Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1899-04-01
STATE NEWS.

The st te Reform School, at Prun.
tytown, will be lighted with cleo
tricity.
TIE oxperims Mt station at Nor
gantown has beautiful and inter-
csting greenhouse.
p. Plumb, Parkersburg grocer,
has fled q petition in voluntary
bankruptcy. Liabilities, $4,000; no
S is.
Work Oh the new coal railroad
from Cecil TO Rowellsburg, 10 Pres.
ton county, will be commenced this
spring.
Waite Breedioye cut poplar
tree in Clay county, last week, meas
uring eigh. feet and four inches at
the stump.
jackson county boasts of having
the fewest number of representatives
in the rcnitenitsry of any county in
the State.
AT Wesley. Mrs. L. E. Hull, an
aged lady, was severely hooked by
a COW. She was rescued by her son
and her life saved.
Spencer will issue bonds to erect
water works system, and other
metropolitan improvements are pre-.
dicted to follow rapidly.
General Manager Underwood, OF
the B. & o.. has issued an order en-
joining 'politeness" on the part OF
the employees on the road.
John Lowe, B. &. o. freight con-
ductor, was run over by his own
train, in the Benwood yards, and
had both legs cut off. He will die.
S. P. Moore, of this State, was
killed last week in an explosion near
Rock Ledge, on the Southern Indi-
ana railroad, while thawing out
dynamite.
A large shipment of 355 dozen
eggs, bought by commission man
from the merchants of that place,
were sent from Point Pleasant one
day recently.
Harrison county with its $4,000
935 worth of property is the richest
county in the State, and Greenbrier
comes in as a close second with a
wealth assessed at So ,229,688.
W. R. Thompson, of Huntington,
has been appointed permanent re-
ceiver in this State for the National
Building and Loan Association OF
New York.
The body OF Mrs. Harriet Jarrel,
which mysteriously disappeared from
her home at Lawson, Raleigh county,
about month ago, was found in Big
Coal river, bearing unmistakable
evidence of having been murdered.
Manager j. B. Sweeny, of the W.
V. U. baseball team, has written to
Martinsburg, asking if game can
not be arranged to take place on
the twentieth of April, between his
team and that of the University of
Virginia.
The State Medical Society holds
its annual meeting at Weston May
nth, 18th and 10Th, and the physi-
clans of that hospitable town are al
ready making preparations for the
proper reception of the fraternity.
F. G. Brown aud W. G. Petit will
erect saw mills on a two thousand
acre tract Of valuable timber land on
the waters of Holly river in Webster
county, next month. The land was
purchased from the heirs of the late
Hon. j. M. Bennett. 'aat week, for
$4,000.
Harry Nelly, OF Parkersburg, third
classman at West Point, takes first
place among all-around athletes in
that institution, having recently
made as good as the best record
ever made there. The contest was
indoors and the West Virginian won
four places in four eyents-two
lirsts, one second and one third.
Mrs. Boyd and daughter, widow
and child Of the late Augustus Boyd,
and relatives of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Boyd, of Jefferson county, are re-
ported among the missing, and are
doubtless of the victims of tie
Windsor hotel fire of the 18th inst.
These ladies we're we'll known about
Shepherdstown, having been frequent
visitors at the home of their rela-
tives.
The Fairmont Index says: "Presi-
dent Raymond, of the University
states that he don't want baseball
and football in connection with the
school unless they are upon paying
basis, and at the same time destroys
all hopes of putting them upon. a
paying basis by refusing to let the
athletic managers use the money
the Legislature appropriated for
the purpose OF enclosing the athletic