never failed to care-not simply
stop pain, but cure absolutely. 1t is
all right, and anyone who tries it
will find it So" For sale by L. G
Matthaei, Druggist.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
No Evidence Against the Dauntless,

No Evidence Against the Dauntless.
Key West, Fla, June 10.-The United
States attorney has sent a message to
Washington stating that all of the men
found on the suspected filibuster
Dauntless when she was captured by
the Marblehead few days ago have
been released by the commissioner be-
fore whom they were examined. The
attorney also says that he cannot hold
the Dauntless on the available evil
dence, and unless he is instructed to
the contrary the vessel will also be
released
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
Fiduciary Notice.

The following Fiduciary account is
before the undersigned Commissioner
of Accounts of the County Court of
Berkeley county for settlement: Mary
5. Perrell. guardianship, Fannie Per-
rel, (ward.l Given under my hand as
Commissioned of said court, at my of
fee at the Court House of said county,
the 9th day of May, 1897.
j. T. PICKING,
6-5-2E. Commissioner.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

1t is probable that, in the near fu-
ture, every employee of the B. & O.
will have a distinctive uniform.
Train men are now neatly attired
but the Receivers desire that each
employee have either a badge, cap
or suit that will identity him as B.
& O, man.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

The boys and girls are getting
home from school. What will they
do? Sponge on the home, hunt pic
MICS and crackers for Fourth of
July, or go to work and help the
home people?
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

The tramp law should cause our
County Court, as we'll as the Coun-
Gil of the Corporation, to have ar
fragments made to give them work.
That is what they are looking for.
Give them plenty of it.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
Ranl.er snanldinp,s Tria1

Chicago, June 10.-The work of secur-
ing a jury for the trial of ex-Bank
President Charles W. spaulding, of the
defunct Globe Savings bank, under in
dictment on charges Of embezzlement,
was begun before Judge Smith yester-
day. Before adjournment four jurors
had been accepted. The trial is not ex-
pected to last over week after the
jury Is secured.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

The sweetness of disposition and
noting our brother of the Shepherds
town Register is fully exemplifed by
the remarks Of the recent battle be.
tween Messrs. Bowers and Eichel-
Aerger. The dignity of the EDITORS
pen was evidently soiled by getting
into the barnyard instead of the ink
bottle.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
Millionaire Conspirators on Trial.

New York, June 10-The work of get
ting a jury for the trial of the officers
of the American Tobacco company, in
dicted for conspiracy, was continued
yesterday in the court of general ses-
sions. Eleven jurors were secured. The
counsel for the accused was augmented
by Charles C. Beaman.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

Thirty years ago the B. & O..
bought steel rails in England at a
cost of SIP yer ton in gold. Some
of this rail ID still in use on short
branches and is in marvelously
good condition. It is pear-shaped
and was intended for use with wood
en- spices.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
SATURDAY. JUNE %, 1897.

Hon. Geo. Sampson Bowers is the
way they write it now, but what
about that other Sampson, if he has
not been sheared of his top-loft.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12

"There's Charley Skates in black.
/ wonder if he is in mourning for
his SINS" "No, ] don't think
They're all dead et."-Truth.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-12
ScrofuIaS Sores
tseaitii Was Greatly impaired, BUT
Hoods SarsapariIia Built ltUp-
Sores Have All Disappeared.

81 was troubled with eruptions on my
face, which appeared like scrofula. Ny
health was so much impaired that was
advised to take Hoods EarsaperiIla to
build me up, and bought six bottles.
Before had taken half of this amount I
found that was improving. Icould rest
better ct night, and felt refreshed in the
morning. gained in flesh and when I
had finished the six bottles the sores on
my face had all disappeared" J.B. Bod
DIE, Postmaster, Nashville, No. Carolina.
latter suffering from sore leg for Is
years, four bottles of Hoods Sarsaparilla
made a complete cure. 1t is several years
since ! took Hoods SarsapariIla, but /
have not suffered with any sore or erysip-
elias In that time" MRS. M. ]. HARTLEY,
Lovett, Georgia. Remember
Hoods SarsapariIla
Is the Best t. the One True Blood Purifier Be
sure to get Hoods and only Hoods.
Hood,c D;IIc easyt take, easy to buy,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-06-09
FOREIGN.

