Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-07-21

anu one neaQ is on exhibition IN alcOnO
in the office of Drs. Beard & Beard in Lewis
burg, w. Va. 1t was sent them by Mr.. A
M. Mclaughlin, on whose farm it wa
found.
A. E. Montgomery, postmaster at Mont
gomery, Fayette county, W. Va. died Of
the 3rd inst, from the effects of swallowing
a cherry seed, which lodged in his bowels
producing Inflammation. He was 80 year
of age and was Secretary of the EXecutiv,
Committee of the Republican party of tina
county.
w. II. Brew & Co. have bought from Mrs
j. g. Scheffer for 49, 500 the brick store build
ing over the creek on Augusta street frs
south of the county Jail lot and will NOV,
their grocery store there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Coyner of nea
| Waynesboro, have issued Invitations to thu
| marriage of their daughter, Willie Viola
| to Henry Renken of Chicago, which is tt
| take place at p. m. Tuesday, July 26th, a
Bethany church.
Captain John Carmichael grandson Of
the late John Randolph Tucker, has arrived
from Nicaragua, where he has been at work
| as an engineer on Nicaragua canal. He
| now holds commission as captain in the
quartermaster's department of the United
States army and has gone to report for duty
to the army in Cuba.
Cards are out announcing the marriage OF
Miss Elizabeth Eleanor Terry, daughter Of
B. F. Terry, to Overton Clay Luxford, of
Richmond. The ceremony will take place
at Trinity Episcopal church July 20. Miss
Terry is one of Staunton's most accomplish
ed ard attractive young ladies. Mr.. Lux
ford is a young business man of excellent
character, at present in the postal service.
E. Wright, machinist, and his whole fam.
lily except his little girl, were poisoned last
Saturday morning as breakfast by eating
batter cakes that must have contained
rough on rats. Two of the cakes after.
wards fed to dog made it sick also. 1t is
thought the poison got in by accident, some
of that character having been left in sau.
Ger in the cupboard. They have all about
recovered.
The Virginia Hotel was closed last Fri
day for the first time since the war. Dur
ing the war it was used as hospital, but as
soon as the war was over it was reftted and
furnished and opened, and has been contin-
uously noted hosiery since. The prop
erty was sold not long ago by trustee and
purchased by MI. John d. Crowle. and it
is stated that it is soon to be thoroughly
overhauled and opened.
The barn of John M. Bare on his farm
four miles southeast of Lexington. was de-
stroyed by fire at 2:3O o'clock last Wednes-
day night, July 18th. In it were burned
go bushels of wheat in the straw, about
twenty. five tons of hay, a valuable horse, a
wheat binder. wagon. fifty bushels of corn,
and a number of small articles of value.
The origin of the fire is unknown. There
was no insurance.
In the absence of Rev. j. E. Booker on a
short vacation at the Cold Sulphur Springs,
Rev. j. q. Graham, his brother-i law, a
from China, delivered an ad-
dress at Hebron church last Sunday. The
large congregation was deeply interesten in
the talk Mr.. Graham gaveon China and the
Chinese being different in the way the SUBJ
ject was handled from anything they had
yet heard. The Second Presbyterian con-
gregation of this city, will have an oppor-
tunity to hear Mr. Graham as he has agreed
to address them next Sunday, the 24th at Ii
o'clock.
George w. Minnick, aged about 10, the
son of Joseph IL. Mnnick of Ottobine,
county. died Wednesday of
last week, from wound of the head. The
verdict Of the coroner's jury was "that de-
ceased was found on the south side of the
q. & 0. r. r. track, near the two mills post,
west of Staunton, in an unconscious state,
on the morning of July 4, 1898. was remov-
ed to the residence of j. NJ. Steffey. ST.,
where he died.
owe find he was struck on the left side Of
head near the temple, and skull crushed.
We also find that deceased came to his
death from causes unknown to the jury"
The evidence before the jury showed that
Humphrey Trimble, aged II, and j. B. Trim
BILE, aged 81, brothers, walked westward on
the e. & o. railroad track Wednesday night
in company with Minnick. They sat down
by the railroad track and all three went to
sleep. A train came along, and after it
passed the Trimble got up and found Min
nick bleeding and unconscious. The body
was sent to Rockingham for burial.