Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1904-11-25
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
The State.

President Stevens. of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad, has written
the Railroad Young Mems Christian
Association of Richmond offering to
contribute $4,000 toward the erection
of Railroad Young Mems Christian
/ Association building in that city. The
other railroads entering Richmond
are to give .proportionately and
handsome structure for the Railroad
Young Mems Christian Association
seems thus assured
The Norfolk Library, containing
1900 volumes, was opened Monday
in beautiful building. which cost
$4,000, donated by Andrew Carnegie
The library will be under the care
and direction of Mr.. w. H. Sergeant,
formerly of the Peabody Library, of
Baltimore The lot in which the IL
barry stands was donated by MIR.
Selden, and the library is supported
by the city.
Simon Nachman. of Newport News,
was arrested by United States Depu-
ty Marshal West on the charge Of
taking IS cases of clothing worth
$4,000. Nachman was a voluntary
bankrupt, and it is alleged that he
packed his goods and shipped them
to Norfolk and then reshipped them
elsewhere, SO that the. officers can
not find them. Many of the creditors
are in Baltimore.
Is Near Floyd Court House, David
|. Sewers was shot and instantly killed
by his son-in-law. Emmett Howery
The men had been on hunting trip,
and are said to have been drinking
They. were returning home Wednes-
day, when a quarrel began. Howery
drew pistol and fired, with the mug
zle almost against the head of his
(. father-in-law. The bullet crashed
through Sewers brain and he fell to
the ground lifeless. Howery assisted
in moving the body to a nearby house
He asserted that he fred in self-de.
tense, then disappeared, and has not
! been seen since. This statement seems
borne out by the fact that Sewers
double-barreled gun was found be-
Side him, loaded and cooked. The
men, both of whom leave families, had
been on excellent terms prior to the
killing. Efforts are being made to find
Howery.
Robert Lampie, w. H. Mays and
Luke Erne, white timers, who were
at work on the seven-story jobbing
house of uggenheimer & Co., Lynch
burg, dropped 80 feet in a construe-
ton elevator Lampie is badly hurt
internally, the extent Of his injuries
being as yet unknown. But for the
presence of mind in the negro in
charge of the hosting engine, all OF
the men would have been killed in
stantly. He saw the rapid descent OF
the elevator and applied his steam
just in time to diminish the high We
locity the elevator had attained.
Mr.. E. D. Laws has sold his land
property in Upperville to Mr. Lee
Slower. Mr.. Laws has moved to Front
Royal, where he has charge of the
Alton Inn. Mr.. H. ]. Charrington, of
Warrenton, has sold the Waverly es-
tate to Mrs. Mary H. A. Cooper for
SIo,4oo.
A jury in Campbell County Circuit
Court, in the case Of George L. Bell
VS.. the Norfolk and Western Railway,
has rendered verdict for $1,000 dam
ages for personal injuries received by
Bell while running as a fireman on
that road. The suit will probably be
appealed.
Thomas Miller dropped dead in the
Rescue Mission at Roanoke while tes-
tifying as to his religious faith He
was SIS years old and leaves a family.
Surprising that he had wooed sue
cessfully, although no formal engage
ment had been agreed upon, Isaac
Glass, aged 50 years, wealthy farm
err OF Clarke county, was granted a Ii
cense at Winchester few days ago
to wed Miss Alice M. Jones. whose
age was given as 81 years. But when
Farmer Jones went for his bride the
lady suddenly changed her mind, and
fatty refused to marry. Disheartened.
Mr. Jones returned the license to the
court clerk.
Capt. M. L. Wiltshire, freight con-
ductor on the Chesapeake and Ohio
engine in the yards at Richmond and
his right leg was cut off. He died att
night.
Although he had been warned of the
danger, G. A. Cassell blew out the gas
in his room at the PoWhatan Hotel,
Richmond, and was found lifeless
when his door was broken open next
morning. Mr.. Cassell, who was an
old man and cripple, registered late
at night, but failed to record his place
OF residence An attendant accom-
panied him to his room and explained
how to manage the gas, The fact that
the gas was turned on full leads to the
suspicion that it was case Of suicide.
Mrs. Mary c. Hansborough obtain
ed in the Alexandria Circuit Court a
verdict of $500 against the Southern
Railway Company as damages for the
killing of her husband several months
ago.
The Alexandria Fertilizer and
Chemical Company has purchased the
former site of Eastlack's shipyard and
will establish wharves there.
Rev. Ellis S. Hay, pastor Of St
Paul.s Reformed Church. Roanoke,
has resigned to accept similar pas
torate at Hanover, Pa. He will leave
PaarnLe January 10