Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1892-03-09
Ne,csy Notes.


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The amount likely to be appropriated ior
the Navy is S2S,667, 1922.
The industries of Roanoke pay out TO
employees, etc, about $4,000 per month.
The population of New York City, accord
ing to the State enumerators, is 100000.
The Virginia legislature appropriated
So. 900 for Virginia exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
Rev. James F. Latimer, professor in the
Union Theological Seminary of Hampden'
Sidney College, died last week.
The New York Press saws that Mr.. ElkiLs
saws he will not be the Republican candi-
date for governor of West Virginia.
By collision at Rockville, on Monday
morning fireman BuckalOo, of Cranberry
and brakeman Featers, of Martlnsburg, were
killed
On April 9th the word telegram will be
just forty years old, 1t was introduced into
the language by the Albany JrarnaI in a
formal article.
The Baltimore Conference of the NJ. L
Church, in session in Baltimore, by vote
of 1877 to 80 refused to admit women dele
gates to the general conference
Representative Springer has been in a
critical condition for some days and his
friends are apprehensive of fatal results OF
mis- illness. lie had serious relapse on
Sunday.
The Senate Thursday decided the Idaho
Senatorial contest on Thursday by confirm
ing the right of Mr.. Dubois to his seat
only FIVE Senators voting in favor of the
contestant, Clagett.
DR.. II. NJ. Scudder, son of the eminent
Rev. DR.. Scudder, has been arrested in Chi
cago, charged with numbering his mother
in-law, Mrs. +. II. Dunton, an aged lady,
to get her large fortune.
Mrs. Annie F. Semmes, widow of the late
Admiral Raphael Semmes, commander OF
the Confederate cruiser Alabama, died at
her home in Mobile, Alabama, Monday,
in her seventy fourth year.
The life of Mr. VIM. A. Stuart, of Salt
willie, Va, who died recently in Philadel-
phia. was insured $50, 500, of which $4,000
is for the benefit of Mrs. Gen. j. E. B. Stu
art, of Stsuntop, his sister-in-law.
The second trial Of Dr. G. A. P. Baker,
at Abingdon, for the murder of his wife by
poisoning, resulted in verdict of not gull
ty. At the first trial there was a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree.
A bill to pay Frederick city, Nd, $780,
600, TO reimburse the municipality for an
enforced assessment levied upon it by Gen.
Early, of the Confederate army. during the
war, has been reported favorably to the
House.
Mr.. David A. Windsor, of Alexandria,
x-postmaster of that city, energetic bust
ness man and co partner in enterprises, po-
Iitical and otherwise, OF Gen. Malone, died
Sunday morning. The remains to be Gre
mated in Baltimore.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Bus
sew has rendered decision which restores
to the pensionable status 80, 900 soldiers who
served in the Pennsylvania militia about
the time of Lees invasion of that State. The
pension list already exceeds S00,000l
Frank f. Waterman, for many years
Senator j. \. Camden's private secretary,
and now head bookkeeper in the First Ma
tional Bank at Parkersblrg, has rendered
his resignation and will succeed Mr.. +. NJ.
Durbin a cashier of the Bank of Weston
The new Jewish synagogue at Harrison
burg, the first ever erected in the Valley of
Virginia. was dedicated last week. Rev.
Dr. Schonfaber, of Baltimore, oliiciated, as
sisted by the officers of the congregation
Visitors were present from various points.
James E. White, alias Freddy" White,
fired Two shots at his wife from revolver
in Washington Thursday evening, one of
which passed entirely through her left lung
The wound i not fatal. Ten minutes later
he put the pistol to his own head, and fired
one shot, which killed him instantly The
wife Is dead.