Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-01-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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destined for the insurgents.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Twenty-nine bodies have been taken
from the wreck at Cahaba River, Ala,
which occurred last week.
Train wreckers took up a rail last
Thursday or the Seaboard Air Line
road near Raleigh, N. c., and wrecked
a night train.
The final New-Years reception at
the White House Of the present ad
ministration eclipsed in many respects
those OF preceding years
Mr.. John W. Holland. leading citi
zen of Danville, has made an assign
$40. 900. He is an indorser of his broth
er, the late G. &. Holland, for $14S, 600.
Theodore George Wormly. NJ. D.,
Phi. D.. LII. D., the distinguished
chemist, died at his home in Philadel-
phia on Sunday. Sd inst, aged seventy
years. His death was due to gastritis.
United States Senator John M. Pal
mer, sound money democratic candi-
date for president at the recent cleo
ton, is confined to his bed and Is
threatened with pneumonia.
Southern Arkansas, Northern Texas,
and Northwestern Louisiana were
swept by a terrible wind and rain
storm on last Sunday causing the loss
of number CT lives and the destruc-
ton of a great deal of property.
The Baltimore & Ohio shops at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, closed down indefi-
niteIy last week, on peremptory tele-
grams from Baltimore. Five hundred
men are thrown out of employment,
entailing loss to the city of $25, 900 a
month.
The fact that good apples in Maine
are now selling at ten cents a barrel is
not calculated to induce the farmers of
that State to feel convinced that they
acted in their own interest when they
voted the plutocratic ticket last No
VEN Gazette.
The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius and
| the armed dispatch vessel Dolphin
have been ordered to Florida waters to
reinforce the fleet of government yes
sells now engaged in an effort to sup
press fllbustering expeditions bound
| for Cuba. &
The Charlotte IN. CO. Observer build
| ing sustained disastrous loss by fire
last Friday night, the result of an ex
ptosion in the Office of the business
manager of the job department on the
second floor. The explosion was the
work of shareholders, who attempted
to blow open the safe in that Office.
While Mr.. Frank Scott YVES driving
up Main street in Fincastle one day
last week some one threw a fire crack
err under his horses, which caused them
to run away Mr.. Scott was thrown
from his seat and very badly hurt and
| the vehicle somewhat damrged. Mr..
Scott is improving Ban
ner
The steamer Commodore, which
cleared from Jacksonville, Fla, for
Cienfuegos, Cuba, last Thursday with
q cargo of arms and ammunition,
| founded off New Smyrna early on last
Saturday morning. Twenty eight men
were ON board of the steamer. Eight
are unaccounted for and have been
given up for lost. The vessel struck
twice while crossing the bar at the
mouth OF the river. and had been leak
| ing almost from the start.
The Honduras Company, with a
capital stock of $500, 900, was incorpo
rated at Trenton, N. J., last week
The incorporators are Chauncey Nj
J Depew, Of New York, Melville E. In
gaiis. of New York, and J c. McVeigh,
Of Morristown. The company is to
operate railroads in Honduras. and, it
| is said, has received concessions from
that government.
Miss Emma Spreckels, the daughter
! of Claus Spreckels, sugar king and
millionaire, was secretly married
at San Jose, last Wednesday, to Thorn
as Watson, a we'll known grain broker.
of San Francisco. The marriage was
kept secret from the family for several
days, and the news only leaked out
| that day, when some of Mr.. Watson's
intimate friends made the matter pub
| lie.
The body of Mr.. J. B. McCullagh,
editor in chief of the st. Louis Globe
| Democrat, was found last Thursday
morning on the pavement beneath the
window of his room at the home Of his
sister in-law, Mrs. Kate Manion, 1888
| West Pine boulevard. 1t is believed
that he accidentally fell from the win
dow some time in the early morning.
| His skull was crushed and the body
was otherwised manned. Mr.. McCul-
| lagh had been sick and melancholy for
some time, and although he converted
clearly and talked about his affairs
with his most intimate friends and his
| business adviser, his mind was disturb
| ed at times.
yo ol 4 ,ff ~, "a
Fidelity Trust and Deposit Co. Of Bal
timore, was arrested last week on a
| warrant which charged him with hav-
! ing game in his possession Illegally.
The specific charge was that he had
sixteen cartridges in his possession
contrary to law. The facts in the case
are these: A friend of Mr.. Warfield in
North Carolina shipped him the par
tridges by express. Mr.. Warfield re
ceived the birds and sent them home
| by his Office boy. On the way the boy
| was waylaid and bounced upon by the
game wardens. He explained his er
rand and a war; ant was sworn out for
| Mr.. Warfield and served on him. He
was fined 81 and costs, which he paid.
Tom Flanagan. a carpenter, killed
three persons near Decatur, Ga. in
LuTGO StCO4iOS 1901 NCGh. 4
boarded with g. W. Allen and wife, an
old couple, who lived in DeKa'b couu
ty. just beyond the city limits. He was
called two or three times. and finally
appeared at the door leading from his
room to the dining room, and without
word began firing pistol at the peo-
pie seated at the table. His first shot
struck old Mrs. Allen, and she fell over
fatally wnun6ed The next shot hit
the aged husband, and he dropped to
the floor The boarders were now
springing from their seats to escape.
Just as Miss Ruth Slack rose, q. bullet
struck her in the head, and she fell
dead The others ran out, and were
followed by the remaining bullets in
Flanagan's pistol. The old man and
his wife died on the floor in few
minutes.
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