Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-08-12
GENERAL NEWS.

new tobacco warehouse being built for
the Lynchburg Tobacco Warehouse
G to be known as the Planters,
which is to take the place Of the Old
Lynch Is, will be ready for use Septem-
Der let, the date for the beginning of
1910-1911 tobacco year..
Berlin, Aug. 6.-The Japanese mill
tary commission, which for several
months has been studying military
in Europe, has arranged
with the company controlling the
Wright aeroplane patents in Germany
to buy number of Wright machines
for the japanese army. The Japanese
government will send here four cap
tains AMI twenty one lieutenants of
the army and these by agreement with
the kaiser's government, will receive
instructions in aeronautics in Ger
many.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 6.-Russia is
scourged, the cholera. continues to
spread ,wiJlf alarming rapldity, partic-
ularly in the southern mining dis
tricts and in St. Petersburg, where
the conditions are fast, approaching
the proportions of the great epidemic
of 1908.
Figures furnished today by the
central sanitary bureau show that in
the week from July d to July 30,
there were Is, 244 cases of cholera ana
6. 944 deaths. Of these, ALSO cases
and 2, 1888 deaths were reported from
the province of Yakaterinoslav and
the terriotory OF the Don Cossacks IN
south Russia.
Madrid, Ag. 6.-The decision of the
Catholic committee to abandon the
anti government demons tration which
was to have been made on Sunday at
San Sebastian was reached at the end
of stormy session.
The members of the committee had
been threatened with arrest and prose-
cutlon for issuing an insulting and
rebellious manifesto against the gov
eminent.
Premier Canalejas today said 'sThe
Catholics who signed the manifesto
did not comprehend the meaning Of
modern hbeIty.'
Abingdon, Va, Aug. 6.-"hile dig
ging a cistern on a lot in the extreme
end of West kMain, b. H. Scott MAUI
ager of Hotel Belmont, struck the
cave reported to be under the town.
The entrance to this cave is on the
property of James L. White, about
one..mile from Mr.. Scott's property and
therefore, the report, which has been
in circulation for over fifty years that
Abingdon is undermined by cave is
wei. established.
Although many have gone into the
cave on expeditions, none have been
entirely through it yet.
Macon, Ga, Aug. Upon request
of Sheriff Brooks, of Twiggs county,
two companies of state militia left
here tonight at 9 :45 for Grays Station.
8 E. Etheridge and his brother are
lying dead in front of the store of
Luther Morton on the outskirts of
Grays, and at Morton's mothers
home, q block away, he and his three
brothers, Will Sam and Tom, are held
at bay by big posse sworn in by the
sheriff, while relatives of the Ether
idges, who were assembled in the lit
tie town for big reunion of confeder-
ate veterans, have, according to re-
ports received here, been thr satening
to revenge su.mmarily the killing of
this afternoon. Sheriff Brooks wired
for troops early in the evening. Two
companies left Immediately.
Harrisonburg, Va, Aug. 6.-The
physicians at the University Hospital
Charlottesville, who examined Mrs.
John R. Short wife of the Stanley
section foreman, have written that
her case is one of genuine pellagra.
The cause of this dangerous new dis
ease seems to be little more than q
matter of surmise thus far. 1t is said
it may be contracted by eating musty
corn. She is now very i'll at her home
at Stanley. This is the first case of
pellagra to be reported in Page coun-
ty.
Lincoln, Neb. Aug 5.-"Any Dem
ocrat who voted for William Lorimer
is not fit for representative position,
it is hardly safe to allow him to run
at large"
In these and similar words of de-
nunciation, William J. Bryan speaks
of those members of the Illinois Legis
lature who supported the junior Sena-
tor from that State. Mr.. Bryan's de-
nunciation is made in the Commoner
today.
ANY Democrat who voted for Lo-
rimer for patriotic reasons ought to
be retired to private life and kept
there. The Democrats who assembl-
I'd at Lincoln were right in refusing
to draw line between those who vot-
ed for him because they lacked sense
1t is almost as dangerous to have a
fool in the Legislature as a.knave.
''The Lorimer Sc material election
seems to nave been the most corrupt
in the history of the nation, that a
majority of the Democrats should
have voted for such a man under such
circumstances is in itself conclusive
proof of widespread corruption
Hot Springs, Va, Aug 5.-The Hotel
Alphin was destroyed by fireltoday.
The hotel was crowded, and the guests
worked vainiy with the fire department
in an effort to save the building while
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