Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-04-08
YESTERDAYS NEWS IN SHORT
PARAGRAPHS.
FROM SHOP AND SIDEWALK.
The Rolling MiilPayRon. NewFretshf
Schedule. street improvements.
Street Making In Salem. a Fire.
nian Injured. Personal GossIp

Mrs: Frances Hoffman, of Bedford
City, is visiting her son. Mr.. r.. L.
the druggist.
Mr.. w. 0. Booker, of Abingdon. is
visiting his brother, Mr.. G.. b ooker. of
this city
Miss Kate Eustice, of Roanoke, ar
rived in Lynchburg Saturday on a
visit to Miss Mallie Otey.
The pay roll of the rolling mill for
the last two weeks in March amounted
to $4,000.
Dir. NJ. G. Workman has just cold q
fve.room frame residence ON Fourth
avenue, n. w, for $11O0.
Mrs. S. B. Williams. the accom-
plished Commerce street music tracher
spent the Easter holidays with friends
in Richmond.
Captain l.. G. Tabb, formerly of
this city, has resigned his position as
Pullman ear conductor to 90 into the
real estate business at Bluefield.
Mr.. A. b. Woodbridge, jr., of Messrs.
Wingate 4 Hanckels surveying corps
at Bluetieid spent the Easter holidays
at his home here.
II. C. Gray, son OF Dir. II. V. Gray,
has been appointed chief of the mes.
senger boys at the Western Union
Telegraph Company's Office in this
city,
b. +. Bowles died at his residence
on Norfolk avenue Sunday evening
at o'clock, and will be buried at /
p. III, in Blue Ridge cemetery. Do
ceased was siXty-iive years old.
II. A. and Josie Thomas, colored,
were arrested Saturday night by
Mills, for retailing liquor without l.
cense, and will be held before Con-
missioner Rhodes at six p. III, today.
The new consolidated freight engine
No. &3l for the Norfolk and Western
Railroad was completed at the
machine works last week, and after
satisfactory test is now running regu-
larly on the roSd.
City Engineer Dunlap is very
anxious for the city TO improve Jeiler-
son, Commerce and Henry streets and
Salem avenue, but the municipal
finances 1T this time will not Justify
the expenditure.
The work of laying sewer north
east of Lick Run along Commonwealth
avenue past Patton street, thence east
between Patton street and Harrison
avenue is progressing very favorably.
The whole line is defiance of 1000
yards.
The public school teachers of the
city We're paid for the month OF March
yesterday. The total amount paid to
the teachers of the First and Third
Ward schools and the colored school
was $500.
Mr. William Logan, of Haserstowr,
has been appointed assistant manager
OF the Salem Steel and Iron Company
and has already arrived ut his post Of
duty,
Fireman Equi, of tile Norfolk and
Western Railroad, was seriously hurt
Saturday at Bedford City. While
stepping from his engine his foot was
Caught between the foot ratings,
causing him TO fall forward upon the
,ra.ki seriously spraining his leg.
IL the interview with Mr.. J. G.
knepp. chief OF the fire department,
published in Sundays paper, the
printer makes Mr. knepp say that the
cost OF an electric alarm system in
this city would be $500 or $500, when
il should have been $4,000 or $4,000
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company will pave Jefferson
street from the North side of the rail-
road track TO Hotel Felix with blocks
of Richmond granite. The company
will also put a strong and durable
pavement ali around the Hotel Roam
oke ground.
Fir. Knowles, representative Of Il
Chattanooga firm, is here making pre-
parations for running q concrete pave
ment from mr.. Wertz's new store on
Commerce street all around the block
to the front of the First National
Bank on Salem avenue. -.
inthe case of j. X. Pitzer VS.. Boil
Yer Webb, which was argued III the
Salem Circuit Court on Thursday,
Judge Blair decided in favor of Webb
before the arguments were concluded.
The suit was for the return of a tract
Of land purchased by Webb of Pitzer.
Deputy United States Marshal, j.
". Mills, has returned from Albany,
New York, where he carried William
Houston and Ed. Galloway, colored,
convicted of stealing Uniten States
mail from the transfer office at the
passenger depot in Lynchburg.
Messrs John ~ Harday, J. C. Cas-
sci, <. L. DuBarry and &. Osborne,
division uperintendent of the Nor.
folk and Western Railroad, held Il
conference with General Manager
Sands, in his Office, on the 9Th insant.
Mr.. III. Osborne, general agent of the
company at Norfolk, was also present
with the conference.
a syndicate Of English capitalists
has formed a company for the manu-
facture OF steel at Salem. The CAPT.
tai of the company is 81, 900, 600 and the
plant will cost $4,000 Colonel Fitz-
gerald Mccarthy has been appoint
ed general manager and is now in the
North making arrangements for COM.
mencing work on the plant at once.
Mr. f. Ii. Mathews has three Span.
ish coins of the value of fifty cents,
sixteen two third cents and six one
fourth cents, which were plowed up
on the battlefield of Manasses one
year ago. The date of the first men.
toned is 1884, and of the second 1774
The smallest coin is so worn that let.
tiers and figures are not legible. They
were found very close together anc
no doubt belonged to some soldier who,
was killed in one of the battles or.
that historic field.
Eli the departments at the Machine,
Works have all that they can do.
Work on three hundred box cars for
the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
was commenced Friday and two
hundred more for the same road have
just been completed. Fifty coke
racks for the same road will be fur.
nished early this week and work on
one hundred coal hoppers was also
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