Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
State News.


DIR. r. w. Sanders has sold his iron
property in Wytho county to Samuel II
Crozier for SCI, 600.
r. o. Arlington, a merchant, was
knocked down in Roanoke by a negro and
robbed of $500.
Miss Lulu J. Madison, sister OF Mis-:
| Lillian Madison, for whose murder
Thomas j. Cluverius was hung, died in
Richmond Wednesday, aged nineteen
years.
Mr.. Chas B. Rouse of New York, has
sent his check to Ex-Governor Holiday
for s., 500 to pay for an iron fence which
be recently ordered to inclose Mt. Hebron
and Stonewal Cemeteries, Winchester
| Va.
John Smith, who murdered Peter Alif1
IN Roanoke last Thursday, was taken to
| Lynchburg Monday for safe keeping.
Lynching has been looked for every
night since the murder, and the Roanoke
Light Infantry slept on their arms Satur'
day and Sunday nights.
Thursday last Capt. j. H. b Jones, the
surveyor of Rockbrldge county and one
of its prominent citizens, fell under a
train at Fairfield, on the Baltimore and
Ohio Road and had his leg cut off. He
died Friday. Captain Jones commanded
the Liberty Hall Volunteers of the Stone
wall Brigade during the late war.
The report telegraphed from Lexington
that Capt. Jones had died from his in
iuries was incorrect. He is doing well.
Mr.. George Washington died last week
at his residence in Johnson county, No.,
aged sixty years. He was born in Jeffer-
son county, w. Va. His father was John
Thornton Augustine Washington, a
nephew of General George Washington.
His mother was Elizabeth Conard Bed
niger, a daughter of Capt Daniel Bed
niger, revolutionary soldier.
The engine of passenger train on the
New River division of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad jumped the track near
Bell Springs Monday morning and rolled
down an embankment fifteen feet high.
Engineer r. Z. Smith, of Radford. was
caught under the engine aud crushed to
death. The fireman jumped off and es-
capped without injury. No passengers
we're injured.
A dastarlly attempt was made to wreck
passenger express train on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad due in Stanton
at 2:30 Monday morning. A switch in the
western suburbs of the town was left
open and the light turned off. The train
ran into the switch, wrecking the engine
and three cars, but 10 one was killed.
The miscreants have not been discovered.
Information was received in Norfolk,
Friday of a most daring and outrageous
crime committed by two negro men
named Jack Jordan and bred Francis up
on married lady near Margarettsyille,
on the S. & r. Railroad.
The lady and her husband, who are
both young, were ont walking on the
road on Thursday night about dark, when
they were met by these two men, who
first attacked the man and tied him.
They then outraged the lady and left
them both on the road. Some friends
who passed that way found them and re-
leascd them. In short while the coun-
try was being secured for the two men
aud they were captured.
They were taken to Jackson, n. c., to
Jail, as threats of lynching were made.
A dispatch from Fredericksburg to the
Petersburg appeal says: Information
has Just reached here of the lynching,
last Saturday of Thomas Turner, near his
home il Culpeper county, for the killing
of his son. The facts, so far as learned,
are that on Friday last, the 18th inst,
Turner went home very drunk and APP
parently without cause killed his thirteen
wear Old son, and that on Saturday the
fend was taken from his home and hung
to tree near his house. he officers of
the comfy knew nothing of the murder
or the lynching until Wednesday last and
are paying very little attention to the
case, as Turner was considered desperate
character. Turner was about SO years Of
age and had served three terms in the
State penitentiary for stealing, on one oc-
casion for stealing the Innings and trim
mings from coffin which was being pre-
pared for a corpse"