Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-11-21
Protracted Meeting.

FTOtFdCteO mG0tinS.
Rev. J. D. Donovan, the energetic pastor of
| the U. B. Church of this city, commenced a
| protracted meeting in that church on Sunday
night last. and services will be held every
night in the week, with the exception posi-
bly,, of Saturday night
1t is believed in Washington that
Japan has not yet received any definite
proposition from China to end the war,
definite indemnity. This is considered
tantamount to negative answer to
the offer of mediation.
The japanese are reported to have
been repulsed at Malien-Lung. The
defences of Port Arthur have been
strengthened on the land side, and a
| bloody battle is expected when the
place is attacked.
Two religious services for the repose
of the soul of Gar Alexander were held
in the Cathedral at st. Petersburg
Thursday. Thousands of people viewed
the remains.
Anthrax or splenic fever prevails to
an alarming extent among the cattle
OF Sicily, and several people have died
from eating the flesh of cattle so af-
fected
Judge Nathan Golf, of West Vir-
ginia, will not be candidate for U. s.
Senator before the Legislature of that
State in opposition to Ex-Secretary of
War, Steve Elkins, whom it is gener-
ally supposed, will be elected.
The Lexington (Ky.) Passenger and
BELT Railway was sold to NJ. E. Ingalls,
Saturday for $175,000. It is four and a
half miles long, and is the connecting
link between the Chesapeake and Ohio
and Cincinnati Southern.
i Five Georgian mountaineers were
/ sentenced in the United States Court
Saturday to ten years each in the peni-
Tertiary. They are the moonshiners
who shot and nearly killed William
Roper, a government informer.
Bandits attempted to rob an express
train on the Yazoo and Mississippi Val
ley railroad, near Panther Burn, Miss,
Saturday night. The fireman was seri
ously wounded.
Twelve business houses and nine
residences at Columbus, KY, were des-
troyed Saturday morning. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
Eleven cotton gins in the vicinity of
Greenville, Texas, have been burned
within the last few days, entailing a
loss of 100000
Seven distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt in Messina, doing great dam
age to public and private buildings,
and among others, says Commercial
Gable despatch from Messina, to the
United States Consulate, which was
badly wrecked
| Cherokee Bill was wounded and two
bandits were captured in fight with
some of the Cook gang, and bill"
Cook was surrounded and his arrest
believed to be certain.
James Faulk, colored, made an at
| tempt to criminally assault Mrs.
Josephine Gray in Norfolk county.
He was arrested, but made his escape
while being taken to prison.
John J. Morgan, of Buckingham
county, was killed by his clothing
being caught in the machinery of his
grist mill.
| Mr.. Frederick g. Waite, in his paper
before the National Statistical Associ-
alton, showed that 100000 democrats
remained away from the polls at the
recent election.
| Pennsylvania capitalists have leased
1,5OO acres of land in Monongalia
county, W. Va, and will form a com
pany to bore for gas and oil.
Several. rich oil wells have been
struck in Marion county, W. Va.
Fire at the Roper Lumber Company's
works in Norfolk destroyed 100000
worth of lumber.
Nearly hundred people are known
to have been killed by the earthquake
shocks in Italy and Sicily on Friday.
The report of the California board Of
horticulture states that owing to the
railway strike California fruit-growers
lost over $1,OOO,OOO.
!, The funeral of Alexander III will
take place to-day in st. Petersburg an6
the marriage of Nicholas II to Princes
Alix II will occur on Friday.
Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania
denies that he will be thoroughly in &C
cord with the new political party, sale
to be in process of formation, having
in view the free coinage of silver as it,
only issue.
In the Keystone Coal and Coke Com
pany's mining camp, in Mcdowell Co.
!, W. Va, two colored men were killed
and two horribly injured by the ex
polsion powder.
Six persons lie in a critical condition
in East Liverpool, Ohio, from the eff
fects of escaping natural gas at thu
; Second Methodist Episcopal Church
Many more were overcome, but are ex
pected to recover.
, Representative Springer attribute
the democratic defeat in Illinois, to {
large extent to the failure of the recen
railroad strike.