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ed. and the resignation has been accepted
Mr.. Thomas Kratz has sold his home on
Race street, Martinsburg, to Mr.. "ard
Greer for 81 800.
The Senate Committee, by vote OF 10
5, decided in favor of giving the three APP
pointed Senators their seats.
Ex-U- S. Senator David H. Armstrong,
who was three times elected to the Senate,
died in st. Louis, aged seventy.
NJ. Jules Ferry, the distinguished French
statesman and President of the SeRate, died
suddenly of heart disease Friday.
President Cleveland was fifty'six years
old on Saturday, and Secretary of State
Gresham was sixty the day before.
The Sheridan Mendoza Silver Mines of
Telluride, one of the largest in Colorado.
has closed down because of the low price OF
silver
The Charleston Gazette, Mr.. Moses W.
Donelly editor and proprietor, has been
sold to Mr. George w. Summers, an exper-
fenced newspaper man.
The new Waldorf Hotel, built by Mr..
Astor in New York City at a cost of So, OOO,-
900, was opened last week by promenade
concert for charitable purposes.
The new residence of ex-senator Henry
G. Davis, at Elkins, Randolph county, will
be completed in about six weeks. 1t will
be the most elegant and complete residence
in West Virginia.
Railroad station robbers are active. Mask
cd men held up the operator at Port Repub
lie station, n. & W., on Wednesday night.
They got $50 in change, but overlooked a
larger sum in an envelope.
Mrs. Rosalie f. Stuart, of Cedar Grove,
King George county, has been called to the
bedside of her sick niece, Mrs. Campbell, in
Georgia. The latter is daughter of Major
Robert W. Hunter, of Winchester, Va.
Fremont Temple, Boston, was wrecked
by fire Sunday. The temple was one of the
largest places of worship in the country,
and was headquarters of the Baptist denom-
ination. 1t had been burned twice before.
Bishop Brown, of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, died in Washington on
Thursday seventy five years. He
had been i'll for some time. Bishop Brown
was eminent in the church and was greatly
respected and esteemed.
The passenger and freight depot at Riley
ville Page county, Va, on the Norfolk and
Western railroad, was consumed by fire last
week. All the freight, books and tickets
were burned. The fire is supposed to be
due to sparks from freight engine.
Rev. DR.. B. NJ Smith, distinguished
Presbyterian diyine,-for many years Pro-
fessor of Hebrew at the Union Theological
Seminary at Hampden-Sidney, Va, died in
Petersburg last week-aged Sc years. He
had been in the ministry sixty years.
Mr.. John Cline, of Bunker Hill, Berke-
lev county, last week received telegram
from Mercy Hospital Chicago, stating that
his sou, Bert, had died at that place from
the effects Of a fall from a building upon
which he had been working as a carpenter.
A British steamship which arrived at
Bremen Monday reports having passed two
empty life boats from the lost steamer Ma
ronic. The Naronic, of course, is at the
bottom, but it is believed the occupants Of
the ife-boats were rescued by passing
vessels.
The President has appointed Edward b.
Whitney, of New York, Assistant Attor
ney-geueral of the United States. Mr..
Whitney, who is young man, was one of
the delegates appointed by the "anti-snap-
pc" convention last year to the national
Democratic convention.
Two Americans Of Irish birth have been
appointed to desirable places under the new
administration Collins, consul-gener-
al to London, and ex-Congressman Nc
Adoo, who was last week appointed assist
ant secretary of the Navy. IrishAmeri
cans are worthily represented by them.
Radlord Inn, the principal hotel at Rad
ford. on the Norfolk aud Western railroad,
in Montgomery county, and a dining sta
ton for several passenger trains, was de-
stroyed by fire Thursday morning. The
house was full of guests, who lost every
thing in their rooms. The hotel cost S4O,-
600. Insured for $4,000.