Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-08-31
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ind, for State mass meeting to be held in
Chicago to organize good citizenship polit-
cal party. The Christian Endeayor with its
$4,000 members; the Epworth League with
| 80, 900 members. and the Baptist Young Peo-
pies union with perhaps 10000 members have
! recently gone into the movement. The effort
of the party will be to secure persons indie
| pendent in politics who are willing to fight
every saloon man that may be nominated on
any ticket of the regular party. That the
party will overwhelm and swallow up the
| prohibition party is not doubted. It is also
| believed that the Catholic church with all its
societies will be brought in union with the
| Protestants on this question. as it is in direct
| accord with the proclamation of Bishop Wat
terson against Catholics in the saloon traffic.
VIM. Hammond a Sullivan county (Pa.)
| farmer, keeps on his farm 400 dogs. In order
| to properly support this great canine army,
| MI. Hammond has a bakery and a meat-chop-
ping machine, which in combination, use up
ten barrels Of flour and half a ton of meat a
week to make dog biscuits. The dogs are the
property of New York, Brooklyn and Ph:la-
delphia sportmen, and Mr.. Hammond is only
the keeper and trainer Of the animals.
|
could rest for four Or five hours. The propri-
etor, who had found nest of newly born
mice in the coffee grinder, told him that he
! could and then asked him why he didn't go to
| a hotel. The man replied: 81 am suffering
| from nervous prostration, and the doctor told
| me to find quiet place and rest, and [ see
You do not advertise and l knew I couldn't
| find quieter place" and with that he sat in
| the chair and watched the swallows build
| nest in the cheese.
The Governor has pardoned John Miles, of
Henrico county, who has served 80 years in
the penitentiary. Miles was convicted IN 1861
and has served out three full terms and is now
serving his fourth. The Governor gave the
following reasons for his pardon: ''This man
has served 80 years of his life in the peniten-
tiary and has more than six years to serve on
his last sentence. He is y years Of age, in
broken health, is nearly blind and unable to
do any work. 1t seems humane to pardon
him.
Some one placed dynamite cartridge in
sheaf of wheat on the farm Of Abe Whitner,
near Akron, Ohio, last week, and it was fed
into the separator where it exploded, and set
fire to the barn. The fire spread SO rapidly
that it soon got beyond control and man
named Myers, who was at work there, was
burned to death and everything in the barn
was destroyed. The loss was S., 900.
A Mllanese pianist named Gravagni, has
just won a bet by playing for % consecutive
hours without rest. He began at Ii at night
and played until midnight Oh the following
day, under the supervision of a jury of eight
-
ner to comic opera From time to time friend
poured coffee, tea and eggs beaten in MARSHA
wine down his throat, and at the end he offer
ed to keep on for another six hours, but found
no takers.
The Attorney General of South Carolina
and the city of Aiken have agreed to take
Judge Aldrich's decision and make test case
Of the Dispensary law before the Supreme
Court. The Supreme Justice has been re-
quested to call an extra session of the court
and he will probably do SO shortly The
points have already been filed with tine clerk
and an early decision is expected.
Charles Fletcher, sixteen-yelr old negro
boy, and Henry Carpenter, aged twenty, also
colored, had difficulty Sunday at Iron Gate.
which eliminated Monday in Fletcher steal
up U5uiuu Odt post1Ot diII SUI itlitS Hiul O1l
the back OF the head with a club, from the
effect of which he died one hour later Fetch
er was arrested and lodged in Jail.
Walter Cavanaugh, aged 10 years, of Ron
ceyerte, was killed last week by being run
over by a freight train near Fort Spring. He
had boarded the train to go to Anderson, and
fell off, the train passing over his body. His
right arm and leg were cut off and his body
crushed in al almost unacceptable mass.
Lady Henry Somerset. the we'll known En-
glish temperance worker, will spend the whit
Ell in Boston in order to be near her son, who
will attend Harvard.
Ned White, writer in the sporting depart
ment of Chicago paper, fatally shot John
K. Hanes during quarrel in that city Tues
day night. White went to Chicago recently
from Richmond, Va.
BY the will of the late John e. Whittier,
just filed at Salem, Mass, the Normal Insti
tute at Hampton, Va, was left the sum of
9,655.S7
The new Catholic church at Covington.
Va, was dedicated Sunday last by Bishop
Van de vyver.
The Emperor Of Austria presents to the
king of Italy every year package of 10, 900
picked Virginia cigars.