Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-19
SOUTHERN ITEMS,
SOME INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

FROM MANY SOURCES.
"A. C. Hayden, of Iron Gate, Va, was struck
by freight train and fatally injured.
The ladies of Lynchburg, Va, are organic
ing society for the prevention of cruelty 10
animals.
David Bib, an old citizen of Caroline
county, Va, died of loekjay, caused by cut
on his finger.
Reports from the tobacco sections Of Vir-
ginia represents the crop as having been
seriously injured by toe recent heavy rains.
The fruit inspector at Norfolk, Va, has
sounded warning to Baltimore shippers
against sending unsound fruit TO the former
city.
The ten-yenr-old son of Benjamin Kenyon,
of Vienna, Fairfax county, Va, was drowned
while attempting to cross stream near his
home.
John Brown, one of the Oldest citizens of
Taylor county, w. Va was struck by the
Chicago express. ON the b. Il O. Road, and
killed.
a letter from Saluda, Middlesex county,
Va, says the prospect for a good oyster trade
III TINT section is very good for the incoming
season.
Bette Dawson and Sissy Horne, both white
women, were run over in Richmond by a
freight train on the York River Railroad and
killed.
Work has been commenced on the new
Academy of Music at Roanoke, Va. 1t will
cost SIS, 900 and will have seating capacity
of |, 800.
AT the meeting of stockholders Of the
Roanoke and Southern Railroad Company at
Roanoke report was read showing largely
increased net earnings.
Henrietta Murrel and Catharine Jackson,
10th h.t,, in
Charlotte county for murder were reprieyed
for thirty days by Gov. Mckinney.
George C. White, well-known wharf
builder and contractor, was run over and
killed on the Atlantic and Danyille Railroad
at the crossing on First street. i'll Portsmouth,
Va.
William W. Williams, q farm hand in
NansemOnd county, Va, was found dead in
the woods shot through the head and an
empty shotgun alongside the body. Williams
left his home to go cunning.
Moses Baumgarten, aged thirty-six years, a
proof reader for Charleston, Is. c. news
paper office, committed suicide by taking
cyanide Of potassium. lie had lost his situa-
ton and was disappointed in love.
The Buena Vista (Va.) Glass Works beg n
turning out its products last week. 1t is an
elegantly equipped establishment with thirty
three glass blowers in line, and the special
pursuit will be mineral water bottles.
-Sora have begun to make their appearance
in the marshes near Petersburg Va. Mr..
Gail ng, of Norfolk, went to his fathers farm,
on the Appomattox river, and in short time
killed over one hundred of these birds.
Rev. James T. Dickinson, formerly Of
Richmond, Va, but now of Orange n. Y,
has declined call which offered a salary Of
81 900 in excess of what he is now receiving
as pastor of the North Orange Baptist Church.
Wilson Schoolcraft, aged twenty, shot him
self at his home, near IIandley, w. Va. The
bullet entered his body near the left nipple
and passed into his lung. He cannot recover.
Scheolcratt did not know the pistol was
loaded.
AT Boydton, Mecklenburg county, Va,
Miss Annie Mason Iledderly, aged eighteen,
was shot and almost instantly killed by the
accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of
her brother, Ernest Hedderly, fourteen years
Of age.
Over 5000 people atten led the dedication
of the new bridge over New liver, at Radiorl
Va. Senator John W. Daniel delivered an
eloquent address.-At night there was fine
display of fireworks. The bridge proper is
!, 400 feet long, 40 feet wide, and spans the
river at height of IS feet Its cost has been
upwards of $50, 900.
Chris Coke, an employee OF the Norfolk and
Western Railroad Company, was found lylns
under the third span of the new bridge just
opened at Raiford, Va. He had been struck
two or three times with some sharp instru-
ment and then thrown to the earth below,
distance of 80 feet 1t is supposed that he was
instantly killed by the fall
j. ID. Austin, merchant residing near
Salisbury, n. c., was arrested in Richmond
Va, charged with raising check of $50 to
5000 andattempting to pass upon the whole
sale grocery firm of Il. A. Saunders d Co.
The check was drawn on the Davis & Wiley
Bank of Salisbury. The work of raising it
was poorly executed.
AT Clarksburg, w. Va, announcement was
made of compromise of the celebrated Cam
len viii case. This case was TO have come up
for trial at the present term of the county
court but the attorneys arranged a eonipro-
mise on the basis OF the marriage contract
which gives the widow $4,000 in lieu of all
Ghcr claims and divides the balance OF he
est e among the heirs at law.