The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-05
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Tobacco sales in Danville, Va, for June
were 1928, scr pounds.
The London Stock Exchange will close
on the occasion of the royal wedding.
The injury to Mr.. Gladstone's ankle was
only slight and he walks erect and firmly.
The call of an extra session of congress
was great surprise to the politicians of
Richmond.
Some of the Italians who purchased
large tract of. land in Burke county, Va.
have already moved to their new homes
London papers ask their readers to sus-
pend Judgment on the Victoria disaster
until the verdict of the court martial is
rendered.
Secretary Carlisle has instructed an in
pector of public buildings of the treasury
department TO make n thorough inspection
VI the public building at Chicago
The intercollegiate baseball series of last
week at the Worlds fair was won by the
University of Virginia. This week four
crack teams, representing Eastern colleges,
viii contest for the honors.
considerable excitement exists through
out tennessee over the insurance laws
passed by the last Legislature. Nearly
| every insurance company in the state
VIII suspend operations until the laws are
| repealed.
Assistant Secretary McAdoo went to
ihiiaoeiphia, where he made an address
mt the reunion of the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians. After public address at New
ark, n. j., he left for Warm Springs. Va
| for months rest
I The United States Glass comDanv ne the
Dig flint glass trust with Headquarters in
wheeling and Pittsburg is known. has met
with remarkable series of misfortunes
the past season. No less than nine OF their
factories have been burned.
MISS Mary Mann Page Newton daughter
of the Rev. Dr. John b. Newton of Rich
mond is being much complmcnted for
paper upon Colonial Virginia and Its
Fart in Molding American Civilization
which, by request, she prepared to be read
peiore the historical congress Of the
Worlds fair
Bishop Keane is not the first distin.
guished Roman Catholic on whom Har-
ward has conferred AN honorary degree.
In the early days of the republic the uni
versity made Lafayette an LII. d., and
later conferred the same degree on Charles
O'Conor, while not long ago it bestowed
the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology on
Bishop Fitzpatrick of Boston
In Rice county, Kan. the Democrats
nave submitted the following proposition
to the Populsts OH the subject of fusion
RESOLVED, That we demand of the Popu.
lists at the next election part of the hog
which is to he killed, and that we must
have of the aforesaid porker some part of
the meat located back of the neck; that we
will not be content with jowls any longer,
but must have either shoulder or side
bacon.'
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has rented, besides
Cluny Castle in Scotland, Cr,igtlhu
house, two miles from the castle, on the
banks of Loeb OWE, near the rocky re-
cesses where Prince Charlie took refuge
after the battle of Cullotien John Morley
once described this house as an ideal High
land residence. Mr.. Carnegie's coaching
party this year intended visiting the valley
of the Wye and driving through the west
ern counties of England on their way
north.
James Alexander Blankinship, asculptor,
died ON Saturday in New York. He was
born i'll Virginia in 1859, and made his first
attempt as II sculptor when he was l3 years
Old. Sixteen years ago he went to Paris to
study and returned To this country in 1890
and accepted the professorship ofsculpture
in the New York Institute of Artists and
Artisans. He modelled the categorical
groups of Patriotism, Tradition, and The
ology for the Administration building at
the t'hicnU fnir