Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-06-26
State News.

Hugh Wiley was convicted in the
Loudoun county court last week Of horse
stealIn. and sentenced to the penitentlary
for fifteen years and six months.
Five well-known citizens of Bristol
have been indicted for participation IN
the recent lynching of Robert Clark,
colored, IN that city.
A company has been organized in
Washington city, with capital of $780,
600. for the development of the Nassau
Meta or Taylor Springs, near Harrison
burg.
Miss Eleanor II. Hundley. young lady
only eighteen years of age and very popu-
lar and accomplished. dropped dead on
the street in Richmond ON Saturday
evening.
During a violent thunderstorm Monday
afternoon near Disputanta Station, on the
Norfolk and Western Railroad, Charles
Ralrey, a widely known citizen of Prince
George county, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed.
s. NJ. Levine was arrested at Roanoke
on Saturday, charged with poisoning his
wife, in Philadelphia, about January Ia.
They had been separated for some time.
Levine was seen with his wife one night,
and she was found dead next morning.
Luther II. Lanson and Edward Talley,
eight and twelve years of age, respective
", were drowned while bathing IN the
James River last week. Neither could
swim, and they got beyond their depth
They were sons of widowed mothers.
Mamie Lindsey, aged twelve years,
while handling a loaded shot gun at her
home, in Clifton Forge, last week, fired it
off, the contents lodging in the left breast
OF her eldest sister, Miss Lula Lindsey. a
grown young lady. 1t is thought the
wound will not prove fatal.
In Page coun ty Monday Bud Kaufman
aged fourteen years was fatally shot by
bis brother, Dorsey Kaufman, aged SIX
teen years. The boys were examining a
revolver, when the weapon was dis
charged. The ball entered about the
region of the heart, and death was almost
instantaneous.
II is stated that the knetograph, the
wonderful method of representing sound
and motion. ascribed to Edison, is the in
vention of VirgniaD, Mr. William Ken
nedy Larvie Dickson, of the electrical
mining and metallurgcal department of
the Edison laboratory, at Orange, N. j -
A relative of Mr.. Dickson says: "In lo8?
Mr.. Thomas A. Edison said to Mr.. Dick
SOD, one of his associate inventors, Dick
son, | want to connect my phonograph to
a machine that will take pictures and re-
produce them llfe-like. Now, go ahead"
There was no hint or suggestion or stroke
of work from Mr.. Edison, and the kineto.
graph IS the result.
One day last week Mrs. E. o. Redd,
who resides in the central part of Rich
mond, received by mail small package
of crystallzed fruit. An hour or two later
she ate portion of it herself and gave
the rest to a Miss Waddy. who also lives
in her house and to negro woman and
three negro children on the lot. In a
short time all six were taken desperately
i'll, and physician being summond pro-
nounced IL at they had been poisoned
Three hours hard work afforded them
some relief, but at night they were by no
means out of danger, No one in the
house has any Glow or any suspicion as to
who sent the package. Had the ply
scian reached them an hour later they
would have been past all possibility
of recovery.
Houston O5enchan, of Roanoke, shot
and mortally wounded IL. n. Trout at
Troutville about 10 miles from there
Sunday afternoon. Obenchain left Roam
oke in a buggy and stopped at Trouts
fathers. In the evening he took two
girls to church, and then went to Trout's
residence, invited him to go to church
with him. When in.front of the edifce he
drew his revolver and fired FIVE shots at
Trout. Two balls struck him in the head,
one entering the brain and the other
entering through his jaws Obenchain,
it is said, accused Trout with circulating
derogatory reports to lady regarding
his character. Obenchain then went to
Ben Murray's house, close by. and, placing
the revolver to his forehead, sent bnllet
through his own brain, from which he
died instantly. Trout was kind OF de-
tective, and Obenchain was a fagman.
Trout cannot live.