Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-12-20
AND WEST VIRGINIA.
The Latest News Cleaned Prom Various Parts OF
the State.

tbo colored man convicted of burning the
dwelling house of Sheriff Eugene Baker ana
eentcnced the prisoner to the penitentlary
for life. When asked by Clerk Dahiei
whether he had anything to say why 'ne
court should not pronounce sentence 'n'
prisoner replied that he had but one thlns 70
saw and that was that he was sorry the jury
believed the testimony of Harry Deshon'"
fellow-prisoner in Jail, who testified 10 CON
fession. which Mcdowell denied ana eaio
was false. A suspension of the sentence was
granted till February next, to enable the
prisoner to apply 70 the Supreme Court Oh
Anneals for writ Of error to the Judgment
Mcdowell received his sentence III CAIN
and respectful manner. Ever since his ar
re- # last March he has stoutly maintained
his innocence.
Jim Nichols. colored, was hanged at Fay
ettsviIle for the murder of Henry Carr dur
ing game of craps at Eagle, W. va Au-
gust 81. He confessed to the murder. he
WAS arrested in Charleston and came near
being lynched when taken to the Montgom'
cry county jail.
Most of the property of the Rockbridge
Company at the boom town OF Glasgow, was
sold at public auction, and the prices secur-
ed were all out of proportion to the original
coet of the buildings. In one or two Instances
buildings substantially built, that cost SlO,-
600 or more. was knocked out at S4O0.
In the United States Circuit Court at Mar
tinsburg William Maloy was found guilty OF
robbing the mails while a carrier between
Cortland and Davis w. Va, and was SEN
fenced to jail for one year. Much sympathy
was expressed for the accused because OF his
heretofore good reputation and his extreme
youth at the time, he being only about lo
when the offense was committed, and Judge
Jackson imposed the lightest sentence possi-
ble.
News comes from Big Island of the acei
dental killing of Frank Martin, youth OF
eighteen years, son of Mr. VIM. D. Martin
He and his cousin James Brown, fifteen
years of age, had gone on squirrel hunt.
While they were climbing fence, by some
means the gun of Brown was discharged, the
load Of shot striking Martin in the hip ana
ranged downward. seyering the femoral ar
tery He fingered only a few hours when
death ensued.
very pretty dwelling house on "Univer-
sity place" at the University of Virginia, be-
longing to Dr. j. E. Chancellor, was destroyed
by fire. Loss about 81, 900 and fully insured.
The house was unoccupied. and it is uncer-
tain how the fire originated.
The Joint committees of the councils OF
Danville and Neapolis held meeting to
complete the terms upon the question OF the
annexation of Neapolis, thereby making
"Greater Danvile," which is to be submitted
to vote of the people. The terms Of an
nexation were agreed upon, and the attor-
news of the two cities were instructed TO pre-
pare all the papers for ratification by the
councils snd also the bill to be acted upon by
the Legislature submitting the question to
vote of the people, 1t is now believed that
annexation will be carried by an oyerwhelm-
ing majority of the people of the two towns
They are naturally one in every interest, and
the advantages of being one in fact are so
manifest there will be but little opposition to
it, Danyille has about IA, 500 inhabitants and
Neapolis something over 5000. Annexation
and the extension of the city limits few
hundred yards south of Danville will make
"Greater Danyille" city of little over TO-
900 inhabitants.
A petition for free navigation Is being cir
culated up and down the Monongahela Val
ley and Is being numerously signed. The
petition is strongly drawn, and states thai
the Monongshela from Morgantown to Pitts
burg furnishes more than so per cent. Of the
commerce Of the Ohio. 1t emphasizes the
TACT that all the navigable rivers of the Unit
ed States are open to the free use of all who
may desire TO use them save the Monongahc-
la, over which private corporation exer-
cises absolute control, annually taxing inter-
state commerce over s25O,OOO. The petition
will be presented to Congress in a few days.
Mr. Thomas Jackson Arnold, nephew Of
Stonewal Jackson, has offered the ex-Con-
federates site of thirty acres in the Tygarts
Valley upon which to build an ex-Confeder-
ate home.
Joseph Hoods general store at Opellska,
fifteen miles from Farmont, was entered
and robbed of goods to the amount OF sew
eral hundred dollars, including quantity
of whisky. The booty was loaded in sSifi
and the robbers, evidently three in number,
started off down the river. From subsequent
events the presumption is that fight was
started in the overloaded boat, the whiskey
probably figuring in the early stages OF the
row. No clue was found Of the thieves until
the bodies of two unknOwl men were found
lodged against dam few miles down the
river. and near them was an overturned
skiA. The third thief is thought to have es-
,aped. as a water-soaked plug OF tobacco
was found on the shore opposite the point
where the bodies and boats were discovered
Both the drowned men had wounds on their
heads evidently made with a club or boat
oar.
The Parkers5urg Academy of Music was
burned, probably from cigar stump. Three
stores in the lower story were badly dam
aged. Palmer's Trilby Company saved th9if
wardrobe and scenery. Loss, $4,000; in
;ured for Sl2,0OD.
Sanger Hall. the social rendezvous for tho
Gesong-Verein, of Virginia, and their friends
If German birth, was burned. The property
belonged to that organization. The lessee Is
A. Schwane, late of Chicago, who occupied