Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-02-16
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

lie Ii. i. W. Duke Camp Sons OF C0n1eu-
crate Veterans, Of Charlottesville, has re-
solved that TO member CT the Camp shall
attend the play Uncle Toms Cabin" billed
there for last night, and to prevent all their
acquaintance from attending The Camp
denounces as "intlammatoly and disgusting
the show bills CT the company, and asks the
merchants to remove them from their Win
dows.
Judge Woods of the Roanoke Hastings
Court, rendered decision in the local option
contested election case Wednesday, declaring
the election Of September 9TH last valid Con-
sequentIy prohibition Will go into effect there
On April 3ist unless the decision of Judge
Woods should bs reversed by a higher court.
The antioption people will appeal.
Geo. w. CLilds, the Philadelphia philan-
thropist. who died last week, left about
S5O90oo0. 1t all goes to lis Wife who, he says,
in his will, understands his plans of charity
and will continue them One OF them he has
been carrying on for years, is the educa ton Of
sixty young women free Of any sort of cost to
themselves.
The Richmond people are beginning to find
that they have another Presbyterian Elder in
offered sloo for the arrest and conviction Of
participants in a recent prize fight there, the
reward to stand for 80 days.
Ex-senator Ingalls, and his wife both deny
by teleera ph that the former was converted
by Sam Jones at his Nashville meeting last
week. He says lie only endorsed MIR. joins
sermon, and his wife says Mr. ingalls, is al
ready member OF the Episcopal church.
The Wytheville, Va, Enterprise noticing
the distressing death from sickness and neg
lect OF Lucy MoAiillen, colorei, in that TOW \
adds this singing comment at the clio:
"ihis town paid an evangelist $500 to 81 ,000
for two weeks work last summer
Mrs. Marietta Fauntleroy Powell, who was
one of the bridesmaids when Gen. Robert e.
Lee Chen Captain) married Miss Mary Gus
It's died at the home OF her daughter in Alex
andria, Friday.
Gen. Lucien B. Northrop, a South CAROLYN
ian, who was Commissary General CT the
Confederate Army, died at the Confederate
Soldiers Home near Baltimore last week,
aged eighty-three.
Attracted by the newly discovered gold
mines near Rainy Lake, Minnesota, hundreds
of people were sleeping in tents and sheds
there last Friday night with the thermometer
twenty five degrees below zero.
Judge VIVA. Gordon Robertson of Roanoke
Ga relative of Mr.. A. G. Gordon Of Staunton)
has, in response to a call OF 800 citizens, an
neunced himself as candidate for Mayor Of
Roanoke
Emma Moulton of Findley, Ohio, crazed by
grippe, leaped from her bed room window.
Friday. ran half mile to a railroad yard,
jumped on an engine and started it before she
could be captured.
Frank Paint Il Of Nelson county, who mar
lied Miss Mary Patterson Of Sherando. Au-
gnsta county, some weeks ago, turns out to
have had wife already in Nelson, and the
police arc hunting him.
Tho Board of Supervisors of Rockbrilge
have directed the Commemorative Attorney
to bring suit against the town of Raeua Vista
for the interest, due and unpaid, Oh its share
of the Roclbldge county debt.
Capt. Henry r. Gibson has been expelled
from the Grand Army OF the Republic at
Knoxville, Tenn, on the ground that he was
never in the war. He is a Republican candi-
date for Congress.
Tile Grand Lodge I. 0. @. L. of Virginia
will convene in Alexandria on April 10th.
There will be about two hundred delegates
in attendance, and the session will last three
days.
Burglars broke into the Newport News
post-ofiice Friday night and robbed it Of
$500 worth Of stamps, SI2+ in money and
many register ed letters.
Rev. 3. L. Link, a native of Rockbridge
county, died at his home in Austin, Texas, of
nnanmouia contracted while VISITING the ira Va
of his brother, David Link at Houston. Tex.
1.-The Carroll, S50, 600 hotel, just finished
In Lynchburg, and furnishe at cost of
Sl7 600, was opened yesterday in charge of
MI. Levi Seoyel.
Henry Dryden, aged "a, Teller Of the Citi-
zans National Bank at Charleston, kanawha,
". Va, shot himself dead at his home on
Monday evening on account Of a love affair.
In the restaurant of the s.. LaZare railroad
station at Paris. France, an anarchist eXplod
ed bomb Monday night, Wounding twenty
four persons.
Col. Jefferson NJ. Levy of Charlottesville,
has Just sold lot on Cedar street, New York
for $3.50, 900.
There are fourteen candidates in Southwest
Virginia for the position of Clerk OF the new
Court Of Appeals at Wytlleville
Emanuel Loewner. a veteran Of Co. A. sd
Va, died i'll Iiarrisonburg last week. He was
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