Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-03-15
Ne,rsu Notes.
Gladstone is ill.

Gladstone is ILL.,
Gov. MacCorkle has selected Mr.. John b.
White, of Romney for his private secretary
The barn of Mr.. W. t. Noll, west of Mar
tinsburg, burned last week-loss, 5, OOO.-
No insurance.
Mrs. Gessner Harrison. widow of the no.
ted Professor of the University of Virginia.
died Saturday.
Hon. Stuart w. Walker says be not an
applicant for the collectorship or any other
government Office.
The London Daily Ne'rs, speaking of Mr..
CleveIand's inauguration, says, HE is the
ablest statesman in America"
James W. Hyatt, United Ststes treasurer
under Mr.. Cleveland's former administra-
ton. died at his home at Norwalk, Conn.
Capt Alexander Dixon Payne, of War
renton, Va, who commanded the famous
"Black Horse Troop" during the war, died
last week.
Ex-Congressman Frank Lawler wants TO
be postmaster of Chicago and backed up
his application with petition signed by
70, 900 citizens.
Mr.. c. P. Jack paid S22,5OO for the
Berkeley Springs Hotel. This does not in
clude seventy.fve acres of land belonging to
the hotel company.
Mr.. H. C. Tinsley, editor of the Staunton
TTndicator, is at the Johns Hopkins Hospi-
tai for treatment. We regreat to learn that
this talented editor is compelled to return
to the hospital.
Striking things in prices: In Baltimore a
strip of land five inches wide and one hun
hundred and twenty three feet long brought
at public sale 81, $4,000; in Staunton hog
brought $Sl.O and "bOom" lot was sold
at $3.50
Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, having sold her
house in New York, desires to make her fu-
ture home in Washington. She desires to
locate on Lafayette square, and has made an
offer for the Blaine residence that is now
under consideration.
The Shenandoah Herald, the late Senator
Riddleberger's paper, and which is now
published by his widow, announces in its
last issue that it will hereafter be indePend-
eut in politics. 1t has, heretofore been Re-
publican 1t is good paper.
One of the oldest editors in the country
is Caleb Foote, of the Salem (Mass.l Gazette,
who celebrated his ninetieth birthday on
Monday week He entered the Office of the
Salem Gazette in 1917. Mr.. Foote is enti-
tied to 90 to the head of the class.
81 have used Ayers Hair VigOr for q
number of years, it always gives me satisfac-
ton. 1t is an excellent dressing, prevents
the hair from turning gray, insures its Wig
orous growth, and keeps the scalp white
and clean. Mary A. Jackson, Salem
Mass.
The Potomac Short Line Railroad, to
run a few miles in Morgan county, was in
corporated at Charleston Friday with the
principal office at Berkeley Springs aud
$50, 900 capital. T. H. B. Dawson, Of
Berkeley Springs, and others are the incOr-
porators.
Oscar, the thirteen-year-old son of Mr.
Adrian Miller, in Berkeley county, was al
most instantly killed Wednesday by fall.
ing stone, weighing about thirty pounds
which had been thrown up in the air by q
blast in a wall at his uncle's, Mr. Geo
Byers, where the lad was spending the day
Boston had a great fire on Friday and
nearly FIVE million dollars worth of proper.
ty was reduced to ashes. The fire began in
a toy store and is supposed to have been the
result of fire cracker Several persons
were burned to death or lost their lives by
jumping from windows, and thirty Others
were injured.
On last Sunday morning son of Samuel
Haga, of Bonds Creek, Richie county, died
from eating dried apples. The boy had
been sent to a neighbours to get the apples
and on his way home ate a large quantity,
and on reaching home drank freely Of cold
water As a natural consequence he was
soon in terrible agony. His stomach burst
before he died The boy was about 10 years
of age.
Samuel J. Cramer died at Barracksville,
this State March s, at an advanced age
Mr.. Cramer was native of Winchester,
and was United States deputy marshal of
Kansas Territory in the exciting days of
sc. He removed to the Pacific coast in
1859, where he remained until some six
years ago, when he returned to West Vir-
GINA He was humane aud kindly, and
was often described as like old John Knox
he never feared the face of man.
At dinner at Washington to Gov Rus
sell, of Massachusetts, aud staff, depreca-
tory sentiment was made to Mckinley as
the high-tarifT apostle As soon as the Gov