The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

ill-treatment of the Hungarian laborers
on tho Norfolk and Western extension
After thorough investigation they re-
| port that no persons of foreign or ma
tive birth have been subjected to cruel
treatment as laborers or otherwise on
said railroad extension.
Senators Barbour and Daniels both
| promised ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Taylor
to attend the convention to be held in
Pulaski City on July 10, to take steps
to have Virginia represented at the
Worlds Fair. Governor Mckinney will
also attend, and Major Taylor predicts
that that the convention will be grand
success.
Rev. +. j. Brooke preached in tho Y.
Nj. c. ~. Hall at Elkton, last Saturday
| night, after which Presbyterian
church was organized and officers
elected. On Sunday morning there was
preaching service at the same place, fol
lowed by the ordination and installa-
ton of the elders and deacons. elect and
afterwards communion service.
The Basic City Building and Loan
Association was organized in that city
Tuesday with tho following officers:
President, j. III. Rankin; vice president,
Il. ;. Dlnkle; secretary, j. +. Landes;
treasurer, w. ~. Crenshaw; attorney,
L. c. Whedbec, while the board of di-
rectors is composed of j. ii. Rankin, A.
L. Boughener, w. B. Holtzclaw, W. Ii.
Page, j. j. Flavin. NJ. w. Quarles, L.
). Dinklc, George II. Selb, j. L. Bow
man, j Nj. Quarles, $. Longlcy, NJ. A.
BOOKER, j.. G. Jones, w. j. Arey and j.
w. Splitter A charter has been applied
for, and the capital stock has been fixed
az a sum not less than $4,000 nor moro
than 100000 Tho principal Office of
mi n " t-i l,f IL
no loans will be made outside Of Basic
City.
Tho vestibule train on the Chesa-
pealle and Ohio railway going cast at
noon Saturday ran through an open
switch at Basic City in the rear of Il
freight train on the siding. Tho en-
ginc of the vcstibulc train was consid-
erably damaged. -Four freight cars
were badly wrecked. Hon. John c.
Carlisle and family were on the vcsti-
bule train going to New York No one
was hurt but two negroes, who.wcre only
Slightly bruised.
Col. William II. Peyton died Saturday
night at his home in Greenville, Au-
gusta county, Col. Peyton was brother
of MIR. q. l.. Pcyton, of the Natural
bridge Hotel, and Mr. Eugene Peyton,
OF the Rockbridgc Alum, and, like his
brother, was widely and favcrably
known all over the country as n hotel
man, having been connected in the past
with several of Virginia's famous sum-
mer resorts.
MIR. Charles b. Rouss has given $4,000
for the erection Of an iron fence around
Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va
1t includes tho Stonewall Cemetery, in
which over four thousand Confederate
dead from every Southern State are
buried. Mr.. Ronss' parents and a son
who recently died in New York arc
buried in NJ. Hebron.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dulany, the Virginia
bridal pair, who were injured in a wreck
on the Pennsylvania railroad while on
their honeymoon, and who spent three
months in hospital in Pittsburg as the
result of the accident. have instituted
SUIT against the railroad company for
$50. 600 damages.
Rev. Il. L. IIcteuck, local minister
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, died at his homo near Winches-
ter Thursday last. Mr.. W. l. Slaglc,
weil-known merchant of Winchester,
died Sunday.
| The Richmond councils having guar
antecd the interest upon $50 600 loan
winch the State Agricultural Society
VIII secure, gives assurance that an OK
hibition of that society will take place
in Richmond this fall.
DR.. John II. Mason. surgeon in tho
United States navy and aftcrward in the
| Confederate service, died in Baltimore
| tuesday. lie was a son of the late
Temple Mason, of Loudoun. Ills re-
mains were inferred at Leesburg YES
tcrday.
The auction sale of lots yesterday at
Staunton was interrupted bv rain fter
500, 900 worth of property had been dis
posed of in two hours and half. The
attendance was large and the bidding
spirited. The sale will continue to-day
and to- morrow.
Robert A. Peasants, overseer on the
farm of Prof. j. j. White, near Licking
ton, was drowned Saturday in narrow
spring while drinking by slipping be-
tween the walls and being unable to
eXtricate himself.
Capt. R. j. Hancock, of the Ellcrslie
stock farm. in Albcmarle county, sold
in New York last week, fifteen thorough
bred ycarling colts at an average of
S73S.40 apiece.
Representatives of the American TO.
Dacco Company purchased from Danville
dealers last week 300, 600 pounds of cut
tiers, for which they paid twenty cents
per pound
Prof. Ii. a. White, of Washington and
Leo University, has declined tho pre-
sidcncy of Central University, Rich
mond, Ky, recently rendered him.
w. w. Payne, formerly of Spottsvl.
vania county, was accidentally shot and
killed by companion at Sewell, w.
Va, last week.
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