Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-09-26
NeiCsy Notes.

of Baltimore, is dead.
The canning factory at Martinsburg, re-
Gently burned, will be rebuilt at once.
A total eclipse of the sun next Friday
It will not be visible in the United States
Ayers Ague Cure is warranted to cure al
cases of malaria. Sold by druggists. Price 81,
Gen. Slocum is dead. He was an in
spector general during the siege of Vicks'
burg.
Evangelist W. P. Fife is to begin series
of meetings next Sunday in Leesburg, Vir-
ginia.
Baltimore is rejoicing over the success OF
the Orioles carrying off the national league
baseball pennant
Mr.. Elizabeth Buzzerd, mother of the ed
itor of the Morgan Messenger, died Septem-
Der 18th, in the 6lst year of her age.
The shirt-makers of New York City
5000 of them-have gone on strike; and
in Boston 500 garment makers returned to
work.
Daniel Coakley, of Brooklyn, in getting
in bed hurt the baby, and Mrs. Coakley
shot him three times for it. Coakley is in
the hospital and Mrs. Coakley is in Jail.
An exchange says: at should be source
of pride to the American hen that the an
nual egg crop is worth 100000; and yet
it's the rooster that does all the growing"
Miss Lucy Eleanor Allen, daughter of Mr..
G. w. Allen, was married to Mr.. Thos. S.
Shepherd, at "GlenwOOd," Clarke county,
on Wednesday evening, Sept. 9th, by Rev.
Julian Broaddus.
Mrs. John B. Files, nee Vanmetre, who
lived near Vanclevesville, died Thursday,
18th, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery
Shepherdstown, on the following day. She
was sixty-fve years of age.
The Republicans of Berkeley county have
nominated Hon. George F. Evans for the
Legislature, George P. Riner for county
commissioner, and James Snyder for county
superintendent of free schools
Hon. Marshall Mccormick won a legal
fight before the circuit court of Roanoke
last week, when the jury in the Hugh Brown
damage suit for $4,000 brought in yer.
dict for Sl0.O00.- Clarke Courier.
The editor of the Clarke Courier has an
ear of pop corn, some of the grains of which
were made to burst by the heat of the
sun, as they were found in this condition
when the husks were stripped from it.
While Richard Elkins, son of Mr.. Ste
phen B. Elkins, was hunting in the Cheat
Mountain Club grounds, on Friday, he shot
at deer, but the ball glanced and struck
bis guide, inaicting a serious but not fatal
wound.
The Berryville postoflice was entered on
Sunday night week by burglars, who blew
open the safe and took therefrom between
$50 and $40 worth of stamps. They secur-
ed a very small amount of money. On the
Friday night preceding the Front Royal
postofice was robbed of so worth of stamps
J. Frank Howell, Jr., aged twenty-three
years, died in Hagerstown last Friday Of
lung trouble. For eight years he was agent
for the Norfolk and Western Railroad al
White Post, Va. He was dutiful son and
devoted husband and was most exemplary
in his life. His remains were inferred
in Berryville, the home of his parents.
Between and II o'clock Friday night q
narrow strip OF country 200 miles long in
Minnesota was laid waste by a hurricane
which in many places developed into reg
ular tornado In the path Of the "twister'
are ruined towns, devastated farms and
many dead aud injured people. So far fifty
two are reported killed in Minnesota and
Iowa.