Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-02-19

induced the Armenian insurgents to
accept the conditions of surrender
offered by the Porte. The revolution
airy Hyntchakists are to be expelled
from Zeitonn, the people are to be
allowed to retain their old weapons
and the 5000 Armenian refugees are to
return to their villages.
Dreadful stories come from Yoke
hama of the treatment of Japanese by
Formosa rebels, some correspondents
of the Japanese newspapers going SO
far as to say that the Chinese practice
cannibalism. The bodies of prisoners
are horribly mutilated after being
killed.
Grant Atterbury was lynched by a
mob at Sullivan, ILL.,, early Wednesday
morning. He was charged with the
murder of his father and assault upon
his brothers wife,
The coroner's jury in the case OF
Pearl Bryan found that cocaine had
been administered to her and that she
/ was decapitated while alive at the
place at which her body was found in
Kentucky, just across the Ohio river
from Cincinnati.
Judge Emery D. Potter died at
Toledo, Ohio, Wednesday, aged
ninety two years. He was a member
of Congress in 1851, and advocated
three-ce postage sand three-cent
stamps
The Herald's special correspondent
in Guayaqutl, Ecuador, sends word
that many lives were lost. thousands
made homeless and that property
worth millions was destroyed in fire
in that city, which started in con
| vent.
DIR. Carleton Simon, of No. ia East
Fifty-sixth street N. Y, succeeded in
photogreph his brain with pro
cess which did not involve the use OF
cathode rays.
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, an
nounces his candidacy for the republi
can nomination for President.
Prince Boris, eldest son of Prince
Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, was baptised
in the Greek Church Friday.
| Miss Ward, an American, has been
robbed OF valuable jewels at the Grand
| Hotel at Monte Carlo.
Representative Livingston, of Georgia,
will go to Venezuela to impress upon
the people of that country the neces
sity of maintaining peaceful relations
with Great Britain for the present.
| General Miles recommends that the
regular army be increased by 1000
men, and that special attention be
given to the artillery.
| The Venezuelan commission met
Friday and elected Percy Allen to be
assistant secretary.
A severe earthquake shockwas felt
in the eastern end of the Island of
Cuba Wednesday.
The assignee of the wrecked Bank of
Lexington, at Lexington, Va, an
nounces another dividend of 10 per
cent. to the depositors, making, 60 per
cent. in all paid.
At Pocahontas, George Gray shot
and killed Leon Hartsook. In the
ARRAY Miss Clara Clemens was wound
| ed.
Last Thursday Rev. DIR. w. II. Chrise
tian, prominent minister of the Vir,
GINA Conference, Methodist Episcopal
Church South, died In Richmond. His
son married the daughter of Gen'l
Stonewall Jackson.
Mrs Mary Lease, of Kansas, has be-
come preacher, and will now preach
the gospel instead of politics, which is
better, particularly such politics as she
preached. What her husband is now
to do is not stated. He does not seen
to be worth mentioning-"the gray
mare seeming to be the better horse"
Another Cuban expedition. including
about one hundred of the survivors Of
the Hawkins expedition, sailed from
New York Monday of last week. It
was made up of Cubans from this city,
New York and Boston. The steamer
Englewood, hailing from Nova Scotia.
is the vossel She carries to the in
surgents 100000 rounds of cartridges
and 1000 stands of arms.