Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-07-24
Newsy Notes.

The H%arrisonburg Guards have gone to
Pocahontas to relieve a Lynchburg company.
There's trouble between Indians aud white
settlers in Northeastern Idaho and North
western Wyoming.
Out in Minnesota the grasshopper crop Is
being harvested. As many as 5000 bushels
of grasshoppers have been gathered in a
single day.
@. Y. Byrne, editor of the Braxton Dem
ocrat and clerk of the circuit court 0 fBrax-
ton county, died on Tuesday of last week
aged IS years.
Mrs. Frances Timberlake, mother of Mr..
S. D. Timberlake, merchant of Staunton,
died in Augusta county Wednesday, aged
seventy-eigh years.
A grandson of the late Hon. Jno. w. Gar
rett, of Baltimore, is of the Princeton party
thought to have fallen into the hands OF In
dams in Wyoming.
There are creditable records of over 1000
earthquakes between 1906 B. c. and 1894 a.
D., while the unrecorded ones are believed
to be still more numerous.
On July 10th, by Rev. L. NJ. Sibole, of
the Lutheran Church, Miss Virginia Stew
art was married to Mr.. Harry Cliue-both
of Bunker Hill, Berkeley county.
Property has been purchased at Morgan
town by Bishop Peterkin for conversion into
a home for University students. It will help
to make higher education inexpensive.
Winchester's new system is to be named
the Charles Broadway Rouss Water Works
in honor of the generous friend whose NUM-
fcence provided the means TOR their erection.
The Orioles" were defeated in four
straight games last week by the Cleveland
CLUB in that city. The result was to put
Baltimore in the second place-by one point,
only, however.
The New York World says: "The boycott
of national bank notes is likely to find favor
only with those whose trade is agitation and
whose salaries are earned in the sweat of
other mems faces"
In London two brothers, aged respectively
II aud 13, killed their mother because she
whipped the younger one. 1t is a bad sign
of the times when the slipper Of discipline
is banished from the house.
Henry Robinson, colored, convicted in
Berryville, Clarke county, of attempted
criminal assault on a young lady and SEN
fenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary,
has withdrawn his appeal for a stay of pro-
ceedings aud has been taken to prison.
The Rev. Il. S. Phillips, of Durham, Pa,
died recently of blood poisoning. Miss
Cope, one ofhis Pensioners, for ajest prick
ed him with a hat pin, in the leg. Blood
poisoning followed aud to save his life the
leg was amputated. He failed to survive
the ordeal.
BY the collision of the Italian steamships
Ortegia and Mariap in the Gulf Of Genoa,
early Sunday morning, IA passengers and
four of the crew of the latter vessel were
drowned, The Mariap sank in three min
utes and most of the passengers were carried
down with her.
Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss was elected
an honorary member of the Virginia State
Firemen's Association, at Harrisonburg last
week. Nobody ought to be surprised at this
announcement He is the best friend the
fire "laddies'ot the Virginias have-the most
liberal contributor in the States.
An exploring party of thirteen persons
left Princeton University on the Goth of
June to study geology in the bad lands of
Wyoming. Nothing has been heard from
it since July 18th, and there is fear hat it
has fallen into the hands of unfriendly Iu-
dians. A U. 5, Army searching party will
be sent cut after them.
The Union Fire Company of Winchester,
have purchased a lot southwest corner of
Braddock and Water streets on which to
erect their new "Rouss Engine House"
They will begin to tear down the old
property thereon the lst Of August, and
hope to have the new building completed
by the time Of their annual meeting Janu-
airy 3rd, 1896.
Mr.. Walter II. Staley died suddenly sun
day of a~ppoplexy at the home of his father,
Mr.. George R. Staley, 1917 Guilford, ave-
nue.. Baltimore. He was thirty-six years
old, aud was born in Shepherdstown About
twenty years ago he went to Baltimore and
until several years ago was in the wholesale
grocery business with his father. Mr.. Staley
was twice married. His first was Miss Den
nison, of Virginia. After her death he mar
ried Miss Parker, of Baltimore, who, with
two children by his first wife, survives him.
The way West Virginia is being develop
ed aud its great coal fields brought into
market Is well illustrated by the charter
just granted for the West Virginia and
Southern Railway. 1t is claimed that this
will, in forty miles, open twice as much coal
territory as the Norfolk & Western, and
nearly four times as much a. the Chesapeake
4 Ohio railway. Il is said that the Coal
river drainage embraces 800 square miles of
coal lands, or the largest coal territory in
the United States. which will be opened by