Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-10-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Work on the new gas plant at New
port News has begun.
Martin Marmon drowned himself at |
Newport News Thursday.
at Alexandria Judge Norton granted
a charter to the Washington Electric
and Manufacturing Co.
Jos. P. Brady, son of Collector JAS.
D. Brady, has been appointed United
States Commissioner by Judge Hughes
and has qualified.
Mrs. Gertrude Clements, of Sulphur
Mines, tried to kill herself by drinking
croton oil. She has twice tried to Kill
herself. She will recover.
Rev. w. T. Griffin. Methodist min
lister, was arrested Friday at Emporla,
Va, on the charge of jumping board
bill at Suffolk.
Three hundred thousand feet Of lum-
Der. belonging to E. L. Perkins of Din
widdie, was destroyed by fire last week
at his saw mill in that comfy. There
was no insurance.
Sixteen-year- old Walter Harrell had
an arm shot off near Suffolk while
hunting. He was standing on q log
when the gun slipped. The hammers
struck and both barrels were discharg-
ed, severing the member.
The corps of cadets of the Virginia
Military Institute have returned from
an eight days trip to the Nashville E!-
position They were well pleased with
their trip, and the excellent reception
accorded them.
The remains of an unknown man
were found on Saturday in a ravine
near the public road leading from Zepp
| TO Mt. Olive, Shenandoah county. DR..
| J. M. Brown said the man had been
dead about eight months.
At mass meeting of the congrega
ton of the Court Street Baptist Church
at Norfolk, yesterday, the letter OF the
board of deacons requesting Rev. DIR.
A. E. Owen, the pastor, to resign, was
withdrawn, and there will be no furth-
er action in the matter
| Philip Tut, a we'll known citizen OF
Culpeper county, who resides near Cor
dova, committed suicide Friday night
by cutting his throat with q razor. Mr..
Tut was about fifty years of age and
followed the profession of surveyor.
No cause can be assigned for his rash
act.
Ellen Banks and two children, a boy
and girl, aged and IL years respec-
lively, are dead, the victims OF Archie
Lockley, who shot them down at Little
Plymouth, Middlesex county, Tuesday
night. A third child was fred on, but
escaped. All were colored. The muir
derer had lived at the Banks house fol
| sr ~ h
cause OF the murder.
A man who registered at the Jeffer-
son Hotel, in Richmond, as G.. Cox,
tried to kill himself Thursday night
He drove all the afternoon and even
ing, and when near the national GENE
terry stabbed himself eighteen times
after taking laudanum. He is a Brook
lyn contractor who became Respondent
over heavy losses in recent building
ventures in that city. There is some
hope Of his recovery.
1t is reported that negotiations are
pending which ere likely to result il
the two big hotels, the Hygeia and the
Cnamberlin, at Old Point Comfort, go
ing under single management. 1t il
said the Hampton Roads Hotel Com
pany is after the Hygeia property
This company owns the Chanberlir
hotel. Five hundred thousand dollars
is said to have been offered for the
property, which is owned by compa
ny composed of a number of promi
nent people. Mrs. Harrison Phoebut
alone owns 100000 it is said.
Gov. O'Ferrall on SATURDAY. removed
the political disabilities OF Waymar
Sutton. Sutton, who now resides il
Wythe county, was twice sentenced to
death in Wythe county for the assasi
nation OF neighbor. The night be
fore his execution, and with the gallow,
erected in sight of his cell window, b.
escaped from the jail and made his way
out of the State. Governor Mckinney
} finally committed his sentence to life
, imprisonment in the State penitenti
airy. Gov. O'Ferrall, after examination
of the case, pardoned Sutton, and or
Saturday restored him to all political
rights of citizenship.