Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14
Storm at Baltimore.

by thunder and lightning, heavy rain
and hail, broke over Baltimore Sun
day afternoon. The walls of st. Eliza
beth church, in course of erection at
Baltimore and Patapsco streets, were
blown down; nine stacks, recently
erected in the Standard Oil Works,
were swept away, and the roofs of
many dwellings were carried off,
Fences were Frustrated and chimneys
were overthrown. Electric light, tele-
phone, trolley and telegraph wires
were badly mixed. Signs and awnings
were wrenched from their fastenings
and trees were uprooted. in the up
per harbor several small craft were
swamped. There was no loss of life
The thermometer dropped nine degrees
in one minute during the storm.
The way to elect Democratic Legis-
lature in Virginia this fall is to get suf-
ficient votes. The way to secure votes
enough is to nominate the purest and
ablest men in the party-men who have
the confidence of the people, and then
make the fight on clearly defined is
sues for the States welfare.
August Koenig, of San Francisco,
was killed, and William Pugh, of Birm-
ingham, Ala, was fatally injured in a
wreck on the Big Four Railroad near
st. Paul, Ind, Friday night. The pis-
ton rod of the engine broke.
Forest fires about Seattle, Wash,
have caused enormous damage to prop
erty, and for the past two weeks the
smoke has been so dense in the Puget
sound cities that the air is sitting.
George E. Lohemer, bookkeeper at
the Cleveland (Ohio) city workhouse,
was arrested Sunday ON a charge of
embezzlement and committed suicide
in his cell.
Captain-G General Campos received a
great ovation in Havana Sunday when
he reviewed a regiment of volunteers
that was about to start for the front.
Delegates of Cuban revolutionists re-
Gently formed republic. elected Gen
eral Masso as their President and Sc
lected Camaquey as their capital.
The cruiser Detroit has sailed from
Shanghai for Foo Chow, which is the
nearest seaport to the scene of recent
rioting in China. The cruiser Marble
head has been ordered to a port of
Asia Minor nearest to Tarsus, where
st. Paul's school was recently attack
ed by mob.
Peace has been concluded between
the government of Brazil and the in
surgents of the province of Rio Grande
do Sui.
| The business portion of the town of
Lockport, in Will county, ILL.,, was des-
troyed by fire Saturday. The loss is
estimated at 5000, 900.
Two young men, Arthur Gatewood,
of Norfolk, and Willie e. Murdaugh,
of Portsmouth, were killed by the
wrecking of the electric cars at Tan
ner's Creek. Friday. Both were cadets
at the Virginia Military Institute.
The colored miners who were driven
from the mines at Spring Valley. ILL.,,
last Sunday by white miners returned
to work Friday without molestation.
Nearly twenty people were injured
in a street car accident near Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind, Fri
day evening. The wreck was the re-
suit of a misplaced switch, heavy
motor plunging into a trailer loaded
with people returning from the old
settlers reunion. The injured will
probably recover.
| The seventyfirst annual session of
the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows will
be held at Atlantic City September 16
to %. There will be present represent
atives from each State in the Union
and also Canada. The delegates will
number 80, and many of these will be
accompanied by their wives and
friends. which will considerably swell
the crowd.
The women of Lexington, KY, have
nominated four candidates for the
board of education, for which they
will vote at the coming election.
| Mrs. P. T. Barnum and her Greek
husband signed a contract specifying
that neither shall have control over
the fortune of the other.
In Davie county, N. g., Marshall
Cain shot and killed his brother, Fill
more Cain, in dispute about division
of some property.