Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Ia the County Court Of Wytite coun5
! ". the trial Of l. Waller, for bnrniit =
| the Lead Mines Man ufacturing Plant,
| resulted in verdict of four years con-
finement in the penitentiary Oh Satur-
day.
A very severe rain and hailstorm
! passed over the vicinity of Lantz's
Mill, Shenandoah county, on Sunday,
cutting down fields of corn, breaking
| many window glass and washing roads
badly.
| The dwelling house and contents of
Mr. VIM. Manning. near Boyce, Clarke
county, were destroyed by ire Sunday.
The loss is estimated at 1000, no in
surance.
City Sergeant Tillet, of Roanoke, ar
rived at Norfolk Tuesday and left on
| the 10 o'clock train last night with W..
A. Noble, ex-auditor of Roanoke, I'M
der arrest. Mr.. Noble says he is anxious
for an early trial.
The Episcopal congregations OF Pc
tersburg have requested Rev. Robt. A.
Gibson, recently elected eoadjutor-
bishop of the diocese of Virginia, to Sc
| lect Grace Church, that city. as the
place in which to be coDsecrated.
| Bryant, forger convicted and sen.
fenced to ten years by the County
court of Albemarle county, broke jail
and escaped last week. A Confederate
who was q tramp succeeded in being
placed in tue same Cell, ana together
they sawed out.
Amelie Rives is about finishing a
. Il
rary sensation. She has not named
the book, but.it is intended as prac-
tical demonstration Of the teachings
of Talstois' "Kreutzer Sonata" book
which has probably left a bad taste in
the mouths of all who have read it.
Among the patents issued on Tues
day were the following: Thomas II.
Betty, Manchester, tobacco gum or re
tainer; Richard Ingram, Roanoke. car
brake; Addie NJ. Irby, Vernon Hill,
bicycle step; Richard Mccoy. Riverton,
car; Armin Pollak, Richmond, mouth
piece for cigars.
In the Campbell County Court, the
grand jury brought in an Indictment
against Z. S. Norman, ex county
treasurer, charging him with nisap-
propriating $500 of State and coun
ty funds. Norman was bailed in the
sum of $4,000 to answer at the August
term of the court.
Michael Dase, German market
gardener who had resided in Roanoke
and vicinity for the past eight years,
committed suicide Tuesday by shoot
ing himself in the head with revol
yer, A note was found on the floor
signed NJ. Dase, which read: BURY
me in pine box any place on the hill,
and no preaching"
Petersburg was visited last Wednes-
day by one of the seYerest hailstorms
ever known there, and in different
parts of the city the hailstones could
be scooped up by the handful. A num-
Der of window glass in the large facto- |
ries of the s. w. Venable Tobacco Co. |
were shattered by the hail, and vege- |
tation and the gardens badly cut to
pieces.
In Alexandria last week whilst Mrs. |
Mary Warder was being buried the |
husband received news that his infant |
had died. He was directed to have his
little one prepared for burial, and |
when the body of the mother reached |
the cemetery the casket was opened |
and the infant body was laid upon her
breast, and mother and child were
consigned to one grave.
1t has become the duty of Liberty |
Council, Junior Order United Ameri-
can Mechanics, OF Manchester, to pur-
chase a new pair of trousers for one of |
its new members. Tuesday night was
initiation night, and in the act OF in |
PRODUCING q candidate into the secrets |
Of the order his trousers were torn
from his body, s--s
William Clement, the negro who mar
rowly escaped being lynched several
months ago. was tried at Campbell
Court House Wednesday last and Civ
en- five years in the penitentiary, the
maximum penalty for his offense.
Clements made an assault on George |
Rosser, biting him with q rock, for
which he was arrested and confined in |
jail at Campbell Court House.
There is general indignation among
the employees of the Southern Rail
way Company at Charlottesville over
the removal of the division from Char
had bought homes there and were |
struggling to pay for them. The |
change forces them either to be sepa
rated from their families or to sell |
their residences there at q sacrifice.
A dispatch from Wytheville says that
Amos Wainpler, the young man who
shot and killed his father, Henry |
Wanp'er, on Cripple Creek. last Octo-
Der, and who & few weeks ago made !!
his escape from the Marion Hospital, |
was captured on Cripple Greek last |
Wednesday, and is now in jail at this |
place, awaiting his trial, which will |
doubtless come off at this term of the |
court.