The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-04-04
THE TIMES KODAK.
Interesting News Items Gath
cred Around Salem.

The missionary address on India
which was postponed last Sunday on &C.
count OF the funeral will be delivered
next Sunday afternoon at the Presby-
terrain Church By Rev. J. R. Bridges.
Mrs. r. 81 Whisner has received a
letter from her husbsad, DR.. P. II.
Whisner, in which he says that the con-
ference now in session st Frederick ks
burg will probably not adjourn until to-
night.
Aleck Craig, who bad hearing Mon
Gay before Commissioner Rhodes for
running a "blind tiger" near Salem,
was sent on to the grand jury, giving
bail for $500, with James Early as his
surety.
Constable Willett yesterday brought
! to the county jail, to remain there until
sent to the asylum, John Powell, OF
Bent Mountain. who had recently been
aojudged lunatic by commission Of
justices 1t will be bered that
this is the man who burned his mouth
SO terribly few days since by ramming
red hot poker down his throat.
Monday aftern BON while Mrs. Arthur
| Adkins was preparing q flower bed in
| her front yard she found an old fash
| Toned pistol barrel some thirteen inches
long with the hammer and cap nipple
on the lower side. The figures III are
fairly visible in the rust, and some do
clare they have seen the letters A. L :,
but the cores pendent failed 70 see
them, and mis- eyes are in fairly good
| condition
Roanoke county circuit court was
engaged yesterday in the trial of the
Berryville Land Company VS.. D. b.
Strouse before the following jury: Il
G. Bushong, w. S. Pollard. S Nj. Muse,
D. A Sedon, NJ. p. Crawford, r A
Coon. R. NJ. Cooke, q. T. Sbenk, S. f
Thrasher, John W. Jones, w. A. Kar-
nev and A. j. Heslip Judge Staples
and Marshall Mccormick represent the
company and a. A. Phlegar and Major
Kirkpatrick represent Mr.. D. b.
Strouse. David Shanks Phlegar, son of
a. A Phlegar, is acting as court stem.
ographer in taxing down tho evidence
ID b. Strouse was on the stand yester-
day, after which the notes of the evil
dence at the former trial were read.
Very few colleges in the South have
separate library buildings; but Roanoke
not only has such building, q Gothic
brick structure erected in 1879, contain
ing 1900 volumes, but it has been
found necessary to enlarge this build
ing to meet the wants of the College.
The increase in tho number OF volumes
and the modern methods of study rem
der 1t necessary to build an annex for a
reference library and reading room,
which will nearly double the fl 1or space
available for library purposes. The
contracts FOR this addition have been
signed and the work is to be com pleted
before the opening OF the next session
In September. This annex will be
Gothic to correspond with the prese ut
building; built OF pressed brick covered
with slate, and finished in good style
throughout. The library is to be rear
ranged and catalogued during the sum
mer vacation, and the reading room and
reference library will be open to
students every week day during the
session, thus making IL more and more
an aid to study and research
In the mayors court yesterday bafore
his honor and Councilman Strayer 81 v
eral cases werc tried with tho following
results: Fred White confessed iudg.
ment to driving on the pavement, and
was fined So Lizzie Ross was tried for
defacing property belonging to Henry
Hale, by knocking the door open with
an axe, and being found guilty was
fined $40; Mollie J ihnson, for keeping
house of i'll fam, and Mollie Hale,
for adultry, were cases which occupied
the attention of the court all the after
noon. The commonwealth was repro
scented by Major Ballard and the prison
ers were defended by a. j Oliver, the
colored attorney of Roanoke city, who
made an able speech. Councilman
Strayer IN deliveri tho verdict Of
the court stated th = Mollie Johnson
was not guilty in 7eir opinion, and
that there was not 81 icient evidence to