The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-22
SALEM NEWS
EDWARD JETER. REPORTER.

a number of Franklin people were at
tending court yesterday, they having been
summoned to testify in the Mills case
now in course of trial in the county court
Alta meeting. of theHupp-Deyerle Camp
he Id yesterday morning, w. w. Brand,
Col. Il. HI. Logan and j. b. Frier were
chosen as delegates and J. NJ. Smith, A.
H. Whitesell and G. w. Zirkle AS alter.
mates to represent the camp here at the
Confederate reunion to be held next
month in Nashville.
On Thursday last ninety. two wagons
unloaded tan bark at the Salem steam
tannery. This is the largest number of
wagons that ever unloahed bark in one
day in the history of the tannery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haigh, of Portsmouth,
arrived in Salem yesterday to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Haigh's grandmother,
the late Mrs. Eliza Vaughn.
William II. Terrill, after u sojourn of
severa days in Salem, left last night for
the South.
Hersey Carper moved yesterday from
the house of M. j. Ballard on Main street
to his old home on Calhoun street.
The remains of Mrs. Eliza Vaughn, who
died Thursday morning in Portsmouth,
arrived in Salem yesterday morning,
where they will remain until 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon,at which time they will
be buried in East Hill Cemetery The
services will be conducted from the old
home place OH Main street by the Rev.
DIR. Fox, assisted by the Rev. james T..
Armstrong.
The machinery at the Holstein Wooden
Mills is being overhauled and put in or
der by Il skilled ulachinist and the wooden
department will start up in few days
with force of about forty hands. This
department. was in operation last year for
about four months. The pants factory is
Mt present in active operation with fifty
employees.
Mrs. j. IL. Bieson, of Richmond, n sis
ter of Mrs. Frank Weber, had pro-
phetic dream on last Friday night about
the time that her brother, Percy Minor,
OF Richmond, was shot by negro DIES.
perado. She was sleeping in Editor Web
ber's house in West Salem at the time of
the occurrence AMI dreamed that she saw
some one ut her home in Richmond badly
hurt and carried into the house. She saw
the physicians summoned ard felt all of
the pangs incident upon serious acct
dent to loved one. The dream WAS so
vivid and made such an impression upon
her that on the next morning she tee-
graphcd the following message tc Rich
mond: Are they all we'll ut home, had
terrible dream last night" TO which tel
egram she recei ved the following reply:
"All we'll excepting Percy, look for let
ter" Her brother had been shot Satur-
day morning ut o'clock and by some
strange medium in nature the fact had
been communicated tc her dreams.
Mrs Ida Moore, who is an applicant
Tor the Salem postoflice, received Il letter
Yesterday from Washington stating that
her application Was receiving favorable
consideration. 1t begins to look as IL Sa
lem's next postofiice incumbent will be
lady.
Read the statements of the three Salem
banks publirhed in Thursdays Salem
Times Register. The statements are very
creeditable for banks in n town no larger
than Salem, the total amount subject to
check at this time heing 1927, 1869 AS
against $l37, .SS last year, thus leaving
n balance in favor of 1896 of $40, 0u6. 20.
Bryan prediction in his. last years Madi.
son Square Garden speech in which he
said that banks and trust companies and
insurance companies could only prosper
in proportion as the people prospered is
being literally fulfilled, and while the
people feel the hard times most, it is only
II matter of time until the gold standard
will ruin both people and banks.
The following jury was empanelled yes.
tertlay in the case of the commonwealth
against j. ii. Mills for the killing of Jno.
Rakes, an imbecile, on May 10, near
Gaze Spring: j. Horace Smith. \ j.
Heslip, r. II. Ligon, Ct. l.. Deyerle,
James G.. Hamilton, w. r. Callahan,
,Jno. NJ. Thomas, James Wyle G. II.
Shanks, L. II. Williams, Jno NJ. Smith
and w. J. Walker. The evidence was all
submitted by / o'clock and the arguments
begun. j. w. Hartwell, of Roanoke, is
assisting j. II. Baer, the commonwealth
attorney, and counsel for the prisoner are
r. c. Stearnes and Henderson Lee Mr..
Hartwell and Stearnes argued the case
before the jury, the latter making his
maiden speech. Court will assemble this
forenoon at 10 o'clock and the closing
speeches will he made by Messrs Lee and
Baer. The general impression seems to
be that the verdict will be mot guilty."
OPPOSED TO WOMEN'S DEGREES.
Cambridge, Eng, May 21.-The Uni
vcrsity is in ferment on the question OF
comforting degl ees upon women, on which
vote will be taken to-day. The under
graduates, who oppose the proposition,
are terrorizing the seniors, threatening to
migrate to Oxford and to refuse to take
their degrees in June. They are spend.
ing large sums on fireworks and rotten
eggs, in readiness either to ce ebratc the
defeat of the proposition or to ayenge it's