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Ne,rsv Notes.


Thursday.
Destructive fires occurred at Lynchburg,
Petersburg aud Lexington, Va, last week
"EIway," the home of Gen. ]. n. Bethune'
near Wauenton, Va, was destroyed by hre
last week.
Cumberland, Md had big fire last week.
Thirty-two buildings destroyed, and loss eS-
timated at $4,000.
Congressman Jos c. Hendrix, of Brook
lyn, will resign his seat to accept $50, OOO-
a-year bank presidency.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of L. NJ. Shaffer, of Martinsburg, to be con-
sui at Stratford, Ontario.
Governor MacCorkle has reaPPointed b.
d. Spillman brigadier general of the West
Virginia National Guard.
Jeremiah O'Rourke, of Newark, \. j.,
has been appointed supervising architect OF
the Treasury Department.
The H. G. Davis Coal Company, of Pied
mont, this State. is shipping large quann-
ties of coal to Pueblo, Col.
Carter Harrison, Democrat, was elected
mayor of Chicago last week. Majority
over the Republican candidate, 10000.
Bishop joseph S. Key, of the NJ. E..
Church, South, was married "Wednesday
evening to Mrs Kidd, of Sherman, Texas.
A silver United States dollar is one inch
and half in diameter; half dollar an
inch; quarter three quarters of an inch.
The Governor Monday appointed c. A,
Viewer. of Martinsburg, State bank exsmi-
ner, vice c. w. Young whose term has ex-
pired.
Frank h. Ward, who shot Maurice Adler
in Washington City four years ago, on
Thursday night last was run over and killed
by an electric car.
Several thousand workmen at the Worlds
Fair went on a strike Monday morning.
The troubles were amicably settled the even
ing of the same day
Hannis Taylor, of Alabama, has been ap'
pointed Minister to Spain. and Judge VIM.
Lochren, of Minnesota, gets the Commits
sionership of Pensions.
The Peruvian government has expressed
regret for the outrage upon the United
States consular agency at Mollendo, Peru,
and has promised to make reparation.
AT the Frederick county IVA Democrat
ic convention Monday, Judge VIM. L. Clark
was nominated for clerk of the circuit court
and Thos. X. Cartmel for county clerk.
Ex-Gov. David Meriwether, of Kentucky,
who was the successor of Henry Clay in
the United States Senate, died recently at
his home near Louisville, in the 99d year
of his age.
Clifton, a town of $500 population in
Mason county, six miles below Parkersburg'
had a very destructive fire on Friday. The
Salt works, many business houses and Odd
Fellows Hall were destroyed.
Mrs. McCreary, an attendant at the Wes-
ton Asylum, was killed last week by being
kicked in the stomach by q female patient.
This is the first accident of the kind ever
happening at that institution.
The revised total vote for governor OF
Rhode Island last week, is as follows: Ba'
ker, Dem, pods; Brown, Rep, 1880 ;
Me;calf, Pro-, 1926; scattering, 1903; aplu-
rality of los for Baker. No election.
Fires in the pine forests of North Caro-
lima have destroyed thousands of acres of
valuable trees, and many owners of turpen-
tine orchards are ruined. The fire swept
upon the town of West End and nearly
wiped it out.
The McShane Bell Foundry of Baltimore
is preparing drawings for the largest bell
on the American continent. 1t will be
named "The Great Bell of America" and
will weigh $4,000 pounds, 1000 for each
State of the Union.
Rev DR.. David H. Greer, of New York,
who, it is said, will succeed the late Phillips
Brooks as Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
Massachusetts,, is native of Wheeling and
was rector Of church in Clarksburg, this
State, for several years in the sixties.
Prof. W. w. Robertson, superintendent
of public schools of the city Of StauntOa,
has been elected to the presidency of the
Wesleyan Female Institute of Staunton,
vice DR.. W. T. Harris, resigned, and is ex-
pecled to enter upon his new duties June LIST.
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