Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-05-25
Virginia News.


The postoffice at Token, Prince Will
liam county, has been discontinued.
Friday was Confederate Memorial
Day at Danville.
William H. Browne, of Boston, aged |
IS years, died on Chesapeake and Ohio
train on Sunday near Charlottesville.
The Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly will meet next year in
Atlanta.
S. 8. Nottingham, sr., formerly OF
Norfolk, died at Bowling Green, Sun
day morning, at the age of eighty-six
years.
Mrs. Kidd, wife of M. L. Kidd, of
the Southern Railway. died suddenly
at an early hour Sunday morning at
her home in Charlottesville.
Danyille has voted to expend one
hundred thousand dollars in street I'M
provement and to issue bonds for the
money.
w. F. Powell, Roanoke foreman
who was experimenting the work OF
tearing down the Salem furnace, was
struck Thursday by afalling beam and
killed.
Rev. r. R. Garrett, Of Chattanooga.
Tenn, has notified the congregation
of Court Street Baptist Church, Ports
mouth, of his acceptance of the call
rendered him some time ago. He Will
succeed DR.. A. E. Owen.
John Lauer, a barkeeper Of Rich
mOnd. aged GA years, committed suicide
last Saturday night ip Monroe Park
in that CITY. He shot himself with q
pistol.
i Senator-elect James P. Taliaferro, OF
Jacksonville, Fla, has donated $25 to
the fund for Confederate monument
ut Orange Courthouse The Senator is
Il native of Orange.
Omer Pickett, the 10 year-cld son of
Mr.. Dallas Pickett, of Haymaker, had
his skull fractured Friday by a stone
thrown by play The little fe l.
low has been carried to Baltimore fol
treatment
Fredericksburg boasts Cf three &C i've
business men whose energy Is remark
able when their age is considered
They are Mayor A. p. Rowe, aged 81
; ex- Mayor H. s. Doggett, aged 80, ano
Mr.. John j. Young, aged S5.
! Sunday afternoon at Chase City
Walter Wagstaff, a young married
merchant of that place, shot JAIME
HAYES, aged 81, in the neck, infiictini
t fatal wound. Wagstaff had forbidden
q HAYES to visit his house, but the latte
disregarded the warning. The shooting
took place in Wagstaff's front yard.
The commencement of the Virgini
i Military Institute will begin Tuesday
June 10th. June 21st will be devote
to the fifth reunion of alumni, an
June 22d will be occupied with final Ell
ercises until 10 p. M, when the tina
ball will be opened by Cadet 6. t
= Craigh1ll, of Lynchburg.
r Lieut.. Arthur M. Shipp, son of Gel
eral Scott Ship, superintendent
the Virginia Military Institute. an
l. one of the three who constituted th
ir quota of Virginia in the batch OF al
70 pointments made by President McKil
lev last March, has been assigned
the Twentieth regiment of infantr
70 United States army, now serving nee
ID Manila
e, The trustees of Washington and IL
IS University have elected Mr.. Villa
:. L. Clark, Jr., of New York, Profess
u of Common and Statute Law, to
the vacancy caused by the resignati(
rs of Professor Graves. Mr.. Clark W
- accept. He is son of William
~ Clark, of Winchester, and has made
81 reputation as writer OF law book
he The trustees have also granted HO
ma William L Wilson the necessary lea
+. of absence to attend the centenary
10 the Royal Institution of Great Brita
IN as representative of the regents of t
is Smithsonian Institution. He W
he leave in few days for London and W
be abroad three of four weeks.
Joseph L. Strider, prominent la
yer of Washington, and a native
Jefferson county, West Virginia, b
is presented the Washington and L
at University with handsome oil p:
trait of his brother, the late Rev. L
John p Strider, who was professor
ID moral philosophy and bellies letters
ID the university in 1885 until his deaf
1e January %, 1886. Dr.. Strider was o
of Jefferson county's distinguish
Ill sons, having served when a boy as
nd soldier in the civil war in the COME
F, crate service, and was wounded.
II fore his professorship at the univ
." sity be filled passionate charges in G
pepper county, Va, at Savannah, G
and Staunton, Va.