Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-05-09
Ne,rsy Notes.

Mr.. ThOs. E. Benedict has been confirmed
as public printer.
Prof. c. NJ. Riley, chief entOmolOgist OF
the Department of Agriculture, has resigned
President Cleveland has appointed Hon.
Jno. ]. Davis, of this State, visitor to
West Point.
The Bark Extract Works and Beet Sugar
Factory burned Wednesday afternoon last
loss estimated at 100000.
The Governor of Michigan has appointed
John Patton, Jr., Republican, to be the
successor of the late Senator Stockbrldge.
The commencement of Berkeley Female
Institute at Martinsburg will be on the 9TH
of June and is expected to be of unusual
interest.
Robert Hutchinson, near Enon, caught q
carp in CapOn river that weighed "a pounds.
1t was feet. inches long, 10 inches broad
and inches through.
The Worlds Fair buildings were sold to
Chicago syndicate for $4,000. The La
Rabida convent and the Forestry building
were not included in the sale.
A man named William Sanders, in Balti-
more. was arrested on complaint of his wife
and locked in cell. Whilst there he at
tempted to commit suicide by swallowing a
fork.
The State Medical Society of West Vir-
giuia will meet at Berkeley Springs on the
10th, 18th and 18th of July next. The State
Board of Health will meet at the same point
a day or two earlier.
The highly comforting fact is brought out
by expert testimony in a case before the
New York Supreme Court that the proper
ton of deaths from the administration OF
anesthetics is only one in $4,000 cases.
The large three story frame Touring mill
and saw mill attached at TaylorstOwn, Lou
doun county, Va, owned and operated by
JOS. H. House, was destroyed by fire Thurs
day morning. The loss is estimated at about
$1,000; insurance $4,000.
Ex- United States Minister to Austria
John Jay died Saturday at the Hotel Savoy
in New York. He was born in New York
in 1917, and was the son of Judge William
Jay and grandson of John Jay, first Chief
Justice of the United States.
A telegram from a number of United
States Senators was read at the international
Monetary Conference in London last Thurs
day expressing cordial sympathy with the
movement to promote the restoration oil
silver by international agreement.
An unknown white man on Saturday as
saulted and outraged Miss Mary Pierson.
aged twenty years, near Salt Petre Cave
Botetourt county, Virginia, and then forced
poisoned pill down her throat, leaving her
in critical condition. He escaped to the
mountains.
In Kansas on Saturday hail storm dew
astated crops in field and orchard, and kill
ed birds and rabbits. AT Reading, same
State. stained glass windows in the Metho-
dist Church were knocked out and in the
Catholic Church not one pane of glass was
left whole. In Arkansas the Rio River
Aooded tho country
Bueua Vista, Virginia, had $4,000 fire
last Wednesday morning. Two buildings
owned by r. F. Hill & Co, lumber dealers,
and occupied by the Virginia Clothing Co,
and Chicken Coop Co. One million feet Of
lumber, one thousand coops aud $500 worth
of tailoring cloth, together with the build
ings. were destroyed. Insurance only $500.
1t is stated as a curious fact that there
are now, nearly thirty years after the civil
war, 5000 more persons getting pensions
than there were troops in the field on the
Union side at any single time during the
war. Yet there are 100000 applicants for
pensions yet to be acted upon In June,
1898, the pension roll had 96S,Ol2 names
and I'll l4O claims were pending.
Judge Thos. NJ Cooley, in addressing the
law students at Aun Arbor, Michigan, dis
cussed the COxey movement from a consti-
tutional point of view. He said that indi-
viduals had no right to go in person to the
seat of government and present their petit
tions. The wheels of government might be
stopped by few people. The chosen rep
resentatives are to present the petitions.