Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-05-04
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA
The Latest News Cleaned From Various far' OF
the States.

the States.
Mark WINNER. Of Franklin county, was
before Commissioner Rhodes on tne ch"iso
of moonshining and bound over 10 .no
United States Court, and then placed unuer
bonds for his appearance before Commis-
sioner billiard. Of Rocky Mount, 10 ans"or
three charges pending against him there
News comes from Richlands that the Cnno"
Valley Coal and Iron Company has negotla.-
cd loan of s25O.O 900 from Eastern oapi'a'-
ists TO be used in building up Richlanus' jill
Tazewell county. where several industries arc
NOW idle for want of working capital. o. H.
Melcher has contracted TO cut enough 'ini"v,
TO keep him busy for several years, anu WIZ
remoye his saw mill from Blueiield 10 hicn-
lands next week.
Connecticut capitalists are negotiating lor
q lsrer tract of mineral and tmoer ianu oH
cloor Fork in Tazewell county. with tne
view of constructing narrow-guSse ~
come noint on the Clinch Valley extension -
the Norfolk and Western extension @A'
developing the property.
7 Frank Smith shot and killed MS pro'n
in-lsw J. B. Sellers. at Waldsnoto Ahs0"
county n G.. The affair Is said TO have peen
the result of a charge Of serious uom's'
| trouble. Both men we're prominent lu 'n''
section of the State, and Sellers was III
store IN tbe town when Smith walked IN ana
said: tom. I'm going to kill YOU ne i"i
r,ed;stelv fired pistol. the ball inhicuns
wound which resulted in the death OF seiio,S'
Smith at once surrendered himsen !" 'H
eberif and was committed to jail.
! Mr.. Silas J. Monroe, an old and weh-Ano""
citizen of Rappahannock county, dleo ~ MS
home, near Sperryvlle Circumstances woui'
seem ia point to self-destruction, as DoV'io
supposed to contain poison of some desciiP,
tion WAS found near him. aud during the ias'
few months he has had his coffin made.
Coleman Roberts. o negro escaped irouu
the Campbell county Jail. He dashed by ths
taller when the door was opened ana escapeo
70 the woods. He was under the charge o.
assault on a colored woman.
The town council of Wyandotte by 'o'e
of to 2. refused to grant liquor license LOT
the coming year, and the three saloons VIII
close their doors.
The assessment of real and personal prop
erty in Alexandria, just completed, agSre-
gates s.. .981 ,O2O, an increase OF $751; ll3 over
the last assessment.
A son of Frank Bantz, of Piedmont, was
bitten through the hip by a dog which trieu
to take bone from him.
There are 1904 Masons in West Virginia.
an increase Of 2S1 the past year.
The town council of Davis has rescindeu i's
call for AN election to vote on the question OF
bonding the town for $4,000, believing 'no
proposition would be voted down
The White Hall gold mines, in SpottsylVan'"
, county, eighteen miles from Fredericksburg
will be sold at public auction Tuesday, 1uno
l2. Asmuch as 1000 has been taken from
one vein in these mines.
Mr.. William Fitzhugh Meade, Of Wnrte
{ Post. Clarke county. who died Saturday as''
was the son of David and grandson OF kcn-
ard Kidder Meade. an aide to General wash
inoton in the revolutionary war. He was a
nephew of Bishop Meade. He commenceo
the nractice of law in Alexandria before the
war between the States, but did not return
A after the war.
In the United States Circuit Court at Rich
mond a verdict was rendered in the case OK
# J. NJ. Patterson administrator, VS.. hcnmono
. and Danville Railroad Company, giving the
. nlaintiff $1,000 damages. The complaint
- WAS that c. c. Patterson brakeman on the
Richmond and Danvie Road, was killed by
= the negligent act of the defendant company
The plaintiff was represented by Hon. Jonn
l., r Allen. of Pulaski, Tenn, and Messrs. s. r
- Patterson and Archer Anderson Jr., OF hlcn-
. mond. The suit was for $4,000 damages
- and this is the second time the case has been
- tried the verdict in each instance being
O. $4,000.
VT Dev. prominent citizen Of Norfolk
died et his home in B,ambleton He wa.
,s .erer in the National Bank and formerly
: deputv treasurer of the city. He was
=, Mason and Knight Templsr and belonged q
other organizations. Deceased was forty
~ three wears Of age and leaves awidow an'
i'll four children.
- There is talk Of reduction OF the pay o
some of the employees of the custom-house
Norfolk and also reduction Of the force. !
is said that the special agent Of the Treasur
Department whose district includes this Gus
tom-housa. has recommended to the depart
ment a reduction Of expenses by abolishin
"a the pIacs Of one Of the inspectors and reduc
~ ing the pay Of several officials.