Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-05-30

sion occurred at Gijon, On the Boy OF
Biscay, Saturday Jon Board the N org
wegian steamer Norden. Five persons
were killed and several injured.
An explosion occurred Sunday in a
mine at Anderlues, Belgium, killing six
miners and iujuring several others.
James Middleton, Sinclair Middleton
and R. Shackleford were shot and kill;
ed in Harlan county, KY, Wednesday
in a fight with Gilbert Saylor and Bert
and Noble Hensley The difficulty is
/ said to have occurred over the wife. of
one of the men.
The Alabama Democratic Convens
tion, which on Tuesday of last week,
nominated Congressman William G.
Oates for Governor, completed the
ticket next day and adopted resolu
tions indorsing the administration of
President Cleveland. a'7 l'at
I CHARLES A. WITHROw DROWNED
Charles A. Withrow. who lived near
Millboro' Depot, son of J. E. Withrow,
and nephew of Hon. A. F. Withrow,
was drowned on Saturday night, May
10Th, about - o'clock at Lowman's
mill dam, in the Cow Pasture river.
la5lHIsl body was found a few days ago
three quarters of mile below the
dam, and was buried at Windy Cave
Cemetery on last Saturday. He leaves
a widow and two children.
Judge John H. Reagan, ex.Confeder-
ate postmaster-general, has announced
that he is candidate for Governor of
Texas. A month ago he declared he
was against President Cleveland.
| The authorities of Bluefeld are max
ing war upon the vendors of whisky
there. The grand jury of Mercer coun-
ty has indicted nearly every druggist
and several physicians of the town for
selling without license. Bluefield is
a dry town and the ''drysn are deter
mined to enforce the law.
The German steamer Aiwine Seyd,
trading in China seas, has been wreck
ed on Barren Island. Several of the
passengers and crew are missing.
Mr.. Gladstone was able to sit up Sun
day and his physician believes that
the removal of the cataract from his
right eye has been successful opera
ton. III
The President has appointed Joseph
H. Grove, of Virginia. as one of the
commissioners to the Antwerp Expo
sition. @ 2 81
The Senate in executive session con-
frmed the nomination of W. 0. Blakey
to be postmaster at Gordonsville, Va.
Mrs. James Howard was shot dead in
her home at Pineville, KY, during a
scuff1e between her husband and James
lSlusher. The woman in falling crush
led her baby to death.
CIV. Vaughan, overseer on the farm
of M. j. Wine, in Culpeper, was killed
by lightning Thursday. Mr. Vaughan
leaves large and dependent family
The bodies of the two children, Alex
ander Humphreys and Lizzie Errick-
son. drowned at Fredericksburg a few
days ago, have been found, one about
a mile below the city and the other six
miles.
i F. X. Meade, of Boyce, Clarke county
has been appointed a cadet at West
Point with G. l.. Conden, of McGaheys
vile, Rockingham county, las alternate
The Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly at Nashville, Tenn, reversed
the action of the Charleston Presby
terry in the case of Miss Sadie Means
an employee of the Charleston Tele
phone Exchange, who was expelled
from church for working on Sunday.
AT the May term of the Caroline
county court, William Allen Morton
charged with numbering his eight year
old son, was found guilty of murder in
the second degree and sentenced to
fourteen years in the penitentiary.
In Charlottesville Thursday in the
case of Wiley B. Johnson's administra-
tor against the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway Company the jury fixed dam
ages at 50, 800. johnson was killed on
that road in 1893 and his administrator
sued for $4,000 damages. -s5l 10
| Fred. Hairston, colored, has been ar
rested at Roanoke, charged with out
raging little girl. slas