Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-07-29
GENERAL NEWS.

London, July 23.-It is believed
that DR.. Hawley H. Crippen and Ethel
Clara Leneve have reached Canada.
Such importance is attached to the
clue that Scotland.Y has decided
to send Inspector Dew to the Domin-
ion to investigate.
There was good demand for new
crop option today and the market
gave indications of going higher.
The near months were barely steady.
Spot sales none. Quoted twenty points
down.
New York, July 23.-Inspecror
Markowski, of the agency OF the
Russo. Chinese bank, from which $40, :
GOO in bonds were stolen this week, in
an official settlement today announced
that it has been definitely ascertain
ed that the theft of the securities was
committed by the cashier of the bank.
Erwin Wider.'
Hampton, Va, July 22.-Following
deeply impressive joint funeral SER
vices on the campus at Fort Monroe
this afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock the
bodies of seven of the victims OF the
tragedy at Battery De Russy Thurs
day morning, which cost eleven ar
tillery men their livess were shipped
to their homes for burial.
Lynchburg, Va, July 23.-Oficial
notice has been given to the owners
of seven different Main street proper
ties between sixth and Eight so streets
ordering the destruction of the old
shacks. These old shacks have long
been an eye sore to Lynchburgers and
a subject of much surprise to visitors.
They are to go because the authorities
regard them as public menace.
Chicago, July ga telegram an
nouncing the loss Of $4,000 bet that
Jim Jeffries would win in the
prize fight with Jack johnson, was
the reason why Harry Michaeis, Sec
rotary of the Michaels Furniture Com
pany, OF this city, shot himself dead
at his desk while his brother, New
Yorker, awaited him at hotel here.
Ill health was the cause assigned at
the time. Publicity today as to the
real occasion for the deed came
through proceedings by creditors.
New York, July sS. The battleship
Rio Janiero, which is being built for
Brazil by British firm Of shipbuild-
ers, will, according to advices receiv-
ed here be far the biggest in the
world, displacing $4,000 tons and
mounting twelve fourteen inch guns.
The cost will be approximately
$14, 500, 600,
It will be almost twice the size OF
the original Dreadnought, a 1850
ship, and will be 5000 tons heavier
than Great Britian's biggest warship.
the Lion, which is to be launched in
August, and which has displacement
of only 1000 tons.
New York, July 25.-Special-In-
creasing demand for the new crop
caused a further advance today and
indications point to higher prices in
the near future old crop options were
heavy spot sales eight Thousand bales
at five points decline.
Woodstock, Va, July 25-Special.-
Hugh Bly,. white is in Jail here,
charged with attempting criminal as
sault upon his sister in law, Mrs. Jes-
sies BLY,, Near Lebanon Church re-
Gently. It is | understood that Bly's
people will probably put in plea OF
insanity.
Ridgeway, Va, July %. Former
Mayor A. H. Bousman was assassinat-
ed by dynamite bomb, which was
thrown from the street under a ham,
mock in which he was lying last even
ing. He died an hour after the explo-
sion. No clue to the identity of the
murderer or the cause of the crime has
been found.
Columbus, Ohio, July 25.-In the
selection of a candidate for governor
and the framing of q platform for the
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