Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1900-11-28
IRGINIA ENING 8


westmorelano county last fall and it
is said that number will be exceed
this season.
Sunday night, fire, supposed to be
of incendiary origin, destroyed the
courthouse, playhouse and carriage
house on "Idlewild,' the farm, near
Fredericksburg, belonging to Rev. j..
Yates bowman, of Richmond.
1t is now settled that Virginia
College, burned at Roanoke recently
will be temporarily located at
BuenaVista.It now seems probable, if
the college is not rebuilt at Roanoke,
that Bedford City will capture the
prize.
Postmaster knight, of Richmond,
proposes to ask Congress to appro-
plate 100000 for a new postofiice
building for Richmond. He claims
that the present one, which was
built before the war, is too small.
The Governor has appointed the
following State board of health; Drs.
Pauls A. Irving and Landon b.
Edwards, of Richmond; Rawley W.
Martin, Lynchburg; Lewis E. Harvey,
Danville, V. G. Culpeper, Ports
mouth; j. T. Graham, Wytheville,
and J. H. Nef, Harrisonburg.
Elijah Cobb, youth of II years,
met with a fearful death while at
work for the Adams Monroe Manu-
featuring Company. He fell into a
chute through which shavings and
sswdust are blown TO the lower floor
and was smothered to death. No one
witnessed the accident.
Henry Mullen, a veteran at the
Soldiers Home at Hampton, died
last week as a result of blows receiv-
ed in a drunken fight with John Nc
Mullen, Philadelphia veteran. An
effort was made to hush up the mat
ter, but it leaked out when the Unit
ed States Commissioner arrested Nc
Mullen.
Miss Anna Elizabeth Lamkin, the
nineteen-year-old daughter Of Police
Officer Z. G.. Lamkin, of Richmond,
disappeared mysteriously last Satur-
day week, and nothing being heard
of her for over a week, it was
feared she had been foully dealt with.
Her whereabouts were traced the
other day to a relatives home in
Washington.
DR.. w. w. Anderson, one of the
oldest physicians in Southside Vir-
ginia, was probably fatally hurt by a
pair of ponies, which were being
driven by his son, DR.. W. A. Ander-
son, near their home, at Farmville.
The old doctor, "a years of age, was
dashed to the rock-paved streets, and
was picked up unconscious. The
young doctor was also severely
bruised. Little hope is entertained
of the older physicians recovery.
A Mrs. Morris lost $2,121 on a
street in Alexandria. a colored boy
found it and took it to his home. He
says part of it was stolen by boy
who roomed with him. He restored
81, 615 Of it to the owner, whose dis
tress at losing the money had been
aggravated by the loss having been
discredited by some of her acquain-
tances. The boys' story that part of
the money had been stolen from him
was accepted as true.
1t is said in Richmond that Gener-
al Edgar Allan's official head as Z.
S. District Attorney, is soon to fall.
The cause of the contemplated &C
ton by the administration is that
General Allan antagonized the
Republican leaders by insisting on
being the republican candidate for
Congress IN the Richmond district,
in opposition to the wishes and plan
of the administrations champion.
Rev. Frederick L. Lemosy, rector
of st. Stephens and Trinity church
es, in Bedford county, met a tragic
death on Sunday, on his way to Trim
ity Church, near Boonsboro, to con-
duct services. He was driving an
unruly horse, and when near the
Church the horse became frightened
and ran away. The preacher was