Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-16

room by Thomas Holleran.
Papini was about 80 years old and was
employed as bartender by Andrew
Giroami at No. 1901 east Franklin
street. Holleran was at the bar drink
ing and got into dispute with Papini
he had paid ten cents, the price OF the
drink, while the bartender contended
that only five had been placed on the
counter. The lie was passed and Hol-
pistol and be shot in self defense.
Other witnesses believe the killing was
uuproyoked. Hntieran WAS drunk at
the time and did not sober up until
some time after his arrest. The bullet
entered just over Papini's left eye and
death caGe in a few minutes The
bar room III wiit.!I the killing occurred
bears Il bad reputation tEnllaran is a
married man and is in the employ of
the city as ii driver.
COLONIAL DANES IA AQ"Er i had
been arranged by the Colonial DANES
to hold a banquet in Richmond last
Saturday night in the rooms of the
Virginia Historical Society which are
in General r. E. Lees old residence on
Franklin street. Saturday morning
| Colonel W. e. Cutshaw and other ex
pert engineers made an examination of
the floors and reported that they
would not hold the weight of the com
pany that would attend. This rather
startling information was conveyed to
those in charge of the affair, and mes
sengers were sent out to recall the IN
vitations. The engineers believe that
had the banquet taken place very
serious accident would have occurred
by the falling of the floor.
FIRE AT BRADFORD, PA.-Fire broke
out in the Sheehan Hotel, Bradford,
Pa, early Sunday morning and spread
rapidly to the adjoining property
The hotel and twenty-five business
| firms were burned out. Hotel guests
/ i
night clothing. Two ladies were seri-
| ously injured. The thermometer regis
tered degrees below zero. Ice an
inch thick formed on the 1remens
clothing. A hundred of them were
| frostbitten. The total loss was $S7, 900.
MAHoNE>WINs.-O Thursday, the
House committee on public buildings
decided to report Senate bill providing
for the purchase of the lot in Washing
ton owned by General Malone as a site
for a new government printing office.
The price is $685.
WooLKN GOODS IMPoRTED.-The
rush to get wooden goods out of the
New York custom house on January 1
at the new low rates of duty resulted
in the biggest days work on record,
the duties paid being 81, ,455. two
thirds of which sum were paid Oh
woolens. As the duties are much
lower than under the Old tariff, the
volume of woolens placed in the market
was very large.
aeThe position assumed by the repub-
lican Senators on the income tax seems
to assure the adoption of the clause of
the urgent deficiency bill making an
appropriation to carry the tax into
effect. The bill was debated III the
Senate Saturday by Messrs. Teller,
lodge and Stewart.
meeting OF all the West Virginia
Confederate camps will be held at
Charleston on January 24th to take
steps for the founding of q Confederate
Home.
The children of Henry Sanders, col
ored, who married a white woman,
were denied admission to a white pub
lie school at Stony Point, w. Va. An
other teacher was provided.
Two more bodies, supposed to be of
women. have been recovered from the
ruins of the Delavan House, at Albany,
N. Y. This makes ten of the sixteen
employees supposed to have persisted in
Uil0 IRE TWO weeks ago.
A resolution for an amendment to
the Idaho constitution. granting suf-
frage to women, passed the Idaho
Senate Saturday without dissenting
vote.
Patrick Logan was assaulted and
robbed while standing on the platform
of a Lake Shore passenger train near
Collins, Ohio, and then thrown from
the train He was found beside the
track in an unconscious condition.
At an early hour Sunday morning
the town of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, thirty
miles west of Wheeling, W. Va, ex-
perienced a most disastrous confiagra
ton, the loss being estimated at from
$75, COG to 100000.
EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE.-A severe
earthquake occurred Sunday at Patras,
the principal seat CT the foreign trade
of Greece. The shocks caused panic
among the inhabitants of the city.
A cave on Mount Garsico, province
of Caserta, Italy, collapsed and crushed
to death ten shepherds who had sought
refuge in it.
Col. John F. Stewart, agent of the
Old Dominion Steamboat Company at
Suffolk, was stricken with paralysis
Friday night and died Saturday morn
ing He was gallant officer in the
Third Virginia Regiment during the
war, Pickett's division.
Mr. j. Armstrong Chanler, husband
of Amelie Rives, has purchased Ingle
wood, a beautiful estate in Louisa
county.
Gabriel Scott, colored. of Charlottes-
vile, fell from wagon Tuesday OF last
week and was run over by one of the
hind wheels of the wagon. He sus-
tanned injuries, which caused his death
in a few hours.
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