Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-08-22

OhAhOED WITH AIIEMfIINU AZ
SAULT-In Roanoke city, on Monday
night of last week, VIM. Smith alias
VIM. Powell, colored. aged 20 years,
was locked up and the next day was
sent to the grand jury to answer the
charge ofattempting criminal assault
upon a Miss Reynolds, breaking into
her room i'll house on the Gist farm,
near the city, Sunday night. The af-
fair has created considerable excite
nent, but no violence is apprehended
by the authorities.
A RING WITH A HISTORY.-There is
a lady in Richmond who wears mag
nificent diamond ring that came to her
under very peculiar circumstances:
She was noted beauty when married
some twenty years ago. Her husband
took her on bridal tour through the
West and while out In that country
their train one night was held up by
Jesse James and his gang. Jesse came
through the car collecting all valna-
bes. The groom handed over MS
pocket book and James took it. He
eyed the frightened young bride for a
moment or two and then passed the
pocket book back. He then produced
a handsome ring and with gracious
bow placed it in the lady's lap. with
the remark that he presented it as evl
dence OF lis high regard for womaniy
beauty and modesty. Before either
the bride or groom could speak, the
bandit passed on continuing his collec-
ton. A few years ago. the couple
l,a he fn mr.
are highly respected citizens.-Rtch-
mond cor. IaadeG-AppeaL
A number of moonshiners in Russell
county, Va, attempted to lynch G. E.
Clapp,a deputy United States marshal,
but were thwarted in their purpose.
Clapp, it is said, had been Que of them
but turned against them several
months ago and had been appointed
marshal. Most of the men concerned
in the attempt to lynch Clapp are in
jail.
Miss Flora McCrassin, living at Ce-
darvilIe, eight miles south of Spring
field, Ohio, is in Jail for horse stealing.
Recently she was arrested for house
breaking.
The PresbyterianCh Church in Lexington,
Va, will be lighted by electricity here
after. S!xty-tive sixteen candle power
incandescent lights have been placed
in the church.
The Democratic Convention which
met in Alexandria last Thursday to
nominate a candidate for Congress for
the Eighth district, nominated, by &C
clamation, Hon. E. E. Meredith the
present incumbent.
Mrs Rebecca Boud, mother of Mr..
John A. Owens, of Butler county, Ala,
died at home, died at home, in Green
vile, Ala, on Tuesday of last week at
the age of one hundred and two years
She drew pension as a widow Of a
soldier of the war of 1912.
The miners employed by the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company, who
have been on strike for about four
months, have agreed to. go to work on
the company's terms.
VIM. G. TAYLOR HANGED.-Wm. g.
Taylor who killed his wife by striking
her on the head with an axe on the
18th of July in his cabin about three
miles from Dublin, was hanged ON last
Friday at Newburn, Pulaski county,
at 10 o'clock a. M He made comics
sion of his guilt. His body was taken
to the University of Va, to be used in
the Medical department.
In the House of Representatives
Thursday the Senate bill repeating the
clause in the new tariff act placing
alcohol used in the arts on the free list
was passed after debate.
The Republican Convention to NOM
mate candidate for Congress in the
9th district which met in Lynch burg
last Thursday nominated J. Hampton
Hoge.
The Tillmanite convention at Co.
lumbia, s. c., nominated John Gary
Evans, author of the State liquor dis
pensary law, for Governor, to succeed
Benjamin r. Tillman.
Hon. VIM. A. Branch, in the first dis
trict, and Hon. W. T. Crawford, in the
ninth district of North Carolina, have
been renominated for Congress by the
democrats.
1t is gratifying to learn that Mr.
Wellman and his party of arctic ex-
plorers have arrived at Tromsoe, Nor
way, having escaped from their ship
when it was crushed in the ice.