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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
CLIFTON FORGE, VA.
AT THE GREAT FAIR.
Electricity the Most Distinguishing
Feature.
A Look About the Grounds and
Through the Buildings-Amus-
ing Things that Happen
Daily

The one element that distinguishes the
present fair above all it's predecessors is
electricity. OF course, the world has
made progress in many directions. and
the fair is consequently greater in many
respects, but except for the advantage in
the use of electricity this Fair couldn't
be, and with all the uses of electricity
not one wire is visible! The intermural
railway that takes you all about the
grounds run by electricity taken from
third rail laid besides the trak. This is
only possible on an elevated road, as the
rail is alive but as it is, it works ad-
mirably. Then the little launches driven
without the slightest jar, the very poetry
OF motion, are impelled by electricity.
No one who has not seen and ridden in
them can understand the pleasure of the
trip that they can make about the lagoon
and among the stately buildings. And at
night electricity rules the whole great
place. Not merely are these arc>lights
for the avenues, but the great buildings
are set all over with small lights, tracing
their majestic outlines against the sky
with wonderful effect, while above these
perhaps most impressive of all spectacles
of the occasion, are the great electric
search-lights. The thousands who saw
the Schuyler search-light on the Courant
building last fall may imagine the sight
of a half-dozen firing their great columns
of light about through the darkness.
Sometimes the different streams are
blended, again they are crossed. Then
they are wheeled. one after the other,
like wheel-spokes across the open sky.
All sorts of evolutions are performed,
and the marvel of the northern lights
is right there before you, hand made.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
Allegheny County Directory.


We publish below the Directory of the County
occasion to address Them
JUDGE OF ALLEGHANY AND CRAIG,
Lyman Chalkley, taddress) Covington. Va.
COUNTY AND CIRCUIT CLERK,
j. j. Hobbs, (Address) Covington, Va.
COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY,
W. E. Allen, (Address) Covington, Va.
SHERIFF,
s. G. Dyer, (Address) Covington, Va
Collector of Revenue.
Samuel I. Fudge, Covington, Va.
COUNTY TREASURER,
Joseph T. Fudge, (Address) Covington, Va.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS,
S. F. Chapman. Covington, Va.
COUNTY SURVEYOR,
]. A. Carson. Sweet Chalybeate, Va.
COUNTY PHYSICIAN.
II. W. Anderson, Covington, Va.
COUNTY CORONER.
DR.. o. G. Rodgers, Covington, Va
DISTRICT OFFICERS.
SUPERVISORS,
A. ]. Accord, Jr., Clifton Forge. Va.
+. M NEFTLEToN, Covington, Va.
J. NJ. ARRITFs, Arri5ts, Va.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
GUY r. JoHNsoH, Longdale. Va.
j. L. IRBY, Low Moor, Va.
ROBERT ROBINSON, Iron Gate Va.
E. A. SNEAD, Clifton Forge, Va.
ovERsEER OF THE POOR.
E. S. Pendleton, Iron Gate, Va.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-03-10
INDUSTRIAL BREvITlEs.
New On-Pieking Machine invented
Number Of American Strikes f0T
the Past Seven Years.

Last year 1850 ships were built.
A shingle trust 10 being perfected.
There are 4,5O0 electric plants in Ger
many.
A Pittsburg concern Is insured for 81
100000.
There are 800 shoe factories in Haver-
hill, Mass.
1t costs about 500 to procure an Egyp-
tian mummy.
Last year our railroads carried 6O0,-
000, 900 people.
Dove tail paving bricks are being
made In England.
New Orleans outranks New York in
banana imports-in fact, receives about
40 per cent OF all the bananas imported
into the country.
One OF the most extensive concerns in
Maine has been experimenting on an in
genious process Of burning lime with oil
instead OF with wood.
A large party OF Eastern manuiactnr-
ers recently started on tour through
Mexico for the purpose Of introducing
American goods into that country.
The manufacture ot Southern products
In the South 10 on the increase. A sim
gle factory in North Carolina is now
turning out 4,000,0O0 cigarettes daily
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-03-10

A new picking machine 10 an
nounced. which picsH lin the prospectus
5000 TO 1000 pounds Of cotton in day.
This is az much work as could be done
by forty expert negro cotton pickers.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
A Terrible Cyclone,

