Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-07-31

| tors of the law were taken, however,
and their prosecution will be asked
should the court in a pending appeal
case render decision upon the basis
of which a conviction is possible. This
would indicate that they have no dread
of the decision of the court in the case
appealed.
l. The report that the Indians had
killed all the settlers in Jackson's Hole.
Wyoming, was unfounded.
A hail-storm in North and South
Dakota Friday night destroyed thou
sands of acres of grain.
The Bethel Presbyterian Church in
Peoria, ILL.,, was blown down by the
wind Friday night.
The Dane county asylum for the in
curabIy insane, at Verona, near Madi-
son, Wis. was burned Saturday. The
superintendent, L. Fl. Edwards. was
fatally hurt. The fire was caused by
lightning.
Fourteen dwellings and W. s. Weed
& Co.'s saw-mill, in Glen Hazel, a lum
Der village near Bradford, Pa, were
burned Saturday, with 100000 feet of
sawed hardwood.
Six business buildings in Rockville,
KY, were burned Saturday, causing a
loss of 100000.
Mrs. VIM. Pierce and her son. Frank
lin. both of New York. were drowned
at Ceredo. W. Va. The mother fell
overheard from a boat and her son
jumped overheard to rescue her.
Hon. Hoke Smith, Secretary of the
Interior, concluded his brief tour of
the State of Georgia at Co1dele Satur-
day. where a large audience greeted
him and listened to his speech in favor
of a sound currency. He frankly said
he was in favor of free coinage in 1890,
but that differing conditions now
brought a change of opinion.
A freight train on the Southern Rail-
road came in collision with a detached
part of another freight train near
Columbia, S. c., Sunday morning. The
wreck took fire and seven cars and a
locomotive were destroyed. Two train
men were hurt.
A complaint against the acceptance
by presbytery OF Union Theologi-
cal Seminary student has raised again
the questions of DIR. Briggs's trial.
The Carnegie wire nail mills at
Beaver Falls, Pa, have been sold to
the Consolidated Steel and Wire Com
pany of Chicago for $725, ZOO.
Mrs. Mary Reed, the mother of
Roland Reed, the actor, died at her
home, in Philadelphia, Sunday, aged
eighty years.
The Chicago police have found a
man who took three human bodies |
from III. HI. Holiness house in Chicago
and articulated the skeletons. In the |
basement of Holiness house the police |
found a mass of guicklime in which |
two bodies had evidently been buried.
Victor Adams, who shot and killed
Justice Boxer at O'Neil's, Cal, Tues
day morning of last week, was lynched
by mob of sixty men Saturday near
the scene of the murder. Adams mar
ried Boxers step-daughter. The men
had dispute over some horses.
Scouts report to Adjutant General
Sitter that Indians are guarding all
the passes into the Jackson's Hole
country. Captain Smith, prospector,
was wounded in the breast.
William Willis, the Presidents negro
coachman who was stricken with
paralysis Thursday, is attended by DR..
Reyburn, who was one of President
Garfeld's physicians.
DIR. Benjamin S. Mackie, physician
in the UniTed States army on waiting
orders, committed suicide last Thurs
day nighG by shooting himself in the
head, at his home in Philadelphia.
In clump of bushes at 20Oth street
and Fort Washington avenue, New
York CITY, an unfreQuented neighbOr-