Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-04-06
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA.
The Latest News Cleaned From Various Parts Of
the States.

The LATEST News Cleaned From Various Parts Of
the States.
VIM G. Taylor, under sentence OF death
for the murder of his wife was denied new
trial in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County.
Taylor had been sentenced to be hanged on
November oath, 1898, but stay was accorded
hin in order that his counsel mighl be heard
in the Circuit Court on exceptions taken In
County Court. Another date will be fixed
for the execution at the next session OF the
County Court. D.
Tazewell Whorley, of Floyd county, on re-
turning home found hts wife very i'll, and
having no help on the place went at once to
neighbours to get assistance. When he re-
turned he found his wife dead. An inquest
was held and 1t was ascertained that she had
died from the effects of rat poison, taken
through mistake
The West Virginia Central Railway Com
pany will build all of their coal cars hereafter
1t having been demonstrated by trial that
they can build their own cars from S25 to $50
cheaper than they con buy them. 1t is ex-
!
which will give employment to a large force
of men in addition to their present force.
R. Holt Easley, of Halifax coHnty, has
made an assignment with liabilities of about
800 OOO Mr. Easley has been large OPP
orator in land in Sioux City, Iowa, and South
western Virginia, and his failure is thought
to he due to the shrinkage in real estate and
: the collapse of the boom times.
Mrs Sarah Watson, of Weston, brought
suit for 800, 900 against t. c. Dawson, sa-
loon-keeper, for selling her husband whisky.
The case was tried last week, and tho jury
rendered verdict in favor of the plaintiff for
s51S.
The West Virginia Penitentiary now has
more inmates than at any previous time in its
history. There are 40 convicts and the in
shtution is crowded to'its utmost capacity.
TIE new Pittsburg Morgantown and Fair
mont Railway was op"ued Monday, the first
train being delegation of fifty West Vir-
ginians, including Ex-Governor Fleming, to
Pittsburg. The party was met at Connells-
vile by committee Of the Pittsburg Cham
Der of Commerce and escorted to Pittsburg,
where q reception was held. The new rail
way. connecting with the Mononga4ela Val
ley Road, will tap all the timber districts Of
West Virginia and secure the general traffic
Of eight counties. Coal on Its way to the
lakes can now be conveyed cheaper, although
all the party seemed to think that in the near
future another line from Falrmont to the Ohio,
somewhere between Wheeling and Parkers-
burg. will be the coal line to the lakes.
The business of the Baltimore aud Ohio
Railroad at Alexandria is largely increasing,
and it said by. leading merchant that within
six weeks over s25. 900 of freights of Alexan-
dria merchants who formerly used the Penn
s?Ivania Railroad have been transferred to
the Baltimore an1 Ohio Railroad and the
Chesapeake aud Ohio Railroad. A combined
effort is being made by many merchants to
secure the bGildingof a properdepot, where
there is only small frame she'd for the ac-
commodation of passengers, ete.fg
Messrs.. D. l.. .Moodyand Ira D. Sankey,t the
evangelists, commenced a series of meetings
in Richmand that will be continued about
three weeks. The meetings will be held in an
immense tabernacle erected on <the lot upon
which until recently stood the old Allan
house. the home of the foster-father of Edgar
Allan Poe.
BERTHE the four-year-old daughter of w. II.
Thomas, {. prominent resident of Charleston,
was nearly burned to death. Her apron
caught fire from CRATE and her clothes were
all burned Off A servant girl was badly
burned trying to extinguisb the flames.
THE body of an unknown white man was
found on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad, just south of the Malta
poni River No marks were found on it. Be
ing stiff frozen the presumption is that the
man had died early in the night.
MRS. RACHEL FULLER, wife of the late
Jacob Fuller, who was for a long time theli- d.
brarlan of the Washington and Lee Cniver-
sity, died in Lexington aged seventy-eight
years.
LOCAL OPTION was defeated in Appomattcx
county by a large majority.
WILLIAMSBURG is to have bank, Northern
men supplying most of the capital.
The Haas planning mill, uninsured worth
$4,000. and three dwellings in Elk City burn
ed down Wednesday night. Total loss S1O,-
900; the dwellings two-thirds insured. Elk
City has no fire department or system OF any
account and Chareston's department refused
to aid.
AT Fleming, a small town on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad, q terrible shooting DC
Cured. in which two men were killed almost
instantly Hokc Napier, well known lum-
herman, was walking along the street when
he was overtaken by Henry Collins, a former
employe of his, who had been discharged
about month ago. Collins with an cath de-
handed settlement Of their difficulties, and
at the same time drawing revolver. Napier
also drew his revolver and both men fired at
the same instant Collins was hit under the
right arm and died instantly. The ball from
Collins revolver took effect in Napier's alb
domen and he lived only few hours. Col
Inns was cousin of the notorious Collins
who is now serving a life sentence in the pen
tentiary for robbing the "F. f. "" train in
Huntington last year, at which time one man
was killed