Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-05-17
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.


''. Domestic. .t
Reported that the Deiterich syndicate
and the American Window Glass Cont
pany have formed a pool TO absorb all
the natural gas companies in Indiana.
Owing to the rush of people to jack
sonville TO secure free rationS without
work, and fearing trouble from them,
it has been decided to continue the city
under marshal law indefinitely.
The Peary Arctic Club has chartered
the steamer Erik 10 sail in July for the
North, to learn what has occurred dur
ing the two years since the explorer has
been heard from
The Jury IN the case OF Charles ii.
Eastman, the Harvard instructor, who
was accused of numbering his brother
in-law. brought in a verdict OF acquttal.
Plans are being arranged for the eele-
bration in Richmond of the three hun
dredth anniversary of the English set
Element of Jamestown. Va.
The mammoth new drydOck OF the
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
was put in use for the first time, three
steamers being put in it.
-Four new steamers for the Atlantic
Transport Line were started at the New
York Shipbuilding Company's yards at
Gloucester, n.
The American Federation OF MuSi-
clans decided that local unions have no
right to bar women from membership
immigration Officer Miller captured
I8 contraband Cinnamon who had croSs-
ed the border at Powell Town, Me.
Lightning set fire 10 the Second Bap-
fist Church in Delaware o., and several
persons were made unconscious.
H.
rested in North Carolina for robbing the
mails
Capt Henry Matthews and his Sis
ter-in-law were arraigned in the Isle
OF Wight county court on the charge Of
poisoning his wife.
Arutro BernaSco, who tried TO aSSassi-
nate Chief OF Police Brown, OF Barre,
VT, was sentenced 10 prison for Fl
years.
Miss Mollie Wark, who for so years
taught in the public schools OF Cham
bersburg, Pa, died there, aged 81
years.
The Association of Surgeons OF the
Southern Railway met in Mobile, Ala,
and elected officers.
Henry Johnson, colored, was lynched
in Valdosta, Ga, for shooting at Il
white man.
Mrs. Cora Lucas smashed a speak
easy effectively with an axe at Glendale,
w. Va
R. Westbrook Meyes. a real estate
broker in New York, committed sui
eide.
Peter Shaeffcr, 80 years old. com
mitted suicide near Dillsburg, Pa.
The rumor was confirmed by Vice
President Gross. OF the Brooks Loco
~ Il,
locomotive trust has been formed
that takes in all the plants except Bald
win, OF Philadelphia. and the Potter
Company, OF Pittsburg.
Five thousand dollars damages was
awarded in Norfolk, Va. TO Rocco Cor
lett, whose hand was crushed by one oil
the cars OF the Norfolk Company
The annual session OF the Internaton-
al Textile Workers Union, in session
At Holyoke. Mass. adjourned 10 meet
next year in Washington.
The Elizabeth City county grand jury
indicted Mrs. Jennie Wood OF Hamp-
ton, Tor attempting TO burn her resi-
dencc.
Capt. Alfred P. Capron, who served
in the Civil War. died at his home in
Wlnnetka, suburb of Chicago.
r. N. Pollock. the Cleveland Savings
! Bank president, who committed sui
eide. carried insurance for SOS. 900.
! President Mckinley reviewed the
floral parade at Los Angeles. Cal, and
was showered with rose leaves.
! Three men were burned TO death in {
! IRE in Ottawa. Ont, that destroyed 4
hotel and several boarding houses.
Wallace Etheridge was committed &c
/ Jail IN Norfolk, Va, on the charge o.
killing his friend, Carlyle Ship.
Private Cumberlidge. sentinel a
Fort Sheridan, was killed by Smitl
/ Wheeler. prisoner
-Four railway companies are fighting
in Norfolk. Va, for rights OF way