SALTWATER, Minn., July ia ter
rife cyclone struck here at $40 p. IN.
yesterday. The bodies of two men
killed by the falling of some rafting
sheds have been recovered. Several
buildings are blown down and others
damaged. Many people are injured
and some are missing. Sam Simonson
and Will Anez are the names of the
parties whose bodies were recovered
The clouds were high until they
reached the Atwood mill, where they
seemed to swoop down and lifted raft
ing sheds and carried large timbers
into the lake.
A number of boys fishing on the
slip below the mill were thrown into
the water, but escaped with slight IN
juries.
The funnel-shaped cloud also struck
the residence portion of the city, but
as nearly as can be learned, id no
damage other than overturning num-
her of barns
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
THE EAST.

]. ANwEs, of Philadelphia, the con-
tractor for the state asylum for the
chronic insane at Wernersville, failed
with liabilities of $500, 900.
THE firm of Harris Bros, dealers In
gloves in New York, failed for 800. 900
The factory of George II. Eaton &
Co at Stoneham, Mass, was burned
with all its contents. Loss, $1,000
SIX MEMBERS of the Kreider family
murdered at Cando. n. d., were buried
at Elizabcthtown, Pa, over Is, 900 per-
sons attending the ceremonies.
MASSACHUSETTS republicans will hold
their state convention in Boston on DC
tober7.
Br an explosion of gas in coal mine
ut Wyoming, Pa, two men were killed,
two fatally injured and two badly hurt.
By an accident to West Shore en-
press train at Newburg, N. v, five per-
sons We're killed and score more in
jurcd.
THIEVES stole a tray containing near
Iv $4,000 worth of diamonds from the
jewclry store of Il. v. Dickinson in Nj
aGara Falls, \. Y.
WHILE fighting at Pelhamville, n. j.,
two men were run down by an express
train and both were killed.
AT Wcstficld, Pa, two robbers escap-
ing from officers jumped down an en-
bankment on a bed of rocks and were
killed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
A TOLEDO BLADE
Presented to Gen. Porter by Princes
Eulalie and Her Husband.

Presented to Gen. Porter by Princess
EulalIe and Her Husband.
NEW YORK, July 15.-It has just
leaked out that the Princess Eulalie
has remembered the kindness of Gen.
Horace Porter, chairman of the recep-
tion committee. 1t appears that two
days before the princess left the city
for her visit to Chicago, Senior Jover v
TOrar, the private secretary of Prince
Antonio. waited upon Gen. Porter at
his home and presented to him in the
name of Prince Antonio and Princess
Eulalie a saber of the finest workman
ship, in appreciation of the kindness of
Gen. Porter during the stay of the
royal visitors
The saber is about three feet six
inches long, and is made of steel,
highly FURNISHED. The scabbard is
entirely plain, but half of the blade is
embossed and engrossed in very neat
design. The hilt, which forms a basket
for the hand, has been cut into an
open design which forms the initials
"A"and e." surmounted by the crest
of the royal family of Spain.
The saber was made at the govern
ment works at Toledo, Spain, and the
blade is so pliable that it can be bent
almost into a circle.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Is Mecca hundreds were diving daily
from cholera. and the road between
that city and Mouna was strewn with
corpses, it being impossible to bury
them.
FIRE nearly wiped ont the village of
Fairville, a suburb of ST. John. n. b.,
and eighty families were left homeless.
In the seven days ended on the 12th
there were 139 deaths from cholera in
various portions of Russia and 4o3 new
cases.
Oh board the steamer Falcon Lieut.
Peary and party sailed from st. Johns
n. f., for Greenland by way of Labra-
dor.
TSRSs T:2rlen became involved in n
quarrel at disreputable resort in the
City of Mexico which resulted in a bat
tie with knives and all three were
killed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
FROM THE ORIENT

