Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
WINCHESTER NOTES
WHAT Is HAPPENING IN THE
VALLEY oF VIRGINIA.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

WINCHESTER, Va, December 16, 1905.
President s. Fl. Hansbrough and number
of directors this week made an official in
spection of the great dam across the Shen-
andoah river at Millville, Jefferson county,
w. Va, which is being constructed for the
Winchester and Washington City Railway
Company by z. Purcell & Co. of Harrison
burg, Va. The dam is to be 1900 feet long,
twelve feet high and ten feet thick at the
base. About so per cent of the work has
been completed, and the last span of the
masonry is being built on the far side of the
river High abutments are built at each
side, and the space in the middle is known
as the "spilway." The dam will supply
% zoe horsepower. for furnishing electricity
for the city of Winchester and a part of
the electric line that is to run from this
city across the Blue Ridge mountains and
connect with another line for the national
capital
William Goll:day. an employee of the Rio
Extract Company of Rio. Hampshire coun-
ty, w. Va, met horrible death this week
by falling headlong into a large vat or
scalding extract. Golliday was oiling ma
chnery at the time, it being before day
break, and he was unable to see his sur
roundings clearly. His agonizing cries for
help attracted the attention of felloW-Work-
men, who rushed to his rescue. They pulled
him out of the boiling fluid. but he died
about twenty-four hours later in great
agony. He was married just three months
ago to Miss Lucinda Lupton, daughter OF
William Lupton of that place. The unfor-
tunate man was about thirty years old and
a native of Shenandoah county. Va.
Augustus Walker, an old man OF eighty
five years, and his two sons, Holland and
Lester Walker all of near Saumsville,
Shenandoah county, Va, have been playing
into the hands of federal and state officers
at a lively rate this week few days
ago Holland Walker was released from the
Woodstock jail after serving four months
for breaking into several stores in Shenan-
doah, and he was Immediately rearrested
by Deputy United States Marshal ]. w.
Rhodes and brought before Commissioner
Alvin J. Tavenner at Winchester, and ar
raigned on charge of robbing several post
Offices Being unable to furnish heavy
bond, he remanded to Jail to await trial
by the United States court at Lynchburg.
on March Is, 1906 His aged father was
arrested for completely in the crime, and
was released on $500 bond.
Lester Walker, who is still serving state
sentence for store robbery. made two des
perate attempts to escape from the Wood
stock jail The prison keeper discovered in
! a hat that Walker had sent by a messenger
TO his sister a note, requesting her to write
to Ward. Montgomery & Co. of Chicago and
buy the best files they sold for cutting chill
ed steel Last night Tailor Wenger was
aroused about midnight by cries of fire in
the jail. and upon rushing in, he found the
floor afire near Walkers cell and the prison
full of smoke. He extinguished the fire
with buckets of water and set guard over
Walker. Since being confined to jail, Wal
kcr has been bad prisoner, and he told
several inmates that he Intended to make
| his escape and run the risk of being killed
rather than go to the penitentiary. He Is
| twenty years old and was a prominent
! public school teacher before being arrested
for this series OF crimes.
| A clash between the church and the stage
created a sensation here this week, when
Evangelist John Brown of Missouri who Is
conducting revival at Braddoek Street
| Methodist Episcopal Church South, took
| occasion to declare that the stage was de-
! grading and vicious. The May Hillman
| Stock Company was appearing at the City
1 Hall Auditorium and the stage manager,
/ Mr.. Rosener. replied to the effect that the
stage preached just as good sermons as the