Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-08-26

GENERAL NEWS.
New Canaan, Conn. Aug. 20-Frank Il
Fowler, well known portrait paint
er, is dead at his summer nome here, I
Of heart disease. He was 56 years Old.
Washington, Aug. 9o-Forest fires
in Montana are spreading and ten adj
ditional companies Of troops are need
ed to meet the situation, according to
joint telegram which was received
by the interior department. and the
forest service from their field agents.
Paris, Aug. 2O.-The Virginia dele
cation, headed by Colonel James
Mann, who came here for the dedica.
ton, ON August IS, Of the bronze re-
plica ON the Houdon statue of Wash- |
ington, presented to France by the
State of Virginia, today paced |
wreath upon the bomb OF Lat ayette,
upon the anniversary Of his death.
williamsburg, Aug. 20.-The school
census for James City County has
been completed and is very discourag-
ing--to he--scnool authorities The to-
tai number of children Of school age
was ascertained to be 1,155 against
i 1, 15l five years ago. or net gain OF
four. In 1905..there were 1852 colored
children, and in 1910 there are 7sS. q
decrease of thirty nine. There has,
therefore, been an actual gain. OF
forty three in the number of white
children.
Rome, Aug. 10 -Lieutenant Viyaldi,
Of the Italian army, was killed today
by fall from his aeroplane. He had
} made trip in the early morning
hours from the military aviation field
} of Centocelle to Civitavecchia, on the
Mediterranean sea, thirty eight miles
, from Rome, and was returning to
Rome when the accident happened.
A few miles outside of Rome, for
< some unexplained reason, the mach
e inc dashed to the earth, killing itf
pilot.
:. Lynchburg, Va, Aug. %. = Special
: 1.-THE Lynchburg Republicans today
. elected contrasting delegates to the
}, Sixth congressional district convention
at Roanoke to be held September lst
The contestants claim the mass meet
ing was packed against them. They
will make hot fight at Roanoke.
Washington, Aug. 20. = Special
e Workmen on excavations for govern
IS ment building at Lynchlusg strucl
v again today demanding ten hours pa.
+. for eight hours work. This is the sec
n ond strike since the work started o.
e Saturday.
If London, Aug. 2s-Eighteen live
le were lost when the British cruise
se Bedford ran ashore on the rocks OF
L Ouelpart Island, Korea, yesterday, &C
he cording to the report received here D
b the Admiralty. The men were mem
le bers of the engine room staff,
&c New York Aug. 2-That babies i
u their cradles contract drug habit
y through being dosed promiscu ousl
III with paregoric laudanum and othe
b household remedies is the assertio
ie of President Lederle of the NeN
York board of health.
= Sergent, Kv., Aug 2l.-Thirt
" miles of rough mountain roads prove
% no barrier for Harrison Mullins, Jr.
!" age seventeen, and pretty Miss Eft
r Branham, aged fourteen, who, elope
from their homes at Pound, Va. b
vond the Cumberland Mountain, b.
. cause of parental objections. and, a
Ae ter walking afoot to- W hitesburf
L thirty miles, secured license an
- were married at midnight by John A
Nc Craft, a Baptist minister, only fe'
y people witnessing the ceremony.
Dayton, Va, Aug. 3d. A new bar
and postofiice building TO oost b
tween SIC, 600 and $l6, 600 il now an =
sured fact for the near future. II
w new structure, which b SURE to be
~ handsome one, will be erectsd on Il
Ia triangle. Just south of the Unite
on Brethren church Postmaster J. v
'ot Thompson HIS been agitating tt
'd' matter Of > new postoface for som
IT. time.
4, Managua, Aug. a2--The advan
guard Of the revolutionists have 81
tered Managua. President Madr
8 left the capital Sunday night for Co
= rinto, accompanied by his chief al
visors.
:. Before departing for Corinto wit
Gems. Toledo, vasquez, Ortio, al
&c Montenegro, and DR.. Julian Irias, Il
=. presidency was turned over by Madr
!. to Jose Doores Estrada, brother
- Gen. Juan Estrada the leader Of Il
= revolution.
Immediately afterward Jose Estrai
issued a proclamation saying that
would give the office to his brothe
William Pittman. the Boston engine
accused of laying mines, is free at Il
es American consulate ALI the prisone
in the penitentiary have made the
escape. There was riot:ng Sunds
= night, but it was quickly quelle'
n The situation is critical
gu Gen. Estrada today cabled Seer