Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-11-20
NelCsy Notes.

1ne Nlduu GOuSo L. W. ~. L. - III oOooiO"
at Morgantown.
The Boston police last week made dis
covery of stolen goods valued at $4,000.
Mr.. Lowndes will be inaugurated Govern
or of Maryland on the Sth of January. 1896
The express Office at Colorado Springs
was robbed of $4,000. The thieves over
looked SS5,OOO
There's good supply of water and the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal boats are carry
ing big cargoes.
Senator Stewart of Nevada last week pur-
chased Loudoun county farm-5S7 acres
at SlS 80 per acre.
It is against the law of West Virginia to
sell cigarettes, hard cider or home made
wine without first paying license.
DR.. T. j. Bland, a practicing physician
of prominence in Martinsburg, died Satur-
day night of Neursstheuia-aged 81 years.
Business is booming in all the b. & o. R..
R. shops Large accessions have been made
to the working forces, and full time made
by all.
History repeats itself. In North Carolina
NJ. c. Cain killed his brother. Gov. Carr
has offered a reward of $500 for the arrest
of the murderer
Mr. John Westenhaver, Berkeley coun-
ty farmer, brother OF D. G. Westenhaver,
of the Martinsburg bar, died suddenly on
Wednesday last-aged "a years.
The Shepherdstown Register says hard
cider aud whiskey mixed is favOrite tipple
in that town. What extravaganza, when
either one will make drunk come.
The Virginia Conference of the NJ. Z.
Church, South, is in session in Richmond.
Rev Dr. Geo. w. Carter is on trial upon a
charge of immortality. Acquitted.
W. Scott HINES, of Parkersburg, shot
Benz Hall, a turnkey at the jail-putting
four bullets into him Hall had been walk
ing with aud was talking to Kimes's wife.
Unless the political preachers of Bati-
more give more attention to their churches
the Baltimore press will be called on to re-
organize them.-Hartord county Democrat
Sportsmen in Maryland and Pennsylva
mia and in some sections of West Virginia
have concluded to spare the partridges this
season. It is well, as there are so few of
them.
The Societe Gene Rale, big banking in
stitution of BRUSSELS, was recently robbed
of g 100000 The cashier was arrested in
Paris and confessed that he had stolen the
money.
Solicitor General Holmes Conrad has Ia
ken the house in Washington formerly oc-
cupied by Secretary Villas, near Thomas
circle, aud, with his whole family, is now
living there.
The District Court of Appeals at Wash
ington affirmed the verdict of the lower
court and Capt Howgate will go to the PEN
itentiary for eight years unless Executive
clemency interposes.
Mr. George W. Marshall, merchant and
agent for the Cumberland Valley Railroad
at Bedington Berkeley county, for twenty
FIVE years, died Thursday of typhoid pneu-
mouia, aged about So years.
Mr. Samuel B. Preston, an aged citizen of
Weyerton, Maryland was run over and kill
ed by railroad train at Brunswick on We'd
uesday last He attempted to drive across
the track aud train backed upon him.
Ex-Marshall Vinson is on trial at Hun
tington for the alleged shooting of Frizzell
at political meeting more than year ago.
Two hundred witnesses were summoned -
The jury rendered a verdict of mot guilty"
Next year is to be monumental year at
Gettysburg. Eighteen monuments, if not
more, are to erected on that famous battle
feld-one to every thousand dead as a re
suit of that desperate conflict of arms in
1868.
Mr. Charles E. Needles, of Baltimore, died
in that city on Wednesday last The inter
ment took place in Winchester on Saturday
Mr.. Needles, many years ago, married Miss
Kate Senseney, daughter Of the late ia
cob Senseney, of Winchester
The Winchester Times says: 1T is safe
to say that Mr. Rouss has justly acquired
the reputation of being the greatest living
American philauthropist. lie does good in
his life. Most men postpone their generos-
ity for post mortem occasion"
A trolley car loaded with men, women
and children, plunged through an open
draw straight down a hundred feet at the
Central Viaduct into the Cuyahoga river at
Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday afternoon. Eff.
teen persons, perhaps more, drowned.
Elizabeth Kelly, aged twenty FIVE years,
daughter offs gardener in Philadelphia. is
said to have fallen heires, to $4,000. 900 by
the death Of an uncle in Australia. There's
a chance for another Duke A girl with
such a figure as that can charm nobility.
Citizens Of Martinsburg held a meeting
for the promotion Of industries there-they
want more manufacturing plants and have
taken steps to procure them. Already some