Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-03-11
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS

GENERAL SOUTHERN E
Winchester, Va, March 3.-The Rock
Enon Springs hotel, situated in the west
crn section OF this county, at one time a
famous watering place, belonging to A..
s. Pratt IL Sons, of Washington, was
sold at public auction yesterday. Mr..
John w. Rice was the highest bidder,
the price being less than $4,000.
Warrenton, Va, March 3.-For injur-
les sustained in an accident near War
renton on Oct. u, 1896, Miss Virginia
Wood, Mrs. Anna Il. Wood and Miss
Eliza T. Wood yesterday, through their
attorney, Daniel Harmon, of Charlottes-
vile. entered suit in the circuit court of
Fauquier county against the Southern
railway for damages. the first for $50,
900 and the others for $4,000 each.
Louisville, KY, March 9.lThe Eighth
United States immunes presented a bat
tered appearance when they reached
Louisville yesterday. They reported an
encounter in the depot at Nashville, and
about 80 OF them bear marks of the af-
fray. The officers say the trouble was
~unprovokcd. Captain r. T. Jacob, Of
this city. says that proceedings will be
instituted in the United States court
against the city of Nashville.
Savannah, Ga, March "A dealer in
this city has just shipped 1000 dozen
eggs to Havana, for which he will re-
ceive SLIGO per dozen. The order came
before the blizzard and the egg famine.
At that time eggs in Havana were worth
five cents each. The freeze cut off the
H. l-~1u III 4L-A L.
could not fill the order lower than SLIGO
a dozen. The reply came back to ship
them anyway. 1t is said he paid 80 and
40 cents a dozen for them.
Athens, Tenn. March Ga terrific
tornado passed over a portion of Mad
isonville and Monroe county Saturday
night, with disastrous results. Early
in the evening a strong wind arose and
several hours later a cyclone about 10
yards wide struck a portion of Mad
isonville, killing three persons, wound
ing ten or twelve others and completely
destroying II or 10 houses and several
barns. The killed are Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Moser and Ed l.. Horton.
Savannah, Ca, March S.-The army
winter hospital at this place, Al build
ings, 1000 cots, was opened for pa
tients today. Not all of the buildings
have been completed. but the government
has determined to begin the occupancy
at once. The first shipment of invalid
soldiers from Cuba will be received to-
morrow by the hospital ship Missouri.
A hundred nurses and hospital attend
ants arrived last night and today from
Fort Mcpherson and Huntsville.
Charleston, S. c.. March BIN the
United States district court here Clerk
G. j. Hutson made out and Judge Draw
ley signed 295 checks to the officers and
men of the cruiser Yale for their share
of the money accruing from the sale of
the Spanish prize Rita, bought by the
government for $125,000. The prize
money to be divided amounted to $4,000.
Captain Wise, of the Yale, was sent a
check for $S,09l, and the smallest
amount received by a seaman was SIG.
Columbia. S. c.. March S.-Central,
western and northern South Carolina
experienced more blizzard weather Mon
day and yesterday, the day preceding
being characterized By spring weather,
with the thermometer at "a. In some
places the mercury went as low as 10
below. Reports from various points
bring news of heavy snowfalls and state
ments to the effect that farmers believe
this spring freeze has indeed killed all
chance for the fruit and vegetable crops.
Alexandria, Va, March 3.-The new
law in relation to obtaining charters in
Virginia, which made the fees higher and
the conditions more rigid, had at first the
effect of almost entirely cutting off the
applications for charters at the clerks
office in Alexandria from incorporators
outside the state. OF late, however, APP
plications for charters nave been re-
newed, and this week four charters have
been granted in the corporation court,
one of them for cleaning oil wells in
Ohio.
Savannah, GA, March THE local
chapter of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy, which is the original chapter Of
the organization, yesterday adopted reso-
buttons strongly protesting against Presi
lent McKinley's suggestion respecting
the federal care of Confederate graves.
The resolutions declare: with full APP
probation of the impulse expressed, we
shrink instinctively with hushed and
holy sorrow from yielding the slightest
assent. The graves of the Confederate
lead are our pilgrim shrines. Only
reverent hands should lay memorials
over their consecrated dust"
Chattanooga, Tenn, March Ono one
will die as a result of the rioting in
which the men of the Eighth immune col
ored regiment engaged here Tuesday
night, but a half dozen people injured
will be laid mp for several months. In
spector Harkins, Policeman Poe and A.
j. Ledford are severely wounded, but
thair ininrtac mill not NO., fa+oI rtL-..
soldiers were shot in the disturbance,
pue aes names could not be learned.
soldiers were shot on a Southern railway
train between Chattanooga and Knox
vile. The shooting was lone by a sol
der, who escaped from the train at
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