Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-27

SUICIDE OF SECRETARY OF THE
RUSSIAN LEGATIoN.--Mr. p. Bogda-
noff, first secretary of the Russian LIE
cation, shot himself with a pistol
Wednesday morning in his sleeping
apartments in Washington and died
instantly. The only cause that is as
signed for the deed is that he had suf-
fered from neuralgia since he came to
Washington month ago. That morn
ing shortly before 10 o'clock the maid
at his lodgings visited his rooms and
took his order for breakfast. When
she returned fifteen minutes later she
was astonished to find him dead, no
noise having been heard in the house
in the meantime.
WOMAN KILLED.-In Richmond last
Friday afternoon Capt. Ed. J Euker
of the Stuart Horse Guards was riding
Oh Broad Street an unmanageable
horse which ran off with him and ran
Silva, wife of Mr.. j. H. Silva, who was
crossing Broad street.
$4,000 DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF
MARRIAGE PRoMisE.-A dispatch da
ted Columbus. Ohio, Feb. Goth, says =
"A verdict of $4,000 has been rem
dered in the breach of promise case OF
Nellie keegau. of Pawtucket. r. l.,
against DR.. Chas. Mendenhall, of this
;a
of age. He failed to put in an appear
ance when the case was called"
Patrick Shines, former conductor
on the Brooklyn Heights, N. Y, trolley
road, was shot in the head and badly
wounded by Martin B. Keller, non
union conductor.
Townsmen and students of Prince
ton, N. j., became involved in a fight,
in which baseball bats and empty beer
bottles were used as weapons. The
townsmen were victorious.
Ten of the thirteen -four mills in
California owned by the syndicate are
closed owing to strong opposition OF
the Brown Company. independent
millers. A war in prices has resulted
in reducing from $5 so to So IS a bar
rel.
The body of United States Minister
Isaac P. Gray, who died at his post of
duty in the City of Mexico, arrived at
indianapolis Thursday, and was de-
posted in the Indiana State capitol
The mayor and nearly all the city
officials of Ironwood, Mich, have de-
cided to repudiate the last issue of the
city bonds, amounting to $4,000, be-
cause the election at which the issue
was authorized was not legally called.
The experts who have been examin-
ing the books of the Whisky Trust re-
port the assets S., 178,000 above all in
debtedness.
The English Bimetallic League has
Endorsed the resolution to be offered
in the House of Commons urging the
British government to join in the
movement for an international none
tary conference.
1t is reported in Paris that the French
expedition to the interior of Africa, in
the Hinterland country, was attacked
by natives and three hundred men
killed in the battle which ensued.
Thirty colored schools in the South
were represented at the conference of
at Tuskeegee, Ala,
Friday. The methods of work showed
many commendable industrial fea-
lures.
Three lives were lost and $4,000
worth of property destroyed Friday in
a fire among boarding houses at Hot
Springs. Ark.
Four men persisted in the snow hunt
ing while on the Alliance plantation
in Louisiana, four miles before New
Orleans.
Nearly two thousand lambs and
sheep are reported killed by the late
blizzard in Fauqnier and Rappahan-
mock. Many hogs were also killed
On Saturday Senator Matt W. Ran
som was nominated Envoy Extraordi
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
Mexico. The Senate Immediately
went into executive session and con-
firmed the nomination.
The Southern Society held it's ninth
annual dinner at Sherry's in New York
last Friday night. Rev. J. J. Lafferty
responded to the toast Southern
characteristics. The band played
pixie" "Old Folks at Home" MY
Oid Kentucky Home and other south
ern melodies.
The Other Side.
RALEIGH. n c.. February % There
is a wide MISUNDERSTANDING over Il so
called Douglass adjournment by the
general assembly of North Carolina,
and in connection with there have been
statements which do not present the
matter accurately. The actual facts
are AS follows:
On the day after the death of Fred
erick DOUGLASS a coiored representative
viding that the house adjourn at 12
o clock IN, as a mark of respect to
Douglass Mr.. Crumpter. a populist, at
once offered an amendment to make
the hour of adjournment 2 o'clock,
which was the regular hour of adjourn
ment.
Speaker Walser ruled the amend
ment and resolution both out of order,
saying that the house would not ad
journ until the business of the day was
disposed of. He then suggested that
motion might be made that when the
house did adjourn it could be as mark
of respect. A standing vote on mo
ton to this effect was taken and was
carried. No special attention was Civ
en- to the matter and in the rush of
business it seems that there was an i'm
preston that the speakers ruling would
do away with any significance of the
resolution. The strongest illustration
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