Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-06-12
Newsy Notes.

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We didn't know Berkeley Springs had SO
large a population. According to the News
it is $500.
The first carload of new wheat from Kan
sas sold in St. Louis on Saturday at % cents
per bushe.
Hon. A. G. Dayton is to be one of the
speakers at the League Convention in Cleye-
land this week.
Mexico is about to make changes in her
constitution so as to more nearly conform to
our government.
E. H. Schuls, of Wheeling, came out at
the top of the graduating class at West
Point. No. l in a class Of 81!
DR.. c. H. G~etzendauner, who for some
years practiced medicine in Stanton, died
there on Monday night of last week.
Miss Rieka Gallaher, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh L. Gallaher, of Waynesboro',
Virginia, died last Thursday morning
The town of Cameron, on the B. & o. be-
tween Grafton and Wheeling, was almost
totally destroyed by fire Sunday evening.
There are forty-e eight different materials
used in constructing a piano, from no fewer
than sixteen different countries, employing
forty. five different hands.
A fire in Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday
morning destroyed a saving and sash and
planning mill and a lot of small dwelling
houses-thirty-eig in all. Loss $4,000.
The New York Evening Post says it is
only in very rare cases, like Mr.. Wilson's,
that the South has contributed to the ma
tional councils men worthy to be followed
throughout the country"
The Washington Post of a late date says;
T. P. jeffrey, of Berkeley Springs, reported
to Inspector H~ollinberger that he had lost
his pocketbook containing $1,000 while on
a Baltimore and Potomac train between
Baltimore and Washington.
1t is announced that President Cleveland
will attend the Atlanta Exposition. The
Magic City"-which has sprung up for the
purposes of this great Southern Worlds
Fair so to speaks located upon the bat
tlefeld of thirty years ago where Gresham
fell.
The International Supreme Lodge of Good
Templa1s, comprising representatives, from
nearly all parts of the world, will convene
i'm Boston, Mass, June Goth. Jas. B. Nor
gan. editor of the Gerardstown Times, is
the delegate from the Grand Lodge of West
Virginia.
With the blood full Of humors, the heated
term is all the more oppressive. Give the
system a thorough cleansing with Ayers
| Sarsaparilla and a dose or two of Ayers
Pills, and you will enjoy summer as never
before in your life. Just try this for once,
and you'll not repent It.
The blast furnace operators of the Manon-
ing Shenaugo valleys have decided to ad-
vance the wages of their employees 10 per
cent. TO take effect June 10. This is the
second 10 per cent. advance made in two
months. or a restoration of the wages paid
before August IS, 1898. About 1000 men
will be affected.
A telegram from Piedmont Sunday says
United States Senator Stephen B. Elkins
passed through Piedmont yesterday en- route
to his home, at Elkins, He says that he
made no expression of preference about
presidential candidate to any one, and that
that question is about one year off, with an
| abundance Of time to preference.
The gold reserve in the U. 5. Treasury on
the lst of July is expected to be $1O6 ,OO0,
GOO. There1l be no more issue Of bonds
The rise and fall of the gold reserve since
July 10 last has been marked by losses and
gains of millions Of dollars held by the de-
partment, the lowest point having been
reached February Q, when the total held in
the vaults was only 81, 393, PIP, and the
highest reached last week, when the reserve
go: a little beyond 500, 600, 900.
a special dispatch from Shanghai to Lon
don says it is almost certain that 4 massacre
of all the persons connected with the Eng
lish. French and American missions at
Cheugtu has occurred. Neither men, women
nor children have been spared, according to
the report. It is admitted that kilograms
have been intercepted by the government,
the object being to conceal the news Of the
massacre. A French gunboat is en- route to
Wuchaug to investigate the report.