Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-09-02
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

breathed once after striking. A thin stream
of blood flowed from her nostrilS and stained
the grass. Almost every bone in her body
was broken. John Hogen, the parachute
jumper. fell 1000 feet last year and was killed
in few feet of where Miss Carmo's body lay.
| The Exposition has resolved to have no more
parachute jumping on its grounds.
| Fourteen months ago in August the little
child of Mr.. White Copton in Pendleton Co.,
W. Va, strayed away from home. Every
spot it was thought, was searched by persons
of the vicinity. Last week the remains were
found under pine tree in an open space.
There was nothing left but the bones and
some clothing. The skull was lying fifty
yards away from the skeleton, which gives
ground for the belief that the child exhausted
by its wandering laid down and died and
after death, OF perhaps before it, something
devoured the little one
Mr.. r. K. Ward returned to Alexandria last
week thoroughly disheartened over the free
and glorious West. Twelve years ago he and
| his family and several kinfolks went West
and settled on the land. His wife, worn
down by the rough work and living lost her
reason. This was followed by the death of
two children by prairie fire burning, and his
store with everything in the world he had was
destroyed by the same fire. He proposes to
| make the old Virginia town he went away
| from his home for the rest of his life.
| Mrs. Sarah Steiner, we'll to do but roman
tic widow of Lima, Ohio, recently answered
a matrimonial advertisement in Toleda
paper. 1t resulted in marriage to M. F. Mum
son, who represented himself as business
man Of Sherwood, Ohio. He mortgaged her
property, got 81, 500 on it, and deserted her.
He has not been heard 11om SINCE but it has
been discovered that including her he has
living women whom he had married.
In the Northwestern University at Evans
ton, Ind, there is a collection of fossils for
| comparison in point of age with fossils from
other parts of the country. The collection
was made by w. II. Ballon of N. Y, while
visiting the White last summer. DR.. James
Hall the New York geologist has decided
them to be DeviaH instead of SiluYian which
means that the White Sepishead rock is not
SO old as it was thought by biologists to be.
Carrying Goals to Newcastle was truly VERT
| fed recently when the British steamship Acme
was ordered to proceed to Newport News and
load a full cargo of camel coal for Dublin,
1lCAdHO. vi many ySolo eAV CAltCu JOoGCo
| depended solely on Great Britain for her sup
ply of this commodity, necessary in many
business enterprises in large manufacturing
centres. The camel product comes from the
West Virginia mines.
| Little seven-year-old Reese Kerr, son Alva
Kerr of Albemarle, rumaged his elder BROTH
er's trunk the other day and found bag of
hunting powder. BY some means it exploded
| The boy was thrown into chest. The root
of the house was lifted and the walls moved
out of plumb. The little boy died the next
day.
A daughter of Richard Risley of Port
Jervis, has peculiar affection that attacked
| her eyes year ago. During the time her
eyes have bulged out of the face so that she
cannot close her lids and has to sleep with
them open. 1t does not affect her sleeping,
however, as she falls off in sound sleep with
| her eyes wide open.
The legislature committee on the assessment
of mineral lands in Virginia, has, after visit
ing Allegheny. Bath, Craig, Wise, Wythe and
other countless have finished their work and
have, it is stated, concluded to recommend to
the legislature to establish a Board of Equal
ization of Taxes.
Furman S. Clark. colored, for many years
Barnum's colored fat boy, died at New Burn
side, N. j., last week. He weighed $50 pounds
and was AZ years of age. The coffin in which
| he was buried was six feet two inches long,
four feet two inches across and three feet
deep.
OF the Kings and Emperors Of Europe 1854
| were ousted from their thrones; 1O8 were con-
demned to death and executed: 81 were put
| under restraint on account of their insanity;
| 1913 killed in warfare; % have been tortured
| to death, and $50 have been officially declared
| to have been assassinated.
Minor Bolts Lewis, a son of Mr.. D. Shelley
Lewis of the Harrisonburg Spirit of the Val
ley, has heen appointed Deputy U. S. Inter-
nal Revenue Collector in place of E. T.
Broyles who resigned after shooting D. B
Snyder at Luray. Collector Lewis head
quarters will be at Harrisonburg.
Burr Pollard has just returned to Leesbure
after serving an eighteen years term in the
penitentiary at Richmond. He had the ad-
vantage of three trials. At the first the jury
gave him u years; at the second the jury gave
him 10 wears, and on his last he was sent up
for IS years.
Mr.. James E. Jones, the agent and postmas-
ter at Pendleton station on the Z. & o.
railroad, heard a train coming which he
| thought was the morning passenger train. 1t
was special and did not slow up, and as he
| attempted to thrown the mail bag in the car
he fell under it and was killed.
| Moses Ezekiel, the Virginia sculptor, who
| has just finished his statue of Columbus in
Rome, held public reception there few
| n avo cipoo in honor of tho ovopt Tharo 1uoc
regular procession of cardinals, princes,
dukes and artists that passed before the
statue.
Near BannOck Butte in Idaho last week, a
| herd Of 361 cattle became stampeded near a
cliff and in body rushed over it sweeping
down with them two cowboys who were in
| front trying to head them off. All fell seven
| ty-nine feet and were killed. The bodies OF
| the cowboys were badly mangled.
| j. H. Reardon sentenced to the West Vir-
ginia penitentiary for absconding with large
amount of money of the Fire Greek Coal Com
pany by which he was employed, has been
pardoned ON account of i'll health. He has
an incurable disease and is wreck physical
ly.
1t is reported that Mr.. George W. Palmer
has sold the salt works property, in Washing
ton county, for two million dollars to a New
York syndicate, retaining one-quarter interest
and that the new company will establish a
soda ash plant and work 1900 hands.
At the funeral Of Miss Ella Stouffer at
York, Pa, last week, the remains were en-
closed In white casket, and the pail bearers
were six of her Sunday school companions
dressed in white and wearing long white
wells.
The fact that the Asiatic cholera is prevail
ing in portions of Russia and that many Rus
slams lately arrived are employed in the fac
tories at Helmett N. j., has led to the belief