Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-07-14

| Mrs. Schele de We're died Saturday ever
| ing at the University of Virginia and wa
| buried Monday in Rock Creek Cemetery
of Judge Alexander Rives and niece of vii
liam g. Rives. United States Senator an
twice Minister to France. Her hnsban
Prof. Schele, died only about six weeks age
At late hour Saturday night some pc
son or persons broke one of the plate glas
windows of E. K. Armentrout's hard war
store on Johnson street, and carried ava
two guns, one of them fine one, and thre
pistols. which were displayed in the win
dow. The thieves have not been appre
hended.
A small negro boy named Hicks, Sunda,
afternoon shot little Frank Grim, son o
Frank Grim, the marble cutter, with small
pistol, such as is sold to boys for % cents
The ball struck him in the abdomen in
flicting an ugly wound. Probing failed tt
reveal the bullet.
Mrs. W. A. Thompson and little daughter
of Roanoke county, who were bitten severa
days ago by rabid dog, have gone to New
York, where they will be treated at thu
Pasteur Institute. Tie dog also bit another
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson, who dice
Sunday morning in great agony.
The hotel at Bear Lithia Springs, neal
Elkton, consisting of two buildings, ont
frame and one brick. were destroyed by
fire Saturday night. A lot of new furniture
had just been placed in the hotel. and it il
supposed some of the packing accidentally
caught. Everybody escaped in safety
though there was some trouble experienced
in rescuing deaf mute who was asleep il
the building.
WIsEMAN.-On the 23d day of June, 1898
from an attack of peritonits so severe as to
cause death in few hours, Cora B. Wise
man, daughter of Jacob and Margaret Pot
ter Wiseman, passed to her reward. She
was member of New Providence Presby-
terrain church for three years, having &C
cepted Christ at the age Of Is. She was q
special favorite both at home and among
her many friends, whose sympathies deep
and sincere are extended to the berieved
family. w. W. C.
Frank Smith, a laborer on the farm of Mr..
e. R. Leech OF Rcckbridge county, had an
alteration last week with another employee
named Jack Slower, in which Smith struck
Slower with an axe on the wrist and buried
the blade several inches in his body in close
proximity to his stomach, and possibly
would have gone deeper and caused fatal
cut but for the axe striking rib. The
wound is about five inches in length. Smith
mas been lodged in Jail in Lexington.
The remains Of Miss Annie Cameron,
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Z. L. Cameron,
were brought to Harrisonburg last week for
burial. The young lady, who was about %
years of age, died in Burlington, N. g.. last
of peritonitis, following typhoid
fever. Her father, who is in very delicate
health and was not able to be present at the
funeral He is a minister in the NJ. E..
Church South, and during the war taught
school in this county. at what is known as
the Trimble school house near swOope.
Mrs E. A Doyle died on the 9Th, In her
18th year, after an illness of several month S
duration at the nome of her daughter, Mrs.
&. S. Craig, near Craigsville in this county
She had been communicate of the Presby-
terrain church sc years. The funeral SER
vices were conducted from the Presbyterian
church by the pastor, Rev. W. A. Hall, as
sisted by Rev. Il. A. Young, of Lebanon
A large congregation attended the
services and followed the remains to their
last resting place nearby. The deceased is
survived by two children, Mrs. e. S. Craig
and Miss Fannie Doyle.
The Faculty of the University Of Virgin
ia has just awarded the scholarships for
public school graduates to Mr.. W. B. Stone
of Roanoke, and Mr.. A. NJ. DObie of Nor
folk These scholarships entitle the hold
ers to 5000 90 per year and free tuition in the
academic department of the University for
three years. By enactment of the Visitors
six scholarships were set aside for the grad
yates of the Virginia public schools; two to
be filled each year. The examinations are
and are set by the professors of
English, Latin and Mathematics through
the school superintendent of the county or
city in which the candidate for the scholar
ship resides. Our young men in the public
schools of the city and county should bear
these scholarships in mind, as they are
prizes of infinite value.