Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-10-02
State News.

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The epidemic of dlphtheria at Rib
mond is decreasing in virulence. Las
week five new cases, but no deaths, were
reported.
One dealer shipped from Dublin, Iu
laski county, Tuesday. of last week, 90
head of fat cattle, for which he received
an average of 81 per head.
Henry NowlIn, colored. was convicted
in the County Court of Botetourt, Friday
of the murder of Nosca an Italian peddler
and sentenced to be hung November 20.
The burnt square of Newport News has
been entirely rebuilt with handsome brick
mercantile houses. The fire was really an
advantage to that wonderfully rapid city.
The suit of j. J. Sullivan against the
Piedmont Electric Illuminating Company
at Lynchbufg, will be compromised by
the payment of 5000 to the plaintiff,
whose little son was killed abont six
months ago by touching an exposed wire
The medical examining board of vir-
ginia will meet at Lynchburg October
All applicants for certificates to practice
medicine in Virginia are requested to be
prompt in attendance, and report to DR..
Paulus A. Irvine, the secretary.
Z. w. Epes, charged with passing a
forged check on the EigenbIun Clothing
Company of Petersburg, was found guilty
and sentenced to the penitentiary FOR two
years. Epes is % years of age and very
highly connected.
Carleton H. Marks, sentenced to the
penitentiary for eight years for the kill
ing of n. NJ Balm. in Sussex county, two
years ago, but who was pardoned recent
ly by the Governor, died last Saturday of
typhoid fever.
Newport News is about to have a mil
lion dollar water-works. The water IS to
be conveyed in pipes from Warwick river,
a distance of seventeen miles. A COM
pany composed principally Of c. P.
Huntington is to bear the cost.
William Robinson, colOred, was con,
victed of murder IN the first degree in
Lynchburg last week for killing Mollie
Davis, his paramount, about two months
ago. If Robinson is hanged, as now seems
likely, it will be the first hanging IN
| Lynchburg for twenty-five years.
The Danville Register has news of a
shocking tragedy at Laurel Grove, Pittsyl.
vania county, Saturday night. Robert
Wilkinson, while drunk, make desperaet
attack on his son, and the young man
shot him five times with pistol and onca
with shot gun. The wounds are fatal.
Wilkinson was a desperate man when
drunk, and shot his son seriously about a
year ago.
Several attempts having been recently
| mn la l,xr t1rls r,ortiao ~ hraoE into
the house of d. W. Gillespie, in Roanoke,
Mr.. T. B. Payne, who was on guard, Sun
day morning shot and killed a negro,
whose name is not stated. The negro
was in the act of breaking into n room
occupied by some young ladies', when a
load of shot in tho back of the head put
al end to his career. The coroner decided
that an inquest was unnecessary, and that
Payne's action was to be commended.
The Governor has committed to I'M
prisonment for life the sentence of Cath
crime Jackson, who was to be executed at
CT arotte COurt-lIouse, Sc ptember p, for
murder. His reasons for granting this
clemency is that the woman is of I'M
sound mind. The Executive was also
petitioned, but refused to commute to i'm
prisOnment for life the death sentence of
Martha Murriel, another colOred woman
sentenced to be hanged at the same place
OH the same day. Her crime was the
murder of her child.
A consultation of physicians who at
tended the family of Mr.. W.T.. Mcdaniel
near Boyd's Tavern, Albemarle, in which
there has been such a fearful mortality,
has been held 10 Charlottesville. 1t was
decided the disease was spinal meningitis
No cause for the outbreak was found
Since the last report in these columns an
other member of tie family has died
making SIX deaths in one family in the
short space of ten days. Another mem
Der Is sick ana grave fears are entertain'
ed for his recovery. Two sons of Mr.. Nc
Daniel work in the Charlottesville Wooden
Mills. DR.. C.. s. Bocock, near Keswick
DR. w. c. n. Randolph, of Charlottes-
vile, and two prominent physicians OF
Washington attended the familly.-Bich-
mOEd Times.