Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-27
SOUTHERN. ITEMS
sosTE INTERESTING NEWS CoMFI ED
FROM MANY SOURCES.
-Roanoke Va is Ia have another military


Roanoke, Va, is to have another military
company.
The pending sale of the Durham Tobacco
Works to the American Tobacco Trust is Oft.
Work at the Norfolk Navysyard is affected
by the exhaustion Of the general appropria.
ton.
ton, W. Va, for an assault ON Alice Bailey,
white
AT Huntington, w Va, last week a boy
baby was born with two tongues, but il did
not live.
Land has been leased in Monroe county, W:
Va, for the purpose Of prospecting for gold
and silver.
Two white boys Edw Talley and Luther
Roberts, were drowned in Richmond Va,
while bathing.
Edward Jones, track walker on the Nor,
ioik 4 Western Road was run over and Killed
near Radford, Va
A printer named J. +, Wits was run over
and killed on the Norfolk and Western Rail-
road near Norfolk, Va.
Samuel Garrett, formerly of Lynchbufe
Va, committed suicide in Ohio by throwing
himself IN front of a moving train.
M. Bendheim & Brothers, retail clothiers Of
Richmond, Va, have made an assignment.
Liabilities SO, coo, assets unknown.
The grip has tackled the crews Of the life
saving stations along the Virginia aud North
Carolina coasts, and many are down.
John Davis, a sailor on the schooner Fannie
IL. Stewart, fell overheard in the NansemOnd
river, at Suffolk, Va, and was drowned.
The bronze statue of the late William c.
Wlckham has been completed. 1t is thought
i will be placed in Monroe Park, Richmond,
Va.
Encouraging crop news, comes from the
southern part of West Virginia. The wheat,
particularly, is better than it has been for
years.
In Berkeley, suburb of Norfolk, Va,
large lumber warehouse was blown down.
Capt. B. Monroe Kline was killed and several
others injured.
The Georgia Society of Scotch-irishmen
was organized at Atlanta with MIR. McWhater
president, w HUGH, viee-president and DR..
Hunter, secretary.
"A man named Davis, engaged in building a
telephone line between Grafton and Clarks-
burg w. Va, was mashed 10 pieces near
Pennington by a falling pole.
"A company has been organized in Washing
ton city, with capital stock Of 100000, for
the development Of the Massannetta or Tay-
Tor Springs, near Harrisburg, Va.
Governor Mckinney will recommend 10 the
Virginia Legislature the enactment OF law
providing separate accommodations for the
whites and blacks on railway trains.
by a collision Of freight trains on the james
River Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, at Rope Ferry, Va, Engineer Lane
and Fireman Clements were instantly killed.
An electric railway is to be built to connect
Charleston and Kanawha City, the new city
laid out about mile and a half from Charles.
IA m bp sd Of fhl II Yer
The Washington Southern Railroad will be
surveyed from Washington, Pa, to Manning
ton, W. Va, this sum.her. Prof. T. NJ. Jack
son and his assistants are preparing to shortly
make the survey.
The stockholders Of the Lynchburg and
Durham Railroad Company met in Lynch
burg Va, and elected new board Of
directors. w. G. Houston, of Philadelphia,
was chosen president.
The postoffice at Dogwood, Ala, station
on the Birmingham. Brieriield and Biocton
Railroad, was destroyed by fire. A general
country store was kept in the same building.
Morrison q Co., an old hardware firm at
Atlanta Ga, was placed in the hands of
receiver. Liabilities, 10000 assets the
same.
The Baltimore and Ohio authorities have
had plans prepared for new route for the
company's tracks through Wheeling. w. Va,
by which they will be removed from Six
teenth street entirely, and other decided
advantages secured.
Bernard Glaud, convicted at New Orleans,
La, some days ago of having attempted to
bride Tales Juror Henry b. Atwood in the
Heunessy case, was sentenced by Judge Mari
to one year at hard labor in the peniteutiary.
T. F. Henderson, William Long and Frank
Walters, suspected Of breaking into the safe
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Paw
Paw, were arrested near Harper's Ferry, w.
Va, by detectives of the company, aud placed
in Jail at Martinsburg
Henry Holmes, well-known farmer Of
Marshal county, w. ", while bathing in Fish
creek with party of friends, was missed by
his companions, and on searching, they found
his dead body in the creek Ii is thought
that he was seized with cramps.
AS T. r. Hurley was waking over newly
plowed field in Fayette county, w. Va, he
found sixteen dollars in silver, some of them
being very old; one, q Spanish dollar, coined
in 1902; two half dollars coined in 1908,
another in 1917. The dollar pieces were all
Spanish, and the halves and quarters 10
United States currency, none Of which dates
later than 1872.
The mine Of the Clements coke works, near
Morgautown, Viva, is on fire, originating in
the air shaft, the heavy wooden braces Of
which were ignited from the furnace, and the
flames shot into the air about fifty feet. As
themine is sell.drained and cannot be flooded.
il is sealed up, aud the york Of putting out
the fire is going on by forcing steam into the
fire.
Mr. Howard Flock, who delivers milk to
the creamery at keedysvillr. Nd, made
narrow escape from serious injury last week.
While at the creamery, some one a distance
of fired a shot gun in his direction and one of
the shot struck Mr.. Flock in the forehead,
penetrating 10 the bone, but doing no serious
injury
Rev. J. n. Montgomery, prominent Bap-
tist minister committed suicide at Vincent
Ala, by blowing cut his brains with a shot
gun. The suicide is thought TO have been
caused by insanity, the result Of excessive
mental labor
Meetings were held at Richmond, Va, aud
Atlanta, Ga, IN promotion of the movement
for the erection Of monument 70 Jefferson
Davis. At Richmond d committee was ap-
pointed 10 visit Mrs. Davis in New York aud
represent TO her the advantages which would
accrue from an immediate prosecution Of the
work. 1t was also declared that Richmond
should be the place of sculpture and site for
the monument
AT Moulton, Ala, John Siyerly bought a
pound Of powder, pair OF shoes and new
lin pan. lie put the powder and shoes in the
pan, set the pan in the back Of his wagon
where the sun shone directly on it, and started
for home. He was not smoking, and no FIRE
was about the wagon, but mile out Of town
the powder exploited, knocking him out of the
wagon, almost tearing his elothesof and burn
ing him terribly about the face and body. The
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