Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-03-21
Ne,csv Notes.
Roanoke business men are planning to
have an industrial exposition next fall.

at Berryville.
A Joint stock company is being organized
at Martinsburg for the purpose OF establish
fishing large cannery.
Mr.. Richard W. Hardy, an old aud prom
inent citizen of Staunton. was run over by
c. & o. train and killed.
Berkeley Springs contemplates ceebra-
ZION of the one hundredth anniversary OF
the laying out of the town in 1876.
Mrs. Noble, wife of ex-Secretary of the
Interior John w. Noble, died suddenly at
her home in St. Louis Sunday night.
Miss Lizzie Guthrie, of Staunton, who
was on a visit to Roanoke, rupiured a blood
vessel Monday week and died in half an
hour.
The country just now is suffering from
the last two years of Harrison instead OF
he first year of Cleveland Carks6urg
Nsws.
A cyclone in the Southwest Sunday killed
.ome twenty persons in Texas and injured,
more or less seriously, large number of
Others.
Mrs. Sarah White, the oldest Methodist
in Southwestern Virginia, died in Scott
county, Monday of last week, aged ninety
iour years.
1t is reported that Justice White of the
United States Supreme Court will shortly
marry Mrs Linden Kent, beautiful Wash
ington widow.
The Lexington, Va, Gazette says that
Washington and Lee University has grad
uated 81 Governors, U. S. Senators and 81
College Presidents"
Mrs. Rosalie Locke died in Washington
IN Wednesday She was the wife of John
Locke and a sister in law of Mrs. j. I.
Young, of Martinsburg.
Burglars are at work. The store of W.
A. Watson & CO., at Fellowstown, Preston
county, was entered by burglars Wednesday
night, the safe blown open and 1925 stolen.
Last Wednesday Judge Jackson began
term of the q S. Court at Parkersburg, and
for the first time donned his official robe
tho be has been on the bench for thirty
years
Evangelist Fife has closed his series of
meetings at Charleston, this State,-said to
be the greatest revival in the history of the
city. Three thousand conversions are re-
ported.
A colored child, four years old, was in
stantly kill,d Saturday in Washington by
an electric car, and a nine.year old white
boy was fatally mangled in the same way
Sunday.
An egg of the Great AUX was recently
sold for the sum of 81 500. There are only
sixty-eight of these eggs in existence, and
there never will be any more because the
Great AUX is extinct.
President and Mrs. Cleveland, the Vice
President, and other notable persons have
been invited to be present at the dedication
Of the Mary Washington monument at
Fredericksburg May 10.
The approaching marriage of Miss Har'
riet Blaine, youngest daughter of the late
James G Blaine, and Mr.. Truxton Beale,
who was minister to Greece and afterward
TO Persia under the last administration, has
been announced.
The police force in all parts of the coun-
try bear uniform testimony 10 the great value
of DR. Bulls Cough Syrup as remedy for
coughs, colds and inriplent consumption
rhey all emphasize the fact that no one
should be without it.
Commodore VIM d. Whiting (retired) of
the United States Navy died in New York
Monday He WAS knocked down and run
over by a cab on Broadway nine weeks ago.
n was II years old and had served in the
Mexican and Civil wars.
The returns of the condition of the thirty
national banks in West Virginia on Febru
AIRY rs, shows the reserve to have been
81 Is; loans aud discounts, S,l46 900 /;
lawful money reserve. $3.50, 900 surplus fund.
s797 900, and individual deposits, SC, 2OO,-
600.
Peter Compton, b & o brakeman,
while shifting cars at Martinsburg Saturday,
fell and was run over. Both of his legs
were SO badly crushed that amputation was
necessary, and be died few hours later
His home was at Brunswick, and he leaves
a wife aud four sons.
Information has been received that Miss
Wood, one of the principals of the Leacbe-
Wood Seminary in Norfolk, who has been
making tour of the old country, was seri-
ousy injured in Rome, Italy, several days
ago. She was struck by ladder carried by
a laboFer and Knocked down.
Work will be commenced this week on the
new courthouse at Leesburg. The old build
ing that has stuod for eighty five years will
be torn down to make room for larger and
handsomer one that is more in keeping with
the age, which will not only be an ornament
to the town of Leesburg, but credit to the
county
Asa Moore, of Lunenburg county, a vet
erau of the war of 1912, died recently in the.