Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-11-04
NOUeRiber 4, 1886.
NEWSY NOTES.

Frisco has l04 mi.lionaires.
Yellow fever at Biloxi, Miss.
Ex-President Arthur is worth 100000.
Grand Master Workman Powdery gets
5000 year.
\ Woodstock Conn rooster has adopt
ed" four orphaned kittens
Annual sale unclaimed articles in Dead
Letter Office, Washington, Dec. l3.
The business portion of Oakland, Illinois,
is burned. Loss nearly half a million.
Walter Gordon, brother Of Gen. John B.
Gordon, of Georgia, died in New York.
Montana is sending quarter-miIlion
head of cattle to eastern markets this year.
The city council has authorized half a
million bonds Eastern Shore X. K. if the
people vote for it.
Rev. DR.. Chas. w. Rankin, rector st.
Luke's Episcopal church, Baltimore since
SO is dead, aged 81.
The House journal for last session makes
two volumes of 1900 pages each-the larg-
est record yet printed.
The Kentucky Masons have denounced
the use of intoxicants and declared saloon
keeping a Masonic oiense.
Cholera still RACES in Corea. At the cap
ilal, Seoul, the death rate agerages 900 q
day TAe city is threatened with utter ex-
| tincti0n.
A Medora Ind man has an S.months
old pig that walks on & feet, is stone blind
and deaf as post, but otherwise lively aud
thriving.
Tammany, the county democracy and the
German Americans have nominated :. :
Cox for Congress in the 9Th y. y district
lie accepts.
Gen. Dabney H. Maury, Of Virginia, is
appointed minister to Columbia. His nom
inaton as such was not acted on 10y the Sen
ate last session.
Dynamite bombs were found under the
altar OF German Catholic church IN Cnl-
cago. Ana chists had been dwelling IN th,
ediiice of nights
A Morgan county Ind couple were
married in the show window OF An Indian
apolis furniture store and got sett OF fur
nilure for doing so.
The Baltimore grand jury are trying "a
! have enforced an old Sunday law prohibit.
/ ing labor and the vending Of anything SAVE
milk, ice and drugs.
During the year ended June 30 last 26j
I l0j Immigrant, arrived at New York ano
/ .12j were sent back home as being physi
caIly lncapacitated for work.
Mike Freismuth. Wheeling bird f,ncier
sent an lS-months old "homng' bird, o
! Anglo Belgium breed. to Wichita, Kansas
The pigeon made the ? miles in u hours
Wm. Gillespie Walker, aged 10, nephew
of Jas. c. Blaine, has joined the Jesuit- a
/ Santa Clara, California. His mother. Mr.
Baine's sister, died in Baltimore last Marcel
and was buried on Inauguration Day.
At Mt. Pleasant Ohio, opposite Parkers
burg six masked robbers broke in the hous'
of Mr. Parker, rich citizen and tortured
/ him and his hOusekeeper 10 make them tel
where the money was. They didn'tsucceed
Mr.. Archibald Fairlie Of London repre-
senting an English syndicate and seyera
other gentlemen have arranged for the early
completion Of the ljO-mile railway TO con
meet Wheeli with Cleveland, Ohio-in
Guiding a bridge crossing The river q
! Wheeling.
Bishop Kain Of Wheeling is on a com
mittee with Cardinal Gib1on- and Bishop
elect Curtis of Wilmington, Del, TO dis
/ tribute the collections for Catholic mission
work among colorcd people and Indians
which the late PlcnsTy Council ordered Ia
ken up yearly on the first SUNDAY in Lent
Brooklyn's great Catholic Cathedral o
/ St Johns, begun in '66 and left unfnishe'
/ because Of more urgent needs for money
growing out of the war, j. 70 be pushed Z
completion. The 2j-ioot walls are now iv.
covered II will be a million dollar antiqu
Gothic edifice and they hope to finish 1t II
1892.
A2months old New Haven infant weigh
q lbs, and is Is inches high. Her wrist
seven-eighth- of an inch in circumference
the back of her head measures one inch a
cross. her ankle Is an inch and quarter a
round. and her foot is an inch and quartz
long. She has blue eyes and quite a thic
growth of dark hair.