Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-07-21
VIRGINIA ITEMS.
The Latest News Cleaned From Various
Parts of the State

College more than DIty years "oo III"
once ,ok a high rank as pulpit orator ana
finished theologian. He was In the seventy
fifth year OF his age
TUE Liberty Wooden Manufacturing Com
pany. of Bedford City, has just been awarded
the government contract for 25,OOJ yards OF
sky-blue kerseys for use at the Natlonai
Home of Disabled Volunteers at Hartford,
Conn. The contract is worth $40, 900, ana
will run the mill at utmost capacity ior
eight months.
Mas KREeER. widow of the late John u.
Greger. clerk of the Circuit Court up to MS
death. died suddenly at her hone, In Aping-
don.
Gro. WILLIAMS, track hand employed by
the Washington and Southern Railroad, died
at his home in Alexandria of cholera NOR
bus.
HoS. JAS. l.. GORDON, who recently re-
moved from Charlottesville to New YORK
city. has become member of the Iammany
Hall general committee.
TEE value of real estate listed for taxation
in Jefferson county, utter corrections and al
terations to April 1. 1898, is s5,O7l ,2s3.
Dr.. J. W. Lone, of Bendeman, N. c., has
been elected to the chair of diseases OF
women and children in the Medical College
of Virginia at Richmond.
DESPITE the financial stringency an un-
usual amount OF building is in progress a.
Bristol. -
TUE Norfolk Merchants and Manulac'
turers' Association has adopted rcsoiu'iohs
urging the Virginia Senators ana hepteSeA'
totives in Congress to work Tor the speedy
repeal of the lver-purchase clause OF .ne
s,erman act and defer all further leglsiat'on
as 10 the currency of the country until iPe
next regular Congress.
At West Norfolk. near Craney Island,
shortly after midnight fire broke out in inc
boardng-house of Mrs. Holder and com un-
icatino TO two other houses the three blu ned
IN the ground. Two of the houses teionSeo
TO R.L. by and one to Henry Duke. Inc
house. were valued at So, 500, parity insured.
Part Of the furniture of the two occupied
houses were saved.
DEsprnArE battle occurred at Norton De-
tween TIE friends of Calvin and Herman
Fleming and the officers OF the law Inc
Flaming bovs. who are accused OF being I'M
nlicated in the murder Of the Mu Inns fanny
on Cumberland mountain with Doc. Layer
now condemned 10 hang and in jail III
Lvnchburg. came 10 Norton and iignt Ell
sued between them and the officers. her
man Fleming was found near Norton fatally
wounded. j. sLee Greer, merchant Q
CoIturn. noar Norton, was in the sner'n
posse ana was seriously, if not latai''
wounded. Later reports are to the ehoc
that Herman Fleming is dead. 1t Is propa
bic that at least FOUR persons were ia'any Ill
jured id the ARRAY.
IN June. twenty-eIght years ago, Lleutcn
snt-Colonel HuzHy, OF the one nuhureu "h'
ninetv-second Ohio volunteers, had Cap'
ceoroe w Summers AMI Sergt. Newto
Koontz. .of the Seventh Virginia cavalry
: who had been captured at their homes
o Page county, shot as 'bushwhacker' ne''
n pudes Hill. four miles from NewmarNe'
net week n beautiful marble monument
: their memory was erected on the spot
o which they we're executed. The luna ioi
l. was made up by Confederate soldiers
,e Ar Kevsyille. Charlotte county, WINE II
n .onn,ing TO arrest negro man VINO ID
II ,xo,.on into several stores at Chase UT!
{ Town Sergeant N. $. Almond was Sno' III "
. or, nosse of men with dogs are ait'
" The negro. .o.ou,
o poprpr II. YoUNG.,a young man OF otaui
ian w.s drowned at Iron Gate while batnin
d in Jackson river. He had gone beyond Il
if dentb and could not swim, and went 90"
n sioht Of three companions, who could M
= reach him in time.
d AppAxEMAs named Settle. employed o
l. 49,, chosoneoke and Ohio Railroad, fell fro
:. The train ct Gawley Junction ana J"
drowned. or
Tuv increase of zealand personal proper
:, richmond for 1895 over 1892 aggr
gates 81 ,4s9. o, Rio
Mn JoHN c. MAYNARD. formerly Oh NC
nond. died in San Francisco last wee2'
u LAST week C. II. Harouff, who rcs'd
near Burnsville. Bath county, went TO
Ia Warm Spring Mountains to alt his cat'
- Tn the evening his horse camn home withC
, rider and at once search was instituted
r MIR. Harouff. His dead body wss founl
G. the woods. 1t is supposed he died
apoplexy.
T. RIcHMoNp's new city hall will cost abb
O. 81, 500 900. 1t will be ready for occupar
ir January /.
liz A pAsrARDLY assault was made upon
III fast train bound west at Powhaan
~ nights ago. All the windows on one SIDE
a. the seccnd-class car were blown out and
of passengers Jared. 1t is thought that dyl
LII mite was thrown at the train.
,is The Norfolk and Western are working
ia large force of men at Bottcn Crock,
ue Kimball. surfacing and preparing to put
or more side tracks for yard to weigh all
Ter coal shipped West.
he Two weeks ago John A. Beckner, al
" seyenty-three years. set out from his hoI
In Bedford county, in one-horse spr
b, wagon for the Worlds Fair. at Chicago.
reached Elkins. w Va. in good health.
!, Beckner shows no sigh of age, and, nav
ample means, friends in this section exI
dim to make the trip in safety.
The A SEVERE wind and hail storm did cons
up srable damage TO crops and buildings i