Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-11-04
Ne,rsy Notes.


postal clerks were arrested for dishonesty. |
Five men were killed in riot following |
a Farmers Alliance meeting at Buckport,
Arkansas.
Five hundred thousand cans OF goods
we're packed this season at Hagerstown
establishment.
Mr.. 7. j. c. Williams, lately of the Hag-
er>town Nail, has accepted position on the
Baltimore Sun.
A boy at Philippi last week was handling
pistol that he didn't know was loaded and
killed his sister.
The chances of the election of Cardinal
Gibbons as the successor of Pope Leo are
considered good.
1t is claimed that Lake Erie produces
more fish to the square mile than any body
of water in the world.
VIM. c. Crebs, native OF Winchester,
lied in Union, Monroe county, last week,
aged eighty.three years.
The Southern Presbyterian Church has
1903 missionaries in foreign lands, 46 of them
sent from the Synod of Virginia.
The Southern Associated Press was or
.anized in New York City last week, with
Evan p. Howell, of Atlanta, Ga, president
The residence of the Prince of Wales,
Sandringham Hall, was damaged by hre
sunday morning to the extent OF flo,OOO'
Mr.. J. NJ. Slower, of Washington county,
Md, the past season shipped 4O,6SO crates
of peaches, and evaporated several thousand
bushels.
At least twenty lives were lost by the
burning of the steamer Oliver Berne at
dilliken's Bend, Mississippi river, Thursday
morning
Mrs. NJ. c. Allemong, Of Stephen City,
Frederick county, Va, widow of the Rev.
John Allemong, died Monday OF last week,
aged eighty years.
Geo. p. Porter, of Portsmouth, Va, acct
dentally shot himself while loading pistol
last Thursday. He was to have been mar
ried in the afternoon.
At Richmond, a statue of Gen. Williams
G. Wickham was unveiled in the presence
of great crowd of people on Thursday
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee delivered an grafton.
Elk Governor Bob" Taylor, of Tonnes
see, who fiddled his way into the Governors
chair, is to deliver hundred lectures in
southern cities on "The Fiddle and the
Bow"
The Crawford Bicycle Co., of Hagerstown,
recently established there, has orders from
New York and Boston for 100000 worth of
machines. Martinsburg has a similar in
dustry.
\ patient at the City Hospital, Baltimore,
eaped out of fourth-story window, but es-
capped injury by falling upon the head of a
colored man. The colored man was not
much hurt.
Senator Quay went on the stand in court
at Pittsburg Saturday, and denied, under
oath, that he ever had any dealings with
John Bardsley, the defaulting city treasurer
of Philadelphia.
John Parker, colored, who has been con
fined in Louisiana Jail since October 10
for the murder of John Handy, colored, at
Abita Springs. was lynched by mob of
colored men Wednesday night
A dispatch from Yokohama says that ac
cording to an official estimate 1000 persons
were killed by the recent earthquake, 5000
were injured and 50, 900 houses were destroy
ed No Europeans were killed.
Charles Reed, of Tennessee, who paid
SlOO, 900 last week for the Belmont stall
lion, ST. Blaize, has refused an offer of Sl25,
900 for him. The horse has been insured
for $50, 900, the premium being 81, 900 year.
Over three hundred convicts, leased to
work in the coal mines about Briceville,
Tennessee, have been released by the miners,
who oppose the introduction of convict la
Dor into the mountains. The convcts fled
to the mountains
Gen. Scott Ship, superintendent of the
Virginia Military Institute, is making ar
rangements to build memorial hall to
Stonewall Jackson. The estimated cost OF
the building is $4,000, 10000 of which, it
is said, has been secured.
Two hundred convicts working under
lease in the mines at Oliver Springs, Tenn,
were released by miners at o'clock Mon
day morning The stockade was burned
This makes more than five hundred con-
victs released in that vicinity since last Fri
day.
While J. T. Jones, a storekeeper of Poca-
hontas, w. Va, was engaged in opening
bottle of ginger ale at his store few days
ago, the cork would not come out and Jones
put the bottle up to his face to examine it,
when the cork suddenly flew out of the bot
tie, striking him in the eye, extinguished its
sight forever.
1t is said that the royalties received from
every acre of property so far developed in
the Poe ihontas coal fields has returned over