Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-04-11
Nelrsu Notes.

Henry Pitzer, of Berkeley county, aged 10
has recently cut three teeth.
Hon. Patrick Walsh took his seat in the
United States Senate on Monday.
Gov. Brown, Republican, OF Rhode Island
was reelected by plurality of 5000.
Nine lives were lost in striking coke
workers riots in the Connellsville, Pa,
region one day last week.
By the disaster at the Petersburg fireworks
factory two hundred and fifty persons are
thrown out of employment.
A man named Van Pelt has sued the town
of Clarksburg for $4,000 damages received
by falling from coal wagon.
Demonstrations in memory of Louis Kos
suth in New York Wednesday were partic-
ipated in by 10000 Hungarians.
The cornerstone of the new courthouse
at Leesburg, Loudoun county, is to be laid
April 26, with Masonic ceremonies.
Monday morning theatre in Milwaukee
was burned. Eight fremen lost their lives
and eight others were seriously injured.
Daniel Bradford, Jr, foreman of the Nei'',
published at Luray, Va, died Thursday.-
He was formerly publisher of the paper.
One hundred and twenty-five horses per-
ished in fire in Baltimore Monday night.
Damage to stock and buildings 100000.
The Rorer building at Bluefeld, this
State, burned Monday afternoon. Stores,
offices and dwellings destroyed. Loss 500, 900.
A. Oakus E. Coxey, cousin of Silica
Coxey of "Commonweap notOriety, is in
Hagerstown soliciting recruits for the army.
Thomas Martin, one of the Oldest citizens
of Martinsburg, and for many years an en-
ploye of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
died Friday night.
Senator Walsh is said to be in sympathy
with the more pronounced tariff reformers
in the Senate, and favorable to speedy &C
ton upon the tariff bill.
Ri. Rev. p ]. Donahue has been cOnse'
Grated Bishop of Wheeling by Cardinal
Gibbons. Archbishop ]. j. Kain, OF st.
Louis, preached the sermon.
Gen. George W. Jones, of Iowa, who is
said to be the Oldest living ex-senator of the
United States, will celebrate his ninetieth
birthday April 18th, tomorrow.
Seventy young Indian students from the
school at Carlisle, Pa, spent Monday sight
seeing in Washington. They called upon
the President. They represented twenty
tribes.
The Rev. w. H. Thompson, aged 81, we'll
known as the author of "The Land and the
Book" and 40 years missionary in Asia
Minor, died Monday at his daughters home
in Denver.
A resolution is before the Senate, intro
duced by Mr.. Wolcott, proposing a treaty
with Mexico providing for the coinage of
Mexican silver dollars to be used in the
China trade
]. w. Dodd has been elected president
and P. W. Letter secretary of the Martins
burg Democratic committee. Five members
of the committee have been chosen from
each of the five wards.
Hammond Hunter, of Martinsburg, while
walking from Hedgesville to North Noun
tain Saturday night fell over culvert and
broke a rib. He also received several pain
full bruises about his body.
Frank Thomas, popular young man and
liquor dealer at Newmarket, Va, committed
suicide Friday night about 10 o'clock by
taking an overdose of laudanum. He leaves
a widow and two children.
An explosion in the fireworks factory of
Romano Brothers, in Petersburg, Virginia,
Saturday, caused the death of fourteen per-
sons and the injury of others, and the de-
struction of property worth $4,000.
The suit of the Berryville Land Company
against D. B. Strouse, of Salem, was decid-
ed in the county circuit court at Roanoke
on Saturday in favor Of the defendant, re-
lieying him of $4,000 worth of stock SUBJ
scrbed for.
Saturday night the general store of UNI
stott & Wilson, at Burlington, Mineral coun-
ty, was burglarized by unknown parties
The safe was blown open and about $500 in
money and a large amount of valuable
papers secured.
Mrs. Anne Harriotte Harrison, widow of
the late Matthew Harrison, of Leesburg,
and daughter Of the late Gen. Walter Jones,
of Washington, died in Leesburg, Tuesday.
She was the mother of Judge Thomas W,
Harrison, of Winchester
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The Rev. c. W. Lewis, colored, pleaded
guilty in fourteen criminal cases in the
United States Circuit Court at Chattanooga.
Lewis has been doing a bogus pension busi-
ness for years. He was awarded twenty
eight years in the peuitentiary.