Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-06-03
GENERAL NEWS.


Harrisonburg, May 2S-Mrs. Mary
Kagey, wife of Samuel Kagey OF Sing
er's Glen. and related here, was
found dead in bed yester lay evening
at O'Clock by her daughter, Miss
Little Kagfy. Her death was due to
apoplexy. Mrs. Kagey had been an
invalid for several years.
She was a Miss Toppin and was
born in Rockingham county. She was
about n years old and was member
of the Church of the Brethren for
many years.
Lincoln, Neb., May 26.-Miss Sarah
E. Peck, member OF the faculty OF
Union College, indicted by Federal
Grand Jury en- charge that she will
fully refused to give her age to the
census enumeration or to answer ques-
TOMS as to where she had been mar
ried or divorced, was fined by United
States District Judge Munger $40 at
ter she had entered her voluntary APP
pearance.
Richmond Va, May 28.-Peyton F.
st. Clair, Giles county.
Colonel A. NJ. Bowman, Salem.
B. +. Kirkpatrick, Lynchburg.
Captain Micajah Woods, Charlottes-
vile.
These gentlemen were today named
by Governor Mann as members OF the
Board of Visitors of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, to take Office
July LIST and to hold for four years.
They are named to succeed:
Major Charles G. Kizer, of Norfolk.
Harry M. Smith, of Richmond.
j. S. Musgrave, OF Southampton.
Peyton F: St. Clair, of Giles.
Washington, d. c. May 28.-Insur-
gent republicans in the House of Rep
resentatives are more encoucraged and
more joyful today than ever before
since they first began their fight
against the rules of the body anu
Speaker Cannon and all its establish
ed institution.
One insurgent an intimate fried OF
former President Roosevelt, has re-
ceived a letter From Mr., Roosevelt
suggestion conference in New York
the day following his arrival in that
city from his foreign tour, and init
mating that he is not at all out of
sympathy with the insurgent move
ment.
Washington, D. G. May 2S.-Ernest
E. Willard, son OF the tender of the
first lock OH the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal, was found dead in bed in a
room Oh the third foor at the rooming
house of Mrs. Annie Moser, 359 Pennsly-
vania avenue northwest, about noon
today with an open knife clutched in
his right hand and a terrible cash
through his jugular vein. The au-
thorities decided it was case of sui
eide.
Philadelphia, Pain default OF the
50, 200 bail demanded by Magistrate
Gallagher, j. Kinnear Crawford and
Joseph S. Crawford, vice president
and secretary treasurer Of the de.
funct American Trust Company, were
taken to Moyamensing prison today.
Harrisonburg, Va, May 3L-Dr.
Lunsford H. Lewis, who has just
graduated at the Virginia Medical
College, Richmond, will leave this
morning for Kings County Hospital,
New York, where he has received all
appointment.
charlottesville Va, May 81. Mr..
and Mrs. J. +, Elliott havs issued in
vitations to the marriage Of their
daughter, Permele Crawford to James
Draper Francis, of Pikeville, KY.
The ceremony is to take place Tues
day evening, June IA, at the brides
home, 800 East High street.
Roanoke, Va, My 30.-The two
cars for the Mill Mountain incline
railway arrived here yesterday over
the Shenandoah Valley. As the COM
pany has no place for the cars at
present they will be taken to the barn
of the Roanoke Street Railway. The
cars are from ]. G. Brill and Co.,
Philadelphia, and are very handsome.
The seats are on pivots and are so
arranged that they are adjusted to
grades.
Winchester, Va, May 31.-Mrs. S.
FL. Hansborough has received a tele-
gram announcing the sudden death of
her brother, Mr.. Walter Bowen, at
his home in Seattle, Washington, on
Sunday morning
Mr.. Bowen was the second son of
Capt. Walter Bowen, of the Warren
Rifles. Capt. Bowen before his death
was associated with his son-in- law,
the late Mr.. s.. H. Hansbrough, in
the insurance business in this city.
indianapolis, Ind, May 30.-In
slashing races at the indianapolis
speedway today, new records were set
for the national championship in
stock car classes, to be contested an
nually. Barney Oldfield with Benz,
broke the American speedway record
for the mile and the kilometre, and
Ray Harroun, driving Marmon, top
ped the time for 80 miles for cars of
231 to 800 cubic inches displacement.
New Bitain, Conn, May 3.-Edwin
Gould. Jr., 18-old-son Of Edwin
Gould, of Ardsley-on-the Hudson,
and grandson of the late Jay Gould,
was found on the street here early to-
day and taken to the police station.
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