Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-07-15
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Washington, D. c., July 7.-There
is clash between stlle ministerial
minds of Washington pastors and the
legal minds of Washington attorneys.
Ihe attorneys declare that Jack john
son, negro pugilist, as an American
citizen, is at liberty to come to Wash
ington at any time he may choose to
do SO.
According to the legal view, john
son has the right not only to visit the
Capital, but he also may sit on the
White House steps and climb up the
gloomy stairs of the Washington
monument. He may smoke cigarettes,
eat peanuts, and ride in a rubber
neck wagon.
Harrisonburg, July Mr.. Geo. E.
Sipe returned home last night from an
extended trip through Europe and the
Holy Land. He is in splendiI heal th
and reports most enjoyable and in
structive vacation.
Mrs. Sipe and her daughters, Misses
Rsba Mary Dorsey and Enid, and
Miss Lucille Rosenberger, who com
posed the party with Mr.. Sipe, are
with friends in New York and will
come to Harrisonburg this week or
next.
st. Louis, No., July THE incor
poration of the Universal Aerial Navi-
cation Company to conduct business
in Missouri, has revealed plans for a
comercial passenger airship that rival
the dreams of jules Verne. Officials
of the company declare that within a
year they will have ships sailing the
skies that will carry up a hundred
passengers in a forty mile wind at a
speed of one hundred miles an hour, if
desired.
Seattle. July 7.-After a terrible
struggle lasting seven hours, gigan-
tic shark, thirtysix feet long and esti-
mated to weigh more than fifteen
tons, was captured by the combined
crews of the fishing boats Good part-
ner and Pioneer LII between Port An
geles and Port Crescent last Sunday.
The monster is believed to be the
largest fish ever caught in these wat
ers.
New York, July 1.-THE old wooden
three decker Grand Republic, sister
ship OF the..iil -fatad excursion steamer
General Slocum, caught fire this after
noon while passing through the Mar
rows on her way to New York from
Far Rockaway and hurried ahead at
full steam, with her whistle blowing
continuous succession of short, ner-
vous blasts and plume of smoke
trailing behind her, for the Crescent
Athletic Club pier on the Brooklyn
shore.
Lynchburg, Va. July 8.-Lee Reed,
the negro who recently shot Charles
Barnett, also colored, in what seems
TO have been row over Reeds wife,
is still at large. The police believe
he has left the city.
New York, Julfy S.-John Arbuckle,
who fioated the United States steam
ship Yankee, after she had sunk off
the New England coast d year or so
ago, said last night that he would bid
for the contract for the raising of
the battleship Maine in Havana har-
Dor.
Washington, D. c., July S.-Der-
mined to avenge the probable fatal
injury TO one of their fellow soldiers,
forty or fifty United States white
troopers and artillerymeu from Fort
Myer made an attempt to storm the
Alexandria county Jail on Fort Myer
Heights last night to lynch Robert
jackson, a negro.
: Richmond, Va, July S.-Junius
Booker, the negro who threw Virginia
Rutherford white woman, down a
flight of steps and bit off the woman's
nose, several weeks ago, was held to
the grand jury by Police Justice
Cructhield today.
Booker's examination had been de-
ferred until the Rutherford woman
recovered sufficiently to appear in
court. Her face is still badly SCARED
AMI discalore1 She will be placed
t N porariiy in the care Of 80 Asso-
ciated Charities.
Gettysburg, Pa, July s. Governor
Mann threw a bomb shell into camp
this morning by requesting General
Wotherspoon not to proceed with the
court martial of John Carr d. the ne
gro soldier who threatened Lieuten-
ant Hardy and Sergeant Truehart, of
Richmond, with a pistol
The court hal been in session only
4 few minutes when Provost lIarshaI
Beugiiton delivered an order from
General Wotherspoon slsns.n i;ig the
trial Fifteen minutes later a recess
was ordered and the witnesses were
excused until called. 1t is understood
that conference. will be held when
8 oyernor Mann returns from a trip
over the battlefield at noon
This action was taken at the writ
ten request of nearly all officers of the
First Virginia regiment, who are dis
satisfied with the order of summary
court, which can impose only light
sentence. 1t is understood Governor
Mann acted without the advice of |
General Vaughan
The exwt nature of the communica-