Show Sent to Prison List evening Andrew Anderson Henry A Payne and Wm A Stewart were brought up from Pro and cent to the penitentiary under sentence by Judge Blackburn Black-burn for unlawful or cohabitation Brother Stewart was given four months imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of 50 and costs and the others received the extreme II penaltysix months 300 and costs Virginia > ev March 4Alb Ballard a miner employed in the Yellow Jacket was frightfully and fatally Injured this morning He descending the shaft on a ilou bledrawed cage freighted with men about to relieve the under t I ground shift Then the cage was lowered a short distance below the surface a miner on the deck accidentally I acci-dentally let a steel bar known a a gopher bar sharply pointed at both ends and used for punching shallow holes for blasting slip from his grasp and it fell down the ehan An In stnt later a severe shock was felt by the men on the cage and Ballard fell into the arms of his companions with an exclamation of rain TheJar of tho cage w felt by the engln ron r-on the surface who instantly checked its downward course and it w found that the rctue of the shock was produced by the deck of I the cage striking the bar which a slipped from the miners grasp one end of which In It descent stuck fast in a wallplate of the shaft tim bering and springing backward had Impaled Ballard at the other end which entered his abdomen a few Inches above the groin and pens trated his body nearly a foot pne ing the main intestine two places J1c and tearing the outward covering of the bowels to an extent that allowed them to protrude through the wound The patient is not expected to survive sur-vive his frightful injuries |