Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-02-21
GLEA NED IRON THE MAILS.

While the grippe has disappeared from tbs
section it still prevails in other sections of Vir.
ginia Mrs. Belle Trevis Laning, wife of DR..
Henry Laning, who left Japan, their adopted
home, Dec, Sd, and reached Charlottesville
Jan. 10th, was taken the day after her arrival
with grippe and died of pneumonia. The
Tazewell county paper records the death OF
Lena, the daughter of the County Court Clerk,
and Mrs. Mary Gillespie, mother of the Cash
Ter of the Bank of Tazewell. Two sisters,
Misses Julia w. and Sarah Branch in Rich
mond, daughters of the late Moses Branch,
died there in few hours of each other.
The Consolidated Roller Mill Company
which has commenced some, and threatened
more suits against large number of flour
millers in the country lost their test case Fri
day before U. S. Judge Blodgett Of Chicago
The Judge decided that in the patents mostly
relied on by the company, those of W. D
Gray, U. II. Odell land H. Bishop, the in
ventors entered the field at so late day they
are not entitled to have the doctrine of equi
valents enforced in their behalf. This decision
relieves thousands of millers from the fear of
suits.
At Salem, Roanoke, the boom fever runs sc
high that on Sunday morning of last week the
town woke up and found an etfigy of a real
estate dealer, who had incurred popular dis
pleasure by a law suit, hanging tC
a tree and labeled with his name and "Chie1
of black mailers.' The Mayor burned il
down. In the same town, one real estate
dealer was knocked down twice by another
while giving a deposition in a land case
Salem means Peace but things are moi
looking that way there now.
Gov. Mckinney and his wife gave their first
public reception at the Executive Mansion in
Richmond last week. The reception took
place in the parlors Of the mansion which
were handsomely decorated with tropical
flowers and plants. Mrs. Mckinney wore a
handsome black velvet gown en- traine.
An Eiffel ice tower has been completed at st
Petersburg. 1t is over $50 feet high and is
composed of TO- 900 blocks Of ice. On the first
platform is grand restaurant, and most
brilliant effect is produced by lighting the
entire structure with electricity.
norman Chief" the imported stallion
owned by Messrs NJ. B. Rowe & Co., of
Fredericksburg, died on last Saturday even
ing from the collie. He was imported from
France little over year ago, at cost of
$1,000.
Mrs. A. P. Russell of Henrico county,
offers the Virginia legislature 137 acres of
land free Of cost if they will build reforma-
tory for youth it, OF if it will establish such
place anywhere else it can sell the land
to help to pay for it.
Ross Burth, member of Primrose& Vests
MinStra1c iod i, no ta1 Of
Louis, Saturday, from self-inficted stab
wound near the stomach. Dependency,
caused by ill-health, was the cause.
cold man Marvin the noted bigamst in
the Virginia penitentiary, was given dose of
raw hide on his bare back last week, accord
ing to the rules of the establishment, for
sticking an awl into negro convict.
1t is reported that prominent lawyer of
Wytheville, Va, made ten thousand dollars
in one day last week, by several real estate
deals in Pulaski city.
Thomas c. Chandler, at whose house Stone
wall Jackson died, and who alone heard the
Generals last words, died on Saturday last in
Caroline county, at the age of ninety-one.
John Kirk, who recently purchased the
Tebe Saunders gold mine, in Montgomery
county, Va, for S15,OOO has sold half in
terest to New York syndicate for 100000.
Rev. Dwight Moody the other day made a
large congregation stand up while the plate
was being passed, so that every one could get
his hand in his pocket.
The State of Virginia sold to the Chesapeake
& Ohio Ry. Co. last week, its ssh shares of
G. & O. stock, at 24k.
John W. Arbogast, who was for many years
Sheriff of Highland county, died at Monterey
on the 10th inst.
Col. John B. Odom, the we'll known Prohi-
bition orator of Maryland, is urging High Lii
cense ON the legislature OF that State.
Rev. Sam Jones has bought fine stock farm
not far from Louisville, KY, and will make
his home there.
The Hessian fly has appeared in Edgefeld
county, S. c., and in Barnwell county new
insect pest is destroying the oats.
Buffalo BilPs Wild Western employees saw
Naples and-nearly died of the grip.
Within five days three sisters, all elderly
ladies, died in Westminster, Md.