Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-07-05

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candidate for the Democratic nomination
for the Senate from the Prince Edward
county district.
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.
Miss Minnie B. Wilkinson. aged thirty
four, an active member of the Second Presby-
terrain church CDR. Hoge's) at Richmond,
shot herself through the heart last Sunday
afternoon in the church lecture room, while
service was going on in the main body of the
church in front. For ten years she had been
engaged to 4. b. Marques, member of the
choir Gin which he was singing at the time OF
the tragedy nephew of DR.. Hoge, and an
enthusiastic church worker. Recently he had
decided to devote himself to evangelical work
and visited her with the Information that
their spiritual spheres were so widely diver
gent that marriage was impossible. His dis
continuance of his attentions to her had already
attracted the attention of the congregation.
Sunday morning she took communion at the
church and that afternoon got an old pistol
Of her brother-in-law's lying in the house,
and went down to the church, going into the
empty lecture room in the rear. While the
congregation was singing tArise my soul'
the shot was heard, but it was thought to
come from the street. After the congrega-
ton had been dismissed some one discovered
her body in the lecture room. 1t was taken
into DR.. Hoge's house next door. and thence
to an undertaker's. The brother of the lady.
Mr.. b. M. Wilkinson, is widely known as a
clerk at Virginia watering places.
An officer Of the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals. on Sunday arrested Plies
Parsons, an OtiscO, N. Y, farmer, for case
of shocking and inhuman treatment of an
unruly bull which persisted in knocking
down fences. Parsons sewed up the eyelids
of the unfortunate animal with two pieces of
wire, sharpened at the points, which he in
serted as a physician would a needle. After
he had taken three or four stitches in each
eyelid he twisted the ends of the wire togeth-
en- and in this ondition the bull was found,
with his eyes terri bly, swollen and bleeding
The justice Of the peace at South Onandaga
let Parsons off with paltry fine Of $40.
The Finance Committee of the Charlottes-
Vile city council has recommended the
change Of the salaries of the City Physician
from $24O to $3.50; chief of police from 5000 to
$3.50; policemen from $50 to S45, OF a reduc-
ton in number if $50 remains the salary;
superintendent of gas from 81. 900 to $780, SUI
perntendent of water and sewerage fl ON $500
to 5000; city attorney from fees and a retainer
at $50 per annum to fixed salary of $500 per
year. Only one increase of salary was rec
commended, that of water and sewerage. The
Lynchburg city council has declined to reduce
the salaries of the city officers, and on the
other i'and hars slightly increased the salaries
of two of those officers.
Rev. and General Green Clay Smith of
Kentucky, pastor Of the Metropolitan Baptist
church in Washington city. closed an event.
full life there Sunday. He was in the Mexican
war; was in the civil war as a major general
of Union cavalry; was elected during the war
to congress from Kentucky; came within a
half vote of defeating Andrew johnson for
the nomination for Vice President at the Re
publican convention in 1864; was made Gov
ernor of Montana by Johnson when he became
President; became pastor of Baptist church
at Franklin, KY; was nominated for the
Presidency by the Prohibition National con-
vention in 1876, and finally died as Baptist
pastor.
Near New York city last Saturday, Miss
BERTHE Constance Perry was married at her
summer home to Pierre Lorrillard Ronalds,
Jr, in the open air. A rare piece of seven
teenth century tapestry was artistically drap-
ed from tree to tree as background, while a
temporary chancel was made of flowers, with
ropes of smilax stretched to form an aisle for
the bridal party. The canopy under which
the ceremony took place was beautiful
lattice work Of green boughs and roses, tied
in the centre with big bunch of carnations
and white satin ribbon The wedding dinner
was served in tent.
On the Pullman car of the Southern Rail
way, last Thursday night. just after leaving
Lynchburg, the dead body of passenger
rolled out Of its berth to the floor. 1t proved
to be Louis J. Ruflino, wealthy marble
dealer of San Francisco, who had choked
himself to death by tying silk handkerchief
around his neck tightly. He had good deal
of funds on his person, was an Italian, young
and handsome. The body was taken off the
tram at Charlottesville. At the inquest it
was shown that lie mad been Eighty all the
way from New Orleans.
Mrs. Calista Maria Phelps, millionaire
widow of Buffalo, N. aged seventy eight,
who all her life has been an inveterate match
maker, wound up her career last Thursday by
marrying DIR. Ashton L. Talbot of Philadel
phia. aged thirty three. Talbot, eight years
ago, then medical student married Mrs.
Anna NJ Locker, Philadelphia widow aged
eighty, who died soon after, leaving him |
large fortune.
DR.. Robert W. Buchanan sentenced for the |
murder of his wife-a woman of bad repute, |
whom he had married to get her money-was
put to death by electricity in Sing Sing pris-
on, N. Y, ON Monday morning. He had
nothing to say and made no scene. The case
had attracted attention from the unusual
efforts made by his counsel to save their
client.
At the great German naval celebration OF
,he opening of the Keil canal, at which six
American war ships were present, the officers
If the man Of war New York gave Emperor
William dinner. At its close, the Emperor
President for sending>the war ships. and in
proposed three cheers for Presi-
lent Cleveland.
Lady Mary Hamilton Douglas, the year
I'D daughter Of the late Duke of Hamilton,
will be one Of the richest heiresses of the age.
Ter father could not leave her his title, but
eft her the bulk of his property, including
he Isle of Arran, which is larger than the
sic of Wight. Her income now is $500, 900 a