Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-11-02
TIE NElN.S Or TILE DAY.

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The Gar of Russia died yesterday at 13o
p NJ.
oearcey, the train robber, who has confess
ed, is in Jail at Fredericksburg awaiting trial.
dis pal, Charles Morganfield, is still in
hospital at Cincinnati. with broken leg.
Gov. Mckinley has honored Gov. O'Fe rails
requistion for Morganfeld. and the Stafford
county Sheriff has served the papers on the
prisoner, and it is proposed to bring BIN to
Virginia at once if he can be moved-es-
pecially as several felons have escaped out of
the City Hospital in Cincinnati where Nor
garfield now is. A telegram from Nelly
Vile, Mo-, where Morganield, whose real
name is Charles A. Morgan, has had his home
with his wife for two years. says much sur
prise is felt there at his arrest. He has been a
quiet. temperate man, but often made disap-
perraEces OF a month or so at a time. He
had been away for two months on his last dis
appearance The fact that train robbery is a
hanging offence in Virginia, and that it is
thought SeaTcey has been promised imprison-
ment only Oh account of his confession, puts
Morgan in serious plight.
j. d. Harvey, an iron moulGer by trade
was paid $40 at the Covington, Va, machine
shops on Oct. 9th, and was laid off, tn ere
being no more work. He bought revolv Ell
at hardware store and got on a spree and
disappeared On Oct 9th his body was
found in the woods with shot through the
head and one chamber of his revolver empty.
He had spent his money and killed himself
I he Odd Fellows of Covingtcn buried him. It
appearing by papers found in his trunk at the
Gale House that he was Past Grand of
Scliuyikiil lodge l. @ O. f. at Port Carbon
Pa.
Rev. Dr.. kinloch Nelson, for twenty years
professor Of "heolog. at the Episcopal Semi
nary near Alexandria, was paralyZed on
Wednesday afternoon, returning from wit
Messing ioot-bali game, and died on Thursday
night, in his 18th year. He was native OF
Clarke county, and weht into the war in the
Roekbrdse Artillery, but soon became Cha,
in on Gen. heinpel S staff. aid IS such sew
ed to The end lie leaves a wife and five
children.
Mrs. b. V. White. while cleaning pair of
kid gloves Friday night at her home in Lees
barg, was badly, but not dangerously burned
on her hands and face. The benzine she was
using took fire. and, burning her hands, she
thrust them into her long hair, which was
Immediately in a blaze. Her shrieks brought
assistance at once, but not until she had been
somewhat dsfgu,ed, and some of the curtains
and furniture OF the room burned and black
ened.
The new stone residence of Rev Ross Tay-
lor, at South Nyack, N. Y, was burned one
night last week, and four of his children,
Harriet, Ada, Arthur and Schultz were burn
ed to death. The other two jumped from a
window and were badly hurt. Mr.. Taylor
and his wife escaped unhurt. Mr. Taylor is a
son of Rev. VIM. Taylor, Bishop of Africa,
who is native of Rockaridge, and whose
wife was Miss Kimberlin OF Botetourt
Mrs Ida Hosemann, a widowed seamstress
of Plainield, n. j., was accidentally shut up
in her folding bed Tuesday night. Her feet
stuck out and in her efforts to save herself
from smothering She kicked over a standing
lamp. The lamp set fire to the carpet, but
painter saw the glare and broke in to tine
rescue. He smothered the flames and unfold
ed the bed
Captain and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
Garrick Mallery, U. S. A., died in Washing