Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
SOUTHERN ITEMS
SOME INTERVENING. NElyS COMPILED
ROM MANY SOURCES.


In Boone county, w Va. J. Barker fatally
shot Alt. Barker with rifle.
William Terry &c Augusta county, Va,
was dragged 10 death bye runaway team
In Kanawha county W. Va, james John,
son killed Horny Wise 10y crushing his skaii
with a stone.
The poStoiiice at BE ryyille, Clarke county
Va. WAS broker into and robbed Of 500 IN
money and stamp.
Miss Rhola Tabor Wesley died at her resi-
dencc, near News Ferry. Halifax county, Va,
aged one hundred and five years
While blowing near Web ter, w. Va
Allen /. Green's pillow struck a root forcing
the handle into his groin aud causing instant
death.
The depot and posioficr at Qaicssburg,
Shenandoah county, Va, were robbed, the
former Of $40 in cash aud the latter of 80 IN
stamps.
The dwell ing Of w f Given, OF RraxI n
county, W. Va, was burned q few nights
ago, md his zine year old son persisted ia the
flames.
The purchasers Of the Battersea cotton
factory, Petersburg, Va, are preparing T.
resiart the factory und r entirely new and
favorable auspices.
PROT. 10 l. yd was shot six times and in
stanty Kill at Jefferson, Tenn. Tom
Morton, his nephew by marriage, is charged
with the shooting
F. l.. Troifer an employee on the Roanoke
and southern Railroad was XII Ted by the
FILLING Of treSt.c eighteen miles south Of
Roanoke, Va. He was from Yates county, \.
G., and twenty-s years of age.
a number Of officials Of the Kauawha and
Michigan Railroad Company have been in
dicted for tn disaste- on the road near
Charleston, W. Va. July !. bywhicht hiueen
persons We're killed aud ffly.three wounded
William Holling, worth aud john Mccoy,
prominent farmers, Of Blouut county, Ala,
fought duel to the death there. Mcto =
fractured llollingsworth's skull with stone
and HollingswortN stabbed Mccoy three
times. Both men have since died.
Thomas, youngest son Of Luther Patio +,
the extensive coai-mine operator OF Clarks-
burg, w. Va, committed suicide by taking
laulauun Young Pa ton had been paying
attention 10 the daughter Of Nerva Da, is who
objected TO his suit and h sujcidcd in fit OF
detection.
Governor Fleming, Ms commaudcr.iu-chief
Of the Wet Virginia National Guards, has
Fixed Thursday, september 81 as the time Tor
the encampment and selected GYPSY Grove,
on the Monongahela River Railroad as the
place. This VIII be the first encampmcnt VI
the guard.
Middlesborough, ny. aud lynchcd by posse
OF armed citizens. Rossmus and Lilies john.
son fired upon the police who were attempting
to arrest them and wounded patrulman Tucker
ami Dorsey Williams, johnson was saved
irem lynching by being placed ia jail az
Piuevile.
The suicide Of Riley Grecnleaf, a we'll
known Roane county, w. Va, farmer, appears
10 have been caused by broken heart
GreenleaF4 son-in-law, DR.. Castro, TO whom
he was much attached, was i'll with consunip-
tom and was taken b Webster Springs Tor
his health by his iathcr-n-law. lie failed
rapidly and his death seemed imminent
Gre0lieaf left him in q dying condition,
r.turncd To his home and Hanged him elf
The question Of the site for the jefferson
Davis mIusoleum and monument is now one
Of absorbing interest in Richmond, Va. but
nothing will be do e until Mrs. Davis is able
to confer with the people. Mrs. Davis has
" ittcn letter to the Davis Monument AsSO.
ella ion and q committee of the Richmond
Chamber Of Commerce IN which she makes
era al Acknowledgements for herself and
children for the many cordial utteranccs they
have made on behalf Of the State OF Virginia
regarding Mr Davis.
Col. John Polk Pryor died at Frankfort,
Ky.
Tom Mccoy shot and killed George Roberts
near Pix Vile, Ky.
The works of the Washington zinc company
at Lynchburg, Va, ar 70 be put in operation
as soon as practicable.
In the Charlotte county, Va, cour' Henrietta
hurrell and Catherine Jackson, both colored,
were sentenced to te hanged August 18th for
child murder.
The 9th, 2sth and 21th Of October have
been fixed as the dates for holding the State
fair by the Virginia Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society.
The Legislature Of Georgia has passed bill
diSqualifying doctors guilty Of drunkenness
from practicng. A method Of indictment has
been frame aud upon conviction Of drunk
enncss the accused is made subject TO a heavy
penalty # he should attempt TO practice again
Col. II. Clay King, Of Memphis, Tenn,
twhO was Gently convicted u urder in the
first degree in killing David II. Poston,l and
n number Of his rela ives in Tennessee,
Mississippi, Arkanras aud Texas are about 10
bring suit 10 recover land in New York city
leased by their ancestors ninety-uine years
ago, and which is now valued al $780, OOD.
While Messrs. Allie Wright and George
Nash, employees Of Hunters pillow works,
Fredericksburg, Va, were G rrying ladle of
melted iron across the street % the moulding
shops, Nash fell, and tho iron running ONT
flowed over the arms anil hands OF Wright,
burn M them almost to crisp AmputatiGn
Of both bis hands viii robably b. necessary.