Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1900-09-26
THE NEWS

A Democratic club of 900 mem
hers has been organized at Roanoke.
Norfolk and Portmouth have con-
tributed near $1,000 in aid of the
Galveston sufferers.
The Womsn's Christian Temper
ance Union of West Virginia will be-
gin its annual session at Parkersburg
Wednesday.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of
Odd-tellows, which has been in SEES
sion in Richmond, completed its bus
mess Saturday and adjourned.
William B. Dunton was arrested at
Newport News, charged with embez-
cling $4,000 from a Chicago bank.
c. W. Irvine. formerly proprietor
of the leading hotel at Lexingt ton,
died in Charlottesville.
The allied troops are still on Chi
nese soil, waiting for the diplomats
to arrange for their departure or
further occupation of the Flowery
Kingdom.
Snow fell on the Blue Ridge noun
tsins in the PEN Mar ueighborhood
Monday of last week.
The new brewery at Hagerstown
began business last week. 1t cost
Sl50,O00, and has = daily capacity of
$50 barrels.
Col. JAS. @. Hooe, of Loudoun
county, having recently resigned his
position as a member of Gov. Tvler's
staff, has been succeeded by the APP
pOintment of a Mr.. Lieb, of Alexsn-
dria county.
The Fifteenth Massachusetts, Reg
mental Association dedicated mon
ument on Autietam battlefield Mon
day. 1t was the 3Sth anniversary of
the battle of Antietam. About 200
survivors of the regiment and their
families and friends attended the ex-
ercises.
Five sturdy boy babies were pre-
sented by Mrs. Henry Smith at JEFF
ferson, Mo-, to her husband. They
weigh IN the aggregate thirty pounds.
Trlplets and twins have been born
into the family, and the couple have
sixteen children, although married
only seven years.
The strike in the anthracite coal
regions is growing, and au end Of
the difficulty is not in sight. The
striking miners made an attack on
nOu-union men Friday, killing sever
al men. The mine owners have
hopes to avert further trouble and
bring about settlement of the
strike.
a late Colorado telegram Saws:
Great droves of deer are crossing
the tracks between Grand Junction
and Glenwood Springs, aud at times
they interfere with passing trains.
There are from 10000 to 10000 an
finals In one herd, and when this was
passing the road was blocked for
nearly two hours.
Cotton appears to DE King again.
the seven months ended with July,
1900, showed an expectation of cot
ton amounting " Sl45,565,OS7,
while OF Oreadstuifs the total expor-
tatIon dnrlng the same period was
Sl3o, ,525 that of provisions SIO6,
oO1, 500 and that of mineral oil, the
next largest item, $50, 499,l5l. The
general group, manufacturers" is
larger than that Of cotton alone, but
no single item, or even the group
"breadstutfs," which included wheat,
corn, oats, barly, rye, ETC., equals
cotton during the seven months en-
ded with July 1900.
Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett, the
female anti-lynching agitaUor of Bos-
ton, receiving a very cool reception
in Richmond, Va, last week has lert
there disappointed and depressed.
She went for the purpose of making
a speech before the national colored
Baptist convention in session In
Richmond. The colored people,
however, declined to give her place
on the programme. The best she
could do was to begin speech from
the gallery and when requested TO
desist went into the street and ad-
dressed small crowd from the curb
stone. Miss Jewett has been guilty
of some very rabid utterances along
the line of lynohing and the colored
people acted wisely in not giving her
a chance to say something that
might have undesirable effects. They
are to be congratulated upon their
action in refusing to encourage an
agitator of Miss Jewett's obnoxious
character.
After suffering many months for
want of rain India is now getting too
much of it, and Calcutta is in conse-
quenoe having calamity not unlike
that of Gal weston. In three days 30
inches of rain fell. with the result
that the city is inundated to depth
of three feet. Houses collapse, peo-
pie are drowned aud thousands are
made homeless. For miles and miles
outside the city the country is SINH
larily flooded. the area of devastation
embracing the habitat of many mill
ions. With all this the rain still