HOPWKLL, VA., October 1. - Fire, which started in a small restaurant at the lower end of Railroad Avenue, this morning shortly before 1 o'clock, totally destroyed about twenty frame houses in the negro district, entailing a loss estimated at about $15,000. The blaze swept through what is known as "Death Valley," and was under control in about an hour.

DEATHS IN VIRGINIA
John H. Hess.
[Special to The Times-Dispatch.]
HARRISONBURG, VA., October 13. - The funeral of John D. Hess, eighty-three years old, was held this morning in Clarksburg, Shenandoah County. He was the father of thirteen children. During the Civil War, he belonged to Company C, Eleventh Cavalry.

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The National Banks.
1117 Embury Main Street,
a Lutheran. He came to the Valley nearly seventy years ago from Pennsylvania.
Colonel J. T. Hory.
Special to The Times-Dispatch.
HEDFORD, VA., October 13. - Colonel  J. T. Sperry, one of the most prominent farmers in this section of the county, was paralyzed on Saturday night and died this morning, without regaining consciousness. He was about sixty-five years old, and was a Confederate veteran. He is survived by his wife and eight daughters, Mrs. Tumor Thompson, of West Virginia; Mrs. Kate Hopkins, Mrs. Masie Rawlings, Mrs. Eunice Rivers, Mrs. Fannie Martin, and Misses Jean, Roberta, and Edna Sperry.
Daniel Teaford.
(Special to The Times-Dispatch.)
LEXINGTON, VA., October 13. 