Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1892-07-13
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meet July 20 in New York City.
Billy Malone is disappointed because be
was not placed on the Republican campaign
committee.
Four men were killed in fight between
union and non-union men at the Frisco
mine, Idaho.
Bourke Cochran. the Tammany orator,
was born in County Sligo, Ireland, and was
educated for priest.
Judge Gresham says he would not accept
an appointment to the U. 5. Supreme Bench
if rendered by President Harrison.
Edgar P. Rucker, the Republican candi-
date for Congress in the Third district OF
this State, is only thirty years of age.
san Francisco was shaken from end to
end Saturday by a powder-house explosion.
Three white men and several Chinese lost
their lives.
The Francis Cleveland of Warren Club
county, H., an organization of ladies, has
contributed 800 to the State Democratic
campaign fund of the State
Mai. S. NJ. Yost, formerly of the Valley
VTrginian, proposes to establish at Staunton
a newspaper to be knows as Yosfs Weekly
1t will be Republican in politics.
Justin Mccarthy, the leader Of the anti
Parnellite wing of the Irish party, is one of
the distinguished men who have lost their
seats in Parliament in the recent elections.
Ravachol, the Paris anarchis and MUIR
derer. was executed Monday. He met
death defantly, indulging in imprecations
and coarse songs and jests upon the scat
fold.
Died, recently, near Warrenton, Fauquier
Co., aged so, Benz Franklin Homer, who
was one of 4 hunting shirt company that
escorted Gen. Lafayette into Warrenton
on his visit in 1926.
In East Radford, Va, Tuesday evening
of last week, Mrs. Mary Ellis shot and in
stantly killed her sister-in-law, Mrs. Bette
Ellis. She claims that the shooting was
done in self-defense.
St. Johns, New Foundland, was almost
totally destroyed by fire last week, and To-
600 people are homeless. A number of
lives we're lost, and the pecuniary loss is
about SIS, 100000.
The great convention of the Christian
Endeavor Societies at Madison Square Gar
den, New York, ended on Sunday. 1t was
attended by thousands of delegates and adj
dressed by many eminent men.
Ayers Pills promptly removable causes
of sick and nervous headache. These Pills
speedily correct Irregularities of the stom-
ach. liver and bowels, and are the mildest
and most reliable cathartic in use. No one
should be without them.
The Stewart free coinage bill has been ia
vorably reported to the House of Represen-
tatives from the committee on coinage, and
the matter will come up in the House to-
day. The opponents of the bill profess to
be confident of their ability to defeat it.
Mr.. j. d. Rogers, the author of "The
Man from Texas" died at Middleburg,
Loudoun county, Va, two weeks ago. He
willed what personal property he had to a
colored woman named Jennie Washington,
who waited on him during his last illness.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has re-
fused new trial in the case of Col. H..
Clay King, prominent member of the bar
of Memphis, who shot and killed David H.
Poston, another prominent lawyer, on the
street in Memphis in March, 1891. He will
be hanged on the 18th of August.
Robert Lincoln O'Brien, of the Boston
Transcript, has been appointed private sec
rotary to ex-President Cleveland, and will
enter at once upon his new position at Gray
Gables, Buzzard's Bay. Mr.. O'Brien is a
native of Arlington, Mass. is about twenty
three years Of age, and graduated at Har-
ward in 1891.
Ex-President Cleveland and Mr.. Steven
son will go to New York City July Goth to
be officially informed that they are the
Democratic nominees for the presidency
and vice presidency. Hon. VIM. L. Will
son is chairman of the notification commit
tee, and a subcommittee has been appoint
ed to prepare an address.
Philip Sousa, the former leader of the
Marine Band in Washington, has signed a
contract with a syndicate of business men
of New York aud Chicago which makes
him for FIVE years director of new mill
tary band to be composed of the best ma
terial that can be anywhere selected, and
which is to make tour of the country
the coming fall.
Three of toe Virginia representatives in
Congress will not be candidates for renomi-
nation this year They are Messrs Lawson,
Of the second district Lester, of the fifth,
and Buchanan, Of the ninth. The two first
named will retire to private life on account
of poor health, and Mr.. Buchanan, after
serving two terms, finds that the practice of
law is more in accord with his tastes, and
he will give his entire time to his profession.
An Alliance congressman from Kansas
has introduced a bill to reduce official sal
aries 10, 20, % aud $50 per cent. according