Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-01-14
NEWS OF THE DAT.

A correspondent of the North China
Daily News says Russia is gradually
securing firm footing in the PENN.
sula of Corea.
The democratic caucus last Friday
night nominated Senator Geo. Vest as
candidate for q. s. Senator to sue
coed himself from Mo.
The Carnegie Company wants the
steele plates it is supplying for war
ships tested in groups by sample and
not singly.
In the Senate Monday Mr.. Mills
spoke at length upon his resolution
that recognition is not the exclusive
right of the president.
The Pacific railroad funding bill
went down to its doom in the House
on Monday under an adverse majority
OF 66. the vote being-yeas, 1902; nays,
1853. >
The general arbitration treaty be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain was signed by Secretary Olney
aud the British ambassador on Mon.
day.
The ways and means committee con
cluded its formal tariff hea rings Mon
day. The coal mining interests asked
for the restoration OF the Mckinley
rates.
The Red Cross Society states that it
offered it's services in Cuba to the
Spanish government a month ago and
that its proposition is held under ad-
visement.
Senator Chandler has made canvass
OF the Senate on the proposition for
an international conference on silver
and finds practically no opposition.
A Vienna dispatch reports that
rumor prevails there that the recent
illness of King Humbert of Italy, which
was said at the time to be due to cold,
was, in fact, caused by a slight stroke
of paralysis.
Hon. w. j. Bryan, in a speech at a
banquet held at the fremont House.
Chicago. Thursday night, in honor of
jackson Day, said there should be no
compromise of the issues involved in
the late campaign.
Two hundred dollars have disap-
peared from the reserve vaults of tie
Treasury Department during the last
two weeks. and Treasurer Morgan is
conducting an exhaustive investiga-
ton to ascertain the leak.
VIM Munford, son of Rev. VIM. Nun
ford, OF Mlllersville, died in Richmond
Saturday night from lockjaw, the re-
suit of being kicked by horse below
the right eye. He was sent there to
be under the care OF DR.. Hunter Nc
CURE.
At Slug Sing prison N Y, last Fri
day, a prisoner named Hoffman, jump
ed from corridor to a stone pavement
below. causing injuries from which he
died. The reason alleged is that he
had been by law deprived of work.
Miss Ida V. Hoagland, private score
tary to Miss Mary Garrett, was killed
by fall down the elevator shaft in |
Mis-. CARROTS mansion in Baltimore |
last week. She was on the third floor
and attempted t. pull the elevator |
down when, losing her balence, she fell |
to the bottom of the shaft, forty feet |
below. Il
Harry Oliver, aged II years, the son
OF business man of Des Moines, Ia,
was whipped last week by Miss Flor
ence Miller, teacher in the Grant |
Park School, which the boy attended,
and half hour later. died. The boy
had heart disease, and the whipping
caused a fatal attack. The parties will
take no steps for an official quiry.
It has been made public that Miss
Il. Drayton Astor, an heiress of old
John Jacob Aston of New York, is en-
ployed as a chambermaid in the Hotel
Sicher st Sedalia, Mo-, under the name
of Dratie Langdon. She is a daughter
OF w. d. AstOr, who died of lead poi
soning in st. Louis % years ago. leav-
ing his only child in the charge of her
aunt, the widow of Major Langdon.
Miss Draytoa is said to have been left
several legacies lately.
A dispatch from Washington says;
The President and Postmaster Gener-
al Wilson got their revenge on ex-
Cadmus, OF Paterson, N.
j., yesterday, by refusing to appoint
him postmaster at that place. because ]
he refused to vote for the Wilson bill
when it first passed the House. In
stead, the President yesterday nomi
mated to the Senate for postmaster
Herman j. j. Kohlhaas, free silver 1
democrat.
Col. II. L. Boyce had narrow es-
'ape from being killed at the Norfolk Z
Ind Western depot in Berryville Tues {
lay night. In attempting to board q
he southbound passenger train. due
here at 6.13, he missed his footing,
Ind. after having been dragged some
distance, was thrown between the cars,
With both legs across the track. For 7
the engineer happened. in
ooking out OF the cab window. to see I
COLONEL Boyce's precarious situation,
nd, putting on the air brakes, succeed ! 8
d in stopping the train, when the z
wheels of the car were almost upon 2
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