Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-06-10
Ne,rsy Notes.

Winchester will have a board oil tiade'
. The best are the cheapest; then try Iron
Cross cigars.
The streets of Leesburg have been lighted
with electric lights.
The reported illness of General Longstreet
is contradicted by himself.
The Luray Caverns have been sold to
New York Syndicate for $4,000.
The whiskey trust has acquired the last
two opposition distilleries in the West.
Mrs. Stuart Kearney was accidentally and
seriously wounded by pistol shot at Sykes
Vile
Claus spreckels has decided to double his
sugar refinery, making it the largest in the
world.
Gen. John NJ. Schofeld, commander of
the United States army, is to be married
shortly.
The estate Of the late P. T. Barnum, the
great Snowman, has been appraised at 81
1882.
Twenty-Five years yesterday since "stone-
wall" Jackson's victory over Gen. Shields
at Port Republic.
A Hagerstown paper says the railroads
transported $4,000 persons to that town last
week during the TINKER meeting.
1t is rumored that there will be a reduc-
ton of the force in the Census Office to the
extent of a thousand by the 1st of July.
The auction sale oflots Tuesday week at
Staunton was interrupted by rain after
S55, 900 worth of property had been disposed
Of
The Morgan Mercury, published at Berke-
ley Springs and hitherto Republican, has
changed hands and will be Independent in
politics.
J. B. Beckwilh, the oldest resident of
Wood county, died last week, aged ninety
one years. He was born in LoudOun coun-
ty, Virginia.
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, premier
of the government of the Dominion of Can
ada. died at 1918 O'Clock Saturday night at
his home, Earnsclffe, in Ottawa.
A pension claim of Mrs. Harrison, widow
Of the Presidents brother, who died of con-
sumption in 1870, has been allowed-SS, 900
arrearages and 1926 per month.
A man in Philadelphia, on suicide bent,
after taking laudanum, cut his throat, swal-
lowed the buttons of his pants and then at
tempted to gulp down his trousers.
The towns of Badia, Calavena and Treg-
nanzo, in Northern Italy were destroyed
Sunday by an earthquake. The inhabitants
were compelled to take to the fields for safe
ty.
The CHILEAN insurgent vessel Itata arriv-
ed at Iquique ahead of the crusier Charles
ton and voluntarily surrendered to the
United States feet. She had on board 5000
rifles.
The Pope has ordered that all the en-
ployes of the finance department of the Vat
lean be discharged Last week discrepan-
cy of ten million francs was found in the Pc
ter's pence fund.
Seven thousand Clyde ship-workers are
on strike because of a reduction in their
wages. 1t is said that tie strike of omnibus
drivers in London has forced five thousand
person into idleness.
Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooks has received the
consent of the requisite number of standing
committees to his conservation as Bishop OF
Massachusetts. The bishops will now vote
individually for the confirmation of the cleo
ton.
Twelve hundred German bakers went on
strike in Chicago Saturday midnight. II
the strike continues and as is thought, ex-
tends to the English-speaking bakers, many
persons in Chicago will knead bread for the
first time
Mr.. Frank Morrow, aged about 65 years,
one of Berkeley county's most prominent
farmers, while riding a mule at his home,
was thrown by it, and his leg broke between
the knee and hip. His nephew, Logan Xii
mer, was thrown by the same animal last
Saturday and his shoulder broken
President Hippoyte, of Hayti, hearing
that revolution was imminent in Port
au Prince, caused eighty suspected persons
to be putin irons, one Of whom was the wife
of General Sully, arrested in place of her
husband, who made his escape Subse,
quently Sully and his friends rescued the
prisoners, whereupOn the president ordered
fifty persons to be shot to DEATH many of
whom were innocent of conspiracy. Scenes
Of horror, caused by the presidents order to
assassinate individuals are being daily en-
acted on the streets of Port au Prince.
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