Advices Gathered at Hawaii by the Steam
er Peru-The Walker Sinclair Con-
spiracy Brokea Up By the Arrest of the
Leaders-M Minister Bloant Anxious to be
Relieved Suspicious japanese Cartridges
Japan and Coree-
BAN Francisco, Cal, July 16.-The
teamer Peru arrived from Hong Kong
and Yokohama, via Honolulu, yester-
day morning, bringing the following
sdvices from the latter place:
The examination of the conspiracy
cases resulted in the discharge of
Crick on July 8, and the committal of
Walker and Sinclair for trial. The
heads of the police consider the royal
ist plans to be substantially broken up
rs result of the trial Walker ap-
pears to have been the active military
leader of the conspiracy. He Is Brit
ish subject and served under Custer.
lie is daring man.. s=sss - .es,-s-siIJf-
United States Miaister Blount Is inn
patient for the appointment of his
successor, whose arrival will set him
free to carry home his report.
At shooting match on July it was
observed that Prince David and Tom
Cummings used rides and cartridges Of
japanese make. As none such have
ever passed the custom house, it is
likely they were presents from the
Japanese naval officers Since, how
ever, there was great stir last April
about the rumored landing of rifles for
royalist use from the Japanese cruiser
Nsniwa, the police are pursuing inquir-
les into the matter. President Dole
says that their relations with Japan
are extremely friendly and that q
strong disposition to support the pro-
visional government has been ex-
pressed by Japan.
There seems to be prospects of more
trouble between Japan and Corea.
The governor of q Corean province has
issued a notification prohibiting trade
in rice and other cereals. A number
of japanese families are suffering in
consequence of the prohibition.
On june 10 three or four Japanese
were murdered near Yuen San, and q
Japanese war ship has been dispatched
to the scene of the murders
Fire destroyed fifty-four houses in
Hokkardo and burned one person to
death.
Rear-Admiral Irwin, commander of
the United States Asiatic squadron.
and staff, were received by the Japanese
emperor on the 10th ultimo.
President Dole, in an interview, said
that in case the United States refused
to do anything toward annexation,
ENGLAND was the Oulv liable Source
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
EpitOnle of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE exports of cotton from the United
States during the month of June last
were valued at $3.50. 165. The total
value of the exports of domestic bread
stuffs during the same time was si5,-
BIZ. 75I.
HEREAFTER applicants for pensions
must file their military and medical
history, according to Commissioner
Lochren's order.
DURING the fiscal year ended June so,
1898, the total number of original pen
sion certificates of all kinds issued was
121, ,62s, against 22e, ,29T during the pre-
ceding year. The net increase to the
rolls during the past fiscal year was 91,-
62s, against 1e9, sos for the year before.
EVERY plate glass factory in the
United States was closed for the first
time in the history of the trade. and
that indefinitely, and fully 10000 men
were idle. Overproduction is the cause.
THERE were 374 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th. The previous seven
days the failures mum bered 324, against
1863 in the corresponding time in 1892
CLEARING houses reported exchanges
amounting to $1,000, 800, ,677 in the
United States during the seven days
ended on the 18th. against s1,o51, ,4o2,
es2 the preceding seven days. Com
pared with the corresponding time in
1922 the increase was 12.5 per cent
A STATEMENT of the condition of ma
tional banks throughout the country
shows d startling decline in deposits
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
THE COLD STORAGE RUINS.
More Bodies Supposed to be In the Ruins
-Disinfectants Used.

More Bodies Supposed to be In the Ruins
-Disinfectants Used
WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS. CHICAGO,
July 15.-Nearly 200 men were at work
yesterday clearing away the ruins Of
the cold storage warehouse. but SO
great and difficult Is the task that even
with this large force it will probably
be a fortnight before the mass is
cleared away. No more bodies had
been found when the work was stopped
for the day at 8 o'clock, although DIR.
Robinson. of the ambulance corps, and
the chief of the sanitary department
are of the belief that more will be un-
covered. They base their opinions on the
odors that arise from around the
smokestack. In this quarter Of tho
building no meats were stored. In or
der to lesson the stencil arising from
the rotting vegetables, decayed meats
and butter, the sanitary officers had
the ruin Thoroughly saturated with dis
infectapts to prevent disease.
Over 5000 was received at President
Higginbotham's Office yesterday for
the benefit of the bereaxed families OF
the firemen. This amount, however,
includes some contributions made
THURSDAY.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22

THE Niagara Falls system Of electrical
transmission of power has started up
the advocates of compressed air as a
rival motive energy. II is considered
practicable to transmit ten Thousand
horse power ten miles, in thirty-inch
main, at one hundred and thirty-two
pounds per square inch, and with loss
of but twelve per cent by the use of
compressed air, and the efficiency of
such plant is placed at fifty per cent.
with cold air and seventy-five per cent.
when reheated. The system is TO be
tested thoroughly and on large scale
in competition with electricity at Nj
apara Falls
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22

