The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-01-26
VIRGINIA NEWS


Judge d. A. Grimsley has granted
AN amendment to the charter Of the
Virginia Ice Company Of Charlottes-
willie, enabling it to do a general cleo
tric light and telephone business.
The store house OF w. p. Oliver x
Co., at Lola, Pitisylvania county, was
burned, together with contents, Sun
day night Whel the fire was dis
covered there was no hope Of extin-
gushing it. The loss on building and
stock is estimated at $1,000; insurance,
$500 There is no clue to its origin
The congregation of the Kent Street
Presbyterian chur ch and the Loudon
Street Presbyterian church, Winches-
ter, have appointed committees to
make arrangements for consolidating
the two churches. The Loudon Street
church was formed in 1888 by dissent
ing members Of the Kent Street church.
Virginia oystermen are feeling very
blue over the sudden let-up Of the cold
weather. As long as the mild temper
allure continues, they say the price of
oysters will continue low Many Car
ter Creek planters have already COM
menced barreling their catch and
shipping them to Northern markets,
chiefly Philadelphia.
The passage by Congress Of Senator
Daniels bill appropriating an addi-
tional $4,000 for the Newport News
public building will make a total of
$4,000 for this project. The addi-
tional amount is asked for so that
quarters may be provided for the
United States Court and the marshals
for the Eastern District.
Thomas w. Watts, father of the
young man who was lynched in New
port News for criminally assaulting
young married woman, has sent de-
tective from Lynchburg to Newport |
News to ferret out the circumstances
leading up to the lynching and to as
certain whether it was justliable. 1t
is stated that grand jury Of the Cor
poration Court will be ordered to i'll
vestgate the affair this week.
No tidings have been received Of
Deputy Clerk Taylor, Of the Henrico
o,nnf ,- court VIII, L. o,ar..aJ ,ritl, ON,
bezzling public funds and who disap-
peared after he was bailed. There is
an impression that Taylor has gone to
Albany, ~ Y, where he lived before
coming to Virginia. Taylor's family is
reticent about his departure
The committee having in charge the
erection of monument at Berryville,
in honor Of the Confederate dead, has
awarded the contract. The designed
chosen is one known As "Appomattox,"
a Confederate soldier as
there dawns upon him realization
that all for which he has fought for.
four long years is irretrievabe lost.
The figure is to be Of granite, Of heroic
size, upon a pedestal p feet high.
MOt0rman Frank Cook, Of the Alex
andria electric railway, who caused his
friends some uneasiness by his sudden
disappearance from Alexandria last
Tuesday, has returned. He states that
he has been on visit to friends near
Sheriff Smith, Of Portsmouth, re-
ceived a telegram Monday night stat
ing that a man thought to be the con-
demned negro murderer Walter Cotton,
who escaped from the Portsmouth Jail
a few days before the day set for his
execution, had been arrested at Crewe.
The case against II. G.. Wadley on
the charge of embezzement was
brought to close at WythevilIe on
The jury brought in YER (
iict Of guilty and the defendants sem
.ence was fixed at one year in the
The case has been in the
courts for six years. Wadley was
charged with embezzling the funds Of
4 banking institution of Wytheville.
The amount supposed to have been
smbezzled is placed at $4,000.
Fire broke out Tuesday morning in
the clothing store Of J. A. Hirshberg,
Newport News The stock was valued
At between $4,000 and 5000, and the !
oss is very heavy. Insurance TO the :
amount Of $1,000 was carried, but this (
will not cover the loss. ]
Traffic through the Dismal Swamp ]
anal was interrupted temporarily
Monday by a cavern at Deep Creek
ocks. Many square yards of earth sur
the Grant chamber went into
he canal from a height Of some TWEEN I
y-two feet, seriously interrupting
rattle There is a theory that the a
foundation Of the lock was weakened !
~ a leak.
Frank Best, colored, who murdered
/ negro two years ago at Lambert's /
Point and was sentenced to be hanged, {
,ut got new trial on technicality, {
pleaded guilty in the second degree in
he Norfolk county court Tuesday by
.onsent, and was given eighteen years
u the penitentiary. He claimed that
he man he killed had ruined his home. ,