Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-05-16

Jacob S. Coxey removed the camp OF
his Commonweal Army from Washing
ton to the farm of J. H. Rogers, near
Hyattsville, Md.
Mr.. Mills, of Texas, was the only
democratic Senator who voted against
the compromise amendments to the
tariff bill when they were offered in
the Senate.
Public Printer Benedict has made a
number of changes among the foremen
of the public printing office and will,
it is reported, soon discharge 1.500 EN-
ployes.
Through a representative Governor
tO'Ferrali, of Virginia, has asked the
Navy Department to furnish him pow
der and shot to be used against Mary
landers who go into Virginia water af.
ter soft crabs.
William Weisler, of Hagerstown,
Md, member of the Coxey army, was
drowned while bathing in the Eastern
Branch of the Potomac river.
Congressman William L. Wilson ar
rived at his home, Charlestown, w.
Va. Thursday night, much improved
in health. Mrs Wilson is ill from ner-
| vous trouble. He will go to Washing
ton, but will not talk on the tariff for
some time.
Rev. John Van Lear, Of Lexington,
KY, has accepted call to Bethany
Presbyterian Church, that city. and
Rev. Frank w. Robbins, Of Matagorda,
Texas, to the churches at Vinton and
Woodside, Roanoke county.
A Roanoke correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says that Judge Dupuy,
on Friday last, chartered the Colored
Social Club, with colored officers and
directors. This club. with fifteen OF
twenty white clubs, will sell liquor
without paying one cent of license tax
to the city or State, while the licensed
! barrooms are taxed about $3.50 annual
ly.
Sheriff Hammack arrested ex-State
Representative King and Franklin at
Gainesville, Texas, May 8th, for com
plicity in the lynching of Edward Cash
a few days ago. Cash was dragged
from the bedside of a sick wife by
masked men and lynched.
A leading organizer of the Industrial
Army at Fergus Falls, Mimi, is quoted
as saying that the movement is backed
in the various cities of the West by the
people who are anxious to ship the
tramps to the East.
In all the sections bordering on the
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico the rain.
fall slowly increases, as a rule, from
May till about the middle of August
But on the Pacific coasts the case is
otherwise, the summer-rainfall usually
falling below that of May and far be
low that of the earlier spring months
The indications are that a large
number of veterans will attend the IN
yelling of the Confederate Soldiers
and Sailors monument at Richmond,
May 80.
The retreat of Coxey's 800 from
the District of Columbia, and their en-.
campment at Hyattsville, in Maryland
is causing much anxiety to the people
in that part of Prince Georges county
Governor Brown, to whom appeals
were sent to interpose, has sent in
structions to the sheriff, but can dc
nothing more unless there is such a
breach of the peace that the civil
authorities are unable to cope with it.
At Wheeling, W. Va, Frank Blake
more was shot and killed by his fifteen
year old son.
Democratic primaries re held in
| the bulk of the counties of Alabama
Saturday to select a nominee for Gov
ernor. The returns are favorable to
the success of Congressman Oates.
Judge Harlan, one of the best known
lawyers in Louisville, Ky, and a
brother of United States Justice Har.
Ian, was stricken with aporlexy Satur-
day while walking on the street.