The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-21
THE TIMES KODAK.
Items of News Gathered Around
Town.

1t Is thought by some that the negro
in Roanoke Jail, for stealing COW from
Mr. Masincup and selling it in Vinton,
Is the same negro who sold Mr.. Hurts
cow last Saturday in Salem.
The missionary society of tho Luth-
eran Church expect to have picnic to-
day near town.
The Roanoke College baseball team
will play the Bedford City club on the
new ground near Hotel Bedford this
afternoon.
Mr.. Carr, tho manager of the Roanoke
and Salem street railway, has rented
and moved his family into Mrs. Jacob
Parrish's cottage, near boulevard Hill.
Miss Rosa Martin is visiting friends
| in Shenandoah.
Mrs. Belle Picker, of Lynchburg, is
in town the guest of relatives.
Justices Camper, Webber and Youn-
ger, acting as commission Of lunacy,
yesterday made out commitment for q
single lady of middle age residing on
Main street. Tho case is a peculiarly
sad one for the sufferer was highly cul-
tivated and endowed with more than
usual Intelligence; her form of insanity
seems to be of a religious turn, but her
many friends have hopes OF her speedy
recovery.
Thieves raided Shartzer's truck gar
den Thursday night and carried Off
considerable produce. He has now dis
tributed torpedoes among the peas and
onions.
Five young men spent two hours with
a seine in Roanoke river near the Sew
enth street bridge yesterday, and their
haul brought about forty pounds of
good sized suckers and black bass to the
banks, there being sixty-one gsh in the
catch.
j. w. T. Allemong. president of the
Salem Improvement Company, returned
Thursday night from trip through the
North, where he went in search of new
industries for Salem. In conversation
with THE TIMES reporter he said that
all branches Of iron manufacturing were
| exceedingly dull and in many cases
plants had shut down to await better
prices. One thing especially that struck
Mr.. Allemong was that towns in Penn
sylyania and New York we're just as
anxious to secure industries and equally
as liberal in their offers as the towns in
Southwest Virginia. and that it was a
rare thing to find any enterprise that
was safe and sound which was anxious
to move. Mr. Allemong, whilst away,
also visited many OF the so-called new
towns in the valley, and he says that in
mono did ne fnd anything like the mum.
Der OF industries at work that are here
in Salem, in successful operation
"Aftcr Roanoke" he said, 'you can
truthfully place Salem, but we must
have more industries somehow or other -
At recent meeting of the trustees of
Roanoke College, the faculty recon-
mended twenty young men for Sradua-
ton, one of the largest classes in the
history OF the college.
Alta meeting last night of the voters
of the First ward TO nominate two
candidates for town council, held at the
Dry Branch grocery store, DR.. Wiley
was elected chairman and William Mel
son, secretary, and Messrs. Francis and
Smith wore unanimously declared the
choice OF the citizens of West Salem.
Rush Smith, colored, was arrested at
the depot last night for shooting at Jo-
seph Anthony, colored, and brought be-
fore Justice Wehber, who will try the
case this afternoon.
Saint Shaver, the darl1ey put in Jail
Thursday for stealing, escaped yester-
day afternoon by crawling through the
trap in the cell door through which food
is passed into prisoner.