The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-22
VIRGINIA BREVlTlEs.

w. e. Turner, white man, employed
by the Norfolk and Western railroad at
Norfolk as sealer, was sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary Tuesday for
attempted criminal assault on his 13.
year old stepdaughter.
Lizzie Walters and Virgil Walton,
who have been imprisoned in the Hen
rico jail for the past two months on the
charge of having murdered, by poison
ing, Solomon b. Jenkins, were set free,
the grand jury failing to find true
bill against them.
The Knights of Pythias of Ports.
mouth have under consideration the
erection of a handsome Pythian castle
on Court street to accommodate the 700
members of the order in tho city. At.
lant.c Lodge has already $4,000 site.
The Alexandria Gazette SAYS that the
Baltimore & Ohio Officials deny the
story that the road contemplates con-
nection with the projected Richmond e
Manassas railroad. 1t was said at the
time of the granting of the charter at
Richm ond that the Il. e o. were behind
the scheme and were seeking that route
to obtain an entrance into Richmond.
In the United States court at Lynch
burg Tuesday the case OF tho S. f. Hess
Company, of Rochester, N. Y, VS.. the
Bonsack Machine Company was taken
up. This is suit for alleged breach of
contract, about $4,000 damages being
claimed. Judge w. W. Crump, of Rich
mond, and r. G.. H. Kean, Of this city,
represented the plaintiff, and Messrs.
kirkpatrick & Blackford and A. H.
Burroughs the defendant.
Governor O'Ferrall has announced the
following appointments as his staff and
the branches to which they are as
signed: Chief Of staff, Col. C. OBJ
Co~aFain /, 4 Sgartermaster general,
Onaes Co.. w F1sS pesseNts of rife
ordnance, Col. John S. Harwood; com
missary general, Col. Lewis c. Bailey;
Judge advocate general, Col. r. e
Boykin; aid de camp, Col. O. w. Dudley.
A negro named Ed. Smith was picked
up on the railroad track three or four
miles west Of Pulaski in an unconscious
state and taken to his mothers home in
that town. DR.. Peyton was called, and
the negro was found to be dying. Cir
cumstances led to suspicion of foul play
and coroner's jury WAS summoned.
The verdict returned was that the de-
ceased came to his death by fracture
of the skull caused by blow from
car coupling thrown by Walter Arthur,
white brakeman on the train. Arthur,
who is almost a giant in size and
strength, has been bailed in $500 bond
to answer.
Fl. Silverthorn. the well-known
Lynchburg jeweler, who formerly ran
the branch store in this city, recently
purchased outright by Edward 5.
Green, made an assignment on Tues
day, naming Lawyer f. w. Whitaker
as trustee. The property conveyed
consists of all the stock OF jewelry,
gold, silver, diamonds, etc, in the store;
the stock held by w. II. Neighbors,
OF Wytheville, on consignments; the
debts duo the concern; house and lot
occupied by the assignor as residence,
corner Of Fourteenth and Fillmore
streets, fronting on Fillmore. All
household and other furniture or prop
erty Of every kind belonging to the
assignor. The nominal assets, includ-
ing the accounts that are supposed to
be good, amount to about $50, 900. The
liabilities are in the neighborhood OF
$40, 900. The business will be continued
for year by the trustee, and it is
hoped that every dollar of the liabili-
ties c.n be paid, and Mr.. Silverthorn be
able to remain IN the field after that
time.
Mr.. Siiverthorn has been in the
jewelrY business in Lynchburg for up
wards of fifty years.