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died in Roanoke on Friday last
Thos. R. Borland, of Virginia, is appoint
ed US. district attorney foreastern Virginia.
During the centennial celebration at Chi
cage about lOOpeople were injured by siam
pedes.
Constable Clark shot James f. Cramer at
Cumberland for resistsng arrest. A slight
wound.
King Christian of Denmark has conierr-
ed decorations upon Capt. Murrell OF the
Missouri.
The King of Holland having improved
in health has had his power as ruler restor-
ed to him.
The Cumberland Valley R. RS extension
from Martinsburg to Winchester will be fin
ished July lst.
Several additional japanese students will
enter Roanoke College next session, two
are there now.
J. H. Bowers and J. B. Joung have start
ed a soap factory at Hagerstown-capacity
two tons day.
An unofficial list Just compiled shows that
the next House will stand l6l Democrats
and 164 Republicans.
Southerners residing at Harlem, n. Y,
have organized society called the Southern
Aud Lang Syne Club.
Levi Martin of Hampshire county, was
arrested last week charged with burning
his brother Ben's barn.
Emmons Blaine has been appointed as
sistant to the president of the w. Va Cen
tral and Pttsburg R. R.
Hon. h G. Davis has invited the Presi
dent to come up to Deer Park vicinity for
a hunting and fishing expedition.
Carter B. Harrison, of Murfreesboro, the
Presidents brother, is appointed l. 5. mar
shall middle of Tennessee district.
1t was not true as reported that vessel
from Europe had cases of yellow fever on
board The report came of cable blunder.
The sale of the Shakers 900 acre proper
ty at Enfield, n H., marks the final extinc-
ton of the community in the Granite State.
A Mrs. Sewal, now living in Fairfax
county, is ninety-seven years of age. She
knew Washington and frequently sat on his
! knee.
Bishop A. w. Wilson will preside over
the next session Virginia NJ. Z. Conference,
South, which meets in Richmond, Novem-
Der 18Th
Miss E. r. Rice of this State is promoted
from $40 per annum to 81 per diem in the
Supervising Architects Office, Treasury De-
partment.
DR.. Harvey Lindsey, the oldest physician
in Washington, is dead aged 50. He was
for years a contributor to the Southern Lit
era g Messenger
E Clark Finnell, young farmer of Der
ryville vicinity, and Miss Ida Levi, daugh
ter of the sheriff of Clarke county were
married in Hagerstown.
Robt. w. Weir, the artist, who painted
the big picture, "The Embarkation of the
Pilgrims" N the capitol rOtunda at Wash
ington, is dead, aged Sc.
There is a man in this town so ill-propor-
toned that it is hard to get an umbrella
| that will fit him Even the smile that he
sometimes wears bags at his sneeze.
| luanO mas Calleu II CONSTITUTIONAL COuN en-
ton for July 4, desiring to be ready with
fundamental law in case the next Congress
should happily pass her into the Union.
The only great thing that could be said
of Thomas Wingate, Rhode Islander who
died the other day, was that he borrowed
and kept over 500 pocket knives in his day.
DIR. Alan McLane Hamilton, nominated
by Gov Hill as health officer at New York,
is a nephew of Hon. Robt NJ. McLane of
Maryland and grandson of Alexander Ham
ilton.
Miss Lizzie Banks, of st. Paul, Mimi,
who has been selected as private secretary
by Mr. Hicks, our minister to Peru, is the
first lady clerk ever taken abroad by L. S.
minister.
The big Rockaway Hotel on Rockaway
Beach that cost nearly million has been
sold for S27, 900 to a New York building
material firm who must remove the struc-
ture within year.
VIM. K. Vanderbilt will erect the finest
residence in the South on an eminence near
Asheville, n. c., overlooking the French
Broad and SwananOa rivers, where he has
bought 1000 acres.
The Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construc
ton Companys new dry dock at Newport
News is the largest in the United States
being GOO # long and 1907 wide at the top
80 fl wide at the bottom.
Among the 200 drinking places in Bos
ton whose licenses the police won't renew
and that must therefore close is the old Bell
in Hand ale house where Daniel Webster
and Rufus Choate used to drink
Inspired by the Atlanta CONSTITUTIONS eff
forts to secure $4,000 for Home for disa
bled Georgia grey coats" the Whining
ton Messenger has started fund for a SINH
lar Home in NC. and says it has the prom
se Of 500 acres for site.
The New York society Of the Old Domin-
ion banqueted the Virginia Centennial
commissioners in New York yesterday week.
Among those present were Governor Wilson
Holmes Conrad, Gov Lee, Ran Tucker, etc.
| Mai. Conrad replied to the toast "The Vir-
ginia Constitution of &c, and Gov. Lee to
Virginia" The same gentlemen were also
present last Thursday at the housewarming
given by the New York Southern Society at
their new club quarters, Is West 2jth street.