Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1890-04-09
ye,rsy Notes.
The B. & 0. machine shops are shortly
to be removed from Martinsburg to Berlin,
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to be removed from Martlnsburg to Berlin,
Md.
Judge George w. Rye, ex-treasurer of
Virginia, died at his residence in Shenan-
doah county on Wednesday.
Mr.. Geo. p. Button graceful and force
full writer, has resumed editorial control OF
the Roanoke Erening World.
Hon. David WILDER of New York Rep,
who has been paired with Hon. Samuel j.
Randall since the session commenced, died
last week.
The stable of c. A. Ford, of Clarke coun-
ty, was burned Monday night, together with
six head of horses, two COWS and farming
implements.
Francis Hereford, eldest son of exSena-
tor Frank Hereford, was injured by the
bursting of his gun, and came near losing
his eyesight
A New York paper reports the engage
ment of Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of
the Confederacy," to Mr.. Alfred Wilkinson,
of Syracuse, n. Y.
On Thursday, by vote of l29 to l, the
bill for the admission of Idaho as State
was declared passed by Speaker Reed. The
Democrats refused to vote.
The Baltimore and Ohio officials have ar
ranged for home-seekers' excursion from
all points west of the Ohio river to the
Shenandoah Valley, on April 10.
John II. Caddell, treasurer of Pulaski
county, Va, was waylaid, murdered and
robbed as he was riding to his home from
the county seat one day last week.
A number of business men at Berlin have
employed hands to sink 4 shaft for coal, and
the prospects for striking a good vein of
bituminous coal are considered favorable.
Parts of Ohio and Michigan were yis-
tied by cyclone yesterday, and Prophets
town, Ill.,, was similarly afflicted the day
before. Electricity rain and hail also got
in very effective work.
Arkansas City, already eight feet under
water, was visited one night last week by a
frightful storm which threatened to blow
the town away. The Catholic Church was
blown from its foundations
The President has nominated Louis a.
Grant, of Minnesota, to be Assistant Secre-
tary of War, Brigsdier Nelson A.
Miles to be major-general, and Col. Ben
iamin II. Grierson brigadier general.
The office of the Berkeley Springs Ne,cs
was partly destroyed by fire on Friday
Misunderstanding a new equipment
Damage fully covered by insurance. The
News appeared as usual last week.
Owing to the premature explosion of a
fog signal the dome of the famous Bedrock
Lighthouse, off the east coast of Scotland,
was shattered Saturday night and the light
was e1tinguished for the first time in seven
ty-nine years.
Gov. David H. Goodell, of New Hamp-
shire, has been declared by the Governors
council of the State to be incapacitated by
i'll health for the discharge of his duties as
chief magistrate, and Senator Taggart has
been requested to fill the vacancy.
Hon. VIM l.. Wilson attended the Jeaer
sons Day banquet of the Harlem Demo
cratic Club and spoke on popular educa-
ton" Ex-Secretary Fairchild, Senator
Mcpherson, ex-Gov. Fitz Lee and others re-
sponded to toaSts.
Rein Davis, of Louisville, Ky, nas been
appointed judge to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Judge W. l.. Jackson He
was born in Carksburg, a doors distance
from the place of Judge Jackson's birth,
and is brother of don Jno. j. Davis.
A pathetic incident of the Louisville cy-
clone disaster was a contribution of $500
from Jamestown, Pa. The citizens of that
stricken city have not forgotten their own
sufierings, and out of their accumulations
since the great disaster that befell them a
year or more ago, they have generously
rendered the contribution named to the peo-
pie of Louisville.
The ocean passenger steamer City of
Paris, which has made such good time in
crossing the ocean, was disabled at sea $50
miles from Queenstown, and but for timely
aid the vessel and over 1000 passengers
would have gone to the bottom of the At
lantic She was lowed to port by the Ohio
the Adriatic refusing aid, although it was
believed when she refused, that the Paris
could not be saved of herself.
The southern-bound freight train from
Hagerstown to Winchester on the Cumber-