Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-31


c.. Saturday night. about six miles
north of Martinsvlle. 1t seems that
Leslow was walking on the track and
was closely wrapped, head and ears
to protect himself from the now-storm
that had been raging all day, hence
he did not hear the approaching train.
Voters In the southern part of Bed
ford county have brought DR.. ]. W.
Fuqua out for the Legislature.
R. D. Buford, typical old vir-
ginia gentleman and one of the oldest
clerks In the State, in point of service
announces himself as candidate for re-
election as county clerk of Bedford.
A new bank will be established at
Christansburg, Montgomery county.
The capital has been subscribed.
A telephone line from Chase City to
Boydton. via GAINESVILLE. will soon be
put in operation.
At Eureka mills Friday Mr.. John Far
rer and Miss Belle Daniel and Mr.
William Rodgers and Miss Tiler Daniel
were Joined in wedlock.
Nelson Wolfe, the negro who was ar
rested in Roanoke a short time since
and taken through Bristol to stand trial
at Rogersville on charge of murder,
has been convicted and given twenty
years in the penitentlary.
Friday Mr.. Gerald Carew, a New
York merchant, will wed Miss Ray Far
rell. OF Alexandria. The bride and
groom are natives of Alexandria,
Rev Theron II. Rice, OF Atlanta, who
has been critically Ill in Alexandria, is
improving.
Information was received in Staun-
ton Sunday of the death In Aiken, S.
C., of Mr.. Louis A. Witt of consump-
ton. Deceased was n son of Mr. and
Mrs. Isaac Witt. of this city, and was
twenty-six years of age.
Mrs. Mary A. Rhodes, widow Of the
late Joseph Rhodes. died at her resi-
dence. near Leesburg. Saturday.
The claim is set up that Mr.. John
j. Hun, of Floyd county, who served
In Company III. Fifth Virginia Infantry
was the youngest Confederate soldier in
the war between the States.
Prof; NJ. NJ. Lemond has leased the
establish business college.
Col. Eugene G. Peyton manager of
Hotel Intermont. Covington, has ac-
copied the position of manager of Hotel
Clermont, Charlottesville.
DR.. Xerxus IT. Bates. OF New York,
the famous chemist who has been
spending the Winter in Glade Spring,
died at that place n few days ago. His
remains were shipped to New York for
interment.
The American Telephone Company Is
now as far as Rice's Depot, building
Its line westward on to Lynchburg. 1t
works one hundred men, and builds
two miles per day.
The owner Of the land from which
the stump of the tree which was cut
down by Federal bullets during the
battle OF the Wilderness. in Spottsyl-
vania county. was taken. and which
General Miles had sent to the War Mu-
scum. a Washington. has requested
that said stump be returned.
A. ]. Burgdorf of Washington. d. c.,
member of the third class of the Vir-
ginia Military Institute. died in the
hospital Mt the institute Saturday
morning. after short illness. The i'm
mediate cause of his death was heart
failure. caused by n CONFUSION. His
mother was with him during his III
ness.
Mr.. G. A. Sublett. of Bluefeld, brake
man on the Norfolk and Western, met
horrible death Saturday at North
Fork junction. His foot became fas-
tened in frog. and before he could
eXtricate 1t he was run over by the
shifting train and literally ground in
to pulp.
Hon. A. A. Phlegar. executor OF the
late Judge w. X. Staples. gave n check
for $S.Sl3S5 to Treasurer James G.
Haynes few days ago, as the five per
cent. tax on Judge Staples estate, in
compliance with the act Of 1896. as
amended In 1898. which imposes n tax
of five per cent. on collateral inheri-
lance.
Mrs Edward +. Hook was accidental
~ shot at Lexington Saturday by the
discharge of n shotgun in the hands
of her young son. who was playing with
1T In the next room. The load went
through two tbicknesses of plasterinG
and laths and partition. thence
through both sides of n cooking stove
The wound was found to contain Gin
ders, shot, plastering, cloth and stove
metal. Her injuries are not fatal
Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss has
presented the employees of one of Win
chesters dailles with a library, con-
tanning many useful works. among
them being copy OF the Bible. with a
number of rules. of which he is the
originator. copied on nyleaf Mr..
Rouss gives them for the edincation
and profit of all who may peruse them.
Mr.. Green Mauck. q worthy young
man of Luray, met with a serious ac-
cident yesterday. He was at
tempting to draw the brake on