Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-05-13

Col. Lamb. chairman of the republi
can State committee, says he did in
Justice to Gen. Edgar Allen and Judge
Waddil in a recent publication.
j. Francis Kurl, of Kentucky, a
former student of Washington and Lee
University, was drowned near Lexing
ton Wednesday morning while bathing
IN North river.
Capt. j. Henry Rives has announced
himself as candidate for mayor of
Charlottesville at the election this
month. He is republican, and one
of the delegates from this district to
the st. Louis convention.
Solomon Marable and Mary Aber
nathy sentenced for the murder of
Mrs. Pollard in Lunenburg county
have been taken to Lynchburg where
they will be kept till the time for the
execution.
A young man named George G. Haag
took strychnine, and killed himself at
the Monarch boarding house, San
Francisco, Cal, last Wednesday. alleg
ing that he belonged to the Central
Suicide Club of New Jersey. This is
valuable organization, and may be the
means of doing valuable service. Most
everybody knows a few individuals
who they wish would join it.
Captain General Weyler has ordered
the expulsion from Cuba of two New
York newspaper correspondents.
An order of the President extending
the protection of the civil-service law
to about 80, 900 additional employees of
the government was issued Wednes-
day.
Rev. George P. Knapp. the Ameri-
can missionary who was expelled from
Bitlis by the Turkish authorities, has
arrived in Constanstinople in good
health.
King Humbert has donated 100000
francs to the families of the soldiers
killed and wounded in the African
campaign and 900 francs to the Red
Cross Society for the benefit of the
| wounded.
AT Farmville Judge Crute sentenced
Mary Alternately. colored. convicted
of the murder of Mrs. Pollard, to be
hung July 8.
Last Thursday A. A. Stetson, a rail-
road employee, attempted to commit
suicide at Cape Charles by cutting his
throat.
1t is deemed altogether improbable
that there would be bolt of the Vir-
ginia silverities in event of the adop |
ton of soun1-money platform by the
Chicago convention.
A new hospital at Martinsburg. W.
Va, secured through the efforts of the
Kings Daughters Hospital Circle, will
be opened May 14-to morrow.
A manatee or ''sea COW" from Florida
has been received by the Central Park
menagerie in N. Y. city.
The Methodist General Conference,
at Cleveland, Ohio, decided to allow
the four women elected as delegates to |
retain their seats and to refer to the |
annual conferences a constitutional |
amendment making women eligible as |
lay delegates.
The Michigan republican convention
instructed for Mckinley and adopted
the currency plank of the Minneapolis
platform as substitute for two resolu
tons, one denouncing and the other
favoring the free coinage of silver
The arrest of Fred Rhodes in Rich
mond leads the police to believe that
they haye an important counterfeiter
Police Sergt. Hall last week arrested |
Rhodes in his room at a boarding
house there. Rhodes claimed to be
carpenter, but his dress. education,
make this doubtful. He says he came
there from Berlin six years ago.
1t now appears that two more VIC
Tins must be added to the list of the
drowned in the Wyanoke disaster.
Mary Taylor and Emma Braxton, two
colored passengers.
The student body of Washington and
Lee University, headed by the senior
and junior law classes, 900 strong,
in a body Tuesday night,
May 9Th, from the University campus to
''Blandome," the residence of Hon. J.
Tucker, dean of the law
school, to tender their congratulations
to Doctor Tucker upon the occasion of
the successful termination of the con
test of his son, Hon. Harry St. George
Tucker, Congressman from this the {
Tenth Virginia Congressional district,
oves Yost, the contestant II
The republicans of Jackson ward,
Richmond, the only republican ward
10 the 0itv have two council tick ets IN