Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-03-11
ye,rsy Notes.

\ six foot vein Of coal has been discover
ed on a farm near Winchester.
Some robins have made their appearance
but they will not NEST again just yet.
Ex-senator Palmer. of Michigan, Presi-
dent of the Worlds Fair, has been i'll but is
cnnyalescing.
President Harrison is being urged to APP
point a negro as a Commissioner of the
Worlds Fair.
Mrs. Matilda p Heiskell, widow of the
late Ohio W. Heiskell. of Wheeling, W. W,
died in that city Saturday.
In New York city last year the savings
banks handled over s1SS,0OO,OO0 and had
over 70,S open accounts.
Forty thousand dollars will be about the
size of West Virginia's appropriation for
exhibits at the Worlds Fair.
A proposition to build and operate street
railway in Martinsburg has been submitted
to the mayor and council of that city.
Gov. Hill will be invited to make the ad-
dress at the unwilling OF the monument to
Henry W. Grady at Atlanta next summer
The handsome home, newly furnished, OF
Mr.. A. NJ. Iuskeep in Moorefeld, was con-
siderab.y damaged by fire on the 4th OF
March.
Rodrick, fine coach stallion of Mr. Jno.
". Inskeep, a, Moorefeld, was recently
purchas by Harvey Ladew, of Cumber-
land, at $500
A building over a hundred years old was
torn .own in ShepheId>town to make room
for new building. There are lots of them
there that old.
The Baltimore Conference, NJ T. Church,
voted by larg majority against the adj
mission of women as delegates to the Cen
eral Conference.
Should our population ever become a
dense as it is in France, we would have 5S7,
100000, xcluding Alaska If as dense as
England and Wales, it would reach l,l73,
100000.
Thomas Colt, a year-old boy,
was taken to the New Haven, Conn, aims
house sunday violently insane. His men
tai arrangement was caused by cigarette
smoking, and while raving he continually
shouted for cigarettes.
At the city election in Charleston on
Monday the Democrats elected mayor, re-
corder, sergeant and treasurer Two Re-
publican c uucilmen were elected, which
gives that party gain Of one. The coun-
ell still remains Democratic.
A tragedy in Wheeling on Saturday look,
very like premeditated murder. DR.. Geo.
Baird one Of the Oldest physicians of that
city, and who had occupied official positions
under the city government, was shot twice
in the head by DR.. Geo |. Garrison, who is
Il member of the Site board of health The
murder was the on growth Of feud of more
than years standing They had formerly
been warm friends. Al the time Of the
shooting Or. Baird was about to enter a
house to see patient. Garrison approach
ed him pistol in hand aud demanded re-
traction of something that had been said,
and Immediately upon refusal fired two
shots. DR.. Baird walked into a store, re-
marking as he pulled off his gloves, that
Dr. Garrison had shot him, and in ten min
utes was dead. DR.. g. surrendered to the
police DR.. Baird graduated in James G.
Blaine's class at Washington Jefferson Col
lege, in Pennsylvania.
The celebrated colored preacher at Rich
mond, Rev. John Jasper, preached on sun
day last, for the two hundred and seventy
fifth time, his sermon on The sun Do
Move" The church has a seating capacity
of 400. 1t was crowded, and the ushers
were offered large sums for standing room.
1t is said thousand white people were
present, and hundreds were turned away
because there was no place in the building
for them. The preacher was lat his best, "
says the State.
The Democratic friends of Hon a. :.
cambridge, jr., Of Jefferson county, are say
ing nice things about him in connection with
the nomination for Governor Mr.. Dan
bridge is fine public speaker and an untir
ing worker-but we are not nominating
Democratic candidates -Plrkersburg Jour
nal Rep
.NesC advertisements.
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