Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-03-13
Ne,csy Notes.

The store Of D. w. ROdrick, of Martins
burg, was robbed Sunday night week of s25
in money.
Mrs. C. II. Quenzel, of Martinsburg, died
Thursday morning last-aged nearly thirty
three years.
Hayward tried at Minneapolis for the
murder of Miss Cling, on Friday was found
guilty and will be hung
Good iron is now made in Alabama at less
than $3.50 a ton, and shipments OF it to
England are soon to be expected.
Mr.. Samuel Sencindiyer died at his resi-
dence, near Arden, Berkeley county, last
Thursday, aged about seventy years.
Mr.. L. S. Davis, assistant clerk of the
late House of Delegates,-a citizen of Pres
ton county-died in Charleston last week.
In April Miss Lester, of Washington City,
daughter of Chicago's millionaire merchant,
is to marry member Of the British parlia-
ment
The grand jury OF Clarke county found
several indictments for forgery against VIM.
B. Page, recently arrested and jailed in Ber-
ryville.
Catarino CARA, the notorious Mexican
bandit and pretended revolutionary leader,
was killed in an attack upon BOcas del Toro,
Columbia.
Mr.. George Gould denies that his sister
before marriage made a settlement Of 3d.
600 900 on Count de Castellane. He says it
was love affair and money was not consid-
cred.
The Richmond Times says: "In pursuing
the iguis fatuus of free silver the Southern
States are allowing the silver-producing
States to lead them by the nose to their own
destruction"
Rev. Silas R. Snapp, for many years a
well. known minister of the Baltimore Con-
ference of the NJ. E. Church, South, died at
White Post, Clarke county, Virginia, on
Sunday-aged so years.
The Orkney Springs property was sold
last Wednesday to Mrs Henrietta Stewart,
Of Washington, for S34 600, which is $4,000
more for the property than it brought when
it sold December 81, 1892
A Martinsburg telegram to the Baltimore
Sun says: Another lot was sold OF the
Dunn property Friday at the rate Of S24O a
front foot. This is the highest price ever
paid for a lot in this city" ?
Any person killing partridge or pleas
ant in West Virginia now is liable to fine
and imprisonment. Any person seen with
this species in his possession is held equally
guilty with those who kill them.
While no physician or pharmacist can
conscientiously warrant cure, the j. G.
Aver Co. guarantee the purity, strength and
medicinal virtues of Ayers Sarsaparilla.-
1t was the only blood purifier admitted at
the great Worlds Fair in Chicago, 1898.
The will of NJ. c. j. Hoffman has been
probated in the county court at Martinsburg.
He leaves his estate, after payment Of his
debts, to his daughter, except $1,000, which
he directs to be paid to his wife in lieu of
dover. Mr. Charles II. Quenzel is made
executor.
At Lexington the grand jury found in
dictments against c. NJ. Figgatt, late cashier
of Bank Of Lexington, for embezzlement;
against r. X. Goodwin for making false en-
tries and against c. w. Irwin for receiving
money, knowing his bank account was over.
drawn.
Mr. VIM. Harry Smith and Miss Lille A.
Martin were united in the holy bonds of
matrimouy at the Lutheran parsonage on
Thursday night at $50 o'clock, by Rev c.
:. Trump The wedding was a quiet one
and few even of their most intimate friends
knew OF NartasJ,rg independent
Hon Stephen B. Elkins, Senator.elect
from West Virginia arrived in the City of
Mexico March 9th, by special car He was
accompanied by his family and his trip has
commercial aud perhaps political signif-
oauce President Diaz and cabinet will pay
the party special attention during their stay
in Mexico.
The magnificent New Orleans steamer,
Longfelow, WAS crushed on bridge pier
in the river at Cincinnati last Friday and
sunk in less than FIVE minutes David Aid.
ridge, of Rome, \ Y, J. l.. Carter, New.
port, KY, Augustus Chauvel, New Orleans,
James Miller, colored, Cincinnati, and Mrs
W. J. Aall, Dayton. Ohio were drowned.
\ negro, Thornton Parker, was last week
arrested in Frederick county, Virginia, and
identified by Mrs Walter Milton as the per-
son who attempted to criminally assault her.
There were threats of lynching, but he was
taken to the Berryyille Jail Tor safe keeping.
A specisl grand jury at Winchester on Mon
day indicted Parker as charged, and he will
be tried before Judge Atkinson on Friday,
probably.
Secure Position.