Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-08-02
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Rev. G. II. Schmur pastor of st. Mark
Lutheran church at Omaha, Neb., had select
ed very estimable and fairly pretty young
lady, Miss Nina l.. Charles, for his wife. A
congregational meeting was held and resolu-
tions adopted that the pastor had not shown
proper respect for the congregation in taking
so important step without consulting them,
as pastors wife had good deal to do with
his success in his church work, and asked for
his resignation. He resigned at once The
movement is claimed to have been started
by disappointed matron who wanted the
young pastor for son-in-law.
A year ago Miss Clara Brownlee of ALLIE
gheny City, Pa, fell in love with young
Schaffner of France, who was making the tour
of this country, the son Of millionaire. A
few days before that appointed for the we'd
ding the young man was taken ill and died.
Miss Brownlee was so sorrow stricken that
she accompanied the body to Paris She was
the guest for several weeks of her intended
father-in-law, Hippolyte Schaffner the million
aire, and returned to this country betrothed to
him. Last week she married her dead lover S
father.
In Clayton county, Iowa, last week, a most
extraordinary murder was committed. Wesley
Elkins, only eleven years of age, got up in
the night, took down rifle and shot his faith
Ell dead while sleeping in bed. He then killed
his step-mother. He then took the baby from
the bed, took off its clothing stained with the
blood of the two murdered people, washed and
dressed it and drove to neighbours with it
10 has do full Of no
Col. Roger j. Page, formerly of Charles
ton, Kanawha, a lawyer and editor of the
Marion, N. c., Times-Register, was shot and
instantly killed at Marion, July 23rd, by the
brother of a young widow whom he was visiting
against his warning. Pages visits were OBJ
jected to because he was married man liv-
ing apart from his wife.
Miss Lena Lnrie of Chicago, with her two
cousins, Ike and Robert, bought lottery
ticket which drew SIS, 200. She claimed that
they were trying to cheat her and got out an
injunction to restrain the banker who was to
collect it, from paying them more than halt
Of it. On hearing Of it, the States Attorney
entered claim FORGETTING the whole $4,000
to the State, lottery playing being unlawful
in Illinois, and has gotten an injunction pre-
venting any of the claimants from getting any
of the money.
The claimants to the estate Of the late
Anneke Jams, one of whose direct descendants
is Capt. James Bumgardner, Jr., of Staunton,
seem to be undismayed. Last week the fifteen
Canadian claimants met at Hamilton. Onta
rio, and appointed a representative to go TIC
New York in their interest. The estate con
sists of property in Holland valued at
81 800 600, sixty acres Of the centre of New ork
city, now held by Trinity Church, and prop
erty ON the Harlem Flats, near New York.
Seven years ago, Thomas 7. Upshur was
visiting the home of Judge Hamilton S. Neal
at Eastville, Northampton Co., Va, and fol
amusement repaired and set running two ole
clocks. On July LIST Mr.. Upshur died at hi:
home many miles away, about 6o'clock il
the morning. The clocks were in differen
rooms at Judge Meals home and were wount
up, but just at that hour both clocks stopped
Nor have they been able to make them rul
again.
Last November while the Norwegian bari
Kate Carnie lay at Brunswick, Ca, taking il
stores, the captain married Miss CARMEL
The crew who held that it was unlucky tt
sail with a bride on board, at once deserted
The captain got another crew and with hi
bride sailed for Rotterdam. On the voyage
the ship was lost, though no lives were los
with it,
DR.. James Dunlop MOncure Superinten
dent of the Williamsburg Lunatic Asylum
was married July 18th in that institution t.
Miss Blanche Ebert Trevilian, daughter O
Capt G. B. Trevilian an employee OF tn
Asylum. They at once started on tour tt
Europe Dr. Moncures first wife was
daughter of the late DR.. Jno. B. McCaW o
Richmond.
A New York letter estimates the followin!
to be the sums paid by the wealthy ladie
named each year for their clothes Miss Nelli
Gould s., 800, Mrs. Astor S5,oOO Mrs. Georg
Gould $4,000, the late Mrs. A. L. SteWar
SIC, 900, and the older Mrs. W. II. Vanderbilt
only 900.
1t is claimed that Matt Kramer, the 'Put
nam county giant OF West Virginia, is a maj
who can finish up John l.. Sullivan in few
rounds. He is coal miner and a man of al
most incredible strength. When John Robin
sons circus was in West Virginia John Lol
offered Kramer 500 week to travel with it
The failure of the Lexington (Va.) Manu-
featuring Company seems to have been disas
trous one The assets foot up S53, 500, Will
the liabilities are Sill ,69S.94 Of the liabili
ties, however, $50, 1913 consists of ''captal stool
paid in
Japanese clock hands do not 60 around a
American clocks do. The scale OF tim
is arranged as on a thermometer and
pointer attached to weight projects from
slit in the scale and travelling down it, thu
points out the time.
While addressing the Columbus, Co., BOart
of Trade the other night, Uncle Allen q
! Thurman happened to pull out the we'll
known ''bandanna" and the audience brok
into an applause WHICH lasted some five min
utes.
Capt. Chas. NJ. Fauntleroy, a former arm.
officer and brother of Judge 7. T. Fauntlero.
and the late DIR. A. NJ. Fauntleroy, died OF
Monday at the residence of his daughter
Mrs. Powell Harrison, in Leesburg.
Gov Lowry has secured the arrest and eX
tradition to Mississippi,o of Division Supt. E. L
Tyler, of the Queen & Crescent Ry., for hay
ing allotted the late Sullivan-Kilrain fight b.
carrying the fighters on his road.
Maggie Mitchell, the actress, recently di
vorced from her husband Henry Paddock, il
about, at the age of fifty-eight, to MARI,
Charles Abbott, the leading man OF her com
pany.
District Attorney W. E. Craig has entered
two suits against the Bertha Zinc Company o
Pulaski county, Va, for $1,000 penalty il
each case, for importing foreigners under con
tract
Two carrier-pigeons released in Amherst
Va, at A. NJ in the morning, reached then
home, Fall River Mass, 5O5 miles away, mex
morning at A. NJ.
VIM. r. Miller who had purchased the
Peaks of Otter and had the plans made for &
MAGNIFICENT hotel there, died in Bedford coun