The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-15

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| presentation of the opera pin afore, f"
soon to be given at that place.
There are now 1,460 men at work in
the Norfolk navy yard, but reduction
in the force will be made this week.
The contract for the erection of the
new S14, 900 church for the Emmanuel
Episcopal Society at Staunton, has been
| placed.
General Early not having left will
his estate will therefore, go to his
nearest relatives sisters and a
number OF neices and nephews.
The Stauuton Bark Extract Works,
which have been idle for some time past,
will resume operations shortly with a
full complement of seventy men.
The young ladies Of Southwest Vir-
GINA Institute, at Bristol, are prepar.
ing for their spring concert, which will
be given at the institute Friday even
ing, March 80
Col Thomas f. Goode, of Nee klen-
berg, has supplemented by $1,000 the
amount appropriated by the State for
the support Of dependent and disabled
Confederate soldiers.
August a. Grubert, prominent bust.
ness man OF Stanton, is dead, aged 70
years. He was prominent knight
Teuplar, and the Masons took part in
the funeral ceremonies.
Miss Elizabeth Garlick Hill is dead at
Lynchburg, aged 80 years Miss Hill
formerly resided in Caroline county,
where she inherited the handsome es-
tate known as Mount Airy.
1t is expected that the State library
building at Richmond will be com
pleted by July l, and it will be finished
without the expenditure Of all of the
fund of 100000, which is available.
student at Washington and Lee
University attempted suicide, having
become respondent because q young
lady returned ring which belonged to
him, with the explanation that she
would BIO married in short time.
The March term of the Pulaski
county court, which is held at New
berne, the county seat, has adjourned
and the trial of John Dolman, the
negro who ia charged with having
wrecked freight train near Dublin on
Sunday, January 90, postponed until
April.
Fire was discovered in the wholesale
dry goods house of Guggenheimer & Co.,
in Lynchburg. early Tuesday morning,
and only the prompt work of the police
prevented serious conflagration 1t
was supposed to have been caused by a
piece of carbon from an electric light
dropping upon some goods.
William Cashwell, an Amherst county
negro, has been awarded So 900 damages
by the corporation court at Lynchburg
in the suit against the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway Com pany. Cashwell was
run into by train while crossing a
track in Lynchburg, resulting in loss
of three fingers OF his right hand and
a bad injury to his scalp.
In the seven suits against tho Allan
tic and Danville railroad, growing out
of the accident near Buffalo Junction.
the jury in the United States court, at
Norfolk, awarded the claimants the fol.
lowing damages: Jennie Winckler, S15O:
Verger Elan, Sl75; Robert Hayes, $500;
Il "A. Mallet, 5000; William Pettus, Sl35:
Richard Davis, $4,000; Thomas Lowry,
1000
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company is the defendant in a peculiar
suit which will be called at the April
term OF the circuit court in Martins
Vile. Some time ago Joseph Miles was
arrested by Detective w. g. Bald win for
attempting to wreck a Norfolk and
Western train near Martinsville. He
was brought to Roanoke, where he con-
fessed to number of people that he was
guilty OF the charge, and he also made
the same confession at Radford He was
tried at Martinsville and, notWithstand-
ing his confessions and the strong cir
cumstantial evidence against him, was
acquitted. Miles thereupon sued the
railroad company for $4,000 damages
for false arrest and imprisonment. The
case was to have come up last October,
but was postponed until the April term
OF the court.
e. Hedrick, native of Franklin
county travelling for Louisville, KY,
house, WAS arrested by Policeman James
Walkor at Lexington, Va last We'd
netday for selling Louisiana State Lot
terry tickets, and was tried and fined $50
and costs, amounting to about 500. The
circumstances in the case are that He'd
TICK, who Is spending some time at Lex
lhgton' bought lottery ticket from q
prominent citizen Of that town and drew
q small prize. He became interested
In tho lottery and began to sell a num-
ber OF tickets that the lottery companv
sent him. The case against him was
worked up and he was promptlv ar.
rested, while nothing was dono with tho
citizen of the city who first sold him the