Bosros. July 1a-Jsmes Kennedy,
with q record of twenty-five years In
the state penitentisry, and who has
had but three months and three weeks
of liberty for the past fifteen years
was arrested Thursday afternoon on
warrant charging him with burglary
at Revere. Kennedy, IL convicted OF
this crime, must serve twenty-nvs
years under the habitual criminals act.
he has been free only since June 81 OF
the current year. Since that time It Is
believed that be has done considera Ole
acrooked' work besides the burglary
st Rsssrs,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22

1T is only within few years that the
wide effect of the warm, moist Pacific
winds, called chinooks, has been known
in British Columbia and Alaska. These
winds, corresponding exactly TO those
that make England fertile country in
the latitude of Labrador. keep the snow
melted from the plains at the eastern
base of the Rockies, and they encourage
a magniiicentgrowth of root crops, oats
and grass thousand miles north of New
York. Wheat does not do well and Der.
ries are small, The winters are biting
cold, but dry, and the summer. though
short, is so hot that vegetation comes
out of the earth with a rush
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
LATER NEWS.

An antI-Jew mob took possession of
the streets of Yalto, in the Crimea,
broke into houses occupied by Jews
and tried to drive the occupants from
the town. The Jews fought back.
Dozens were dragged into the streets
and beaten, and many were killed.
The houses owned by Jews were plum
derad and wrecked. Troops were
called to the town to restore order.
None of the rioters were killed and
bat few were injured.
To PREVENT the confiscation of his
entire exhibit for violation of the Gus
toms laws, J. 5. LEVITT a Russian ex-
hibitor at the Worlds fair, proposed to
the collector OF customs at Chicago to
pay $50 as fine and all costs con-
nected with the custody of the exhibits.
together with the payment of the reg
ular duties on his entire display, ex-
cepting few articles to be designated
by the collector, to remain on exhibi-
tion.
THE paid admissions to the Worlds
fair, on the 10th, numbered 1920,
nearly all the pass holders paying for
their admissions. The sum realized,
about 81, 900. together with the amount
contributed by the concessionaires les
timated at $4,000, it was thought
would add $50, 900 to the fund for the
sufferers from the Cold Storage fire.
The American champion swimmer,
McCusker. easily defeated the ex-cham-
pion English swimmer, Finney, at
Blackpool, England, on the 10th. The
match was for e200 a side. McCusker
has been challenged by the English
swimmer Nuttall to race one mile for
81, 900 side.
c. w. PATTERSON, principal con-
tractor for the construction of the
Findley, Fort Wayne & Western rail-
road, has filed lien at Findley, o.,
against the property of the company for
a balance due him for work not called
for by his contract amounting to sS42,.
296.92.
The International Engineering con.
gress, which is to be held in connection
with the Worlds fair at Chicago. will
open on the 31st. 1t will cover all the
fields of engineering except electricity,
which is to have special congress
The library collected in Goetting,
Germany, by the Orientalist Logard,
now dead, has been purchased for the
University of the city of New York.
It contains many rare volumes.
REAR ADMIRAL EARL ENGLISH, re-
tired, died at his residence in WASH
ington, on the 10th, aged 90 years
TIE next meeting of the North Amer
lean saengerbund will be held in
Pittsburgh, Pe., In July, 1880.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
Crushed Under an Elevator Weight.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. ", July Is
Michael Delaney, Of Newark, N. J..
was killed and Clifford Eddy, of Buff
falo, had an arm crushed in the eleva-
tor shaft of the iron observation tower
here yesterday morning. The men
were working near the top of the
shaft when the elevator car started up
from the ground floor and the huge
weights started down from the top
without being noticed by either Of
them. They were caught by the
weights and Delaney's neck and
shoulders were crushed to a jelly. Eddy
escaped with a crushed arm and leg.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22

