Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-01-01
Four-fifths of bushel of wheat
bought dollar in the good old days
of bimetallism.-Ath Post,

At Gordonsville, Christmas Day
Thomas D. Noble was shot and dan
Igerously wounded by Edgar Stratton
Noble went into Mr.. Stratton's store
when the Ia tier demanded payment o
thirty cents. Some words followed
when Stratton shot Noble in the back
Physicians have as yet been unable t.
locate the ball.
Rev. E. w. McCorkle, d. D., for tn,
(past fifteen years pastor of the Presby
terrain Church at Clifton Forge, Va.
has received a call to the pastorate O
the Frankfort (Kv.) Church, and hs.
the matter under consideration.
A number of persons were trample6
to death and many more were injured
last Friday night in panic at Front
Street Theatre in Baltimore. Some
one cried fire while the theatre was
crowded at dramatic performance
and another person turned off the gat
from part of the building. thus pre-
cipitating the panic
The anti-English demonstration at
Caracas on Thursday is declared to
have been the grandeet outburst in
the annals of Venezuela. There was a
parade of 10000 men to witness the
American colony deposit a wreath on
the statue of the liberator, Bolivar.
In the fighting which preceded the
fall of Zeitoun $500 Armenians were
killed, and it is feared that thousands
of men, women and children who fed
to the mountains will be massacred.
An earthquake shock has been ex-
perienced in the province of Galicia,
Spain. Several houses collapsed, but
no fatalities are reported.
On Friday, Andrew Rhoades, tele-
graph operator at Fredericksburg for
the Richmond, Fredericksbu and
Potomac Railroad, committed suicide
by shooting himself.
Last Friday at Roanoke colored
man of bad reputation, named Nose
Dennis, was arrested for grossly In
sulting a white lady.
Last Friday at Huntington, w. Va,
J. NJ. Bingham was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary for assaulting
Editor YorrelL
A monster demonstration, lin which
all political parties were represented.
and in which 4O, 600 people participated,
was given in honor of Captain-General
Campos, in Havana, on Saturday.
The insurgent retreat is said to have
left the province of Matanzas.
Profit W. Saunders, a deaf-mute,
and for many years teacher in the Mis-
sissippi State Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
was shot and instantly killed on Wed
nesday night by his nephew. G. K.
Young, who mistook him for bur-
glar.
AS result of the explosion of gas in
the Cumnock coal-mine in N. c., there
are % widows and 100 fatherless chill
dren.
On Thursday, George w. Fechner, OF
Washington, D. c., attempted to COM
nit suicide in Portsmouth, Va, by
inhaling gas in his room. He had writ
ten letter requesting that his body
be cremated and his ashes thrown to
the wind.
Thursday, Secretary Herbert formal
ly awarded TO the Newport News Com
pany of Virginia the contract for build
ing both of the new battle-ships.
A jury of inquest which investigated
the panic at Front Street Theatre last
Friday night, in which % persons
we're killed, gave verdict that the
blame for the disaster could be attach
ed to mo one but the audience itself.
At the request of the United States
Minister, Hon. q. w. Terrell, the
Sultan of Turkey has ordered that
regular troops replace the reserve
soldiers who are guarding the mis-
sionaries in the exposed parts OF the
empire.
1t is reported in Berlin that Lord
Salisbury is attempting to secure
combined diplomatic action in Europe
to resist the latest application OF the
Monroe doctrine.
At Cochranville, w. Va, Frank
Rogers shot Alice McClelland, lnf1ict-
ing what will probably prove fatai
wound, and then killed himself.
The House on Saturday passed the
bill providing for an issue OF coin
bonds and certificates OF Indebtedness
and also providing that the green
backs should be re-issued.
The composition ofsthe Senate com
mittees proves the existence OF q
shameful bargain between the Repub
l1cans and Populists.
It is charged that by the promise OF
something substantial. the Repuph-
cans secured the influence OF the Nor
mon Church and we're thus enabled 70
capture Utah.
Thursday. Ben Brown and man
named Coleman, both c0lored, were
run over by railway trains near
Lynchburg and killed.
George Mcdonald, son Of Congress-
man w. A. Mcdonald, was shot ana
killed at Waycross. Ga, on "Wednesday
| by T. j. Mcdonald.
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