Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-01-18
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA
The Latost News Cleaned From Various Parts
of the States.


Thomas II. Parker known in Now York as
"Blly the Kid" who swiniled Mr.. A. W.
Wlthers in Richmonl Oh: OF 5000 BY tho
cold- brick trick has boon idaatifie /! by Of
least half doz IN psfs)na from all paris 1t
the country WHO havs baca dup'l In the
same manner by tho famous sharper Iho
latest Of these to arrive was Marx Adams,
wealthy faemor from Coylngton, oalo VINO
identified Parker as the man who swinaleI
him out IS 500 by the ged.bFlek trick. MIS-
a. O. pValy, from saRdHaky, Ohio, also as
rived aud idoltia,l Parker, wac sW'ndied
her out OF 5000. The latter amount seems
TO have been @ favarite sum with the SWIM
dlers. a, neatly ali OF their victims paid this
price for the gold plated bricks.
Cantain jacob Miller, OF the schooner Ellie
EstelIe. from up tue bay, was "held up by
two unriaskei waite men Ia q lane next TO
Armstronz's oyster house, in Atlantic CI'y
ward OF Norfolk, and robbed OF $500 IN
money and gold watch. 0le OF the nign-
waym IN pointed pistol in his face wnile
tho cthar took the money on: OF MS Mp
nockot and the watch out OF his ve3s poc1et,
breaking the watch chain to do 50. Thoy
failed to get SD which be hal in MS over
coat pocket. The money which Captain
Miller had was paid to him abou. two hours
before the robbery.
Mr. John Allridge, ono OF the best known
farmers in Virginia, died at his home, near
North Fork, OF pneumonia. NJ AlIridge
was about Of yhiy years OF age and had lived
his whole life upon the esta:o weeie he dlea'
CE Whitllo,k, WEALTHY lumber dealer
Of Richmond, shot bim5eli in the breast with
q ravn,ver on the street in Philadelphia aud
expired few moments afterwards Mr.
Whittlosk had bsan uoder treafmsct for
norvoua n-ostra.ion bat was SO IA improved
that he was contemplating tsp TO Italy
Four years ago at Charleston, Simon Wal
lace and his mother were murdered and the
house fired, consuming their bodies with 1t.
seyral parties have been tried Tor the crime
and have sbeen acquitted for lack OF evil
dence, but the suspicion OF foul play has al
ways been kept alive. News has jus reached
Charleston OF an attempt made several
DAYS ago to extort con ession from
John Mourning, who has already been
tried fer the crime, but acquitted. Mourn
ing, SO the report goes, was taken out OF bed
on bitter cold night and almost naked was
strung up by the neck by mob OF unknown
persons. They tortured him terribly for over
an hour. but all efforts to make him confess
were without success, and he was finally cut
down nearly dead and almost frozen, carried
four or five miles further up Elk and lett at
the house OF man named Harrison, where
he is in d precarious condition. Mourning
has rec entity parted with his wife and had
trouble with her relatives ond theory Is
that they we're at the bottom OF It, Inc al
fair will probably lead to an investigation OF
Wallace affairs.
Mr.. G. B. Peake, of Spottsylvania county
has in his parlor a pair OF American elk
horns, which are five feet from tip to ZIP
also pair OF moose horns two and nall
feet long. with four prongs and six inches
wide. mad stone from Ceylon, snun Do1
over one hundred years old, a sharks tootn
that was dug up seventy feet under Rich
mond.
The numerous manufacturers OF Freder'
icksburg made good showing ana repor'
that they have dono we'll during the pas
year and expect a bright future.
7. Griffin Read, Of ShenaLdoah county
who served in the Stonewall Brigade during
the late war, died in the Confederate Home
at Richmcud.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany has contracted with the CentraI "a
Trust Company Of New Jersey Tor building
500 box cars.
John H. Rosser, of Madison county, wa
killed last week by the accidental explosion
II q gun which he was handling.