Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-03-29
General News Items.

ON Ills DtOeucS iu-laW,JnO. Ia. walters,
city treasurer of Charlottesville, was
tried on last Friday aud acquitted.
The Jury was out four minutes.
It.is said that P. @. Knox, Pitts
burg lawyer, will be offered the
Attorney Generalship by President
Mckinley.
The post Offices at Glen Allen and
Graham will be advanced from the
fourth class to the Presidential class
on April the first.
HenryO. Holly,a prominent citizen
OF Mendoza, Va, was instantly killed
on Tuesday in alighting from train.
He was thrown under the cars. He
leaves family.
James Lane Allen, the Kentucky
novelist, will address the Literary
Societies Of the University Of Virginia
in June.
Topeka Joe, the notorious bank
robber, has been captured aud is in
Jail in Toledo, o.
An attempt was made to kill the
Gear OF Russia. Explosives were
discovered under the Palace, suppos-
ed to have been placed there 10y
students connected with the recent
riot at the University of Moscow.
Mrs. Nation, escorted by two at
torneys, made tour Of number Of
resorts in Cincinnati this week. She
made q number of addresses and met
with respect everywhere she went.
Bank robbers, seven in number,
wrecked the State Bank at Summer
set, Ohio, on Tuesday. securing FIVE
thousand dollars in money, and made
their escape.
The Virginia Grand Lodge, of
Masons is session in Richmond. An
attempt will be made to relieve the
Masonic Temple of Richmond of its
big debt.
Burglars broke open the safe of
K. nj. Tennis, at Phoebns, Va, last
Sunday night and secured four hun
dred dollars in money.
The Confederate Pension Boards,
OF the several counties in the State.
will meet next Monday for the pur-
pose of certifying TO the State Audi
tor those who are to receive pensions.
The Independent Snuff Company's
plant in Petersburg was destroyed by
FIRE Monday night Loss fifty thous-
and dollars.
A cyclone swept over Birming ham,
Alabama, last Sunday morning,
wrecking many buildings and killing
twenty eight persons in that city and
in the suburban towns. More than
FIVE hundred people were injured.
The storm came from the Southwest.
In certain parts of Georgia the storm
was very severe. Near Beuna Vista,
II miles from Columbus, an entire
train OF cars, engine and all. was
blown from the track.
DIR. VIM. Z. hatcher, who has been
pastor of the Grace Street Baptist
Church, Richmond, for twenty Six
years, resigned last Sunday. He will
take the field to raise an endowment
of $75,0 for Richmond College.
A new railroad will be built from
Keyser, w. Va, via New Greek
Valley, Maysville and Petersburg,
w. Va, distance Of about 70 miles.
The United States Leather Company
lie behind the project. The charter
was taken out by Eugene Horton, OF
New York City; T. q. Pownal. OF
Maryland; F. NJ, f. O., and Z. b.
Reynolds, of Keyser, w. Va.
The Korea, the largest mail line
vessle ever built, for the American
Merchant Marine Service. was launch
ed at Newport News, Va, on last
Saturday, in the presence of $4,000
people. The ship cost 100000.
Parson Burroughs, since establish.
ing his Mecca in Bristol, Tenn. has
married 1000 couples.
The Temperance crusade in Kan
, sas. started by Mrs. Nation, is bring
ing out the heaviest registration II
the history of the State. Alread,
more thon 5000 women have regis