Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-10-28

place on Wednesday last. The eor0nef's Jury
rendered a verdict that he was accidentally
killed by train running at an unlawful rate
of speed in the corporate limits.
At Camden. N. j., man by the name of
John Hill was arrested for killing Joseph
DOdson, colored. The prisoner was put on
the stand at the coroner's investigation last
week and said that two men named Reed and
Derrickson had given him ST. to kill him.
After hearing number of witnesses the cor
oner's jury rendered a verdict that Joseph
DOdsOn came to his death at the hands Of
John Hill on the 10th of October, 1892, from
gunshot wound in the head, and that 1--WE
recommend that Marwood Derrickson and
Albert Reed be held as abettors and accom-
plices."
1t is said that the Olympic Club of New
Orleans has arranged fistic carnival for the
Mardi Gras festivities to be held in February.
that will eclipse the affair held in September.
are Corbett and Mitchell, hcavy-weights;
Hall and Fitzsimmons, the middle weight
pugilists; Jack" McAuliffe and "Dick''
Burge, the champion Ii ,ht- weight pugilist of
England. Mitchell-is shifty fellow and
will undoubtedly give Corbett harder fight
than Sullivan did.
Every time cigar dealer takes handful
of cigars from a box and spreads them out be.
fore customer he violates one Of the most
stringent laws OF the United States, to say
nothing Of the laws of health
John B. Royester, colored who killed
young John 2. Eppes at Suffolk, Va, some
time ago, was, on Wednesday last, sentenced
to be hanged on Friday, February 9, 1892
Judge Hill asked the condemned man if he
had anything to say why sentence should not
be passed, and his reply was that while he
had killed Eppes it was thewrong man, as he
intended to kill one vino had been the de
stroyer of his domestic happines. An appeal
will be taken to the Court of appeals.
AmysteriOus mist is causing much excite
ment In scientific circles at MartinsOurg,
Ohio. 1t is confined to space about u feet
square, and is constantly falling, without re
gard to the weather, though it is most notice
able between the hours Of l and P, NJ. when
mirror subjected to its influence becomes
Immediately gray with moisture.
The counsel of E. 7. Broyles, who killed
young Snyder of Luray some time ago, made
application to Judge Turner of the Circuit
Court for bail for their client, which was
granted in the sum of $4,000. upon physicians
testifying that longer confinement would be
detrimental to the health of the prisoner.
II. J. Senay, of Salem, Va, who set fire te
his bar-room on the night of August 10Th, In
order to get the insurance, has been found
guilty, and sentenced to six months in Jail.
His counsel will take an appeal.
All the newspapers in Vancouver, British
Columbia, have suspended publication tenn
porarily in consequence of an arbitrary de-
mand on the part of the printers for an in
| crease of wages. The publishers are will
ing to pay the union price hitherto in vogue
but claim that the new union scale deprives
! them of the right to run the Office, composing
room and editorial departments.
The express train Oh tho Reading Railroad
collided with an empty coal train about eight
miles from Philadelphia on Monday morning
last, by which seven persons lost their lives
and twenty were wounded. A misun-
Outstanding Of orders was the cause of the &C
| cident.
The first postofice opened its doors in Par is
in 1872; in England, 1851; in America, 1910.