Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-03

1t is said that U. S. Senator Daniel will
not permit the use of his name in connec
ton with the nomination for Vice Presi
dent at the Chicago convention.
| PASSING NEWS OF THE DAY.
Mrs. J. Coleman DFs.yton (who was al
Astor) who was lately divorced from bel
husband, last week had an auction sale OF
everything that reminded her that she had
ever been bride and mother. Among the
goods sold was Mrs. Drayton' s wedding
gown, made of stiff white satin and elabo
rately embroidered in pearls. The tiny
bouquet of artificial orange blossoms
nestled in the throat of the gown, and the
| white satin slippers she wore were included
| in the lot. One big Saratoga trunk was
piled fall of ace-trimmed night gowns.
underwear covered with embroidery, silk
| hosiery and hundred other accessories of
q fine lady's toilet. More remarkable still
was the lot made up of children's toys
expensive mechanical playthings, tiny
chairs. toy piano, SC. Other curiositles
|
account book kept by the butler of the
| Draytons, which shows an expenditure of
100000 in one year, and the stubs of Mrs.
Drayton's private check book, a few years
after the i'll fated marriage. 1t shows that
she kept her account with the Bank of
America One lot consists of portraits of
J. Coleman DIayton taken at various peri
DDS in his life.
Gen. Bradley T. johnson gave a banquet
to Consul General Fitzhugh Lee at the
Grand Hotel \ nglaterra, in Havana, one
night last week. In addition to the mutual
| friends of the two generals, the editors of
all the Havana daily newspapers were pres
emit, as well as the Marquis Palmorala,
secretary to the general government of
Spain, and Governor Duboso. While the
banquet was in progress police officer
notified Mr.. W. w. Gay, correspondent of
the New York World, that by order of the
government be would he required to leave
| the island.
The v. M. I. Alumni Association has
appointed a committee to collect further
money for the monument on the Institute
grounds to the cadets who fell in battle at
Newmarket, and the survivors. 1t was
| reported that for this object the sum Of
81 300 had already been subscribed. $500
had been raised by Miss ,Freeland, $500 had
been donated by the late Gen. John Echols
and $500 had been given by various people
in West Virginia to Senator c. J. Faulkner
for that purpose. 1t is expected to make
the sum $1,000.
Bernard Krammer is under arrest at
Alpena, Mich, charged with maintaining
a lottery in disposing of custom-made suits.
He gets club of GU persons, each to depos-
it ST week. The first two whose names
are drawn get their suits for 81, the two
who draw esst the next week pay but 81,
and so on. The unfortunate ones who are
not lucky enough to have their numbers
come out until til lie end put up $50 for their
suits.
Justice Field, of the Supreme Court of
the United States. is troubled with an at
lection of the knee joint which the doctors
cannot exactly define. An application of
the Roentgen ray shows that the tibia and
the femur have almost grown together.
The hinge, so to speak, is partially solidif
ed. The result is Il very gratifying demon
istration of the value of the X ray as a
means Of disclosing the nature, location
and extent of an interior lesion.
When town Marshal McCallum arrested
Mrs. Bergman of Kuttawa, KY, eight
months ago for resisting him in his official
duty, she fell dead from heart trouble.
Last Thursday her daughter, Mrs. John
son, hid behind a tombstone in GENE terry
and sent her children to tell McCallum that
a man wanted to see him there. When he
came she rose from behind the stone with
a pistol leveled at him. McCallum drew
his pistol and shot her dead.
5. w. Jam5son, Secretary and Treasurer
Of the broken Roanoke Trust. Loan and
Safe Deposit Co.. made an assignment. He
is indebted to the company to the amount
of 1900 as borrower and endorser
Messrs. Dupuy, Flshburne and Bryan, a
committee appointed by the depositors in
the Trust Company, report af1er invest1-
eooiou eiN.o oAO uOpooAlOlo W Ill NC pau uOi-
lar for dollar.
Col. Charles s. Venable, who has Just
retired from the Chair OF Pure Mathemat-
les OF the University of Virginia, which he
filled with conspicuous ability, has been
presented by his appreciative class with
Il magnificent silver loving cup. appro-
priately inscribed. The workmanship of
the cup is beautiful and delicate The cup
was forwarded to Colonel Venable, who is
at his home in Loudoun county.
Noble Shepard, who was waiting execu-
tion in Jail at st Louis for murder escaped
from his cell some time between midnight |
and O'Clock Friday morning, crawled
some twenty feet through sewer, climbed |
to the roof of the gallows on which he was
to be hanged, thence to the high brick wall
surrounding the jail-yard and then to the
street. The,e is no d ,ubt but that he was
aided by friends on the outside.
The recent trouble Of Mrs. Langtry with
the Union Bank Of London, England, about
her Jewels, developed the fact that there is
at present in the strong room of one of the
Oldest private banks IN London, a large
quantity OF jewels, plate, and other valu-
Dies, which were deposited for safe custody