Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-07-26

is known to mark it as the most destructive
storm that ever occurred in that State. A
late dispatch estimates the loss of property at
500, 600.
A dispatch from Harrisonburg, dated July
22d, says: ga young man named Smith Min
nick, son of prominent citizen, was drowned
yesterday in Dry river, a branch of the Shen-
andoah, about nine miles from here. The
young mans horse was found hitched near
the place and his clothes were on the bank
He was about sixteen OF seventeen years old.
The cornerstone of the Randolph Macon
Academy, Liberty, Va, was laid Tuesday
with very impressive ceremonies by the Grand
| Lodge of Virginia of A. f. and A. M. DR..
W. f. Tillet, of the Vanderbilt University,
Tennessee, was the orator, and Dr.. w. w.
Smith, presidentOf Randolph-Macon College,
delivered an interesting discourse.
Mrs. Julia Skobieskie, wife of Hungarian
near st. Lawrence, Pa, was out picking black
berries, last Friday, when she was bitten on
the leg by a copperhead snake. Thoroughly
frightened, she ran for home, where she gave
birth to three female children, all OF whom
are living.
| Nine, Euphrosyne Leblanc, who has Just
celebrated her centennial birthday in Nova
| Scotia, has had eleven children, 105 grand
| children 222 great grandchildren and 10 great
great-grandchildren. Most of them are still
living. She claims direct descent from Long
fellows Rene Blanc.
! Prof Benjamin Owen, aged 81, died on
Wednesday of apoplexy at Ishpeming, Mich.
He was native of Sweden. and came to
America with Ole Bull over 80 years ago. He
had travelled with Nillson and the best opera
companies and was the composer of several
pieces of popular music.
President Austin Corbin, of the Reading
Railroad Company, has given notice that the
men employed at the Reading Iron Works,
must sign written pledge that they will not
join any labor organizations except such as
are purely beneficial or benevolent. About
5000 men are employed in the works.
Johnstown (Pa.) dispatch: The body of an
unknown woman, who is supposed to have
been passenger on the day express, was re-
covered yesterday at Coopersdale. She had
black hair and wore a ladies' hunting case
gold watch, with charm in the shape of a
bucket.
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! companies in and within a radius of six miles
of Birmingham, Ala, have consolidated, and
will hereafter constitute the Birmingham
Land company, with capital stock of $50,
100000.
Mrs Maj. S. r. Kemp, of Youngstown, O.,
was slightly astonished to receive cards an
nouncing the marriage of her husband to Ade-
laide Lucy Evelyn, New York City. He left
his wife two years ago, but she had never re-
ceived notice of divorce.
| Mr.. Russell Harrison's latest business ven
ture is the erection of new hot swimming
bath at Helena, Montana. The bath is to be
100 feet square, and the water, as it flows into
the bath from the springs will drop a distance
of fOTty-tWo feet in cascade.
A tramp entered a boarding house in Exc
ter, N. H., on Sunday and attempted to carry
off some clothing. The servant girl knocked
him down with a broomstick and then chased
him from the house with a revolver. He was
afterwards arrested.
Henry Duncan, the Freewill Baptist preach
ell who recently murdered his wife in Dale
county, Ala, and eloped with young lady
of the neighborhood, was captured and tried
in the Circuit Court of Dale county, convicted
and sentenced to death by hanging.
August Theil jumped to his feet in the
Evansville, Ind, court room and called At
torney Winfrey liar. was promptly knocked
down with a chair, after which the wheels of
justice continued to revolve as usual.
DR.. Mellow has been expelled from the
Medical Society of South Carolina, and the
honorary members of the Lafayette Artillery
insist upon his removal as surgeon Of that
company.
The Ore Knob Mining Company are re-
moving their machinery from Nash county,
North Carolina, to Carroll county, Va. where
they will resurrect the old copper plant four
miles from Hillsville.
A. N. Cole, widely known as the ''father of
the Republican party died recently, at
Wellsville, N. Y. MI. Cole issued the call
for the first Republican county convention in
the United States.
John Grouse, the millionaire grocer of
Syracuse, N. Y, who died recently, was an
intimate of Commodore Vanderbilt He was
81 years old, and his fortune is estimated to
be between $40, 900, 900 and S15 0O0, 900.
The senior European journalist is Sir Ed
ward Baines, of Leeds. He is over ninety
paper at the Peterloo massacre in 1919, and is
probably the only survivor of that tragedy.
Maine sheriff is evidently the possessor
of full share of that great quality called
"push." When he sallies forth to make
raid on whiskey sellers he takes trial justice
with him and sets up a court on the spot.
By law recently enacted in Denmark,
man found drunk is carried to his own resi-
dence, and the keeper of the saloon where he
bought his last glass has to pay the expenses
of his ride.
Jordan Washington, who killed Haywood
r. Johnson in riot at the railroad depot at
Fredericksburg, July 4th has been sent to the
penitentiary for eighteen years
The twins of Mrs. John Emerling, born at
Johnstown since the disaster have been
named Philip Henry Wreck and Otto Emil
Flood.
In 1888 there were produced in the United
States u, OOO, 900 gallons of distilled spirits
767, 100000 gallons of malt liquors and &c.
900, 900 of wine.
Rev. Samuel W. Watkins, for many years
pastor of Massanutten Presbyterian Church,
Cross Keys, Rockingham county, died last
week, aged y years.
A company is being organized to build a
roller process Touring mill at Shadwells,
near Charlottesville, with capacity of 200
barrels day.
AT Pantops Academy, near Charlottesville,
there were students from Siam, Japan, Brazil
and Mexico last session, also from fifteen
States.
Gov. Lee has accepted an invitation from
the Ladies' Memorial Association to be pres
ent at the dedication of the Confederate mon
ument at Manassas, August 80.
. A colored cornfield laborer of Newberrv
county, S. c., was struck on the head by
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