The premier, Senior Canovas del Cas-
tillo, rendered to the queen regent of
Spain the resignation of the cabinet,
owing to the difficulty the ministers
experienced in carrying on the govern
ment.
The report of wholesale burials alive
at Liman, Russia, of fellow members by
Russian religious fanatics has been con-
fined.
The American steamer Valencia was
fired upon by the Spanish cruiser Maria
Mercedes while coming out of the Guam
/ tanamo bay.
The Turks have signed the extension
of the armistice, and it was expected
that peace negotiations would begin
promptly at Constantinople.
The steamer Massachusetts ran down
in the English channel during fog a
fishing boat and it's four occupants were
drowned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-06-09
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The tenth annual convention of the
National Republican league will be held
in Detroit, Mich, July 10.
James t. Lloyd (dem.) was elected to
congress from the First district of Mis-
souri, to succeed the late R. P. Giles.
Mrs. Maria Pruett (colored) died at
Chillicothe, O., aged 104 years.
Mary Ann Pheister, mentally sound
and physically strong, celebrated her
one hundred and second birthday ami
versary at her home near Pataskala, o.
Mrs. Christine Kaiser died at Hazel
Green, Wis, aged 10S years.
Charles HI. Andrews, one of the pro-
prietors of the Boston Herald, died at
the age of So years.
William III. Crawford, one of the most
widely-known breeders and owners of
trotting horses in the country, died in
Chicago, aged SO years.
James B. Ireland celebrated the hun
dredth anniversary of his birth at his
home in Skillman, KY.
The democrats of the Fourth district
of Indiana nominated F. M. Griffith for
congress to succeed the late Judge Hol-
man.
Vice President Carrot A. Hobart cele-
brated his fifty-third birthday in Wash
ington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-06-09
COST ONE LIFE.
Workman Killed In a Disaster to .
New York Building.

workman hllle0 IN a disaster TO .
New York Building.
New York, June Alive enormous
tanks, each containing $4,000 gallons
of water, fell five stories through the
new building of David S. Brown & Co.,
soap manufacturers, at Twelfth avenue,
>Fiftyfrst and Fifty-second streets,
Thursday morning, tDurying two men
under thousands of tons of debris.
The body of William Fraser, 40 years
old, surveyor in the employ of the
Otis Elevator company, was taken
from the ruins during the afternoon.
Jacob Jacobson, carpenter, is miss
ing. There were Is men in the build
ing at the time of the accident. There
was not seconds warning of the fail
of the tanks. They had been filing
with water for testing and were neaEdy
full. The tanks were each 13 by 10
feet square by 20 feet in height. They
were made of sheet iron and were a
quarter of an inch thick. At the faAl
of the tanks they carried down iron
girders and beams a foot in width and
four inches in thickness, swapping them
as if they were pipestems. There was
no stopping as they struck the floors
in succession, SO enormous was the
weight of the tanks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-06-09
Negotiation. for Peace Begin.

Constantinople, June 4.-The ambas-
sailors of the powers and Tewfk Pasha.
the Turkish minister for foreign aft
fairs, held the first sitting of the peace
conference Thursday afternoon at the
Tophane palace. 1t is understood that
the result of three hours of dehbera-
ton was that Count Nelidoff, the Rus
sian ambassador, will prepare mem
orandum as to the rectifcation of the
frontier; M. Cambon, the French am
bassador, memorandum as to the
capitulations in the case of Greek sub
jects in Turkey, and Sir Philip Currie,
the British ambassador, memoran-
dunn as to indemnity.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-06-09

