Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-06-21
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

MIS-. Lucy Jane POLLARD, aged nifty, living
about nine miles from Keysville, Charlotte
Co., Va, was murdered in her own yard OF
Friday afternoon, while her husband and his
hands were working in field only some
three hundred yards off. She was struck
down with an axe in her yard. The murder
er then went in the house, opened a trunk
and got $3.50. Solomon Marable, a colored
man, who had worked there, and who, on
Saturday. displayed at Chase City big roll
of $50 bills has been captured, and confessed
the murder.
Judge j. K. Edmondson has adjusted with
the sureties of e. NJ. Figgatt on their $50 .OOC
bond given in 1898. He accepts from them in
full settlement, the sum of 81 900 In cash and
their interest in the properties that Figgatt,
a few hours before his flight, decided to save
his suretes from loss, which will give $12, 900
in addition fo the Sill 600, There are twenty
sureties, and the most any one will have to
pay of the Sill 900 will be $780,
In the VIM. b. Page forgery cases in Clarke
county, Va, which have attracted so much
attention, the commemorative Attorney on
Monday entered nolie prosequies. Page, the
accused, was at once re-arrested on charges
VI lOISCly Iicutl lCh equity anu TAKEN TO
jail at Winchester.
Anthony Drexel Biddle Of PHILADELPHIA.
whose annual income is $4,000, but whose
estate at his death cannot lass to his widow,
presented Miss Cornelia Bradley of Pittsburg.
whom he married Friday night. with insur-
ance policies on his life aggregating $500, 900.
Governor OFerrall has received from Mai.
Simons an estimate of the expenses of the
military at PocahOntas. 1t is understood that
the total amount is about $4,000, just what
the governor few weeks ago predicted it
would be. There are still some troops at
Pocahontas but the expense now is quite
light compared with what it has been.
Last Saturday afternoon, while Mrs. A. A.
Hess and her little niece'were returning from
a funeral at Ottobine. Rockingham county,
the horse ran off. The child was thrown out
and escaped, but Mrs. Hess was caught under
the axletree, dragged some half mile and
killed.
Lexington has discharged her small pox
doctor, the disease having disappeared, anu
the Charlottesville papers say that Able
marie has discharged her small pox doctor,
though some of the patients in the county
hospital will be kept in quarantine while
yet.
The LeWisburg, W. Va, Independent pub
fishes a list of four hundred and fifty ex-Con-
federate soldiers now living in Greenbrier
county, not one of whom is drawing a pen
sion or, as far as known, is in actual need.
Mrs. Jane NJ. Gordon, the mOther-in law of
Rev. DR.. w. A. Harris. president of the Vir-
ginia College for Young Ladies at Roanoke,
died there on Friday night. aged eighty years.
The salaries of the officers and faculty Of
the Blind Institute at Raleigh, N. e., have
been reduced from 10 to 20 per cent. by the
trustees.
The board of trustees of Hampden Sidney
College adopted resolution opposing the
proposed removal of the Union Theological
Seminary.
Miss Kate Nelson, owner of the historic
Nelson mansion at Yorktown, has changed
her mind and demands Sc, 400 for it, causing
the Association for the Preservation Of Vir-
ginia Antiquities, to give up its attempt to
buy it.
Dr. VIM. Hoskins of King & Queen county,
who was member of the House of Delegates
at the time of the memorable contest between
Il. T. NJ. Hunter and Col. Robert e. Withers,
for the U. S. Senate, died suddenly last week
Washington Post:-"Virginia is going down
the scale at rapid rate. From the mother
Of Presidents to the chaperone of gold-brick
operators is hard fall
The building at Orange, Va, occupied by