Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-12-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.


President Cleveland has left Wash
ington for few days for shooting ex-
petition in South Carolina waters.
Lillnokalani, ex-Queen of Hawaii,
and the Princess Kalulani will meet in
Washington. 1t is intimated that ex-
| Queen is after pension.
Last week railway train was held
up within the city limits of ST. Louis.
| The robbers finding they could not
open the safe fled without any booty.
The Blacksburg foot ball team which
was very strong aggregation this
year, claims that it will be still strong
er next year.
Mrs. N. H. Greenherd OF ISL East
] Lombard street Baltimore, on Sunday
of last week found ten cent piece in
a chickens gizzard.
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller is as devo-
ted to hospitals, where her charities
are concerned, as her husband is to
universities.
The salary of President Diaz is to be
raised from $50, 900 to $500 year.
The raise takes effect from January
next.
Representative BOatner, of Louisi-
ana, has introduced bill in the House
raising the Speakers salary to $4,000
and increasing the salaries of Senators
and members to $500.
| David Zimmerman, freight brake
man on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
was instantly killed on Tuesday of last
week on the Bakerton switch, near
Harper's Ferry, while coupling cars.
| Mr.. Washington Duke, Of Durham,
N. c.. has given $4,000 for the .endow
ment of Trinity College, that State, the
only condition being that women be
admitted Oh equal terms with men.
Manufacturers of white paper used
by news publications have agreed to
form pool and deal with their GUS
toners through general agency in
New York.
On the 9th inst the last spike was
driven in the railway connecting Ashe
boro, Randolph county, with Aber
deem, Moore county, N. c.. This ad
mits of traffic between the long-leaf
pine region and the Southern railroad
James s. Hamlet, aged upwards of
70 years, a resident of Pittsylvania
county, after assaulting his wife with
a wood-axe. inflicting an ugly cash in
her head, went to a body of pines on
his farm and hanged himself last week
Preparations are said to be making
i for the manufacture of acetyline gas
at New River Falls, near Hinton, w.
Va. According TO reports it will be one
of the largest works of the kind in the
United States, employi ng about 100
men.
President Cieveland's message caused
a depression on the bourse in Madrid.
The naWspa pers, especially thuse Of the
opposition and the independent or
gans, express the greatest irritation at
American interference as Il humila
tion i'll Spain.
Maria Barber. who has been on trial
in New York city FOR several days,
charged with the murder of Dominica
Cataldo, was on last Thursday acquit
ted. This was her second trial. The
/ jury in the first trial returned q yer
dict of guilty, and she was sentenced
to death by Recorder Golf. She had
killed Cataldo because. after he had
promised to marry her. she found he
was making preparations to marry
another woman.
The bubon4c plague is spreading
everywhere in India. On Tuesday
last. there were So fresh cases and 35
deaths in Calcutta. Since the out
break there have been 1,126 cases and
| 804 dea tbs. The mortality in Calcutta
during the past week, from all diseas.
es, was about 1000, while the normal
death rate is only about 800.
! Tnl ID; 80
Review, was shot and mortally wound
ed Tuesday night, the sth inst, at
Biloxi, Miss, by j. Fl. Miller, editor of
the Biloxi Herald. Mr.. Soule was
taken to New Orleans for treatment,
but he steadily sank and died in
hospital. Rivalry and politics was the
| cause,
BY a singular coincidence three of
the Oldest persons in West Virginia
met together at Monongah a day or
| kins, aged 100; Mrs. Rachel Cunning
ham, aged 1903, and Jacob Boxer, aged
| 104. They met at dinner given by
| Mrs. Watkins. There were two Others
present aged So and 81.
Governor. elect Atkinson of w. Va,
has appointed John A. Boyd of Mar
fshall county, a representative on the
board of penite nsiary directors, p. III.
Dobbins to be paymaster-generali in
place of Gen. John Hoe Russell, and
Morris Horkenheimer of Wheeling, to
a position on his staff, with the rank
of colonel.
Twelve thousand people saw Teddy
Hale. in the six day bicycle race at
Madison Square Garden, cross the fin
ish line Saturday night a winner. with
1907 miles and 80 laps to his credit. |
Hale broke all records from 101 miles
up, and shattered the six day record |
by 80 miles and laps. Il
Informa ton received here. says a |
reliable Washington correspondent of |
a New York journal, from hources close |
to MIR. Mckinley is to the effect that !
the next President will issue on the |
day of his inauguration, call for an |
extra session of Congress, and that it |
will assemble week later, between |
the 18th and the 10Th.
The supreme court of Missouri has
ruled that a telegraph company is liza
bic for mistakes made by it in the
Transmission of kilograms. The court
declares the printed contract at the
head of every Geographic message
blank, providing that the company is
not liable for unrepeated messages, is
invalid.
Elk Queen Lillnokalani Of Hawaii,
arrived unexpectedly at San Francisco
From Honolulu on the steamer China,
Fridl y. The object of her visit is at
present unknown, but the impression
which existed among the passengers is
that Lillnokalani is en- route to Wash !
ipgton, where it is her intention to
make a final and urgent appeal to
President Cleveland for the restoration
of her throne.
Cleveland's Portrait Gu.
Out il Chicago they have not only