Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-03-07
SOUTHERN ITEMS
INTERESTING NEWS COMPLIED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

oUUfHERN ITEMS
INTERESTING NEWS COMPLIED
FROM MANY SOURCES.
An epidemic of typhoid is raging in Gilmor
county. w. Va.
Salem, Va, is to have an electric plant in
operation by July LIST. 1t will cost 100000.
The oil discovered in Greene county, near
Standardsy lie, Va, is said to be of no com.
mercial value.
-lhlesesare havinga RICH harvest in Wheel
Ing w. Va, rs nearly every night house or
| store is robbed.
| Arrangements have been completed for
having a medical schG3l at the University of
virginia during the summer months.
| While horsc-racing along the canal opposite
the Paw Paw, in West Virginia, Albert Mocks
ran into telephone pole and received fatal
injuries.
Charles Joyce, of Piedmont, Md, fell from
the railr 'adbridge at Farm lunt w Va and
was drowned. He %as working on the bridge
at the time.
| The breaking Of guyrope caused the fall
OF derri k at Pulaski, Va, which killed a
man named Ifarston and badly hurt the fore
man, c. S. Porter.
| The tin discovered at Wildwood; Clarke
county, Va, is said TO be the richest in the
| United States, and the development of the
mines will he vigorously pushed.
1 The flood in the vicinity Of Bellare and
/ Wheeling, W. Va has caused the stoppage of
| the window glass works III that neighbJ rhood,
and many of the workers have returned TO
New Jersey for time.
| John Hannigau, while attempting to board
moving freight train at Coalburg, W. Va,
fell beneath the wheels, which cut off both
his legs below the knee 1t is thought his
injuries will prove fatal.
| The machinery shed of William A. Stull,
near Frederick, Nd, was totally destroyed by
hre last week, evidently tae work of an in
ceudIary, as the machines were covered with
oil to make the destruc ton complete.
-Running train 70 Nlessly caused its de-
raIinent about twenty miles below Rocky
Mount, Va, badly smashing the engine and
several cars and killinga brakeman. Adkins
the engineer, was running nearly mile
| minute.
The grand jury of Norfolk, Va, is after the
| sunday sellers of liquor, aud the investigation
tiIsclOses that the police are not only inefficient
in enforcing the law, but are law breakers
| themselves. Two under suspension tor
| drunkenness.
| Walter IL. Turk, of BriJgewater, Rocking
/ ham county, Va, died recently from
/ terrible accident lie was pitching hay from
J
| Jumped to the barn floor below and impaled
himself on the ;ork.
/ The Salem, (Va.) Times Register reports
/ witnessing the effects OF patent powder in
/ vented by j. Il. Has ings VINO claims that it
| can be used AT II cost Of fifty cents per ton in
| muck bar mil, TO convert iron into steel, and
that 1T is aiino immaculate in its effects.
For the past three weeks the Lower Poto-
! mac fisheries have been almost coming
! D.. a A.. e -
/ been caught OH the Virginia shores of the
/ Potomac since the 10TH Of December than
during the wno.e season for the last twenty
/ years.
] As the Delaware division train left Will
! mington last week a p.sol-shot crashed
! through the rear window Of the coach, the
I bullet passing between Mr.. Pennington, pro-
| prietor OF the Coulbern House, at Sea ord
4 Del, and the back OF the seat, and was flat
| tened against the panel on the opposite side
| of the car.
| Mr. Frank in Chopper, of Waynesboro Md,
! about II week ago, had the misfortune to nearly
sever the foretnger OF his left hand while
! splitting wood at his woodward. Physicians
/ tried to save his finger, but 1t refused TO KNIT
/ properly and locEjaw resulted, from the ct.
fects OF wnIcn Mr. Ciupper ed.
Charles Myers, Mailer in the Laughln
mill, at Alatua's Ferry, w. Va, went down
into the fly vince, pit to put on the belt on the
] hy-wheel wheH IT slipped on and knocked
( Myers down. tie lay ~ tae bottom OF the pit
with the dirt and grease flyiu, IN every diree-
ton until the engine was stopped, or he might
have been killed.
{ Dan Singleton. a farmer, while driving
near BraXton Courthouse, w. Va, was fired
on from some timber. Rienard Dean was
arrested for the crime and confessed to having
fired the shot, having been hired to kill
! Singleton by " III. Prince and his wife, who
promised him calf and two bedsteads if he
would do the job. They have been arrested.
/ "A con pany is to be chartered in few da, q
at Charleston, W. Va, 10 conduct a large china
( factory at that place. The capital stock is to
be $5UUUU, neHriy all of which has been su b.
scribed by Charleston people, aud work on
the plant viii be begun within thirty days
1t is expected TO be IN operation next summer,
and will employ 80 people.
"A case of pure wanton vandalism occurred
J at the estern Union Telegraph Company s
Office at Frederick, Md. The glass OF the
upper part OF the door was smashed, the door
forced open and the glass IN the window de-
faced. as no money is Kept in the office over
! night, roboery could not have been the object.
"A large corps OF laborer5 and carpenters
began work last week on the IIagerstown end
! of the Norfolk and Western Railroad bridge
at Shepherdstown, Nd. They will replace
7 the wooden trestle with an iron framework.
/ All the bridges between Hagerstown and Ro.
anoke will be reconstructed III this manner in
! course OF time.
| "A beautiful albino Opos>um, pure white
with pink eyes, was captured near New Mar.
! ket, MD, by co.ored nun residing in that
/ district. 1t was presented to DIR. j. w. Dow.
| ney, who sent 1t 10 DR.. John 5. Billings of the
Army and Medical Museum IN Washington
/ DR. Downey has contributed many handsome
exhibits to this museum.
AT pub lie meeting the remainder of the
endowment faud oil 500, 900 for the Randolph.
Macon W, man, College at Lynehbnrg. Va.
was raised " subscrip IONS This insures the
establishn ent OF the Institution, representing
an investment of s2UJ,u 100 with when TO start
and it viii be the leading school of its class
| in the South.
The family of the late Chief Justice, w. N.
! II. Smith, OF the Supreme court of North
I Carolina, nave presented Il handsome portrait
of the chief justice TO that body. 1t was pre-
scented TO the court by George ii. Snow. OF
Raleigh, who pronounced an eulogy on the
chief justice
The bill to appropriate 800 to the superior
court judges, and sl5U-lo the supreme court
judges an uaily for expenses in travelling,
was killed on the secoad reading in tie North
(! Carolina Senate. As the railroad commission
bill prevents judges from receiving tree
passes, tins virtually reduces their pay. A
| bill is, however, pending to require railroads
/ 10 pass all State officials free.
About ten o'etoek the other night the peo-
pie of Sunbury, Yates county, n. G., were
startled BY cap of thunder and vivid flash
of lightning. In few minutes after tor
naio, the like of which that county never ieIi
before, was sweeping over the land. Mr..
Charles Gurley says that within sight OF his
house seven buildings were down, and fences
trees, wagons and carts were sweptaway. The
thimneys OF his house were blown down, the
windows knocked in, ami the rain on his bed
room floor was an inch deep. The storm swept
space halt mile wide and carried every
thing with it Two children we're killed near
| Sunbury, and it is reported that a number OF
people were killed further east The immense
dry kiins at Bosley, n. C., we're also blown
down, as well as ether buildings in that
vicinity. The tornado lasted about seven or
eight minutes.