NEW YORK. July 15.-There was con.
siderable excitement on the steamer
John H. Starin, which left for New
Haven Thursday night There was
quite sea on in-the sound and about
10 o'clock when the storm was blowing
fiercely the Starin plowed into the
schooner Sylvia C. Hall, which was
making her way up, not far from City
island. The schoonsr's jibboom was
cnt away, large hole knocked in the
starboard bow, and head gear lost,
and she put into City island ir,me-
diately for repairs The steamer hsd
some Of her Joiner work broken.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

fhe Financial and Commericaf Condisian
o. the Coantry. According to r. @. Dus
Co.'S Weekly Revtew-But Little Inn
pfotcment Ia the Financial stringeney
Bot Besincss Showing . Little Nor
Activity ia Some Lincs-Failurcz for ths
Week, Etc.
Ngw YORK, July 15.-R. G. Dun a
Co.'S weekly review of trade, pab lished
this morning. says:
There Is some improvement in business b.
cause the money markets arc q little less strin
gent, but IL cannot tc said that as yet there fs
any distinct improvement New York tanks
have received some money from the interior,
but are not Jet clear that IL Is Lest 10 retire
clearing house certificates. because there are
said to be weak spots which may Jet require
liberal extension Of credits. Other cities have
drawn less from New York because thsir basi
ness Is restricted. Some gold has come slready
from abroad and more Is expected within the
next week. but exports Of products do n OF In
crease as much Is has beer expected.
Improvement st Boston Is slow. owing 70 eH-
treme rates for money, Shoe shops are short
-of fofdefs and SOME have ciosud Leather is
quiet and tending downward. aud rubber goods
are dull There Is . lack Of orders on cotton
goods. Woofens are slow. and many Of the
mills are running on short time, and the mar
ket for wool fsvors buyers.
At Philsdelphia it IL still hard TO place good
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Trade at ST. Louis 10 very satisfactory, with
GOOD orders for fall and business ahead Of the
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22

SEYMOUR, the mind reader. says he is
going to be buried alive at Chicago and
remain entombed while a crop of
barley is sown, matured and harvested
over his grave. He will then emerge
and place himself at the disposal of the
dime museum trust. Don't shudder.
The grave may be there and the barley
may be there, but Mr.. Seymour will be
Willing the weary weeks away at
some secluded farmhouse.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
A FEEScHNAS has been cxperimen

A FEENCHMAN has been experiment
ng with the gas and water pipes of
Paris for telephone intercommunica-
ton, and has succeeded in transmitting
messages from house to house by using
this medium. He attached one wire of
a telephone to a faucet and the other to
gas jet, and used three bichromate
batteries on his microphonc.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
WILLIAM SHANNON ana Thomas Ura,g,

WILLIAM SHANNON ana Thomas craig
two well-known explorers, wers
drowned by the capsizing of their loa,
In Rainy lake, Minnesota.
THE sudden death OF Gen. ". II.
Enochs, congressman from the Tenth
district Of Ohio, occurred at his home
in lropton.
The doors of the Nebraska savings
bank at Lincoln were closed with liza.
bilities of 100000.
j. h. ARMSTRONG, Of Upton, o., coun-
ty treasurer, was said to be short k25,-
oOOo in his accounts
FLAMES nearly wiped out the busi-
ness section of Luckey, O., the loss be-
ing 100000.
IN session at Nashville, Tenn, the
National Retail Clerks union decided
70 make chicago their permanent head
quarters and elected +. p. Fitzwil-
llams OF Nashville. as president
IN Detroit II. I. Meyer was ar
rested. charged with poisoning no less
than nve young women-each of whom
ne arepresented as his-wHe-and one
man. Tor the purpose OF securing life in
surance WHICH ne hao taken out on
tneir lives-
IN Chicsgo SIX deaths from sunstroke
ana large number OF serious cases of
Prostration were reported on the 18th
AT Tacoma, Wash, the United States
grand jury indicted President Van
Horne, OF the Canadian Pacific railroad.
ana all the other leading officials for
violating the interstate commerce law.
In railway wreck at Vincennes,
Ind, five Knights of Pythias were in
lured' one OF them fatally.
JOHN Ii. CHAPMAN, OF Chicago. was
reeiected president at the annual meet
ing IN Indianapolis OF the Baptist
foung feoples Union OF America
n. NJ. TABOR and W. II. Bush, lcssees
OF the Brown Palace hotel in Denver,
made an assignment with liabilities
placed at s650,0O
The local directory o; the Worlds
Columbian exposition by vote of "a to
passed resolutions resembling the ac-
tion of the meeting of May 16 and or
dercd the gates closed on all Sundays
after the 10th.
By cyclone which passed over Still
water, Minn., and vicinity two persons
were killed, over dozen injured and
much property destroyed.
DURING battle with French gun
boats on the Meinam river twenty
Slamese were killed and fourteen
wounded.
HAY x WEBB'S bank at Carmi, ILL.,,