Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-07-05
FRIDAY. JULY 5. 1895.
NEWS AND COMMENTS.

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ton 10 in session at Lexington.
A ministerial association has
been organized at B key Springs
The ex.COnfederateS9Of l. 'udOun
county will hold reunion at Par
cellviIe, August 20.
At midnight last night every
gambling house in Montana closed
for good. Thee is only one terIl'
tory that now licenses gambling
Financial institutions IN Rich
mOnl will pay about ha f million
dollars ih semi annual dividends
next week.
It's said that rot 5000 pounds
OF WOOL is III The V rginias. North
ern mills have purchased all that
could lie found.
The big Rex mine near Lad
vile. Col. was drowned out yeSter
day and there is now over 25O feet
of water IN the shaft. All the
workn en- made their escape.
Hon. j S EggbOrr, OF Culpeper,
has the heaviest crop OF wheat
ever raised in that county. l: is
estimated at 40 bushels 10 the
acre.
Mr.. C. ii. Boxwell, manager OF
the Rose mont talm, near Berry
Vile, Clarke county, thrashed 29S
bushels of barley from a fYe'acIe
lot, which was su average yield OF
nearly sixty bushels to the acre.
Mrs. Taafe was ch'OrOformed In
her bed in Chatham, n. Y, Satur-
day night and her three-year old
daughter stolen from her arms
The child was atterward found
wandering in a cemetery.
At York, Pa, y S erdiy ihe s.
year-old son OF John Cunningham,
while the parents were out of the
house, got down bis fathers shot.
gun and pointed 1t at his 6 year.
ole sister, who Sas lying in a
small bed near the center of the
room. The cartridge was dIscharg.
ed, and tore the chin Of the little
girl aud Que of her hands iDtO
fragments, a little finger beng
found sticking against The wall.
She cannot recover.
The Charlottesville Wooden
Mills has received from the quar-.
termsstsr's department of the
Schuykill arsenal. Philadelphia,
an order for $4,000 yards of sky
blue kersey-standard army cloth.
Max Shinburn, a notorious bank
burglar, " no has been operating
IN this country and abroad since
1861, was arrested in New York Oh
Friday. He is accused of being
the leader Of a gang of burglars
which has robbed twenty banks in
or near New York State durlhg
the last three years.
Hon. Lewis Mckenzie died last
Friday at Alexandra. lie was
Sugars old, and in early life was
IL merchant. In 1869 he was elected
to Congress. He also served in
tie Virginia Legislature, and was
postmaster of Alexandra. He
was spoken OF Tor Postmaster
General uLder Garfield, Mr.. M.
Kenzie was one of the organizers
aud president of the London aud
Hampshire Railroad. His nearest
surviving relative is a niece, the
wife off the Rev. Dr. JuDkiD,
Ddnville to whose children he
btQueathed his property.
When the tariff Oh wool was r..
moved bS the German bill, the pro-
tectionists said the price of wool
would be so reduced thar the
sheep Industry OF this country
would be ruined. The fact 10, &C
coiding to msket reLor;s printed
in the farming publications OF the
wool growing regions Of the North
west, that since the German bill
went into operation there has been
sn advance of a dollar a head in
the p ice OF sheep. Another patent
illustration Of the truth that pro.
tectlonists say other things besides
their pray Gazette.
A Novel Verdict.