Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-05-29
PASSING NEWS OF THE DAY.


convention chose free silver delegates.
PASSING NEWS OF THE DAY.
What will probably prove one Of the
st. Louis Wednesday evening. A tornado
blowing at eighty miles an hour struck the
city at S p. m. East st. Louis. on the H.
linois side Of the Mississippi river, suffer-
ed most. Hundreds of persons it is said
were killed in the falling buildings and the
hospitals are filled to overlooking with the
wounded. One hundred and fifty per-
sons were killed at the race track.
with all on board. It'll also reported that
q train from q !hieago to st. Louis over the
Alton road was blown INTO the Ii i -. all9
two hundred persons drowned. No esti-
mate has yet been made Of the total loss
by the great disaster.
In the trial of Walter Haas at Woodstock
for shooting ut Miss Lucy McCann on the
street Of Woodstock While she was walking
Out with an escort, has resulted ia 9 hung
jury-eleYen for conviction and one for ac-
uuittaI. The defense pleaded temporary IL
sanity claiming that Miss 4-cC2np had
deliberately encouraged Haas attentions
him into an irresponsible frenzy. Both
parties are well connected, the young lady
icing niece of County Treasurer George
W. Koontz, and the young man a brother
in-law of l.. S. Walker, clerk of the Shenan-
doah County Court.
e. w. Speaks, a young man of Buck Hall,
near Manassas, died Tuesday as the result
Of dose of corrosive sublimate, deadly
poison. which was administered to him on
Tuesday of last week by his sister through
mistaking the fatal drug for quinine. The
young mans sister is FRUSTRATED with grief
over her fatal error.
At the Asbury Park N. j.. camp meet
ing Thurday, ex-senator Doolittle, of Wis
consin, urged the publication of work on
the United States of America in the light
of prophecy as well as history. He said
the Prophet Daniel alluded to this country
when be said that the people shall govern
themselves.
AS the Democratic legislature of Califor-
MIA passed a bill for submitting woman
suffrage amendment to the constitution. to
the people to be voted on, and the Republi-
cans of the State have in their convention
put plank in their platform endorsing it..
it is pretty certain California will have wo-
man suffrage.
New York city has been making great
effort to get President Daniel g. Gilman
Of the Johns Hopkins University to take
the position of Superintendent of the
schools Of that city. U nder the new educa-
cational law passed by the last legislature.
it is. OF will be, a. $4,000 place, the ap-
pointment to be for six years. He has de-
clined the place.
Gen. Bradley T. johnson, now residing
in Richmond, leaves for Cuba in few
days, ostensibly as a war correspondent OF
a New York newspaper syndicate. He WAS
d fine fighter in the Confederate army, and
that lies more in his line than writing for
newspapers, though he does that we'll too
Sunday, Mr.. j. N. Murphy at Charlottes-
vile liberated a number OF hom1ng pigeons.
Next morning he received letter from E.
E. Perry, owner of the birds at Whining
ton Del, announcing their safe arrival
Their best speed was LOO yards per min
ute.
The Northern Methodist General Con-
ference has declared non-effective Bishop
VIM. Taylor Of Africa, and retired him.
He resisted the action on the floor of the
conference, but found little aid. He is a
native of Rockbridge.
1t. G. B. Gatewood. 9th U. S. cavalry.
died at Fortress Monroe on Wednesday of
last week, Of cancer of the stomach. He
was from Woodstock, Va, grad uated from
West Point nine years AGO, and had made
IN excellent record.
Prof. Leopold Boecz. who Tor five years
filled the chair Of Civil and Applied Math
ematics ana Mechanical Eng ineerug at
the University of Virginia, ana WHO went
to Philadelphia in 1873 to live. died in that
city last week.
The Speaker Of the British House Of
Commons gets salary OF $z5,eoo q year,
ana BESIDES that, lie gets Gu bis election
.1g9 equipment money. ard two thou
sand 09nces of silver plate. He is allowed
}Ju anuuaily for stationery.
Arbitration has settled the accounts be
tween Contractor Ferguson and the Ches-
apeake " Western Ry., at S2,415. There
are rumors That section West Of Bridge
wafer viii soon be let.
Edward II. Kennedy who died in hos
pital at Philadelphia last week, left his
whole fortune, over &100.03 to the Penn
syIyania Society for the presaat iasesssEslIf, Il.
city TO animals j. '. q y
I Ricssafs1 lat
Gesszzzaslmond correspondent saws t., of
.sssss: Q Ferrali has received an off,, H.
5000 to $4,000 = year to become The h., s,,r
d Z business concern IN Richmond II
Us Term as governor expires.
Inc contract for the new buildings at ,.e
' hlverslty Of Virginia, was on Nor. 3'0s
o Charles e.. Langley 8 Co.. Of Pj ,.-',.s yld
sn ~, s'd Was uoder S800,00o.
1hs General Conference Of tbs NJ. n
aebhodlst Church has a6onfos '0e Oh |