Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-09-09
GENERAL NEWS.


Richmond, Va, Sept. miss Mu
riel Keih, a young English girl, steno
grapher for Marx Lloyd, manager O
the State fair. was run over and killet
by an Ashland electric car near Sem
inary station, in Henrico, early thi
mo rning.
Bristol, Sept. Mrs. Austin Hen
drikson, who lives ten miles west o
Bristol, is dying as the result Of he
refusal to take eithsr food or drink
Shej has been mentally de1anged NOR
than month, and for three week
has taken neither food nor drink O
any kind. She shuns food or stimulant
because she imagines her own people
are endeavoring to poison her TO enc
her life.
Lynchburg, Va, Sept. Especial.
THE trial of John Moore for the
murder of Frank Howell was conclud
ed in the Nelson County Court
today. Instruction will be given il
the morning and jury will getlthe case
Friday afternoon. Moore attempted
to prove an allbi today in which
ne probaly weakens his case. Mrs.
Howell testified but threw no new
light on the case.
New York, Sept. Mime of the
seventeen Nathan Strauss infant mill
depots in this city have been closed
as the first step in the ending of thif
philanthrophy, which Mr.. Strauss
started in 1909 and which he says hi
has felt compelled to abandon because
of personal attacks that hindered the
cause of pasturization.
At the eight other depots the sale
of pasturized milk by the glass has
been discontinued, but the supply Of
modified milk in nursing bottles will
be continued for time.
Richmond, Sept. Id. Appleton
and Co., of New York, have writer
the state board of public instruction,
declining to accept the school boot
contract prepared by the attorney gen
eIal of Virginia.
Their letter is the first positive re
ply to the communications sent on
from the attorney generals offic'
announcing the fact that incorporates
publishing concerns that wished t.
sell books in Virginia must first pa.
an entry fee.
| Manila, Sept. IAN uprising
against the government is reported il
the province Of Nueva Viscaya. 1
constabulary force is hurrying to tn
scene, and battle is expected hourly
The rebel movement is headed b
Simseon Mandac, former governor 9
the province of nocos Norte, who ha
long been a fugitive from Justice.
Manda occupies Solana town G
about 5000 inhabitants, northwest c
the center of Nueva Vizcaya, an
about five miles north Of Bayenong.
The telegraph wires north of Bay
enong have been cut, and it is i'm
possible to learn the number of Man
da's followers.
New York, Sept, 1.-The ney
that Colonel Roosevelt may be aske
to accept the post of advisor of tn
regent of China at very large salar
was current in Pekin, a month age
according to DR.. William Edga
Giel, who has just returned to Amer
lea after year spent in studying tn
political situation in China.
DR.. Giel left Pekin Aug. l., and a
that time he says it was current gos
sip in political circles that the palac
authorities were considering propos
al to engage Colonel Roosevelt to as
sist in plotting the country through
rather stormy period.
Many of the diplomats, DR.. Giel as
serted, we're confident that the offe
would appeal to the American for
mer president and might induce hin
to abandon the fight against the boss
es here, to become boss himself il
the Flowery Kingdom.
In speaking of conditions, DR.. Gle
said there was an "anti. baby move
ment in China, the leaders being op
posed to the rule of the child emperor
This he said. if it grew rapidly, man.
thought, might result in revolution
China is friendly to this country, h
said, and the political leaders in tina
country regard President Taft highly
Harrisonburg, Sep. la marriag,
license was yesterday issued to Her
man B. Myers, son of John F. Myer
and Miss Flora V. Petrie, daughte
of John M. Petrie. Mr.. Myers is
farmer of Rockingham county, Will
Miss Petrie is originally from Russo
county, Kansas.
| New York, Aug. 31.-Vera Fitcl
the young woman who shot hersel
late Monday night in waiting room
of the Hotel Aston. was still aliv
tonight. The physicians who hav
charge of her case at the Flower Hos
pital said that if she managed t
live through the::day, tomorrow, anxiet
about her condition would be nue.
relieved.
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