The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-04-21
Senator German, it is said, will retire

Mr.. w. H Leland, formerly in charge
of the Gibson hotel in Cincinnati, has
been appointed manager Of the Hot
Springs hotel for the coming season.
Mr.. 8. A. Buracker, the original owner
of the Luray Caverns, died in Luray,
Friday last. of paralysis He was the
father OF Mrs. VIM. T. Biedler, of Balti-
more.
The grand jury OF Taylor county, W.
Va, broke the record last week by re-
turning over six hundred indictments as
true bills" Near.y all Of these were
for the illicit selling of liquor.
The Woolner distillery, Peoria, ILL.,,
has successfully tested the process in
vented by Jokichi Takamine, of Toxic,
Japan, of making alcohol from corn
without the use of malt or other grain.
Some excitement in Roanoke county
over the alleged discovery OF gold on
Back Creek 10 that county The mine
is being developed by a Northern gen
tleman who reports gold in paying guam
titles.
The mortgage indebtedness on farms
in Kansas is estimated to have been re-
duced $99S,00 in the past month The
banks in Kansas report that the despOsits
of farmers have increased during the
year, many having doubled
E. Buford Grimes, who was sentenced
- l,a ff>p
beZzlement in the treasurer's Office of
Richmond, was released on Friday, hav-
ing served his full term, less forty-eight
days for good conduct.
Some time since Hon. S. B. Elkins
made a proposition to give $4,000 and
twenty-five acres of ground for college
at Elkins, W. Va, on certain conditions.
The college trustees last week complied
with the conditions and accepted the
proposition.
Henry Stronk, aged fifty-four years, a
well-known citizen of Reading, Pa, pro
cured an electric battery and tried it for
rheumatism. Not securing relief he be>
came respondent, and on Saturday
night drank the acid solution of the
battery, dying in horrible agony.
Judge McDannald, judge of the county
courts of Bath and Highland counties,
has drawn the reins on the granting Of
liquor licenses in the former county.
Where there was any indication of OPP
position, he continued the application
for license, and at Mountain Grove,
where opposition was manifested, he re-
fused to grant license.
Lieutenant E. L. Butts, of the twenty
first United States infantry, was secret
ly married TO Miss Winifred Kimbali,
daughter of the late Fl. P. Kimball, a
prominent member of the Mormon
Church, of Salt Lake City, Utah, March
7, 1892. They were1 publicly married
Saturday.
About 500 people, seekers of homes il
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation
in Oklahoma Territory. which was open
ed to general settlement last Tuesday
passed Easter Sunday along the line
There are a number of ministers among
the colonists, and every one of them
preach ed an Easter sermon on the Dor
der of the now promised land"
The belief prevails among many Sena
tors that the House has cut the appro'
priations for pensions below the abso
lutte requirements of the law, and it is
probable that the total appropriation
carried by the pension appropriation
bill will be swelled by several million
dollars when it is returned to the House
by the Senate.
Prince Viadimere Bijouvitch, a promi
nent Russian nobleman. waylaid his
cousin, Alexis Schipkuloff, on the stair
way of the latter's house, in st. Peters
burg, and with Ratchet killed Schip
kuloff. The Prince then fled, and being
PRESSED closely by the police drew re
yolver and shot himself dead. The
Prince and his cousin hated each other
Arrangements are being made to open
the large hotel at Glasgow in connec
ton with the Natural Bridge hotel, I'M
der the combined management of the
Rockbridge Company and the Chesa-
peake and Ohio and Norfolk and Yves
tern railroads. The plan involves the
building of an electric railway from the
hotel to the Bridge, at a cost of $40, 900.
There has been great deal of suffer
ing along the Tombigbee river in Miss
issippi and Alabama, during the past
week from high water. 1t is reported
that fifty lives have been lost, whilst
property of every kind has been swept
away, leaving the people in a destitute
condition. Appeals have been sent to
Representative Allen at Washington,
asking for relief for the people.
The Senate has passed the bill appro
priating $4,000 for the erection of a
public building at Lexington, Va. II
now has to go under the scrutiny OF
Chairman Holman of the House Appro-
priation Committee, where we fear il
will not be favorably treated, as Holman
favors economy and parssmony every
where else but when his own State,
Indiana, wants an appropriation.
Reports from a number of Virginia
counties estimate that the frost has
seriously injured the peach crop through
out the State, while there is some doubt
as to the effect upon apples, the latter
not being far enough advanced to be
able to tell yet. From these reports it
would seem that the peach crop this
year will be very slim, and that other
fruit has been damaged to some extent.
Diplomatic relations between the
United States and Italy have been re-
sumed. Mr. Porter, the United States
minister to Italy, and Baron Fava, the
Italian minister to this country, both of
whom were called home pending the
settlement of differences growing out of
the lynching of the Italians at New
Orleans, have been ordered by their
governments to return to their posts of
duty.
The United States has settled her d.
ferences with Italy, on account of the
| New Orleans lynching affair. by the nav