Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1892-04-20
Ne,csu Notes.

earthq Jake YESTERDAY. NO i'eS teP'''
The Olio legislature has passed bill IN
pas State bounty on beet sugar manuiac'
ture
The Democrats of Pennsylvania in State
Convention last week declared tor Grover
Cleveland.
Major ". T. Suddoth. a prominent citizen
of Fauquier county, died Sunday week, age
eighty years.
A Fire in Toxic Jupan, on sunday, 10Th
instant, destroyed, 5000 houses. The los
OF life WAS also great.
Mr.. Henry Rutherford, native Of Berke-
lev county. died in Ohio week before last,
aged n,neIy.one years.
The nagerstown Globe says "Mr. j
Beachley has grey mare 80 years old. -
Time Tor her to be grey.
BY the overflow of the Tombigbee river
in Mississippi l95 lives are reported lost
The river ten miles wide.
Mr.. - Cole, for forty years super
in,endent of the mailing department of the
Baltimore Sun died last week
The Hampshire Reuiele says "the indica
TONS are that Rubt w Daily, Jr., will be
appointed to succeed Judge Armstrong.
Mr.. Hamilton Stuckey, an aged and
wealthy citiz N of Sedan, on North river IN
Hampshire c,unty, died suddenly recently.
Powd, rWork~, at Moosic Pa near Scran
ton, we're blown up hast Wednesday The
shock was felt forty miles away. Seven
mrn were ki led
Mrs. Mary B. Willard. mother Of Miss
Frances Z Willard, voted for the first time
At "A recent school election at Evanston, Ill.
She is ninety years old
Tuesday Of last week the body of pretty
Polish girl WAS found in Il PIttsburc park
Her head had been severed from the body
which was horribly mu;iated.
Rev. W. X Marshall, of the VI. E
Church. SuuIp. has been appointed TO th
|. wi,Lurr station instead al Pi,dmonte,
Fauguirr county, IA, first announced.
Prof. r. b Williamson, 81 years old, died
suddenly week before last, in the reading
room of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
Prot. " liamson WIS bnrn in Winchester.
The Washington Eveaing Star office WAS
damaged by fire last Wednesday morning
To the extent of more than thirty thousand
dollars. The paper was issued at the reg
ular hour in the afternoon of the same da,
The proposition made by Hon. :. b. FL
kins 20 give S25, 900 aud % acres of land To
found Baptist college at Elkins, Randolph
county, was accepted Wednesday at a iull
meeting of the board of college trustees al
Clarkshurg.
The Democrats, of Winchester, have NOM
mated the following municipal ticket: For
mayor, Thomas y. Lupton; recorder, X
William Walter; treasurer, Bruce Gibson
and clerk of cooperation court, Richard l.
GRAY.
Mr. Annie Rush, who died near Park
ersburg. ON Saturday week, aged nearly LOG
wears. leaves 1875 grandchildren, and nearly
500 great grandchild en- There is also a
great great great grandchild, now about five
wears.
l. would be worth while Cor the ladies t.
hear in mind that If they take a gentle
course of Ay.r'- Sar-aparilA in the spring
they will have M trouble with the 'prckly
| head. hives. " sites, +" "boils," or BLACK
heads. when summer comes. FERMENTATION
ia better than cure.
4 negro lahorer on the Norfolk u IVES
m railroad, in Logan county, murdered
the boss of the working gang to which he
| belonged and then blew his own brains out
The murdrird man WAS Cyrus Lair, a young
man from Virginia the only support of a
widowed mother.
A .eliing-hen has caused the death OF
Mrs. Catharine Jones, wife Of rhn>. Jones,
of Baugo, Pa The woman Wen to the nest
To G how Nh. hen was getting along, when
the hen -praug at her and pecked her an
the hand. The bill made wound, blood
poisoning let in, and death followed.
The number of foreign horn soldiers in
the United States Army during the civil
war was, according TO Gen. Franz Sigel,
who has made the subject a study, about
500. 600. OF these IA 22l were Irishmen
and l76 767 were Germans The cplored
troop number lS6,Ol7, of whom 1000
served ai one time.
At Huntington, this State, the jury in
the case of Allen Harrison. who on Satur-
day. April ,, murdered B-tlie Adams, If
teen-year.old girl, b~cau-e she refused to
marry him. ou Wednesday morning render
I'd q verdict of murder ia the FIRST degree,
It WAS an aggravated case, md after com
uniting the crime, Harrison tried to take
bic own life, but failed.
Wm. Maier, who shot his Young wife dead
in Wheeling, some days ago because she re-
fused To kiss him. has been captured. He
started f,r Columbus and got fifty miles
away. but for some unaccountable reason
came back and went 10 the cemetery, aud
WAS first seen standing by his wife'e grave.