Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

APPOINTMENTS. - On last Friday
the President announced the follow
ing cabinet appointments For Secre
tary of State, Richard j. Olney, o
| Massachusetts; for Attorney
Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati, Ohio
Yellow fever exists at Vera Cruz
Mexico, and there were four deaths il
that city from the disease during the
last week of May.
Extensive floods are prevailing il
the north of Spain and the southwest
of France. The rivers have overflow
ed in various districts of Navarro. The
railway is submerged and many fac
tories have been inundated.
The Chinese minister in person
thanked Acting Secretary of State Uni
for the kind Offices of this government
in restoring peace between his country
and Japan.
1t is pointed out that any expecta-
tions of Spain that the United States
government is liable for any losses
sustained on account of the Cuban in
surrection are without proper evidence
of their Justification.
Representative Otey, of Virginia, be-
lieves this State to be favorable to
free coinage of silver. There is said to
be growing sentiment, however, for
the sound-money policy.
Henry NJ. Smythe, ministe r to Hayti,
who returned to this countl Y last week,
reports that quiet prevails at Hayti.
William B. Isaac, Secretary of the
Grand Lodge of Masons of Virginia,
died in Richmond last Sunday.
Major John Poe, Chief-of Police of
Richmond was paralyzed on Sunday,
and his condition is critical.
j. K. Emmett, young comedian,
while half crazed with drink tried to
kill his wife, known on the stage as
Emily Lytton, in San Francisco.
Mrs Baldwin, whose wealthy hus
band fatally shot Andrew Yeoman,
whom he found in his wife's room,
may die from internal injuries which
she sustained at her husbands hand.
Ivanhoe Van Cleaf, tie son of a
hotel proprietor on Brooklyn Heights,
committed suicide by drinking poison
in a glass of ice water
A cyclone swept the district Of
Mctola, in the province of Leece, Italy.
Property to the amount Of million
Tires was damaged.
So far it is known that forty-two
persons persisted in the floods at
Koberdrdorf, the Hungarian watering
place. while thirty others ere missing.
Merchant vessels are to be fitted out
at Havana to cruise in search of fill
clustering expeditions that may at
tempt to land on the shores Of Cuba.
William p Castle has been appointed
Hawaiian minister at Washington,
vice l.. A. Thurston.
Ex President Harrison returned to
his home in Indianapolis Saturday.
He will go to the Adirondacks in July.
Advices from Mexico state that
changes are contemplated in the con-
stitution of that country along lines
suggested by the constitution of the
United States.
A number of persons have given
what would have been their income
tax to church charities.
The Kentucky Republican State
Convention met Wednesday at Louis
vile and nominated Col. w. o. Brad
ley for Governor.
Archbishop Kahn Wednesday re-
ceived cablegram from Rome con
firming the report of his appointment
as Archbishop of st. Louis.
Gen. Thos. L. Rosser has been
awarded the contract for the erection
of a postoffice building at Charlottes-
vile.
Advices received from Taiphfu,
Island of Formosa, describe affairs in
that town as still in a chaotic con
dition. The native quarter of Ta1phfu
has been burned. During the con
fiagration a magazine exploded and
killed ninety Chinese.
Washington officials are considering
the advisability of sending war ship
to Key West to prevent fIibustering
expeditions from starting for Cuba.
II rent my Office from Gov. Altgeld,"
W. X. Carlisle, son of Secretary Car
Isle, says, land yet agree to pay him
his rent in gold. He is silver man,
and yet he doesn't want to be paid in
his own coin. His leases in this great
building are all gold leases"
Secretary Hoke Smiths observa-
tions in Georgia lead him to be'ieve
that the sound-money policy is gain
ing much ground in that State.
Senator Villas, of Wisconsin, has been
suggested as an available democratic
candidate for the presidency next
year.
A society for the suppression of
scandal has just been started at 1nster-
burg in East Prussia. Every scan
dalous story spread in the town will be
traced and the originator prosecuted
by the society.
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.-T u e d Y
night Allen P. Walker. a son of Gen.
James A. Walker, of Wytheville, was