The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-04
SALEM NEWS
EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.

Judge Blair who has been holding
court in Botetourt county, returned
home Monday evening.
Miss Sallie Johnston, after Il pleasant
visit to Mrs. Ioll, of Norfolk, has re-
turned to her home.
Mrs. Jesse Floyd returned to Salem on
Monday after visit to her parents at
her old home in Gordonsvillc.
W. S. Agner, the west..end miller, who
has been I'll or.several weeks past, is con-
valesccnt.
Mrs w. w. Ballard, who has been con-
fined to her bed by sickness, is reported
much better.
The Misses Hatcher md Myers, of IIol-
Inns Institute, who have been visiting the
family of j. G. Ligon, have returned to
the Institute.
Miss Myrta Preston, daughter of Thos.
l. Preston, is confined to her home by
sickness.
The agent of the Heine Boiler Com
pany, of st. Louis, is here assisting in
the placing of the large boiler MT the new
quarters of the electric light and water
company.
y team belonging to Mr.. Morgan, of
West Salem, ran away yesterday and up-
set II load of hay i'll the street in front of
Will Hurts market. No damage was
done.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. McClune left
Monday night for Washington, where
Mrs. McClung was summoned by tele-
graph to attend the bedside of her sister,
Mrs. ~. b. Pugh, who is critically i'll.
Mrs. NJ. A. Bowles, of the Duval
House, discovered on Monday a tarrant-
ula in her bed room. 1t however, euded
capture and is supposed to have crawled
III her window from n bunch of bananas
hanging in front of Mr.. Hornc's store
f. a. Day and wife. of Browningsvillc,
Md, arrived in Salem Monday evening,
where they will be at home on Pennsyl-
vania avenue to their friends and nc
Quaintances.
Messrs. Griffin, Baer, Brand and Grave
ly held il + epublican love feast OH Mon
day night in the Alabama street taberna-
Gle. The colored band was in attendance
They afterwards seranaded Judge
Griffin at his home and he responded
with speech from his porch.
a colored boy nearly grown, by the
name of John Wade, while out hunting
yesterday near the IIOrner farm shot and
instantly killed hi nself He was pok-
ing the butt end OF his gun into brush
pile and it was discharged, the lead en-
tering his left side
On Monday evening II large crowd gath
cred around the PROSTATE body of IL horse
that had fallen on College avenue and be.
longing to II colored man hy the name Of
Tom Burks. He was finally priced up
| and started homeward.
The Missionary Society of the Baptist
Church have sent an extensive box of
clothln" and supplies To IL frontier mis-
sionary and his family in Oklahoma.
The goods were shipped yesterday
Miss Amelia Lauderdale, of the Nir-
Gina Female Seminary, has been i'll for
several days at the home of b. w. Logan.
We opine that the tally sheet Offices
here will be n failure If they are in
| tended as a basis for contesting the leg
! ality of the votes cast they will in the
end he a fi2Zle. If intended as n delivery
ofiirc for votes cast and paid for, they
| will he won sc than a fiZZle. for the man
| who would sell his vote would lie.
The attempt of the Republicans
| throughout this State to keep track % the
| Mckinley voters by Il $50. called tally
] sheet is the most ridiculous affair that
we ever witnessed. In Salem tally
sheet office has been running all day
and as soon as a Republican votes he runs
into the tally sheet Office and reports how
he voted. This is done presumably "a
contest the returns, but it will fail of its
purpose, for the more respectable Repuh-
| licans are not reporting at the tally
| sheet Office and then besides many who
suppose they voted for Mckinley have
| tried to prepare their own ballots and for
want of proper information have cast Il
vote that will be thrown out upon the