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Judge S.W.
WILLIAMS refused to grant bail to James HARRISON who was taken before him at Wytheville on Monday last.
Mr. A.S. IRESON of North Tazewell will take charge of Hotel Tazewell
at Pocahontas the first of February.
A wreck just the other side of Bluefield delayed the west bound passenger train about five hours Monday.
Miss Kate BANE, daughter of Mr. W.E. BANE, of Graham, and Mr. J.P.
LINDSAY, city editor of the Bluefield New Daily Telegraph, were married in Bristol Tenn, Wednesday evening by Rev. Dr. S.R.
PRESTON. Miss BANE is one of Graham's most attractive young ladies.
After boarding a west bound passenger train at Keystone, attempting to kill Capt.
MCCULLOCH and accidentally and probably fatally shooting Mr. W.H.
STROTHER, Alex JONES, a negro desperado, was taken from the officers and his body riddled with bullets. The report of Mr.
STROTHER's killing, as he was reported killed, spread along "the horn" like wildfire, and the populace, as one man, with no preconcerted arrangement, flocked to the scene with grim desperation and determination upon the countenances. JONES was quietly removed
from the jail at Welch and placed on No. 8 for transportation to Charleston for safe keeping, but the destination was divulged to the mob, who stopped the train at Hemp Hill and took the manacled negro from the officers, led him up a ragged pathway a distance of some two hundred yards from the railroad, bound him to a small bush, then poured into his body a shower of lead from every conceivable shooting iron. The terrified negro cried aloud in his agony, but his dying groans and prayers for mercy were lost amidst the roar of musketry, and long before the echoes died out across the mountains his soul had been launched into eternity. Upon his mutilated body was placed a placard of warning, to all who attempt to
destroy life - Bluefield Telegraph of the 29th.
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