Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1899-02-04
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T'he nuinner 81 deaths in Wlaee'
ing during 1895 was 5s4. agains, 602

THe nuinper 81 deabhs in N'lanes :
ing dnring 1895 WAS 5s4. agains, 602
in 1897.
West Virginia increased its pro-
duction Of natural gas more than
40 per cent during 1891 SO.
The Weston World leads up real
estate transfers with the highly
original line: Deals in Dirt
Benjamin shannon, who was the
oldest justice of the peace in West
Virginia, in point OF service, died at
Springfield. lie was IS years Of age.
Joseph Terry, an inaahitsnt Of
Lick Branch, Wayne county, is in
jail at Huntington, having been ar
rested by Deputy Marshal Bartram,
On s charge OF peddling moonshine.
He claims that be will have no trou.
bic in establishing his innocence.
The handsome new nj. e. church
at Warrington was dedicated on
Sunday By Bishop Mallalieu. It
cost $4,000; SO, 900 or this had
been provided fov snd estimating
tue Old one at $4,000, left $1,000 to
be raised. This amount was soon
pledged and 81 800 more than was
asked.
Charles Broadway Rouss, the
millionaire, has again remembered
his friends in Charles Town. He
has paid the debt on the new build
ing of the fire company of that
place. Mr.. Rouss is regarded with
great affection in bis native town,
not only for such acts of benevo-
lence, but for many other estimable
qualities.
Mr.. Old6eld will, in a few days,
introduce bill in the Legislature
TO reimburse Mcdowell county for
the money spent in breaking up the
smallpox in that county last year.
1t amounts to about $4,000.
At Moundsville, where the State
penitentiary is located, the prison
authorities have adopted q plan for
Kidding that city of discharged con-
victs by taking them to the depot,
buying theii tickets for them and
sending them where they came from.
George Washington, who at one
time owned all the land on which
Ravenswood, Jackson county, this
State, is built, once offered to trade
it to the late Henry Fitzhugh for a
horse, saddle and bride. Mr.. Fitz.
hugh did not buy it at that time but
afterwards paid $1,000 for it.
G. E. Blue, of Wheeling, has been
granted patent on machine for
manufacturing glassware, and Henry
Reed, of Reedsyille, is working on
model for unhitching horses from
vehicles quickly Without getting out
Of the buggy, making very valua-
BILE invention in case of a runaway.
Congressman Dayton has become
o leader in the House of Represen.
tatives. The chairman of the Naval
Committee being absent last week,
Mr.. Dayton presided with efficien-
oy. Doubtless the naval personnel
bill was passed through the infu-
ence of Mr.. Dayton's speech in sup
port of it, on which he received nu-
merous congratulations by some Of
the ahlest statesmen.
Engineers I. N. Lucas and Charles
e. Mccoy, of Morgantown, who
have been engaged for some time in
running q line OF levels on the West
Fork of the Monongahela river
from Fairmont to Clarksburg, have
completed their work, and their re-
port has been forwarded to the War
Department at Washington. The
engineers say that On account OF the
extreme narrowness OF the river
bed in many places, slackwater navi
cation viii be impracticable.
Two boys, Harmon Kunart and
John Moore, of Harper's Ferry, we're
fastened in box car at Springfield,
by two tramps, who, after taking all
their money, struck hunart . dam
gerous blow on the head with q bot
tie and made Moore follow them at
the point of revolver. Frank
Allen, one of the tramps. was ar
rested at Cumberland last week,
after terrible encounter with Off
GERS. The other tramp escaped.
The postmaster general has group
ed the States into seven divisions,
with one agent or more in each for
the perfection and better manage
ment of the rural free delivery sys-
tenn. West Virginia is in what is
known as the Ohio division, in which
/. G. Blackman and A. B. Smith,
the latter OF Martinsburg, are desig-
mated as agents. The agent or agents
in each division will have general
supervision of the work in his or
their territory.