Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-25
State News.

PENNSYLVANIA capitalists have purchased
$40 600 worth of land at Roanoke.
The five cheese factories in Gree ne
county, Va, are now shipping about 10
900 pounds Of cheese every week.
In Pulaski, Va, which went "dry" last
week, the citizens have appointed claw
and order" committee to see that 1t is en-
forced.
A decided earthquake shock was felt at
Rectortown, Fauquier county, Saturday
night at s:32 O'Clock, lasting about thirty
seconds.
The dwelling of the monument to the
late Gen. VIM. C.. Wickham, vlce-presi-
dent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road, the funds for which were contributed
by the employees of that company, will
take place at Richmond October 20.
Friday morning woman named Mary
A. Swetzle, an inmate of the Rockingham
county poor house, was knocked down by
a freight train, fracturing her skull and
badly MASKING her feet. Death resulted
in few hours. The woman was mute.
Timothy Blevin, son of the Waterman
on the railroad at the bluff near Mount
Crawford depot, was run over by freight
train Monday night between Harrison
burg and Pleasant Valley, and was so bad
" injured that there is little hope of his
recovery.
! The Furnace of the Buena Vista Iron
Company, is regularly t1rning out an
average of one hundred and nme (1O9)
tons of pig iron of best foundry grades
every twenty-four hours. This establish
ment finds ready sales for It's product and
is making money.
| In Pocahontas last Wednesday a pistol
IN tic hands of NJ. Gibbon, manager of
the Virginia Improvement Company, was
accidentally discharged, and the ball
lodged in the neck of S. Fl. Baker, chief
clerk for the company, INJECTING a wound
from which be died the next day.
T. J. Roberts, veteran engineer of
the Norfolk aud Western. and for a
number of years ran one Of the Cripple
Creek trains, made his usual two runs
Friday, and soon after leaving his engine
on his arrival in Pulaski was taken sud
denly sick and died before he could be
removed to his home.
Five negro men were jailed at Stanton,
charged with killing J. +. Lofts and
seriously wounding Henry Weeks, both
white, in a row on Saturday night at Mt
Carmel Church, eighteen miles south of
Staunton. Lofts was shot through the
body and Weeks was dubbed over the
head.
Hon. John S. Wise AMI Hon. George d.
Wise, who are first cousins, have been
estranged SINCE 1850 Both are volunteer
counsel to assist IN the defense of Mr.. w.
$. Dashiell, to be tried in Richmond on
the charge of forgery, and 1t is understood
that reconciliation between the two
Wises will take Place, if not before, dur
ing the trial.
The contractors of the Warm Springs
Valley extension of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad have notified SuperInten-
dent Moses, OF the Virginia penitentiary, |
that they have nearly completed their
work and will soon turn the convicts |
leased to them over to the institution
There are over one hundred cOnYicts in |
this gang.
A special to the Stanton Ne,cs from
Harrisonburg says that Syran Hoover aud
Ezra Lowman, two respected citizens OF
DAYTON, near HarrisOnburg, quarrcled |
lUlS morning ONtl uOut1 hAASA
a war of words Low man threw brick at
Hoover, and the latter rushed upon him
with a knife and stabbed LOwman several
times, with probably fatal results. Hoover
was arrested.
The Rockbridge Company of Glasgow
has made deed of trust to the Manhattan
Trust Company of New York City con-
yeying 2,5l7 resident and business lots;
the Rockbrdge park, Rockbridge hotel
and ten acres of land the Glengyle house,
10 which Ex-Governor FItzbugh Lee lives,
| 800 acres of land, Rosalin mountain, the
Belt Line railroad, the water works, cleo
trio light pant EchOls' iron property, 3d.
600 acres of rich iron land on the Glen
wood estate to secure loan of Sl50,OOO,
for which trust bonds running thirty
years will be issued.