Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-10-13
VIRGINIA ITEMS.
TIE Latest News Cleaned From Various
Tarts of the State.


Il spark from the engine of the threshine
machine. Only about SO bushels had beer
thrashed from a large crop. The wheat was
fully insured.
Mr.. WILLIAM R. TAYLOR, prosperous and
well-known merchant, of Prospect, Prince
Edward county, was murdered by some un-
known party 1t seems that he had gotten
in about $40 in currency that day, and had
it on his person VIII he started for home
at night. When next seen he was lying by
the roadside, with his throat cut and the
money gone.
Mrs. JANE MINERVA RUFF4N, daughter oil
the late Chief Justice Thomas Rufln, OF the
Supreme Court of North Carolina, and
widow of the late Edward Rufin, of Han
over county, Pa, died last week in the
sixty-6fth year OF her age.
Mr.. P. B. CALLAHAN, for several years
proprietor OF the st Charles Hotel and later
proprietor OF the ST. James, Richmond, died
after short illness, aged ffty-four years.
In early life he was chief cook at the Spots
wood.
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demonstrators of anatomy, has been appoint.
ed to fill the place of the late DR.. William B.
Towles in the University of Virginia until a
professor can be elected.
TYPHOID and malarial fever cases are said
to be plentiful At and around Culpeper.
There have been and ere yet several cases in
ahe Manassas neiGhborhood.
ENocH T. ADwELL, a track-walker on the
G. q o. Railway at Caldwell, Greenbrier
county, was struck by a passenger train and
instantly killed last week.
TIE barn OF F. H. Mckay, near Ninevah,
Warren county, was burned few days ago.
with its contents, including 1900 bushels OF
wheat
NEAR Parkersburg, Monday, Miss Harriet
Piersol fell into spring and was drowned,
having been taken with fit of epilepsy.
JACOB H. HoUsER, of Warren county, died.
aged .eighty-one years.
Sh8T w. MARSH, Robert L.. Wharton and
FERN Nelson, the Maryland oystermen who
42ere some time since arrested on the charge
of unlawfully oysteripg in Virginia waters
were in the United States Court at Norfolk,
and gave bail to appear in November, 1924,
pending an appeal rom the United States
Appellate Court to the United States Supreme
Court. 1t will be remembered that the trial
of these men took on interest from the fact
that it was q matter involving the jurisdic-
ton OF Virginia and Maryland, and which
was recently decided in favor Ct Virginia by
Judges Hughes and Golf in the Appellate
Court.
THE annual meeting of the Danville To-
bacco Association was held in Danville. The
following officers were elected for the ensu-
ing year: NJ. P Jordan, president John G.
Covington. vice president; J. S. Bendall,
secretary and treasurer R. l.. Dibell, chair
man executive committee N. T. Robertson
chairman arbitration committee. The presi- |
dents annual report shows the sales of loose
leaf for the year ended September 80 to have
be sn 39,00l, 755 pounds, at the average price |
OF IS 20 per hundred pounds.
The residence of DR.. H. C. Erich, twelve |
miles south of Manassas was DESTROYED by |
fire Saturday. Everything in the house was
lost, including large stock of medicines, |
valuable library and lot Of surgical instru- |
ments. The loss will amount to $500, on |
which there was no insurance.
The twenty fourth annual session OF the |
Medical Society Of Virginia was held at |
Charlottesville.
WIN. SOURs, a young man about eighteen |
years ofage son of NoahSours, OF Shenandoah |
county, Jumped from a south-bound train on |
1.-THE Norfolk and Western road, on the trestle |
at Overals, one OF the highest trestles on |
the road, and was instantly killed.
DR.. EDWARD c. GEE died suddenly at his |
residence, Loeb Leven, Lunenburg county.
About ten days agD he struck large splinter
In his hand, from which he suffered O great
deal OF pain, and at one time it was thought
there were symp oms of lockjaw. His hand,
however hal cotton much better, and he |
attended Il business meeting OF the Metho-
dist Church at Providence short while
before be died he was in his front yard read
ing his newspaper. Deceased was ffty-six
years old and was the best known physician
in this section, was very prominent in his
profession, and did, perhaps the largest
practice OF any country physician in South
side Virginia.
For the last week in September the Poca-
hontas Coal Company shipped so, 48) tons Of
coal, making a total of 2O5, 664 tons for the
month
CRozIERs furnace No. 2, which has been
out OF blast for two months on account OF
repairs has started up.
Two convlcts escaped from the moving
Norfolk and Western East-bound train near
Bell Springs Station, in Pulaski county. One
of them sprlng through the window, making
good his escape, and during the excitement
which followed the other quietly slipped out
OF the rear door of the car
FIVE hundred boys and girls from the
Carlisle Indian Training School visited the I