Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-05-01
PASSING NEWS OF THE DAY.

reputation as ScOrcher. met terrible
death Saturday while racing along the ork
road near Baltimore with an electric car.
He was returning from the ball game, and
was encouraged to race with the car by the
crowd that filled it. The motorman put
on full speed, and there was a neck and
neck race for some distance. While des-
cending steep hill at a terrible pace Mr..
Andrews front wheel was noticed to turn
suddenly, and the rider was thrown over
the handlebars directly in front OF the
speeding car. The motorman made an in
effectual attempt to cheek the speed Of bis
car, but the front wheels passed over
the young man. nearly cutting him in
two. He was dead when his dismembered
remains were picked up by the police and
sent to his home.
The Rev. G. H. Wiley Of Lynchburg,
who has been assisting the Rev. G. w.
Leftwich. Of Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church, Norfolk suddenly disappeared from
that city Tuesday morning of last week. He
started from his boarding house, ostensibly
TO visit friend at Lambert Point, but, in
fort. The Rev. MI. Leftwich went to Old
Point in search of the missing man,
out returned without learning anything,
other than that he had passed through the
place. 1t is thought that Mr.. Wiley is
temporarily unbalanced, on account Of the
severe mental strain which he has under
gone recently. Mr.. Wiley was found in
he Union depot at Richmond, Monday.
At Rockville, Ind, last week, Peter
Egbert, without provocation, shot Mrs.
Herman Hakse and two children, his next
door neighbor. He then went up town
and seeing the sheriff, W. M. Null, and his
Deputy, VIM. Swoon, shot the sheriff in
the back of the head killing him instantly.
SWoom turned and was shot IN the neck,
be fell to the street and expired instantly.
The murderer escaped to the woods, but
an armed party surrounded him, but he re
fused to surrender. Egbert then went to
hut and before the party came up shot
himself in the breast dying at once. No
cause can be assigned for the deed.
There axe over thousand men in New
DIRK and Brooklyn, according to the latest
returns. who are worth between 81 600, 900
and 81 $4,000 each, and the most of them
are entirely unknown to the general public
Only two citizens of New York; ohm D.
Rockefeller and w. w. Astor-are sup
posed to be worth more than $4,000 900
apiece, but there are nine who are each
worth S5o, 600 900 and over, as we'll as two
estates OF like amount. The total number
OF millionaires in these two cities is greater
than In all the rest Of the country.
Salem, Va, was visited Saturday after
noon by one Of the worst storms seen there
for years. A large frame storehouse near
The passenger depot, suddenly collapsed,
buryIng under the heavy timbers nine col
ored people. AS soon as it was generally
known. doctors and citizens went to the
spot, and after much work the unfortunate
negroes were released. One man and two
chlleren died soon after they were taken
out, while some of the others are badly in
jured.
An Equal Rights Association was organ
lied last week in Richmond, which is to be
an auxiliary to the woman 3 Suffrage Asso-
citation of Virginia, with Miss Annie Clay
Crenshaw as president. 1t has three OBJ
jects for which it will work: First. The
admission of women to the University of
Virginia on equal terms with men. Sec
ond. The placing Of women on the boards
of all public schools. Third. The appoint
ment of women doctors in the female de-
partment of all the insane asylums.
A barn near Collierstown, Rockbridge
belonging to MI. J. Robert Montgomery,
was destroyed by fire about $3.50 O'Clock
Wednesday afternoon of last week with all
it's contents. 1t contained a quantity of
forage for stock and valuable lot of farm
ing machinery and implements. The total
loss is put at $3.50. The barn was insured
in the Rockbridge mutual insurance COM
pany at $3.50 and the contents at $500. The
origin of the fire is mystery.
Over year ago a Pennsylvania man
proclaimed the theory that if anybody gave
up the use of liquor and tobacco on April
ID, he would never desire to drink OF use
the weed again. Several of his friends
tried the experiment on April ID, 1895, and,
curiously enough, not one of them has re-
turned to pipe OF bottle. So there may be
good in the number 10 after all.
At Union City Pa, Saturday, Sim,