Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1896-08-05
NelCsy Notes.


Msrtinsburg, died Saturday Of paralysis.
The annual enSsmEpeRt Of the luwood
Agricultural aud Mechanical Association
Aug. II to q.
On Tuesday of last week Mr.. Q. c. Get
zendanner shipped from the G. V. K. X.
freight depot at Martinsburg S2I lambs
The Baltimore Christian Endeavor Union
will send fye hundred children to the coln-
try for two weeks enjoyment of fresh air.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., aud Miss l4raGe
Wilson we're married in New York on Mon
dsv. None of the Vanderbit's were pres
ent
Albert Fisher, sixteen years old, of 62O
North Charles street, Baitimore, sommf tted
suicide by taking poison on account Of hay
ing qusrsale4 With bis sweetheart, Lydia
Fozwell, aged fourteen.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, III so inter.
view printed in Mondays Sun, says that
while he favors the gold standard, ne will
nevertheless vote for Bryan aud Sewall.
He says be is eoHt Of golities."
The Democrats of Berkeley county mao &
mas. meeting ia AartiRsbqrg aud appoint
ed delegates to the Congressional Galyen-
ton. The meeting was addressed by Hon
5. V. Woods and ex State Senator Scott,
aspirants for Congressional houOrs.
Mr. J. Z. Boyd, member of the National
Republican Committee from North Carolina,
10 Washington last Saturday on his gay
home from New York, said the Republicans
and Populists OF bis State will coalesce and
vote the straight Mckinley ticket.
Right upon the heels Of the brutal as
sault and murder of Miss Drawn, in Prince
George county, Nd, is an attempted out
rage of Mrs. John Simpson by Edward
Thompson. cclored, nine miles from Rock
Vile. Nd. This affair occuIF-G lest Saturday.
The lady escaped from the fend and gave
information.
Hon. Henry D. Flood, of Appomattox,
has been uou.iggted for Congress in the 10Th
Virginia district by the AemQcr@ts-the dis
trict now represented by Hon. Henry St.
George Tucker. Mr. Flood is Virginia
State Senator and 3 nephew Of Judge and
Senator Faulkner. Mr. Tucker Wade IN
able .Deech in declining to further contest
for the nomination.
An English advertisement reads Mr..
Brown, furrier, begs to announce that he
will make up gowns, capes, etc, for ladies
out Of their own skins.
The other day The FREE PRESS had an
advertisement which read as follows:
"No person shall drive any street or beef
through the streets of this town without be-
iug arst hatbled," &c.
Another horrible murder in CHARLES cOun-
ty. Maryland James J. Irwin, of Aliens
Fresh. was killed in his bed Sunday night
A man named George Matthews is accused
of the murder, aud the wife of Irwin, a
comely woman to whom Matthews had been
paving some attention, is suspected Of guilty
knowledge Of if not participation in, the
crime. Matthews Gas besp arrested.
An unknown man was struck by a pas
senger train aud killed near Green Spring
Hampshire county. On his person was
found receipt for registered letter sign
ed by the postmaster at Genburn, Pa, giy-
en- to Jay Thompson, and showed that the
letter haG Teen addressed to Mrs. A. E.
Wattersou at Danbury Corners, Vt. Mrs.
Watterson was notified of the accident.
An excursion train of seven cars on
the West Jersey Railroad, filled with excur
sionists who had been to Atlantic City,
when about two miles from that place was
struck by Reading Railroad express at a
diagonal crossing, on Thursday evening of
last week. Forty io4r person we're killed,
aud about the same number injured The
excursionists were principally Red Men and
their friends
The death of Mrs Sarah A. Small, below
ed wife Of Mr.. NJ. V. b. Small, occurred at
her home on Tuscarora, on Tuesday even
ing, and the news Of it brought sorrow to
many beaIts Mrs Small was Miss Van
necker; of this county, aud she is survived
by her husband aud four children. She was
for many years member of St. Johns Luz
theran Church, of this city.-Martins5urg
Independent
Mr.. W. L. Peek, who headed the Georgia
delegation in the Populist national conven-
ton, says it was understood with the Dem
ocrats that if the Populists would nominate
Mr.. Bryan for president. and Southern
Populist for vice president that Nj SewGll
would retire from the race. Mr. Peek calls
on the Democrats to put up Watson elect
ors in all the States-so says a telegram
from Atlanta
James Smith, colored, who assaulted aud
then cut the throat Of Miss Marguerite
Drown in Prince Georges county, Mary
land seven miles from Washington City, on
Tuesday evening Of last week, has confessed
the murder and is now in the Baltimore Jail.
TIE affair is quite atrocious SIS the Elsie
KreglO affair Ct only . few weeks ago in the
suburbs &C Washington. It was stated in