Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-10-05
NEWS AND COMMENTS.

until recently filed a clerkshlp ID
the War Department, was taken
TO Richmond from Washington
aad placed in the Soldiers Home
A skeleton Of a prehistoric giant
las been exhumed at the old fort
in kentucky. IL miles below
Portsmouth, o. 1t is 8 feet 10
stature and 5 feet across the shout
ders.
Frederick Brown, well-knOwn as
the manufacturer of Browns
Jamaica ginger, died at his home
in Burlington, n. j., aged 81 years
ID ceased was the son of Frederick
Brown WHO founded the business
In 1922.
The Kroder Brass Works, near
S;aun.On, burned down. The
value of the buildings, machinery
and material was about $l5;OOO.
The works are located on the lands
o. the Development Company,
about d mile east of town.
Louis Sharf and his family OF
five children, while going home
from the fair at Chaska, Minn.,
Saturday, drove overheard from
TIA ferry upon which he desired to
cross the river. The wife and FIVE
children and the team were drown.
ed.
Douglas Luce, the oldest person
in Champaign county aged 49,
died suddenly at Urbanns, o.,
He was born in Virginia, and
came to Urbauna when boy. He
was assistant commissary 10 Hul's
army. lie was a friend of historl
cal Simon Kenton and knew many
Indian chiefs, among them the
famous Tecumseh.
A few days ago Mr.. A. Barnett
G,adesboro, Va, was robbed OF
sl.1OO ia cash and other things BY
some young men, whose faces we're
BACKED to keep them from being
recognized. Suspicion rests on
two young outlaws who have been
committing many little crimes
lately. They are missing, and Mr.
Burnett offers 5000 reward 10:
their arrest.
Judge William Mclaughlin,
who is now holding the Bath coun-
ty circuit court at Warm Springs,
granted a writ of error in the
case of the Common wealth agunst
Thomas A. Goodwin. In the petit
ton we're three afiidavlts which
were to show that two jurymer
had made up their minds to hang
Goodman if they were put on thu
jury.
The residence of James Couch
enour, near Gate City, Va, wa
burned and two children met thei
death in the flames. An effOr
was made to rescue both OF th
children, but inst as their mothe
was entering the house the crasl
came buryiLg them under the burn
ing timbers. Mrs. G nc enOu
was seriously, if not fatally, bur
ned and herhusband badly burned
about the hands and face.
A negro was arrested in Wash
incton the other day while in th
middle Of a livery scrlmmage wit
some other colOred brethren. whe
arrested in court the followin
morning lie asserted that his pul
noses were entirely peaceful. "Bu
Won had brick in your hand,
SAID the Judge. eyes SAL" wha
were you gong to do with It'll
Take it home, sab, to sharpen o.
knife with sab"
DIR. w. Owen, who has az
Opired some fame as the discovere
Of an alleged cipher in Shakespeare
plays. which lie claims makes on
L0ld Bacon as their author, ha
announced another important fine
II is nothing less than a complet
nav in Eve acts, complete i
every detail. QSen's idea 10 tina
Bacou inserted it in the eiphe
story 10 his plays TO convinc
doubters that he was the grea
playwright bis decipherer claim
him to be.
George X. Hefiebower. trsyeI
ing salesman for M. Ii. Lauchhe
mer. of Baltimore, committed
suicide by shooting himself 10 the
head at the Opera Hotel, on Fay
cite street, near Eltaw street
Baltimore. Mr.. Hefiebower wa
thirty eight years old and wa
born at Marshall, Fsuquier county
lie was unmarried. About ffteer
years ago lie went to Baltimore
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