Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-12-25
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Two German doctors who have been set to
experimenting by Prof. I-och's discoveries
have found that the blood of rats and mice
has destructive effect on the virus OF dip
iberia, while the blood of rabbits transfused
has a similar effect on tetanus. Two women
died in Vienna from the reaction Of koch's
l, mph with which they were inoculated.
| 4 passenger on train of the Lyons rail
road, while travelling through the South of
France was attacked by a robber who seized
his money and valuables and jumped from
/ the car. The victim gave an alarm. The
train was stopped and train-hands and some
passengers started in pursuit of the robber
and captured him.
William Miller passed through Dallas,
Texas Thursday, in the custody Of a sheriff
Ell route to the Indian Territory, where he is
wanted for horse stealing. Miller had estab-
lished himself III Dallas county as a preacher
and had just closed a sermon when arreste
| by the officer The congregation was as
| tonisEed
Al SeWeil Station on the @. < Q. Ry., in
Fayette county, w. Va, two men entered tin
house OF J. r. Cary, the depot agent, at mig
during his absence, and while one held Mr.
Gary the other robbed the house CT $4O0. Al
III they got out they were pursued by a maj,
Eamed Whitman. whom they shot and mortal
ly wounded.
Miss Kate Drexel, who was received as a
novitiate into the Roman Catholic Church AS
Sister Catherine a year ago, will take her final
vows in February, when she will give her for
tune estimated at So 900 900, to the order OF
The Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament, re-
Gently founded by her.
Consulting Engineer George d. Blakey of
Charlottesville, in charge of the Pulaski City
branch Of the Norfolk & Western Ry in
Southwestern Virginia, was killed by Samuel
Sayres at Sylvester, by a blow with rock
Savres was drinking and qnarrelsome and
| Blakey had given him no offense.
| It issaid OF DR.. Kerr, medical missionary
of the Presbyterian board at Canton, that he
has in the past thirty-siX years treated over
100000 patients and has prepared twenty-sev-
en- medical and surgical books He has
trained one hundred medical assistants. chief
| ly Chinese.
! Last August two hogs of T. j. Claggett of
Frederick county, Va, weighing 700 pounds
disappeared. One day last week in moving a
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der it, reduced to mere frames They had
eaten all the straw around them. On being
released they staggered out to hunt water.-
The Princess Louise of England, last Mon
day, went to the studio Of Boehm the sculptor
who was engaged on marble bust of her, to
speak about the work. She found him dead
sitting in his chair. The Princess fled and gave
the alarm. lie had died suddenly while at
work.
A Chicago paper says the threslling machine
men Of the United States have caught the in
lection from their brothers of the binders ana
are busily engaged in forming a gigantic trust
which it is thought will rival in magnitude the
recently formed Harvester Company
r. D. Rufn, colored lawyer and former
member Of the Virginia legislature, was ar
rested in Washington City Saturday, charged
with obtaining money on false pretenses from
Fred. kimberley, coloTed messenger in the
pension Office and from Mrs. Margaret Cain
When Rev. Aaron Boone of Luray, Va,
went to light his stove one of these recent
cold mornings, he encountered the steady
gaze of the big eyes of ali owl that had come
down the stove pipe and nestled there for
warmth.
The banking house of D. f. Kagey & Co /,
at Luray, Va, suspended On Monday last 1t
had not been able to recover from the effects
of a heavy run made OH it two months ago.
Samuel g. Williams of Rockingham, who
was Superintendent of the Virginia Penitentia
ry under Gov Cameron's al nnistration, die
on Monday at Broa lWay.
Eighty citizens Of Lynchburg were arraign-
ed before the Mayor, Friday, and fined 50 each
for not removing the snow from the sidewalks
of their residences Or property.
The wheat crop Of the State Of Washington
Is the largest in its history, being estimated at
16, 900, coo bushels.
Hon. J. R. Tucker of Lexington, was in
Washington this week, guest of Senator
Barbour.
The six hundred and eighty-nine pound hog
killed by j. II. Nhitlow Of Bedford, beats
the record i'll Virginia up to this date
Parnell's candidate, Scully, was beaten in
Kilkenny Monday by nearly two to one
Ex-senator Robert L. Withers is i'll at
WytheYille
Seven newly married couples were snow
bound in Lynchburg last Thursday