The Afro-American., 1895-11-30
vIR WEST VIRGINIA.,
THE Latest News Cleaned From Various Parts d
tho state


George Elkins. who fell of q high porch
at Edgewater, is still living notWiths1and-
'linSs he has 4 broken neck. He IS IA the hos
pital and 1t Ii believed that be win lige.
The town Of Chatham. the county seat Of
Pitssylvania county, is on alb An en-
thusiastic meeting of the citiA9ns was held,
at which it was determined toerect at once
three large tobacco factories, made necessary
by the growing tobacco market there Inc
preliminaries were arranged, the money sub
scrlbed and the building operations COM
menesd
AT Ferguson. 4 head-end collision occurred
betwesn tlgo ffeiahts 81 the Norfolk and West
ern Hoads Both engines were demolished
and twelve cars wrecked. All train crews
Jumped and hone were seriously injured.
Traffic was delayed for eight hours. The
loss to theeonipany will be heavy.
Vane Wellman, of Ceredo, fireman on the
Norfolk and Western, was probably fatally
scalded nv a hue of his engine blowing out,
at Canterbury Hill.
Messrs. J. w. and J. B. Tasker have, it is
reported, discovered about 500 acres of four
800 acres of from six to eight foot vein of gas
coal on their farm. about six miles from
Piedmont This coal will be placed in the
market at once and wilt De developed in the
near future.
A general meeting Of tire directors of the
West Virginia, Southern and Midland Rail-
way Company will be held in New York De-
nd Cf10 will a
elected. This is a new road proposed to be
built up the Cheat river.
A somewhat sensational episode occurred
in society and educational circles at Bristol
Prof. H. w. Noff, former president of King
College, and at present a professor in South
west Virginia Institute, was talking to a
friend on Main street, when King James, a
well-known gentleman of Roanoke, accosted
him, demanding an apology for an alleged
insult. A few words were passed, when
James struck the Professor a heavy blow in
the face. Bystanders interfered and stopped
the affair." butt not until Sam Bor8on, who
thought his friend James was not getting
fair play, struck the Professor across the
head with his cane None of the blows are
serious. The difficulty arose out of the Pro-
fessOr8 asking James to discontinue smok-
ing on the street car conveying the young
lady pupils to the college. James consider
ed it an insult and demanded an apology.
Samuel Ralston, an old white man, living
near Monterey, Highland county, was found
dead in the woods. He wandered from home
several days ago and died of exposure.
Twenty-six cases Of the Southern Mutual
Fire Insurance Company to recover for losses
prior to 1874, when the company stopped
business, have been decided in the Circuit
Court against the company.
The University IF Virginia benefit given al
the Academy of Music, Roanoke, by the Mar
garet Lynn Lewis Chapter of the Daughters
Of the 4 .7aerican Revolution was great sue
cess. It was quite a society event and the
largest and most fashionable audience ever
assembled in Roanoke Professor Peasants,
Of Hollns Institute, delivered a lecture on
"Old Times in Virginia" and amateur talent
rendered a variety play written by Roanoke
lady. Quite handsome sum for the univer-
sity building fund was realized.
The breaking of an axle on an engine pull
ing a 8outh-bound freight on the Norfolk
and Western road, at Patrick creek, caused a
disastrous wreck at 2 o'clock the other morn
Ing. Ten box cars and the engine we're de-
molished, and John Conner, a tramp, was
badly injured. All trains were delayed nine
hours, and the loss to the company will be
heavy.
The movement started by the Business
Mems Association to secure manufacturing
industries for Martinsburg, received addi-
tional furtherance at a meeting of the citi-
| zens just held. 1t is proposed to raise the
money for the purpose through a building
and loan association, and committees were
appointed at a similar meeting held week
ago to solicit subscriptions to stock. The re-
! potts showed that goodly number of the re-
! qIired shares had been taken.
Joseph Zepp, the engineer at the Middle
sex knitting MILL was badly scalded by tbs
bursting of n pipe about the machinery,