Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1898-07-16
State News.

hOus 0COIS0 ItukucEIOlU, VI L K
troleum, dropped dead at Parkers-
burg.
Judge David E. Johnston is the
Democratic nominee for Congress in
tue third West Virginia district.
Leak Judy. young woman of
hampshire county, was killed by
lightning. Andrew Fitzpatrick, liv.
ing in the same county, was also
struck and killed Saturday.
The Central Coal and Coke Com
pany, Of Ohio, has authorized a re-
duction of five cents per ton f. o. b.
vessel at the Lake Erie ports. The
cut has been made to meet the prices
of the West Virginia Operators.
An engine on the West Virginia
Central Railrod ran away and Jump
ed high embankment between
Douglass and Hendricks without
seriously injuring Engineer Morgan
or Fireman Yeager last Saturday.
The County Court at its next
term will be petitioned to bridge the
Shenandoah river at Shannondale
Springs movement which is meet
ing with q hearty endorsement
among the people.-Spirit Of Jeffer-
son.
John Bourke, who was employed
in the Buffalo camps, near Bayard,
was seriously hurt Thursday by
tree falling on him. His arms were
mashed and his finger nails torn off.
His fellow workmen sawed the tree
off of him which was a severe opera
ton.
A peculiar accident occurred at
Point Pleasant The other day, four
teen months old child falling against
sewing machine in such a way as
to pass its head through the frame
work. The iron framework of the
machine had to be broken to extri-
cate the child.
Judge JEFF Samuels, of Cabell
county, is dead. He was promi-
nent figure in the early history of
West Virginia, and was one Of the
first attorney generals of the State.
He has been out of the public eye
for many years, and the newer gen.
GRAFTON of politicians in this State
did not know of him, perhaps
Parkersburg Sentinel.
James Findley was convicted in
federal court, at Parkersburg, last
week, of impersonating an U. S. off,
Ger. He posed through the State as
a pension officer and procured large
amounts of money from victims by
promising them increased allow
ances. When arrested at Philippi
and on the way to Parkersburg in
charge of an officer, he leaped from
the train near Webster which was
running at the rate of fifty miles an
hour and was almost killed.
Col. John T. McGraw with party
of capitalists were in Pocahontas
county recently, looking over the
proposed line of rsilroad from Cald-
we'll station on the G.. & o. up the
Greenbrier river. The Davis and
Elkins railway is now being extend
ed from Beverly to Huttonsville,
distance of about 10 miles, about 200
hands being at work on it.
The jury renderd a yirdict in the
circuit court at Huntsville, against
VIM. Cross, of near CORVALLIS, for
clandestine cohabitation with Mrs.
Eunice A. Mckinley, daughter of
old man Givins, and fixed the PEN
atty at one hundred dollars fine and
ninty days in jail. Right on the
heels of this he will at once be placed
upon trial for bastardy. The two
will completely clean him up, taking
all his possessions to liquidate.
Cross is single man.
DR.. J. w. Mccoy, of the South
Side, is the possessor of q genuine
Mauser rifle bullet, such as the
Spanish infantry is equipped with.
The ball is encased in thin coat of
brass, through which is distributed
minute PARTICLES of steel. The in
side of the bullet is of lead, of such
9 low density that it can be scraped
off with a stick. When the ball
strikes an object the brass cover
bursts, the lead splashes, and the
particles Of steel fly far into the
flesh. The wound produced is large
enough to l,'it ones arm into. The
The bullet, which was secured few
days ago by DR.. Mccoy, is attract
ing much attention.-Whee ling
News.