Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-13
State News.

A New Yorker has promised Sl,OOO
wear for three years to Roanoke College,
Salem, Va.
The Roanoke Board Of Trade has closed
negotiations for the establishment there OF
a cotton mill, With 10000 spindles. The
minimum capital stock of $4,000 for
the mill has been raised.
James Crockett was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life in the circuit court
of aercer county last week for the murder
of Mollie Crabtfos at Bluefold last sum
mer.
George Colster well-known bugler OF
the Stuart Horse Guards, jum5ed out OF a
three story window at his residence IN
Richmond Sunday, while suffering from
temporary alteration Of mind, and Killed
himself.
John Edwards and George Lancy were
arrested in Roanoke Saturday, charged
with stealing cattle. Farmers in the vi
entity Of Roanoke have lost not less than
81. 900 worth of cattle in the last few
months, the heaviest losers being Messrs.
Terry A. Huff, G.. II. Payne, and Others.
Thomas Nelson, the absconding mayor
of Cape Charles, returned there Thursday
morning, and surrendered to the authori-
ties. He did not deny the fact that he
had squandered church and trust funds
in his possession, and that be had lived
beyond bis means.
Edward Lowe, of Fredericksburg, broke
through the ice and took a cold plunge IN
the Rappahannock. His sister, Miss Katie
Lowe, stretched herself PROSTATE on the
ice and reached her hand TO her brother,
who by her assistance, succeeded IN reach
ing the shore.
A dispatch from DanyilIe says: at is
hardly probable that a jury can be OBJ
tanned in this community to try }. T..
Clark, the man who killed the Rev. j. r.
Moffet The probability is that the
court will send to Petersburg for a jury.
The trial takes place in February"
In the Hastings Court of Danville last
week, the suit of the Salem (Ys.) Club
Land Company against w. II. Wood, for
an amount alleged to be due as stOckhol-
der's assessment, was decided by the jury
in favey Of the defendant. A similar
case of the HarIisonburg and Iron Gate
Land and improvement Company against
J. b. Anderson was also decided for the
defendant.
T. c. Morton, of the Worlds Fair
Association, says that very encouraging
reports are coming in from the county
superintendent of public schools relative
to the collection 10 the Schools for the
Worlds Fair. Among the counties heard
from are Carroll Dnwiddie, Brunswick,
Norfolk, Montgomery, Halifax, Notoway,
York. Northumberland and the cities of
Norfolk, Petersburg, Lynchbnrg aud
Stanton.
In the Lynchburg corporation court
| Tuesday of last week. the grant jury
found fourteen indictments against +. K.
Totty for larceny and embezzlement.
Totty Is the man who jumped from the
window Of Aguew & GJodman's factory
some months ago in the attempt to
snicide, when his crookedness was DIS
covered. He has gotten almost entirely
well, but his trial has been postponed
until February the Sth.
Friday night Dec S0th, the safes OF the
| Richmond & Danvile railroad office at
Front Royal and at Rlyerton were blown
open aud rihed. The night before the
safe of the Warren Manufacturing Com
pany, at RiyertOn, was blow open. There
was about IS worth of Worlds Fair
souvenirs in the safe here, and about
fourteen dollars were taken from the
Riverton safe. In all three instances
large sums Of money had been removed
the night preceding he burglary.
Charles Carroll, an alleged moonshiner
of Buchanan county, who was being
pursued by deputy marshalls, concealed
himself in an abandoned cabin, barred
the door and stood peeping out through
a knot hole The posse Of deputies came
along the road, stopped and began talk
ing on the edge of the clearing, too tar
away to be heard. A bet was made and
taken that one of the party could not
shoot through the knOt-hole IN the door.
A Winchester was leyeled AMI fired and
something was heard to fall inside the
cabin. The officers rushed to the spot
and found the dead body of the man fol
whom they had been searching.