Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-26

causing the blood to flow freely, and at once
| threw away his crutches and said he was
we'll. He was however hauled before magis
trate who fined him heavily for the assault.
Jimmy Brown a Portuguese sailor, whom
the Ohio authorities have just notified the
Federal authorities must be removed from the
| ONO penltentlary, has been there since 1867.
He is human vampire, and twenty-fi years
ago his crime was the talk of the country.
He shipped at Boston on sloop with IS men.
One day man was missed and it was thought
he had fallen overheard. Soon, the mate was
missed. Two days after, his body and the
other sailors were found under Brown
bunk pnnctured with small holes all over.
He confessed he had killed them in order to
suck their blood. He will now be sent to the
government prison at Washington.
At the Shooting Park at Columbus, Ohio,
| last Sunday evening, Mrs. Watson Steele, a
professional aeronaut, made an ascension in
a hot-air balloon preparatory to leaping from
it and descending by a parachute. At the
height of 800 feet it was discovered that the
balloon had taken fire from spark The
spectators warned her by cries that the bal
loon was burning, but she thought they were
only cheering and kissed her hand to them.
In few moments she discovered that the bal
loon was burning and vainly tried to get her
| parachute loose. In her fall her skull was
| crushed on barn roof.
| John Toye of Winchester, Va, and former
| ly successful merchant at Capon Bridge,
shot himself dead with pistol at Winchester
on the 9th inst. He had been to Harrisonburg
| the day before and while there written note
stating that his sufferngs from cancer of the
| throat were unbearable, and that he hoped
God would forgive him for the act. About a
month ago he joined the M. E. Church, South.
He had a business connection with Houck' S
tannery at Harrisonburg, and was we'll to do.
A fatal mistake from convict scare" occurr-
ed in Richmond Monday night. Mrs. Lizzie r.
Hicks, wido I who had seen the penitentia-
ry convicts pass her house daily going to their
work, became nervous about them. Hearing
| noise at midnight, she went down stairs
| thinking it was one. She saw person and
| fired, instantly killing her sixteen-year-ol old
daughter who had followed her down to see
what was the matter.
| Annanias Williams, colored, was arraigned
before justice in Philadelphia on complaint
of Rev. Jos. Fitzgerald, colored, who charged
him with having pocketed the 500 he obtain
ed by passing around the hat at the colored
camp meeting near that city. Williams only
defense offered in court was: "If you expect
ed me to do all the singin', shoutin' and
whoopin' for dollar day, you is fool
Niger" Williams was sent on for trial.
! On Thursday last, in an emigrant car on the
| G. & o. en- route from Norfolk to Indianapolis,
the child of Cohen, a Scotch Israelite, died.
The family, father and mother and nine re-
naming children, got off at Charlottesville
and buried it in the Jewish cemetery there,
and the next day proceeded on their journey.
The Jews of Charlottesville gave them all the
assistance on their Journey they needed.
| AtLynchburg, Va, Saturday night Ward
Belmont, employed at photograph gallery
there, went up by moonlight in the balloon
of Prof. Hutcheson, and at distance of
| 5000 feet leaped out and came down by a
parachute. The professor presented him with
gold medal for his bravery.
On the occasion of the Chlldren's Jubilee at
Assembly Park, D. I. Click of Rockingham,
gave Harrisonburg surprise by passing
through the town with his road traction en-
CINE hauling six large farm wagons contain
ing $50 children on their way to the Jubilee.
At the silver wedding of Capt. J. II. II.
Figgatt and wife in Fncastle, last week, Dr.
l. K Goodwin and Mrs. M. V. Peek, who acted
as best man and bridesmaid twenty-five years
ago, were present and acted in the same capac-
ity again.
A cloud burst in Roanoke, Monday, put
twelve feet of water in Commerce street in
front of the Ponce de Leon Hotel and damaged
the goods IN stores along the street $4,000
worth. Barnv Smith of the machine works
was drowned in attempting to cross the street.
VIM. L. Royal, the counsel Of the Foreign
Bondholders in their struggle with Virginia,
has begun suit at Richmond against them for
$3.50, 900, he claims to be due him from them.
He has attached all property in that city be-
longing to them.
| Adam Miller a farmer, aged 80, living near
| the North Mountain in the Western part Of
Rockingham Co., Va, went to his back door
Saturday night to ascertain the cause of some
noise, and was shot dead by some party un-
known.
Mrs. Dr. Sydnor of Strasburg, Va, has dis
covered by experiments that the cabbage
insect, so lestiferous and destructive, is des-
troyed by an application of hot. soap-suds
which in no respect Injuries the vegetable.
| The Farmville Journal is informed by Mr..
E. w. HUBBARD that the Chesapeake d Ohio
Ry has purchased that portion of the Orange
s. Keysville road bed that it desired for build
| ing that road to Rosney.
An officer of the Norfolk & Western Ry.
states that the company will put a full force
| to work at its shops in Shenandoah City, Page
Co., at once.
Rev. DR.. S. K. Cox of Harrisonburg, who
has been associate editor of the Baltimore
Episcopal Methodist, has been appointed by
Bishop Keener to Grace church, Roanoke
| Col. w. A. Anderson of Lexington, was
thrown out of buggy drawn by a frightened
horse, near Goshen on the 18th inst, and
badly bruised.
1t cost the U. S. Government So, 500 to bring
the train and soldiers with $50, 100000 in gold
across the continent, The express companies
refused to do the work Tor less than $50, 600.
the Esd annual session of the Medical
Society of Virginia takes place at the ALLIE
ghany Springs, September 18th.
Maj. John IL. Dinneen has sold the hand
some residence, No 407 E. Grace street, Rich
mond, to DR.. Geo. Ben Johnston for S11 900.
Charles Burton Of Stafford county, ate
heartily of water melon on Monday evening
and died of cholic before morning.
DR.. Geo. II. Dlnges of Mt. Crawford, Rock
ingham, was paralyzed On the 10Th inst.