Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-09-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.

look after more carefully?
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Andrew Jewell was struck and kill
ed by Norfolk and Western train,
near Luray Thursday.
The Norfolk Warehouse Company is
erecting large cotton compress IN At
lantic ward.
Harrisonburg is to enlarge its water
supply and will spend $50. 600 in piping
water from Dry river. near Rawley
Springs, twelve miles distant.
A son of R. M. Morris fell from one
of the buildings at the University OF
Virginia Friday. Aug. 9th, and was
seriously injured.
Mr.. Edmund Haislip, a well-known
citizen of Spottsylvania county, died
on Wednesday at his home, aged eighty
years.
A colored youth named Thornton
was seriously wounded Friday. Aug:
9th, in a cutting ARRAY by Major
Chapman, also colored, at Manassas.
Lightning struck a threshing ma
chine on Brush Creek, in Montgomery
county, and two men were killed in
stantly, two fatally injured, and ten
others seriously shocked.
The democratic primary held in
Lynchburg Friday, Aug. 9th, for a
candidate for the House of Delegates
resulted in the nomination of Upton
D. Jennings.
The fifteenth annual session of the
Shenandoah Baptist Association, at
Charlestown, W. Va, adjourned Fri
day, Aug. 9th, to meet next year at
Front Royal.
Miss Eliza A. Paxon died at the home
of her brother, Mr.. 7. NJ. G. Paxon,
near Clark's Gap, after a protracted
illness, at an advanced age, on Thurs
day last.
Rev. L. A Racey, pastor of the Uni
ted Brethren in Christ Church, Prince
menced a meeting in beautiful grove
in the suburbs OF Manassas.
Mr. w. D. Hill, OF Houston, Halifax
county, has been appointed Deputy
National Councillor of the Junior Order
United Americans Mechanics for the
State of Virginia.
Maj. Lewis Ginter of Richmond, who
has been at Bar Harbor, Me-, during
the simmer, suffering with diabetes, is
worse and will be brouhht to Rich
mona at once.
John +. Alsop, one OF the most prom
inent and wealthy citizens of Spottsyl
vania, died on Wednesday afternoon
at his home in that county, aged ~
years. He was one of the largest land
owners in the county.
The wheat crop of Orange county is
larger this season than for twenty
years past, and many of the farmers
who were holding for higher price
are being rewarded, now that wheat
has SO materially advanced.
Mr. James N. Stubs. of Gloucester,
who was recently defeated for renomi-
nation for the Senate, has been nomi
Eated for the House. Mr.. Stubs has
been in General Assembly twenty eight
years.
Maj Mann Page, National President
OF the Farmers Alliance, besides pub
licity declaring that he will support
the democratic ticket this fall, has
written to Hon. J. Hoge Tyler con-
graf uiating him and all true Virginians
on his nomination for Governor.
Ella Gibson, q good looking white
woman, from Franklin county, was ar
rested in Roanoke Monday on the
charge of horse stealing and lodged in
jail She is also charged with house
breaking. 1t is said that she has five
sisters, and the resemblance between
the six is SO close that it is difficult to
tell one from the other.
The crop of wheat in Virginia this
year is about $4,000, 900 bushels. 1t is
larger by 100000 than any raised
since the var. At an average of S5c
per busheI, it means $22, 100000 to the
farmers of the State.
Mr. Chas. B. Wood, the pioneer fruit
grower of Rappahannock county, was
offered last week $4,000 for his apple
crop, which he refused. The trees in
his orchard, which is the finest in that
section, are loaded with the finest
fruit, being unusually large and per-
feet.
An unknown doner has sent 81 900
to President Wilson, of Washington
and Lee University through ex Presi
dent Cleveland. The money is to be
used for the benefit of the university
according to President Wilson's per
sonal judgment, it is believed the
money was subscribed by Mr.. Cleve
land himself.
A special meeting of the State Board
of Education was held Wednesday at
Dundee, Governor O'FerralPs suburb
an residence. Mr. w. W. Pendleton
was elected Superintendent of public
schools in Allegheny county. This
completes the list in the State,
a new electric dynamo and $50 lights
have been added to the silk mills at
Fredericksburg These improvements
were rendered necessary by the in
creased business of this ablishmenI
it being necessary now to work force
of night hands as we'll as day opera
tives.
The Zionist Congress opened at Basic
Monday. Two hundred delegates from
various parts of Europe were in atten
dance. Among other subjects the con-
gress will discuss, is the plan for the
purchase of Palestine and the settle
ment there of the Jews. DIR. Herzl.
the originator of the scheme, and DR..
Nordau were elected presidents.
Brunswick county democrats on Sat-
urday renominated DR.. r. s, Powell
for the House. An interesting contest
was practically decided on Saturday
in the democratic primaries of Motto
way county. James Mann securing the
majority of the delegates to the nomi-
mating convention for the House over
Gen. Geo. j. Hundley, the present in
cumbent. The democrats of Prince
William county have nominated G.. G..
Gallaher for the House over Mr.. Pat
ton, by a large majority.
The fourteenth animal exhibition of
the Loudoun County Live Stock Exhi-
bition Association closed in Leesbure
on Thursday after a two days meeting.
The attendance on the opening day
was small. but on Thursday nearly
three thousand people were on the
grounds. A feature of the fair was an
exhibition drill and fancy riding bv
troops E and G., Sixth United States
CAVALRY given on Thursdav ovo,.;,c.