Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-10-16
State News.

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Six of the nine convicts that recently
escaped at Warm Springs, have been II.
captured.
Mr.. William w. Baldwin and Miss
Alice G. Smith, of Buena Vista, were
married last week On pulpit Rock" al
the top of the Natural Bridge.
The Fredericksburg Free Lance says
that white woman living on the farm OF
Judge c. H. Ashton, in King George
county, gave birth short time since 10
five children.
Thomas n. Buck, noted hunter OF
Front Royal, Warren county. was out on
Tuesday, ard as the result of half days
sport brought home with him six fine
wild turkeys, one each for each shot made.
There are two students at Washington
and Lee University this session who
board in the same house and occupy the
same room, one of whom bears the Chris
lian name of Robert 4. Lee and the other
the Christian name of Ulysses S. Grant.
William Davis, colored, who shot and
killed colored policeman named Jones
at Pocahontas some time ago, has been
convicted of murder IN the first degree
and sentenced TO be hanged on Friday,
the 4th day of December.
The watch chain which Treasurer
Caddall, of Pulaski county, wore at the
time he was murdered was found Tuesday
on pile of rubbish which came from the
store occupied at the time of the murd, r
by VIM. A. Feagles, who is under arrest
charged with the crime.
Mr.. Lorenzo Maddox died at lis resi-
dence, near Paris, FauQuier county, last
week, aged upward of eighty years
During the war, in moment of excite
ment caused by one of Mosby's attacks
upon the enemy, Maddox shot federal
soldier on the streets OF Berryville.
S. W. Luckett cashier for the Baltl-
more United Oil company at Lynchburg,
Va, has absconded with about 5000 of
the company's money. 1t appears that
the company gave him a power of at
torney to sign checks aud he abused the
privilege. Lucketps whereabouts is I'M
known.
Two Mormon elders, named Butler and
Foulton, hailng from Utah, have been IN
Fluvanna county seeking converts. They
did not meet with success, as they could
not get any place to preach, but they
preached Sunday evening III Mr.. A. j.
Taylor's yard. They have been making
the:r headquarters for some time in Abe
marie county and claimed to have had
twelve converts in that county.
The selection of site for the public
building at Staunton has been settled by
the selection of what is known as the
Craig lot, located at the corner of Fred
erick and Lewis streets. The selection is
a good one, as the lot is well located for
all the business interests Of the town, The
lot was owned by Colonel w. Z. Craig
and the Government gets it at Sl2 500.
The trial of Hunter Duvall, colored, of
Charlottesville, charged with an attempt
ed indecent assault on lady in the
grounds of the University of Virginia,
ended Friday evening in a verdict of
guilty, with twelve years in the peniten-
tiary. The testimony was very conflict
ing, and the public expected an acquittal,
or at least hung jury.
In the United States District Court at
Abingdon, last Friday, Judge Panl pre-
siding, Jack Mullins, of Buchanan county,
was convicted of intimidatlng voters at
the precinct in Buchanan at the last
presidential election, and was sentenced
to six months imprisonment in Jail and to
pay fine of 500. This is the first con-
vlctlOn in Virginia under the federal laws
for the protection of the elective franchise.
1t is an unusual thing for prisoners to
appear at the state prison in their grave
clothes. This, however, was done, the
sheriff says, by Henrietta Jackson, the
cOlOred woman who was saved from the
galOws in Charlotte county by a com
mutation Of sentence. The clothes in
which the woman was to be executed
were prepared, and she had them on
when the conmutation came. She was
hurried to the penitentiary, the sheriff
thinks, without changing them.
At the Roman Catholic church of the
Sacred Heart in Richmond, Va, last week,
pastor Kelley declined to conduct the
funeral of a member unless the Odd Eel
lows committee detailed to attend the
funeral took off their regalla in church.
The committee declined, and the pastor
went TO his dressing room and removed
his robes. TIE Odd Fellows committee
then left the church, and the pastor re
sumed his robes and completed The funeral
ceremony.
A colored man named Jake Smith, while
cleaning out we'll tSo or three miles
from Lynchburg, in Campbell county, last
Thursday, was buried alive. a large guam
tity OF earth caVed in. and his two COM
panions becoming frightened ran away
without making any effort to rescue him.
Saturday several colored men went out TO
the place, and after four or five hours
hard work, succeeded in recovering the
body, The wife Of the victim will enter
suit to recover damages against the con-
tractor