Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-05-18
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

| Rev. DR.. Talmage's famous Tabernacle in
Brooklyn, N. Y. was destroyed by fire last
Sunday morning for the fourth time, just
mon, and while he and his wife were still in
the church talking to friends. 1t caught over
the organ from the telegraph wires. The
Hotel Regent, next door, with its contents, a
| million dollar house, was wholly destroyed.
The Talmage church wac badly in debt and
it is thought the $4,000 of insurance money
and the sale of some Of its property, will clear
it. Dr.. Talmage has gone on his round the
world trip and no effort will be made to re-
build in a year, if ever.
Ben Hatton has just died in the Fairfax,
Va, almshouse. In war times he was a
Unionst. When. the time for electing mem
bers of Congress came, the troops of both
armies were riding over that district SO no
election could be held, but number of men
for JOKE voted for him. The result was that
he was for several years besieglng the doors OF
Congress with his claim that he had been
elected. Though staunch Union man. Mos
by forced him to pilot him on one of his cele-
brated raids, and worst of all, Che only ma n
wounded in the raid was Hatton.
A guilty conscience liked to have cost
George Dotson his neck last week. He leap
ed off G. & o. freight train on which he was
stealing ride, because he thought the train
men were after him for a felony he had com
mitted near Lewisburg. They thought he ran
because he had just outraged Miss Mary Pier
son near Eagle Rock. and when he was final.
ly caught he came near being lynched. AS it
H. l>,o oh In, JTo,+
for what he really did.
A letter to the Richmond Christian Adyo.
cate, says that two-thirds of the NJ E. Gene
raj Conference at Memphis, are against re-
union with the Northern church. The frater-
nal addresses of the two Commissioners of
the Northern church last week, were replied
to in cordial style and spirit, but nothing
was said that gave reason to hope for any
speedy reunion.
The cold water men seemed to be in ma
jority at the Martha Washington celebration
at Fredericksburg. The Richmond State says,
Lieutenant WORKMAN was troubled because
julep twelve inches high and fourteen inches
in circumference, and with straws in it, pass
ed through the Governors car and only three
persons did it reverence"
Special Commissioner Lewis Preston Or ay,
of the U. S. District Court at Abing don, has
made his report in the Wytheville Banking
and Insurance Cos case, and in it he charges
that Il. &. Wadley. president of the company,
''fraudu lently took and misappropriated one
hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars
(Sl96, 900 OO) Of the said company's funds
CAT a meeting of physicians in Baltimore,
Dir. Howard A. Kelly, of the Johns Hopkins
Medical school, paid tribute to the work OF
scientific investigation already accomplished
by women at the medical school. He pre-
sented pamphlet by Dr.. Mary Sherwood,
embodying results Of researches made by her.
A little daughter Of Edward Bateman,
near Port Republic, was bitten three times,
last week, by mad dog. Mr. Bateman kill
ed the dog and took that evenings train, with
his daughter, taking her to the Pasteur In
stitute, at New York.
Mrs. A. Du Ross Bellah, aged So. aud her
16year old son, mailing from Washington, D,
C.. have been committed to Jail at Shenan-
doah, Page county, charged with passing bogus
checks on hotels-Which seems to be bust
ness with them.
James NJ. Atkins, locomotive engineer on
the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry., living at Char
lottesville, six feet three inches tall, and
weighing two hundred and thirty five pounds,
was taken with appendicitis on Saturday
morning and died at noon Sunday.
In New York city the hard times has
brought beer down to- three cents glass.
Broadway bar~room whiskey down to fifteen
cents, and the very swell Manhattan
cocktails" down to two for a'quarter.
Of rod;c
on the farm of NJ. P. Surber, about 8 miles
from Clifton Forge, few days ago, was
found written on rock the name, John L.