Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-03

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adelphia Friday of the murder III the first
degree of an actress named Madge York, at
hotel in that city, in February Of 1895.
| He was jealous OF her and, loading up with
whiskey to give him nerve, shot her dead
| as she was sitting in her room at the hotel
| talking to another actress.
In looking over the effects of the defunct
Bank of Lexington recently. the Rockbridge
county Baltimore and Ohio Railroad sub
! scription bonds-coupon, and negotiable in
the sum Of $219. 900, which had never been
issued-were found. They were destroyed.
These bouds were in the possession of Fig
gait. the defaulting and absconding CASH
ier of the defunct bank of Lexington.
Polite Doctor (cautiously)-Y our hus-.
band is suffering from overwork OF exces
siye indulgence in alcoholic stimulants-it
is (ahem) little difficult to tell which.
Anxious wife-Oh! it's overwork. Why,
he can't even 60 to the theatre without
rushing out half a dozen times to see his
business partners.-New Y ork Weekly.
Hon. Benjamin H. Bristow, the well
| known lawyer and former Secretary Of the
| Treasury, died at his home in New York
Friday of peritonitis. He will be best re-
membered by his work as Secretary in
| breaking up the great whiskey ring which
., existed in the West to defraud the govern
ment Of the tax.
Being unable to agree on the Doctors
bill, DR.. J. I. Campbell and w. b. Craller,
the patient, of Bluefeld. W. Va. tried to
come to settlement by a fight, in which
the doctor used a base ball bat and Craller
used revolver. The medical man got
| two pistol wounds, not dangerous ones, and
the patient was badly beaten up.
Ex-U. S. Senator Lyman Trumbull of
Illinois, died in Chicago last week. He
was native of Connecticut, and began his
career in Illinois as an anti-slavery Demo
GRAFT He later drifted into the Republican
party, and in late years was Populist.
He was an Independent, sincere man, res
pected by all parties.
Miss Edith Shepard, daughter Of the late
Elliot F. Shepard of New Y ork, and one of
the Vanderbilt grand daughters, is to be
married to Ernesto Fabbrl, an Italian:
whom she met in Europe last year. Her
mother, who is sister Of Cornelius, VIM
K. and the other millionaire Vanderbilts,
is worth $1O,oOo,OoO.
The B. & D. Ry in the hands of receivers
defaulted on its July interest. Three Trust
and Safe Deposit Companies of New Y FORK
have filed bill in Cincinnati asking for
the foreclosure of their SIG, 100000 mort
cages on the Norfolk & Western railroad.
Judge Golf has ordered the foreclosure
and sale.
Two hundred bushels of new wheat,
shortberry, from Caroline county. the first
received in the Richmond market, got
there Friday and was sold for seventy
cents. The date of arrival is the same as
last year, but the selling price is fifteen
cents bushel less.
The sixtleth anniversary of Queen Vic
toria S accession to the throne was observed
in London, Saturday, with the usual
hosting of flags and ringing of church
bells. The lord mayor, Sir Walter Wilkin.
unveiled statue to the Queen at the
Royal Exchange.
A lawyer may keep her hat on when ad
dressing the court down in New Jersey, If
she happens to lie a woman. Such was the
decision of Chancellor McGill recently,
when opposing counsel ungallantly called at
tention to the fact that Hiss Philbrook, at
torney had not removed her hat.
MI. James D. Anderson, late county
treasurer of Rockbridge county and more
recently treasurer and secretary of the
Buena Vista Company, at Buena Vista. in
the boom days, has gone to California where
he will in the future reside.
State Senator VIM. Lovenstein of Rich
mond. who is believed to be hopelessly i'll,
has resigned the position of Grand Secre-
tary of the Royal Arcanum, and James B.
Blanks of Petersburg, has been appointed
to fill the unexpired term.
The flag of the 18th Massachusetts, reg
iment which was captured at the First
Manassas and came into the possession of
Col. Edmondson of Lexington, has been
sent to the Confederate museum at Rich
mond.
A married couple in Kansas City, who
never used to spend more than an hour a
day in each other company, are becoming
quite chummy since they have taken to
riding wheels-Birmingham Age Herald.
Mr.. George FL. Byrd, of New Y ork, has
offered to contribute S5,000to the Winches-
ter Hospital and Relief Association provid
ed the city of Winchester will raise SIM
lar amount by January l, 1897.
When Major Mckinley came down to
breakfast at Canton, o., Friday morning
he found the postman had left thousand
letters. The average number of letters re-
ceived daily is upwards of four thousand.
A dispatch from Key West, Fla, says
that Gen. Bradley I. Johnson, war CORES
pondent, has been notified that if he contin-
ues to send out news detrimental to Spain
he will be expelled from Cuba
The wife of DR.. Cyrus A.'Doggett of F in |
castle, died there last week of injuries sus-
tanned some days before by being thrown
from buggy, to which pneumonia was
added.
Gen. Gustavus W. Smith, who was a
Major-G General in the Confederate army,
died in New Y ork last week. He was a
Kentuckian and West Pointer, and was an
officer in the Mexican war.
Abel Hold, the great English artist, who
died recently at the age of 81, began his !
artistic career 10y painting show cloths de |
picting freaks. wild animals and battle |
scenes for ShOWmen.
Rev. Beverly D. Tucker Of Norfolk, has
been elected professor of biblical history
and also dean of the faculty of the Episco-