Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-10-07
GENERAL NEWS.

heroic rescue OF OrOWuiAk HoA W
two Shenandoah county girls. A MI.
ritman. of North Carolina, fell INTO
the tidal basin of the Potomac River,
and being unable to swim, would
have been drowned had not Miss
Anna Tisinger, of Mount jackson, and
Miss Hilda Sharr, of Toms BROOK,
gone to his rescue. By means OF
boats rope and paddles, the Valley
girls finally landed the soaked but
grateful Tarheel safe and sound on
terra firma.
Norfolk, Sept. q. Harry St. George
Thicker. of Lexington has had plans
drawn TO, handsome country home on
the Jamestown boulevard, on tha su-
bnrbs of Norfolk. The site which Mr
Tucker has acquired for this home i
on LAFAYETTE river, between No'fals
and the Jamestown etof&t'p'
grounds. not far from the \ -
Country Club. Preliminary essi
mates fix the cost Of the new Tucker
home at $l5, 600 or SIS, OOo.
Mr.. Tucker will come to NoI1oik III
connection with the jamestown ex-
nosition litigation. aud will practice
law here. He will not a}.ndon MS
home in Lexington.
Washington, Sept. % Announce
neut was made here today by the
navy department that the following
cadets from Virginia W oal enter the
United States naval asalsny Octo-
Der l.
Gsorge s Aryin, fourta district
Robert w. FerIell, third disfr'''
John Tucker Hartman, Jr., TENTH
t-ict: Robert H. Maury. fifth q f'''
Thomas l. Nash, second dissfi
George~B. Wilson, Virginia; M =
r. Worrill, ninth district; Phil, y
Yaatu,au, second district.
Roanoke, Va, Sept. 2o.--AsA NJ
Prince, aged fifty, assistant postmas
ter of Roanoke is desperately i'll wit
psllagra, and has been unconscio'
forty eight hours. 1t was SAID .
night that he might live twenty 1o'
hours or many months. MI. FIN
has been ill several months. but h
trouble was not announced as peliag
until today. IIe has been asslsta
postmaster six years.
Chicago, Ill. Sept. 2S.-State Sci
ter d. w. Holstlaw, of Iuka. H. g
Of the fifty three democrats VINO he
ed elect William Lorimer UNI
States Senator, took the with
stand today before the Lorimer inv
- tigation committee and testified t
after he had voted for Lorimer he
m ceiyed 50, 500, and that he "suppo
the money was paid because OF
vote"
! Norfolk. Va, Sept. 1s.-Those
tending the meeting OF the bal
Portsmouth Association at Lon
] Bridge, Pence Anne county, "
/ startled to lay by the dlrectness
{ which they were talked to by
: Sparks W. Melton, Of the Free Ms
100 BAPTIST church, OF Norfolk.
=. Tia Doctor accused congregat
90 of "going abo1t seeking MINI
W. as they would q horse, who G.
B. he gotten rid of if not liKed,"
49,, that lone woman in a congrega
/ All smite a preacher to DEATH. "
''e ( He declared that minister is
asst 4 ic,ssd for the way ia which he
Oc, 7 his hair and for the color OF
oo tro,ssrs. His address was cal
ARA gu nent of the churches.
,>,o Hagerstown, Nd, Sept. 3D.
Ada Glacken, of EmmiJtsburg,
Jacob Woodring, Of Waynesboro,
& white, came to Hagerstown and
+ married Tuesday afternoon by
& ored preacher, Rev. John q. New
B pastor of st. Johns Free-Will Ba
an church, at the minister's residen'
en- 4 When Woodring took out the IL
B the deputy court clerk asked hi
he was white and if Miss Glackel
white and he replied in the affirms
. Washington, Sept. 2S.-Johr
O'Rourke, the New York Eng
80 who has submitted to President
plans for raising the Maine, ca
Washington today for confe
with the President and Attorney
! eral Wickersham. He came iron
n 4 vana where he made an inspect
Y the wreck.
y 81 While board Of army enginee
: been appointed to survey the
Z and devise ways to raise it and
gress has made an appropriatl
cover some of the cost, Mr.. FRO
J. report may materially change
method of procedure He prop'
employ practical tunnel building
ations in his efforts to raise the
By sinking deep water caisson
.- stringing cables through the MI
der the keel, he expects to II
A ship from the bottom OF the
and bring her above the surface
same condition she was in WHIT
sunk on the night Of February, l
: Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Sept.
taxicab, containing Edward S. A
and George Cornwell, two pro-
residents OF this city, was stru
tain of the Central New +
Railroad at private crossing
north OF this city late yesterda,
noon, and the two passenger
chauffeur, George Key, were
fully injured.
Mr.. Cornwell's arm was almo
7. from his body. and he died fou'
after the accident in Vassar Ht
Mr.. Atwater is in critical con
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