Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-07-27

phis, Tenn, railroad has just eloped with his
typewriter, aged seventeen. Mr.. Ariel G.
Harris, we'll known journalist, eloped last
week from Minneapolis with Mrs. E. J. Fred
ericks, the widowed typewriter of the Min
nesota Abstract Co. He leaves wife and
two children.
This is put down as the latest swindle in
connection with the sharper The farmer OBJ
jects to giving his note and having it dis
counted for cash. The sharper says: ooh,
we'll keep the note," and he writes across the
face mot transferable" In a short time it is
found in the hands of another party with an
sc" added to the ''not," which makes it read
s'note transferable"
George Metzinger, an Austrian who died a
few days since in an Illinois lunatic asylum
groups, prior to 1885, in Chicago, instructions
about the use of explosives. He also wrote for
the ''Arbeiter Zeitung" articles which were
afterwards read in the Chicago trials, and he
supervised the Anarchist drills at night. In
the winter of 1885, before the Haymarket
ing every man he met was hangman, and
was sent to the asylum. He never knew of
the Haymarket murders or of the hanging of
his associates.
Samuel Shilling of Berks Co., Pa, was born
on the 4th of July. On the 22d of February
he married lady who was born on the 22d of
February. Two years thereafter, on the 4th
of July, their first child was born, and every
two years for eight years, on the 4th of July,
one addition came to the family, except on
one Fourth when twins came.
writer in the Fredericksburg 'Free
Lance,' who has visited the Williamsburg
lunatic asylum, says there has been there for
several years young lady from Alexandria,
whose wealth in her own right is estimated at
more than million and a half dollars. Her
room is perfect little nest, furnished from
her own means, and she is attended by spe-
cial nurse. She is, the writer says, likely to
die there.
W. A. Potts, dissipated young lawyer of
reputable family, living near Washington, N
G., assassinated Paul Lincke, farmer, of
that county in order to marry his wife. He was
sentenced to death, but the widow who was
also arrested was released. Every dodge
which legal minds could invent was used for
him, but the Supreme Court affirmed the
sentence and the Governor refused to pardon.
The day before the day of execution he took
morphine, but was restored to life. The Gov
ernor respited him until he was in a condition
to be executed. AS the second day of execu-
ton approached he took morphine again and
this time succeeded in ending his life.
Montgomery Presbytery is in session at
Christiansburg, at the request of Rev. Daniel
his position as minister. Judge Henry E.
Blair is Moderator, Maj. Thos. J. Kirkpat-
rick, of Lynehburg, and Rev. E. G. Gordon,
of Salem counsel for the defense, and Rev.
Creighton Campbell, of Roanoke, and Rev. j.
D. Thomas, of Salem, counsel for the prose.
cution.
Mrs. P. J. Tully, feather renovator, OF
| Macon, Ca, who, with her husband, recently
| moved to Niagara Falls, was drowned there
| Friday. She had gone out boating without
,, the knowledge of her husband with W. FL
Baber of the International Hotel. The boat
capsized. Baber, who chung to it was saved
| by tug from the shore, but Mrs. Tully let &c
| and was swept over the falls.
William Smith, colored, went last week to
the home of Mrs. Midkiff in Pulaski county
Va, and begged for food which the lady gave
him. After eating it he choked and assaulted
| her. He was arrested and the Sheriff hearing
of coming mob, got him to the Wytheville
depot to carry him to Lynchburg for safety
| He had boarded the train, when the mob al.
rived, threw q rope around the mans neck and
| dragging him four hundred yards off, hung
| and shot him.
The flower stalk of the Century plant, forty
feet high. at the Florida Sub-Tropical Expo
sition, SO much admired, broke off the other
night and fell. 1t would have bloomed this
month.
Mrs. Ada H. Keepley, editor of the ''Friend
! of Home" Prohibition paper of Effln CHAM,
Ind, has commenced publishing a monthly
list of the names of every man seen drunk on
the streets. A justice has fined her IS.
| Richard E. Carpenter, of Amherst county,
Va, has just harvested five hundred bushels
of wheat from thirteen bushels sown.
| Thomas L. Young, who as 1t. Governor,
took R. B. Hayes place as Governor OF
Ohio when he was made President, died al
Cincinnati Friday.
A WATERFORD, Iowa, Judge has decided that
ginger ale is violation of local option.
| The Virginia Court of Appeals has decided
against the prisoner in the appeal of Wayman
Sutton of Wythe county, sentenced to death
for the murder of Harvell.
Mrs. Langtry's fortune is said to exceed
/ $500,00 Her father was only worth $3.50
when he died the other day.
Charles Howell Meade, President of the
Charleston, Kanawha, National Bank, is dead
| Prof. Harry D. Campbell of Washington s
Lee University, and Miss Matte Miller, of
Washington City, were married at Christ
Church, Washington, on the 18th inst.