Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1900-08-08

MARTIN an tn m, OF DlaDu1orU. Va,
was drowned in the Appomattox riv-
er, near Petersburg, last week. The
body was recovered.
\ charter has been granted the
| Mon Stock Yards Company in Nor
folk TO conduct stock yard. abat-
toir and cold storage plant. The cap
ital stock will be $4,000.
Miss Lily Gilligan, sister of A. G.
Gilligsn, the CONVICTED murderer of
Beverley Turner, of Isle of Wight G.
H., is now in Newport News, for the
purpose of soliciting funds with
which to carry her brothers case TO
the Court of Appeals.
The Grand Camp, Confederate
Veterans of Nirginians, will meet in
Staunton on October 10. Gen. Stith
Boiling. grand commander. has issued
an order naming the place of meeting
and calling on all State Camps to be
present.
Fix Congressman Elisha +. Mere
dith died of peritonitis Sunday after
noon at his home in Manassas. He
was u his 52d year. He succeeded
Gen. ". H. F. Lee in Congress upon
the death of the latter in 1891.
The board of health of Hoboken,
y. j., has made an ordinance requir-
ing people who keep growing cocks in
their back yards 10 pay dollar Ii.
cense fee for each This is in the
interest of peace and quiet.
Cardinal Gibbons, who is in St
Paul, Mimi, is quoted in an inter
view AS saying that "war having for
its object acquisition of territory by
the government is not 20 be thought
of. We want no empire in Asia"
The explosion of casting at Asa
Snyder's foundry at Richmond last
Friday nearly caused the death of
three molders and Ii. G.. Barton, q
machinist. The three molders In-
jured are Lawrence Meyer, Harry
Crump and Thomas Mccarthy.
The negroes in Keystone, W. Va,
who are in the majority. are mp in
arms, and race war Is threatened.
One of their number was shot by a
policeman "a few DAYS ago, and they
are now parading the streets threat
eniug to lynch the policeman and al
whites.
Officer Western Atkinson of the
Alexandria police force shot Walter
and Robert Posey Friday. Robert
Posey and Walter Posev is fatally in
jured The officer tried TO arrest tn,
men when they turned on him III,
shot them In self defense
A syndicate has been organized i
is said, TO carry out gigantic schem,
TO control the water supply of New
port News, Hampton, Old Point anC
Fort Monroe. The syndicate will buy
all the mill ponds, small and large
on the Virginia peninsula. Option,
on number of ponds have alread,
been secured.
. The new battleship Virginia will
be the fighting queen of the seas. Tn
T. designs have been completed and cal
for the swiftest and most fOrmidabl
Y war vessel the world has ever known
p The cost will exceed three million.
1t has been decided to blow up tn
wreck of the Merrimac, sunk in San
tiago harbor by Hobson, and thus re
!. move an obstruction to navigation
v The wreck of the Alfonzo III, once
Spanish cruiser. and also in the San
tiago harbor, will be blown up by til
{ same authorities.
n 1t is understood that the Virgin
volunteers will be formed into regi
= ments as soon after the annual in
;, spection in September as possibl,
\ Two regiments, of twelve companie
- each, will be formed. The field off
a GERS, including the colonel, lieuter
ant-colonel, and two majors, will b
chosen by the company officers.
d Mrs. Ross NJ. Fisher died at he
v. home near Berkeley Springs, w. Va
"a under peculiar circumstances. ST
st was suddenly seized by pain in til
head and she told her children 81
! was going to die in few hours. 81
- put on the dress she desired to
! buried in, even mending a place thi
- had heen torn. She then retired
- her room and few moments lat
her children found her dead
IF An interesting case has been d
y. cided by jury in the Law and Equi
d, Court in Richmond, Mr.. @. b. Voc
We sued the American National Ban
of for $4,000 for alleged injury in fai
ing to honor a check for $500 VIII
h. presented for payment. The plai
re- tiff showed that the check had be,
of presented on several occasions al
No had been turned down, when up
III investigation it was shown throu,
m the book keeper of the bank that
N. had funds in the bank. The in
- gave a verdict for 9725. and mott