Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-04-03
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cate problems with which obstetrical sur
gerry has to grapple before childbirth.
According to an arrangement between
the counsel for the racing men and the
Commonwealth s Attorney. a case was
made up at the St. Asaph :rack near AL
exandria, on Monday, to test the Maupin
i'll, by the arrest and bailing of five per-
sons who had violated it. They will not
be tried before September unless the coun-
ty judge orders a special grand jury.
Saturday, while James Ford and Harry
Somers, painters, were putting the finish
ing touches to the top Of the spire OF the
Baptist church at Grand, Oklahoma, dur
ing a thunderstorm, there came d binding
flash of lightning and the next moment the
two men were seen lying dead Oh the root
with their clothing on fire. The top of the
spire was split and the painters scaffold-
ing knocked away.
When the hill eau p il Tn ';a-sa
chussetts legislature la We or Il
equestrian State Gen. Zen. +. iSutl'
it was vigorously ppo ei ~ Seve1a' e
army officers, il Guiding Gep. Fl anciS =
Walker, on the grnun That he had eve
SHOWN any military hnow.,ds+, and jl tre
only battle in which he ersonaily directed
the movements of the troops (Drury 5
Bluff he was defeated.
Alexander Carr, who hsd been shamming
insanity for 4 year in the Atlanta, Ga,
Jail and been the subject of several exami
nations by ''experts," broke down last
week and voluntarily acknowledged the
fact. He said the strain of kesping up the
shamming day and night for a year was so
great that he would rather die than keep it
up. He was hung last Friday.
Miss Byrd Watkins of Topeka, Kansas,
daughter Of a Kentucky lawyer, has, after
serving at several minor stations on the
Union Pacific Ry., been promoted to train
dispatcher at Junction City, Kansas. She
is just twenty-three years old and is the
youngest dispatcher on the road.
Old Otterbein church in Baltimore. the
parent church of the United Brethren, the
founder Of that denomination. Rev. VIM.
Otterbein, having used that organization
in IVA to found it, is about being remCd-
eled. 1t is the Oldest church building in
Baltimore.
Prof. Homer Henkel Sherman Of thu
Randolph Macon Academy at Front Royal,
Va, was married there last week to Miss
Laura G. Bowman, daughter OF Geo. g.
Bowman, the Cashier of the Bank of War
ren. The groom will enter the ministry in
the Baltimore NJ. E Conference, South.
Tue Champaign Co., ILL.,, grand jury have
indicted Gov. John Z. Alleged and the en-
tire Board of Trustees Of the Univs rsity
of Illinois, tor not complying with the
State law, requiring that the American
flag be displayed over the State University
building.
The Franklin, W. Va, Review reports
the rumor that Rev. Sam w. Snail will
make his future home at Buckhannon, w.
Va, and that church will be built there
for his use when not engaged in revival
| work elsewhere.
Miss Helen Martin of Scottsville, a sis
ter of Senator Martin, died on Friday at
the home Of another brother in Richmond,
whittier she had gone two weeks ago III
tending to have surgical operation per-
formed.
Col. Robert n. Mayo of Westmoreland
county, who commanded the 47th Virginia
infantry, and since the war had been a Re
publican member of congress and member
of the Virginia legislature, died on Sunday
last.
Photographs produced by N-rays, simpl,
from the ordinary heat radiation and with
out electric aid OF Crookes tubes are ex
hibited in Harrodsburg, KY. Prot. H. 5
Greene and photographer b. f. Spillmaf
of that town took them.
A London, England, jury has given Mrs
Arthur Kitson verdict for $780, 900 dam
ages against Dr.. VIM. Playfair, her ply
stefan, who revealed a professional secre
about her. The doctor only told his wife
but she circulated it widely.
James Kyle of Wythe Co., Va, larg
cattle dealer, aged eighty-five, ran off last
week with Miss Senah OF Grayson county
aged eighteen, and they were married a
Bristol, going from there on wedding
trip the Florida.
In King William Co., Va, woman ha
been appointed on the county school board
but as the law it is said contemplates onl
men in such positions, it is likely the poin
will he raised against her.
pIroxr W bo rroat Linr n
Pittsburg, stopped at the Jefferson Hotel
Richmond, Friday, on his way with hi
wife to Florida. During the twenty-fou
hours he was there he did not 90 out.
The great battle-ship Iowa was Launched
at the Cramps ship yard in Philadelphia
Saturday. She was christened by a daugh
ter of Gov. Drake OF Iowa. The ship whel
completed will cost So 600. 900.
Judge John II. Reagan, Postmaster
General of the Confederate States and tn
last surviving member of President Davis
cabinet, is reported dying at his home il
Palestine, Texas.
The Utah legislature has passed a law re
Iuiring that all public school teacher
holding the same certificate of grade
whether men or women, shall receive tn
same pay.
While Miss Alley Baldwin. teacher of ar
and elocution in the Russell College, a
Lebanon, Va, was eating breakfast there
she was stricken with paralysis. She diet
) without regaining consciousness.
At the burial of Mrs. Geo. Jenkins nea
Naysyille, Ky, the pail bearers were he
three grown daughters OH one side of th