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will shortly wed Charleston lady.
A handsome stone chapel will be erected
for, and adjoining. Zion Reformed Churcn
in Hagerstown.
Mr.. Province Mccormick, of Clarke
county, has been appointed an Indian
Agency Inspector.
Roanoke has now in operation hiteen
miles of electric street railway and by June
25th will have twenty-one miles.
Mrs. NJ. E. Hunter, reject of the late
Hon. r. NJ. T. Hunter, died at Font Hill"
Essex county, Virginia, after brief Illness
few days ago.
George W. Cunningham died at his home
in Tifin, Ohio, May 18th. Mr.. Cunning
ham was a native of Berkeley county, and
was born June %, 1923.
Hon. Stuart W. Walker, of Martinsburg,
will deliver the address before the literary
societies at the Fairmont Normal School
commencement, June 10th.
Judge w. L. Clark has been appointed
clerk of the circuit court of Frederick
county, Virginia. Judge Clark is the Dem
ocratic nominee for election to that Office.
Wilhelmina, the girl-queen of Holland,
is said to be rapidly developing symptoms
of consumption. In case of her death the
Nassau Orange dynasty would become ex-
tinct.
Stanhope Henry, of Charleston, nephew
of William Writ Henry, and great-grand-
son of Patrick Henry, is an applicant fol
the Office of State MISUNDERSTANDING
Journal
Col. Dan Wilson, of Lynchburg, who
was a member of the military court of the
Army of Northern Virginia-of which Col
R. II. Lee was also a member-died a few
days ago in New Orleans.
F. B. Milburn, a son of Rev. VIM. II
Milburn, the blind chaplain of the House
of Representatives and chaplain-elect o
the Senate, committed suicide in Chicago
on Sunday afternoon last.
In the suit of Mr. VIM. NJ. BlackforC
against the Antietam Cement Company, il
Hagerstown, the jury gave verdict o
SO, 1853 for the plaintif,-about 1928 les
than the amount claimed.
State Senator D. w. Gall, of Philippi
Barbour county, w. Va, editor of the JET
tersonian Pldndealer, has been designated
for appointment as chief of division il
the Treasury Department
The exhibits of seventeen of the foreign
countries represented at the Worlds Fai
have been withdrawn from any competition
for awards on account of the failure to ar
range for an international jury of awards
James T. Arnold, member of the senio
law class at the Washington and Lee Uni
versity. and q native of Loudoun county
Va. was drowned while bathing in thu
North River at Lexington yesterday week
| Hon. Charles Foster, ex-Secretary of tn
Treasury. made an assignment for the ben
eft of his creditors at Fostoria, Ohio, Fri
day. Several industries at Fostoria il
which he was interested were compelled tC
assign.
A party of Washington sportsmen have
purchased of S. n Grub tract of lane
in Loudoun county, Va, extending dowr
to the Potomac river below Harper's Ferry
for hunting and fishing purposes. They
propose building $1,000 club house.
The Southern Presbyterian General As
sembly elected Rev Dr. Henry NJ. Woods
of Virginia, now a missionary in China
missionary secretary to succeed Rev. DR.
NJ. II. Houston, who resigned the secretary
ship to enter upon missionary work in China
Col. L. c. Ricketts,, of Huntington, ha,
been appointed principal clerk of the claim;
and contests division of the General Lane
Office. Colonel Ricketts, is very well known
in West Virginia He was a courier fol
Stonewall Jackson during the war when bu
thirteen years Of age and served with Sena
tor Faulkner at the battle of Newmarket a;
member of the Virginia Military Acad
envy.
Mr.. 5. S. Vinson, recently appointed U.
S. marshal for the district of West Virginia
took the oath of Office last Thursday. His
deputies are A. d. Garden, of Ohio county
B. L. Priddie and L. F. Vinson, of Cabell
county; J. r Mehan and Granville Stout,
of Wood county; John w. Littlepage, Of
Kanawha county; NJ. F. Damron, of Lo-
gan county; Boyd VinsOn, of Wayne cOun-
ty, and Melyern Hall, of Boone county.