Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-05-01


Hasselbach, aged nearly seventy, and his son
William, aged IS, engaged III quarrel.
Both were drunk. and the young man seized
an axe and attempted to kill his father.
The old man drew revolver and shot his
son. Seeing what he had done the old man
turned the weapon on himself and sent a
bullet through his temple. Both will die.
An equestrian statue of Gen. Grant was
unveiled at Brooklyn, N. Y, last week. 1t
was made the occasion of splendid mill
tary pageant, 10000 soldiers of the U. S.
army, National Guards of the State of
New York, and sailors and marines from
the navy yard being in line, it was the
largest parade of armed men seen in Brook
lyn since the Columbian celebration of
1892
Last week in lancaster county Falham
district voted wet in a local optson election
by % majority. In estmorelantl county.
Cople and Washington district voted wet.
but Montross district, the county seal
voted dry. In Page county, Shenandoah
district voted dry, tiis election abolished
the last bar room in Page county.
Right in the middle OF George Wander
bits princely domain in North Carolina
an old negro owns six acres of land. which
Vanderbilt fenced in. The owner saws
"Yes. sab; dun bin waitin' sixteen yeahs
fur good nabors, an now dun got one,
don't move! No, sah!o
-Four negroes from Virginia kept Con-
nellsville and White Rock, Pa, in a state
OF siege for six hours on Friday, before
they were captured three of them were Sc
riousiy shot by the officers. In their raid
the negroes held up and robbed dozen per-
sons, securing over 5000 in cash and several
watches and diamond rings.
John Love who resides near Milton, w.
Va. arose from his bed about midnight Sat-
urday night, and fired two shots at his
wife killing her almost instantly He then
went to the room where his father-in- law
was sleeping and fatally shot him. Love
then shot himself through the brain.
Ibid my singing disturb you yester-
day?" said musical young woman. "Were
you singing p asked the impolite boarder.
"Why, Of course. Didn't you hear me %
81 believe it was your voice [ hear. But I
thought you had seen mouse. ''--Wash-
ington Star.
Represent atives Money OF Mississippi,
and Hall of Missouri, engaged in fight in
the room of the committee on naval affairs
last week. Mr.. Money receiving a bad cut
on his head where he was struck with an
ink-well hurled at him by his antagonist
The difficulty has been amicably settled.
During an electric storm last week, a
tenant on DR.. A. J. Lemaster's farm in
Berkeley Co., w. Va, had two horses kill
ed by lightning. The man was severely
stunned and may not recover. His son,
who was seated on one OF the horses, es-
cuped without injury.
Mary Alternately, one Of the colored
women who is accused Of being implicated
| in the murder Of Mrs. Pollard in Lunen-
burg county, has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree in the county
count Of Prince Edward, and sentenced to
be hung.
J "What is dollar ?" asks Colorado ex-
change. A dollar is one of those little
round, Singing disks, a large collection
of which by one man makes his wife think
the family are little better than the ordi-
nary run of people, is the way the Mime
apolis Journal answers.
| Judge Houston of the county court of
Doo ,hri1 ua hoo q
Local Option election in Kerr S Greek and
Walker Greek districts i'll that county.
| The election is to be held on Thursday, May
| Fl. Both are now license districts.
| F. J. Hudson laborer at Ivanhoe, a
mining town in Wythe Co., was shot and
killed last week by Henry Allen, a consta-
BILE. The alteration originated over a
| barrel of cider. Allen was discharged on
the ground of self defense.
The Shenandoah Herald says kthat some
sneak thief stole lighted lantern from a
| rock pile on the Main street of Woodstock
the other night, from directly in front of
| the residence of the Commonwealth At
| torney.
Gordon Lackie, the 2-year- old son of Mr..
| G, w. Lackie of Buena Vista was fatally
kicked by horse in his fathers yard on
Monday evening. The hoof struck him in
the temple and fractured the skull. He
died on Tuesday.
Bicycle wedding trips are all the rage in
France. One couple recently returned to
Paris after tour of 100 miles, all made
on their wheels. They were absent seven
weeks and had visited 314 villages.
| John B. Scott, proprietor Of the National
Hotel, Washington made an assignment on
Monday. His liabilities are estimated at
100000, and the assets, not near that
much.
Miss Kaku Sudo and Miss Haua Abe,
two young Japanese women, have just
graduated from the Laura Memorial Med
cial College Cincinnati, after taking the
four years. course.
Mrs. Julia Horsley De Witt, widow of
s. NJ. De Witt, formerly one of the owners
and editors of the Richmond Examiner,
died at Amherst Court House this week,
aged SO years.
President Cleveland, Secretary Morton,
and Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Miller, spent Friday trout fishing near
Leesburg. They are reported to have
caught many speckeled beauties.
The Press Association of Tennessee
will attend the Confederate reunion in
Richmond, which begins June 80. There
will be about five hundred people in the
party.
An unknown tramp was found in a
drunken condition on the streets OF Char