Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-05-20
The Walton gold mine in Louisa, has
now been sold to New York parties,
who are ready to operate it.

now been sold to New York parties,
who are ready to operate it.
The republicans of the fifth district
of North Carolina have unanimously
nominated Thomas s. Settle for Con
gress.
James Kahn, who some months ago
killed his wife in drunken spree, was
acquitted Thursday by jury in the
Hastings Court, at Richmond.
Captain General Weyler has ordered
all farmers in the western part OF Cuba
having corn, to deposit it in the vii
lagos in which are quartered Spanish
troops.
Lightning struck and set fire to big
frame house on T. G. Cramer's farm,
near Norfolk, Thursday, and an old
colored man and boy persisted in the
flames.
The Reichstag, Friday, by vote Of
IA to 1914, adopted the sugar bill with
various notifications and a resolution
in favor of the early removal Of export
bounties.
There is probability that the Span
ish government will attempt to put in
operation the new reforms for Cuba
without waiting for the insurrection
to be suppressed.
The President Thursday received the
committee of the national conference
to promote arbitration, and expressed
himself pleased to sustain the views of
the conference.
At Savannah, Ga, Thursday, the
Morton Cadets. of Washington, drilled
in the interstate contest for the cham
pionship cup and $4,000, which they
won without much trouble.
A cavern occurred at the Opal mines
near Queretaro. Mexico, Wednesday
and ten men we're buried with earth
and stones. Four of the miners were
killed and several others injured.
Mr.. VIM. Austin, of Amelia county,
was killed by lightning last Wednesday.
Mr.. Austin was horseback riding, when
thur derstorm came up and he was
struck by lightning, and both he and
his horse were instantly killed.
Destructive storms are reported in
Oklahoma, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Missouri. Houses were blown, railroad
tracks washed out and growing crops
damaged. There were rumors of loss
of human life, but they were not con-
firmed.
The Fifty fourth Congress. which
will soon adjourn, will go down to pos
terity as the do nothing Congress. But
after all it ought not to be blamed SO
much because it started out to do moth
ing; served notice on the public to that
effect when it assembled, and has faith
fully kept its promise. That's some
State.
ROBBERS FOILED.-HuntingtO W.
w., May 15-A crowd of masked men
assembled at the watering tank near
Nolan. on the Norfolk and Western
road last midnight. to rob the north
bound express train. The crew we're
notified by wire and passed the tank at
high rate of speed. The robbers at
tempted to stop the train with a red
light.
A most discouraging view Of the Grim
inal statistics of the state is the notori
Gus increase of vice and crime among
the negroes. While there is no relative
increase of white criminals in the peni-
Tertiary the colored contingent has
doubled in fifteen years. notwithstand
ing the fact that there has been no cor
responding increase of population.
The usual pre- election howl about
idle wooden mills has begun. A little
truth from these factories would show
that they are doing as much work I'M
der the Wilson tariff as they did under
the Mckinley law, and are probably
making as much legitimate profit,
while the masses would testify that
they are wearing better clothing and
paying no more for it than they did
for shoddy. The robbers prerogative
may be again guaranteed by a tariff
law, but we think not.-Chd1 lotteSUil1e
Progress.