The report that Mark Twain, the
American humorist, was dying in huns
BILE lodgings in London was denied.
1t is officially announced that an
armistice has been signed between the
Greek and Turkish military command
ers in Thessaly and Epirus. to con-
tinue until the conclusion of the peace
negotiations.
The loss of the British ship Zeilika,
bound from New York for Wellington,
New Zealand, resulted in the death by
drowning of 12 men.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-06-09
RACES AT WAR.
Bloody Encounters Between whites
and Negroes.

anu NcSFOGSs l,etks
Atkins, Ark, June "A race war is
in progress in Lee township, Pope coun-
ty, five miles south of Atkins, in which
two or three men have been killed or
fatally wounded. The killed OF fatally
injured so far as can at present be as
certained are: Will Gaylord (colored1.
whipped to death by mob of whites;
Jesse Nickels, terribly cut with knives
by negroes, will probably die; white
man, name unknown, fatally shot by
gang of negroes; Reason Edgge
(white), shot by deputy constable, ex-
tent of injuries not known. Constable
c. f. Edge, badly cut
The trouble began Sunday night
when a gang of three or four negroes
attacked two white men, Jesse Nickeis
and j. f. Hodges, with knives and pis-
tolls. A terrible fight took place, JIM
which young Nickels was cut 10y the
negroes. Nickels attempted to cut ONE
of the negroes, and the white men de-
Tended themselves with fence rails.
The negroes then began firing, and, as
one of the white men had been shot,
the negroes fled. Warrants had been
issued for the negroes on Monday, but
they declared that they would not be
arrested. Reason Edgge (white) joined
in with the negroes to help them resist
arrest, and when officers went to the
scene Reason Edge attacked Constable
c. E. Edge with knife and inflicted
dangerous injuries. George Edgge, a
deputy constable, succeeded in arrest
ing Reason Edge after he shot him in
the arm.
Monday night one of the negroes,
William Gaylord, who had participated
in the riots, was taken from his home
by mob supposed to be composed Of
white men, and after being stripped
was tied to post and beaten into in
sensibility. He was still alive but un-
conscious when found, and has since
died.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-06-09

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings OF the Special Session.

Proceedings OF the Special Session.
In the senate on the 10Th ult. progress on the
tariff bill was checked. the plate para
graphs proving source of controversy
lasting throughout the day. AS a result
little more than page of the bill was dis
posed of. A short session was held on the
b1st ult., but no business was transacted
The house met and Immediately adjourned.
Senator Pettigrew introduced a bill in the
senate on the list to provide for the submis-
sion to a popular vote at the congressional
election of 1898 of the questions whether
congress shall enact a law providing for
the immediate free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold at the ratio of sixteen to
one and to amend the constitution so as to
provide for the election of United States
senators and of the president and vice pres
ident by direct vote of the people The tar
iff bill was further discussed. In the
house no business of importance was trans
acted.
The senate made greater progress on the
tariff bill on the I'd than on any day since
the debate opened, completing more than
half of the important metal schedule. The
house was not in session.
The senate again made good progress on
the tariff bill on the Sd. covering about ten
pages of the metal schedule and almost
completing it,. In the house the conference
report on the Indian appropriation bill was
adopted. Mr.. Terry (Ark.) endeavored to
bring up Cuban affairs as a privileged
question, but was defeated.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-06-09
RemarknbIe Ches. playing.

Washington, June A wonderful
record in chess play was made by +. N.
Pillsbury, the expert, at the Washing
ton Chess club. He played simultaG-
eously thirty chess and six checker
games, many of his contestants being
chess experts in this city. After five
hours consecutive playing the contest
closed, Pillsbury having won 81 games
at chess and four at checkers. Three
chess and one checker game resultedin
draw and one checker game was lost
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-06-09
Revoke. Forest order.

Washington, June 5.-The president
signed the sundry civil bill Friday.
which contains the compromise amend
ment concerning the forestry reserva-
tions. The amendment suspends the
proclamation of President Gleveland
dated February 90 last, under which
81 900, 900 acres were set aside from the
public domain as forestry reservations
until the first of next March.