Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A young man named Thomas Walk
er was drowned Sunday last from a
skiff in Lancaster county.
Mrs. r. II. McGhee died at her home
in Fredericksburg Friday of consump-
ton. She leaves a husband and nine
children.
The second trial of Newton Kipler,
charged with the murder of his uncle
in Page county, has been set for the
second day of the May term Of court.
The dentists of Maryland, Virginia
and District OF Col1mbia will meet in
the Hygeia Hotel. Old Point Comfort,
May 6, and 8.
It is rumored that Colonel Joseph H.
Sands, formerly with the Norfolk and
Western railroad, will be made general
manager of the Chesapeake and Ohio
road.
Mr.. P. L. Fox, of Loudoun county.
and Miss Annie A. Baker, daughter of
Mr.. Joseph Baker, of Stafford, were
married in Fredericksburg Wednesday
night, Rev. J. P. Stumph officiating.
The wedding of Miss Lucy Lyons
Lee, grandniece of General Robert f..
Lee, to Mr.. William j. Boothe, one of
Alexandria's leading young business
men, took place in that city Wednes-
day.
Culpeper is having some difficulty
in finding candidate for Mayor. Mr..
s. Deinor, the present mayor, declines
to run, as do a number of other promi-
nent men who have been approached
on the subject.
While Joseph Deter was feeding
one of the planning machines at the
Charlottesville Lumber Company's
mills the other day his left hand was
caught and all four of the fingers were
cut off close to the palm of the hand.
Maj. Lewis Ginter of Richmond, the
millionaire cigarette manufacturer,
has resigned as director of the Amer
lean Tobacco Company. He says i'll
health is his reason for resigning. The
Major is about rs years old.
John Sharkey and his wife, who
were separated in the YOUNGSTOWN flood,
and each though the other was dead.
met on the street in Roanoke few
days ago. They went to their native
home in Buchanan county, from which
place they moved to Johnstown about
a month before the flood.
In the case of J. D. Trent VS.. the
Virginia Brewing Company, suit for
$4,000 for damages alleged to have
been received while in the employ of
said company, the jury in the Circuit
Court of Roanoke Wednesday render
ed verdict in favor of the brewing
company. 1t is understood that the
1aiufiff will taka an q pnQa1
Moses Dennis, the negro who took
Mrs. George R. Henderson's' watch
from her on April Goth, while threat
ening to kill her with knife, was tried
for highway robbery at Roanoke
Thursday. He was found guilty and
was sentenced to eighteen years in the
penitentiary.
Miss Lena Houghton, of Stafford
county, whose attempted elopement
was stopped by her arrest at the sta
ton, escaped from her parents at Fred
ericksburg on Wednesday, and Friday
morning boarded the train at Brook
Station. with her lover, and both left
for Washington.
The Bedford Democrat of Thursday
contained an article which called Edi-
tor II. Black, of the Bulletin, card
playing blackguard. Editor N. Z. Har-
rison, of the Democrat, was accosted
by Editor Black on the street, and an
old fashioned fist fight followed. Black
caught Harrison's head under his arm
and diligently pounded his features.
Black is d small man and Harrison
about medium size. Both men were
arrested aud fined.