Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-01
Idence III 4 etcrsb burg.


In Petersburg on Wednesday morning,
the explosion Of gasoline can burned Mrs.
Fortescpe Whittle (wife Of q son of Bishop
WHITLEY SO badly that she died in short
time; fatally burned her youngest child,
aud seriously burned Miss Lucy Stone.
Mrs. Whittle before marriage was Miss
Susie Plummer Of Petersburg.
Hon. James Barbour. brother Of the
late Senator John s. Barbour, died in Gull
pepper Tuesday, aged seventy years. He
had been prominent in Virginia politics
and was on the Democratic State ticket
for 1t. Governor in 1881 when Senator
Daniel ran for Governor and was defeated
by Cameron.
Mrs. Ann Lindon Montague. proprietor
of the Montague House at Mt. Crawford,
died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Oct
21st, after surgical operation which de-
veloped the fact that she was hopelessly i'll
Of cancer of the stomach.
John Wannam aker has started a Friend
ly Imp in Philadelphia, at which good
breakfa can be had for ten cents, dinner
at fifteen cents and lodging for whole
day at twenty-five cents. 1t has free en-
ployment bureau attached.
Ex-President Harrison was to appear on
the platform last night in Indianapolis and
introduce Gen. John B. Gordon of Confed
erate.fame, who would deliver his lecture
on the war.
J. r. Harrison, a brakeman on the Nor
folk Il Western. and son of the famous
Baptist Evangelist, Rev. J. r. Harrison
of Southwestern Virginia, was run over
and killed by the cars last week.
Mrs. James B. Eustls, wife of the Amer
lean Ambassador at Paris, died suddenly
last Friday at Rotoath Island, of heart
disease. She was visiting her niece
there.
The Blacksburg College foot ball team
defeated the Washington & Lee team at
Lexington, Friday, badly. They will play
the V. M. I. s at Lynchburg on Thanks
giving day.
Prof. Rosewald who conducted the
Emma Abbott Opera troupe orchestra sew
eral seasons, and is prominent in American
musical circles, died at San Francisco Sat
urday of heart disease.
Rev. DR.. w. w. Landrum, pastor of the
Second Baptist church of Richmond. read
paper last week before the Baptist minis
tiers meeting advocating the use Of the in
dividual communion cup.
The Pace tract of one hundred and
twenty-five acres near Crozet, part of a
tract which, in 1882, sold for $1,000. has
just been sold to Mr.. Geo. e. Stuart for
$4,000.
Maj. Samuel Dawson, aged seventy-eight,
prominent in West Virginia politics, COM
mitted suicide last week by shooting him
self while on visit to Mr.. VIM. Eppinger
near Berkeley Springs.
II. Otis Heartburn, aged twenty-seven, a
son Of VIM. H. Heartburn Of Monroe Co.,
W. Va, was killed at Ronceverte, w. Va,
on the Esd ult., by leaping from train and
falling under the wheels.
A celluloid collar and cuff factory at
Newburyport, Mass, was wrecked and a
workman killed by the overheating of the
celluloid preparatory to it's use in collars
and cuffs.
1t has been accidentally discovered in a
Paris hospital that a solution of picric
acid will instantly stop the pain of a burn.
The acid is ordorless and is neither caustic,
Irritating nor poisoning in it's effects.
The withdrawals Of gold by jewelers. to
manufacture into Christmas presents,
caused loss of $3.50, 900 in gold bars at the
N. Y. Treasury last week.
Rev. Walter G. Clapp of Milwaukee, who
left the Protestant Episcopal church ayear
ago and joined the Roman Catholic church,
has returned to the P. E. church.
A fisherman of Leesburg, Loadousl, went
to the Potomac river last week and caught
five carp, the five weighing an even sixty
pounds.
BY the collapse of the Valley Mutual Life
Insurance Co. few weeks ago, a citizen
of Page Co., lost 81, 500 which he had paid
in installments on a $4,000 policy.
DR.. Talmage preached his first sermon as
a Washington pastor last Sunday to an
OVERLOOKING congregation.
In Hannibal, Mo-, cabbage heads that
will hardly go into a barrel, are sold at Is
cents a dozen.
Owing to the drought, farmers in the
Cumberland Valley are hauling water five
miles.
Joseph Lawson, a wealt by wholesale
liquor dealer Of Lynchburg, died asst week
after a long illness.
The store OF Chas. n. Beary, postmaster
at Melrose, Rockingham, was burned by
incendiaries last week.
From Harper's Ferry to Botetourt there
are fires all along the Blae Ridge.
An Historic Building BurnGl