Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-30
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

OIuSkey was burned 10 QedCn III gasoline
explosion and her daughter was frightfully
wounded.
j. Frederick Kernochan, as committee for
Miss Maria Marshall, a patient in the Vir-
ginia Eastern State Hospital at Williams.
burg, obtained permission from Judge Beck
man of New York, to purchase and fit up at a
cost not exceeding $4,000, a dwelling adjoin-
ing the Hospital for Miss Marshalls occu-
pancy. Her income is nearly 500. 900 year,
and she has been a patient there for years.
The legal heirs of Miss Marshall-Martha
NJ. Wysong and Louise NJ. Pollock, making
no objection to the application. it was granted.
Charles Broadway Rouss of New York, has
just discovered that number of his employees,
by an outside combination, have robbed him OF
$4,000 year for some time past. 1t was
done by, when man bought $40 worth OF
goods the clerk would add an ought and make
the figure $1OO. This amount would be deliv.
cred, and the clerk would then 90 to the out.
side beneficiary of the theft and be rewarded
In money.
The most valuable book in the world is a
Mohammedan religious one, at Ruza, Persia
J/2 Ny luCuCS Ill olLc. 4GS COfcIS dIt VI SOllu
gold set with 100 diamonds, 167 pearls and 122
rubies, in the form of crescent and star. Its
corners are studded with diamonds and the
clasps are valued at S., OOO-the whole value
is S125, 900. The leaves are of parchment en-
tirely written by hand. Over 1oo,O 900 Moham-
medans were in Ruza the day the holy book
was enshrined in the temple.
Three young English tourists were fined for
fast riding in Chardron, Neb., and refusing
to pay the fine were put to breaking rock in
the county jail yard, with ball and chain.
After threatening the vengeance of Great
Britain on the town for two or three days
they gave it up, paid their fines and were
released.
Henry Redd and wife in their house near
Farmville, Aug. 10Th; S. Watt Lee, boy
standing under a tree in Buckingham county,
Aug. 10Th; Samuel J. Cooke in his house at
Leesburg, Aug. 10th; Miss Rosa Walker, aged
Is. standing in her fathers kitchen door in
WestmoreIand, Aug Dist, was one week s
record OF deaths by lightning in Virginia.
Benz. E. Cross, a grocer of Suffolk, Va,
whose store had been robbed, set trap-gun
inside when he closed Saturday night and
started for home. A little way off, he remem-
bered bundle he had left, went back, un-
locked and pushed the door open striking the
wire which exploded the gun. He died OF
his wound Monday.
Rev. DR.. J. J. Lafferty of the Christian Ad-
vocate, has been appointed Presiding Elder
of the Charlottesville district to succeed the
late DR.. Payne. 1t is said he will accept the
place and give the salary and Presiding Ell
der's parsonage to the widow and orphans OF
the late occupant.
Two thousand employees of the Riverside
Tube Works, at Benwood, W. Va, have been
notified of an increase Of ten per cent. iE
wages. This is the second increase of like
amount in three months, and replaces theil
wages where they were before the dull times
two years ago.
Through mistaken identity and the obstina-
cy of the constable who would listen to moth
ing, Rev. John Hood prominent United
Presbyterian minister of Boston, was arrest
ed on railroad train in Massachusetts, hand
cuffed and taken several hours ride to small
town where the mistake was discovered.
If the mails are not deranged in West Vir-
snia some of the postmasters are. POstmas-
ter walker at Bee, Putnam county. has just
run off with married woman, the mother OF
eight children, and Postmaster Salisbury al
Clay e. H., has run off with married wo,
man, the mother Of several children.
The sixty members of California Comman-
derry of Knights Templar. left San Francisco
for the conclave in Boston with twenty-five
thousand bottles Of California wine and q
car load of fruit. Golden Gate Commandery
OF one hundred and ten members, took as
much more wine.
George Wray, of Hamblen township, Brown
county, Indiana, was SO years old May last.
He has been married three times, his last
wife being 81 years of age. By his first wife
he had six children, his second two, and two
by the last, the youngest child being less than
years of age.
In the train from La Crosse, Wis, t.
Wyckoff, seven miles, on Aug. Goth, judge
heard the divorce suit Of Mrs. NJ. L. Taylo,
against her husband who did not contest.
The plaintiff and counsel were on the train
and as the cars ran into Wychoff the judg,
handed Mrs. Taylor the decree of divorce.
Barrett Smith, on the charge of administer
ing poison to whom, his wife, Rosa Smith
was lodged in the Albemarle Jail Aug. 10th
died last Saturday. James Chisholm, he
alleged accomplish, disappeared immediatel,
after her arrest.
James Small Of Princeton. N. j., a membe
of the University of Virginia summer bas'
ball team. was struck on the knee by pitcl~
ed ball at Luray on August 9th, and had t.
have his leg amputated at the Johns Hopkin>
Hospital.
John S. Gallaher, Jr., who founded the
Daily Republican at Richmond in the For
ties, with O. P. Baldwin as editorial writer
died in New Y DIRK last week at the age of 70
He was the son of the founder OF the Charlie:
Town Free Press.
The Hotel Mems Association of the Statt
of New York have arranged for an actiy,
campaign for the repeal of the Malby bill
equal rights in hotels for white and black)
by the next legislature
Gray w. J. Urquhart who surren
dered himself at Suffolk. Va, to be tried fOl
killing John E. Gay twenty-five years ago,
was convicted and sentenced to five years il
the penitentiary.
W. W. Taylor the defaultIng State Treas
urer of South Dakota for $780, 900, pleaded
guilty before Judge Gatfey at Pierre, S. D..
last week and was sentenced to five years il
prison.
VIM. Spencer Currell, now professor O:
English at Davidson College, North Carroll
ma, has been elected to fill the chair of mod
ern languages and English in Washington
Lee University, of which he is an alumnus.
Gov. MCCOrkle of w Va has nardnnpd
out OF the penitentiary, on account of i'll
health. Prof. A. C. Davis, Principal of thu
late West Virginia Business College, who
was serving term for forgery.
In the suit of Miss Catherine West at Lam
caster, Ky. against W. G. Stivers, an old
bachelor, for breach of promise, Judge
Sanffieiy has determined to have mixed