Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-06-01
Virginia News.

A. M. Fuller, Pennsylvania capt.
talist, has purchased the Upton build
ing in Roanoke, for ST. $50 cash. DR..
Upton paid $4,000 for the building in
1887.
Amberly, Glover Hill. Massanette
Springs, Montezuma, Onawah, Peach
Grove and Suffers, all local postoffices
in Rockingham county, have been dis
continued, the patrons to be supplied
by rural free delivery.
The factory of the Watt Plow Com
pany on Franklin street, Richmond,
was damaged by fire to the amount OF
about S12 ,000 The fire is supposed to
have caught over the cupola, situated
over the foundry of the establishment.
Chas d Denit, one of the editors of
the Salem Times-Register, and the
Democratic nominee for clerk of the
courts of Roanoke county, was sue
cessful on election day. He defeated
Judge w. Griffin, a popular man.
Generalization Brother DENT.
The Botetourt Telephone Co. will
apply for charter, with capital of
$4,000. Contract has been awarded to
J. G.. Brewbaker to furnish all material
and construct and equip a telephone
line from Buchanan to Fincastle.
The Roanoke Street Railway will be
sold July 31st. The line hauled $4,000
people during five days of the German
Baptist convention. 1t has been sug-
gested that the city of Roanoke should
purchase the road and thus start the
movement in Virginia for municipal
ownership of such enterprises.
Work on the new hotelto be built at
De Witt on the Richmond, Peters
burg and Carolina railroad, near
Petersburg, is to be begun in a few
days. The building is to cost in the
neighborhood of five or six thousand
dollars.
A letter from Richmond says: Some
of Mr.. Martins friends are adVocat-
ing the convention movement. They
say that inasmuch as the fight has
opened up unusually early, it would
be we'll to have it end as soon as posi-
BILE, in order that other issues may be
considered in the election of members
Of the legislature.
James Motherhood, q prominent
business man of Richmond, is dead.
Mr.. Netherwood in his life time erect
ed the stone work on several import
ant buildings such as the city hall of
Richmond and the Jefferson hotel. In
lakewood cemetery he built several
years ago beau tiful monument with
his own like ness at it's top dressed in
Masonic attire.
Herman Schuricht, one of the best
known German-American citizens OF
| Virginia, died on Saturday at Idle
wild, his home in Albemarle county.
Mr. Schuricht was native of Germany
and 6S years old. He came to this
country in 1858.
Robert Brown, who was terribly
crushed Friday afternoon while at
tempting to board the west bound af
ternoon mail train at Lowry. Bedford
county, when the train was in motion
died Saturday morning from the eff
fects of the injuries at the home of hi!
brother, Joseph Brown in Bedford
City.
Jonas Hecht, the oldest and most
highly esteemed Hebrew citizen OF
Norfolk, died on Saturday, aged 81
years He went to Norfolk in 1868 from
New York and was OF dained rabbi oil
Cheb Shalem Temple. in which capaci
ty he served for Is years. Mr.. Hecht
was one of the original ten men who
founded the now powerful order Of
B mai Birth.
There we're two cases of serious
bloodshed in Patrick county on cleo
tion day. At Gates Store Bose Lewis
was SHOT and killed, and L. d. McMil.
lin, Jr., is in Jail charged with the
crime. At Nettle Ridge, as the result
of a feud, a man named Brain shot
one Hodges in the leg, breaking the
bone, and slightly wounded a by
stander with a wild shot.
At Louisa Courthouse last SATURDAY
morning John G. May and R. L. G..
Barrett, son of DR., n. &. Barrett, an
old physician of the place, had a fight.
About sundown that afternoon the
doctor and May met. Words passed
and the two attacked each other with
chairs. Finally they clinched, when
young Barrett appeared ON the scene
and shot May in the abdomen. Mays
physicians do not think the wound is
a mortal one. All the parties to the
trouble are highly respectable.
Zach Cameron, Jr., of Corner Stone,
Amherst county, caught a II year old
negro boy named Walter Davis at
TEN pting to assault his little daughter,
only 5 years old, Friday, and at once
proceeded to deal with the wretch as
auy father in similar circumstances
would, when Mrs. Cameron, attracted
by the Negroes cries, rushed up and in
terfered, thinking that her husband
was killing him for some other cause