Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-11-20
Items OF Interest.

Mr.. Frank Wi1lingham, of Shenandoah
Junction. died Oct 81, aged o. years.
The capacity Of the Bakerton Lime
Works is being enlarged by the addition
of four new kilns.
John Nicely. son of .Alr. H. S. Nicely,
died October 81. from typhoid fever. at
his home at Middleway,
Mr. saml R. Atwell, of Winchester.
whilst out hunting had his right hand
nearly blown off by the accidental dis
charge of both barrels of mis- shotgun.
The alternate road law. the adoption of
which was submitted to the voters of
Berkeley county at the general election
last Tuesday, was adopted by vote of
49s to aa6.
Northern New York was swept by a
big blizzard last week-snow thirty inches
deep. trains delayed. street cars block
AIDED, and travel and traffic generally in
terfered with.
1t is reported there are 500 cases of
smallpox along the line of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad between Russell. w.
Va. and Clifton Forge, va. All en-
ployees of the railway company will be
vaccinated.
Three sons of e Hess Reinhart cast
their first ballot for President on Tues
day Edward, Lucien and Quigley- and
all of them went in straight for Democ-
racy. That's something to be proud of.
[Shepherdstown Register.
Virginia College, at Roanoke, was de-
stroyed by fire Wednesday morning. =
The college will be re-opened in the
Buena Vista Hotel at Buena Vista, Va,
for which place the faculty and ninety
young ladies were to leave on a special
train yesterday.
John Ingram. residing near Harpers
Ferry, received dispatch from Phila-
delphia that his son Frank, 9n estimable
young man, had sustained a skull frac-
ture and loss of an arm while bossing a
gang of men in the excavation of a tun-
mel at that place.
Baltimore and Ohio engineers are sur
veying for a third track from Weverton
to Eugle's Switch. The little tunnel
west of Harpers Ferry will be removed.
a new switch system, called the inter
locking switch, is being placed at the
Ferry, and trains will be controlled from
a tower over the depot.
a disastrous fire started from defec-
tive lue in the Valley Hotel at Philippi,
w. Va. Saturday morning. and was not
distinguished until it had destroyed the
only hotel in the town, two newspaper
offices the Southern Methodist Church,
stores, offices and dwellings to the num-
Der of rs, causing total loss of SIS, 900,
with only about $50, 600 insurance. Al
most the entire business portion of the
town was wiped out.
Arrangements were made by Secretary
Hay and Senior Don Luis F. Corea, Mic
araguan Minister to the United States,
Thursday, to negotiate treaty by which
the United States Government will secure
the right to build a canal across Nicara-
qua. Similar arrangements have already
been completed with Senior Don Bernar-
do Calvo. Minister of Costo Rica to the
United States, for the negotiation OF a
treaty with Costa Rica for similar pur-
pose. By the time Congress has conven-
ed it is expected that Secretary Hay will
have concluded the treaties with the Cen
trail American Republics, and action will
be taken upon them after the Hay-Paun-
cefo.e treaty has been disposed of.
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