Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-09-16
GENERAL NEWS.

Roanoke, Va, Sept. ga special
from Marion, Va. says Tuesday after
noon during thunderstorm force
Of workmen took sheltersunder ashed. |
Lightning struck the shed killing Will
liam Fisher, aged twenty-th1ee. and
his grandfather, Edward Falkner,
aged sixty. Fishers father was in
the party, but escaped injury.
Akron, Ohio Sept. 8.-George T.
Perkins, millionaire rubber manu-
facturer. former president of the B.
+. Goodrich Company and the Second
National Bank, died here TO-DAY, aged
seventy-one years.
| jackson, Miss, Sept. 8. -Sensatio n-
al evidence relative to the details Of
the alleged fradulent methods Of the
defunct Steele Miller Company, cot
ton factors, at Corinth, Miss, de-
veloped during the taking Of deposit
tions in the United States bankruptcy
court here today.
Freeport. ILL.,, Sept. 8.-Col. Roose-
yeit refused fatty today to attend the
banquet to be given. tonight by the
Hamilton Club in Chicago unless
Senator Lorimer is excluded.
New York, Sept. S.-The attempted
Hearst Gaynoradeal is off.
+ The closing sentences Of the fifteen
hundred word cablegram over Hearst's
signature interested the politicians
Hearst says: =
/ "Come home to New York, Mr..
Roosevelt, and honestly take the war
path against the bosses. We indepen-
dents are wheuting our tomahawks for
/, the fray.
| Charlottesville, Va, Sept. 8.-Vir-
ginia Elks put in strenuous day yes.
terday.. Besides attending two
business sessions of the order. they
took in general reception at the loca
nome at 10 O'Clock, saw the local ELI
. baseball team defeat the Eagles IL tt
8 at the horse show grounds yesterda!
afternoon, and wound up. with
smoker last night
Officers for the next year were elect
J ed as follows: President, Fred Harp
u or, of Lynchburg; vice presidents
Max F. Lindner, Of Richmond; q +
l. johnson. Of Roanoke, and Thomas {
q Conlcn, of Charlottesville; secretary
! W.. Clifford Gedsey, of Petersburg
re treasurer, Thomas B. Hicks, OF Ricl
re mond sergeant-at-arms, ]. A. Scot
u of Lynchburg; Chaplain, w. Nc 9ovo
20 of Pulaski.
Gotham, Albemarle. Sept. 9.-Jof
10 Armstrong Chaloner. owner OF tt
famous Merry Mills estate, is i'll wit
Or malarial fever and is under the ca
i'll of DR.. R. B. Shackelford, who hop
! for rapid convalescence.
NJ Moberly, Mo-, Sept. Eff a
q. elected speaker Of the next house
n representatives, will drive team
Missouri mules down Pennsylvan
d. avenue
he The foregoing is the promise
It, Congressman Champ Clark made to
re. crowd of visitors at the home comil
if celebration yesterday in the course
re an address.
Ill Milwaukee, Sept. 9.-"Pere Mt
uuette" car ferry No. 10 sank in La
OF Michigan twenty miles off Sheboyg
Ia this morning at 80 O'Clock. As
me ferry No. II was nearby at the tin
it is thought many passengers
sp' board No. Is were saved.
gle Thirty-nine of the crew of "Pt
At Marquette" car ferry No. IS drow
ed. Only three we're saved.
sos Salt Lake City Utah, Sept. sc
'nu neol Samuel T. Merritt, last just
~ - Of the.supreme court of the terrific
'no of Utah, died here yesterday.
Colonel Merritt was born in V
ginia and went to California in II
900 and later became prominent in pc
tics in that state and Idaho.
Richmond, Va, September 9.
!. Privates Elmer Lenhart, Geo.
~, ~ Campbell, Frank Scruggs and Hal
NJ Meredith, of Company F. First v
"a, ginia infanty regiment, were each
all fined $40 in police court today
on firing their rifles from the winde
'oo of street cars in Broad street
Monday evening while returning fl
" the sham battle at the fair grounds
les Chicago, Sept. 9.-The strike OF
H.. 600 coal miners in Illinois which
settled yesterday, it is estimated. {
the miners $ls, 600, 600 in wages.
loss to the operators during the f
months shutdown is placed at s
Oh OOO, 900.
and The annual product of coal in
9am nois amounts to $4,000, 600 tons,
bert the shortage this year, due to
mes strike will be in the neghborhood
OH 20. 600, 600 tons.
oan A statue to Stonewall jackson ,
anu be unveiled at Charleston, W. va,
ms the s7th It will stand on the grou
'ne of the state capital The statue is
fon' Sir Moses Ezekiel, who will be pref
at the dwelling.
20 Harrisonburg, Sept. 9.-Mrs. Sa
ill., Sibert Rosenberger, widow OF
Tazewell Rosenberger, died Tues
In morning in the Georgetown Hospi
Washington, D. G.. after an Hines
about three months from compl