The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-06-01
THE TIMES KODAK.
Interesting News Items Gath.
cred Around Salem.

Prof Crabtree is here for few days
on business.
The many friends of Will Hannah
will regret to hear that he is quite sick.
Frank P. Landon, of Bluefleld. is here
on visit to his father, Mr.. George
Landon.
A fair little daughter arrived yester-
day afternoon at the home Of G. R.
Roberts.
Elder D. A. Snow. of Washington,
will preach at the Christian Church
next Sunday at IL an.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF the Metho-
dist Church will hold festival in the
Allen block next Tuesday night
Mrs. Jeter will end the present session
OF her school by giving picnic to her
scholars to-day at Mason's Creek.
Mrs. j. N. Gordon and family, of
Lynchburg, who have been visiting
Miss Abrahams, on Broad street, have
returned home.
Rev. L. Masao, the Japanese mission
airy who has been preaching and lectur-
Ing in Roanoke, was in Salem yester-
day, and attended Mr.. SCHOOLGIRLS
meeting.
D. F. Martin has sold two of his
registered Percheron mares to George
Logan for $500 cash. Mr.. Logan wants
them to work on the farm he recently
purchased.
Roanoke county court was adjourned
yesterday until the June term. Before
this was done, however, the following
business was transacted: On motion OF
Attorney M. G. McClung, counsel for
James Walker, the motion made by the
prisoner for new trial was withdrawn.
Walker was then brought into court and
sentenced to eight years in the peniten-
tiary In accordance with the verdict of
the jury. Sheriff Zirkle will take
Walker to Richmond next Tuesday.
In Justice Campers court yesterday
Charles Burton and Laura Lynch, of the
county, were up on the charge of lewd
and lascivious cohabitation. The com
monwealth not being ready for trial
the prisoners were recognized for their
appearance on the 9th Of June. The
parties in this case are willing to get
married, but the woman is already
married ahd although her husband has
deserted her she Is too poor to obtain
a divorce, so they are situated between
the lion and the alligator.
Constable D. T. Blackwell and Deputy
M. j. Peters, OF Cave Spring. brought to
eho SOuhsy JoAi yosGerudy DuCK0r AmOG
and John Stanbach, two white men, and
Jacob Murray, bsJ Of weak mind, who
had been tried on Wednesday by Justice
Phelps and sent on by him to the grand
jury, on the charge Of setting fire to and
burning up in the night the dwelling
occupied by Lucy Russ and family, in
the Dundee neighborhood, Back Creek.
The boy Murray was admitted to bail.
Amos and Stanbach are the men who
we're arrested last June on the charge of
breaking into John Mills store, on Back
Creek. In the present instance 1t is
alleged that on the night of the Sth of
May these worthless went stealthily to
the house occupied by Lucy Russ, who Is
an old woman snd has for her family q
grown daughter and two young children.
1t Is charged that the men climbed on
the roof, removed some shingles, poured
oil through the hole on bed in which
the children were sleeping and then
dropped lighted newspaper on the oil,
which WAS soon in blaze. In escaping
from the burning dwelling, the old
woman was "rocked" and badly bruised
by the men, whom she claims to have
identified as the prisoners. What the
object was for this cruel act or wha5
circumstances led up to it the corre-
spondent W. unable to ascertain. The
punish m>-nt for this crime Is death, I'M
less tho jury find that at the time of
com hitting the otfense there was no
person in the dwelling, and in that event
penisentiary for five or ten years.