Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-12-14
The OLD DOMINION.
Attest News Cleaned From Various Par'S
of Virginia.
DAN LONG LYNCHED AT lVANhOI'
He Committed an Outrage on the "ie VI
Farmer Fisher..A Bedstead Which Cost so'o''
1.-The N. & W. Orders Ten More Locomotives
death Of Prof. Simon Carson Wells'Chr's''
mas Entertainment Planned by the ID. oiA'A'


The N. & W. Orders Ten More LOCOMOTIVES
..Death of Prof. Simon Carson Wells"Cnris''
mas Entertainment Planned byt the ID. oiA'A'
negro named Dan Long was lynch
ed at Iyanhoe for committing an ouc
rage on Mrs. Robert Fisher, the WIZ
Of one of the most prominent larnieI
Of that section. Long ana anoCn.I
negro named Lewis Hale. were pdSsinS
| Fishers house, which is ABOUT IVY
miles from Pulaski. Long stoppe-a-asH u
told Hale to wait in the rosasGG- and keep
watch until he went mo the house and
came back. -IL50ffg went in, ana, md,
| Ing Mrs. Fisher alone, choked her until
I she became unconscious and then OUT,
ragged her. He then came out, Jolneo
| Hale and they both ran on. AS soon
as Mrs. Fisher came to she went lor
her husband, who was at work on the
farm, and he, with a large NUMBER Oh
citizens, started in pursuit OF inc
negroes. They were captured anu
taken back to the Fisher farm, wnere
Mrs. Fisher promptly identified Long
as the man, but stated that she hao
never seen Hale. Long confessed aiteI
being identified. He was then taken
TO the woods and hung by the enrag-
ed citizens. The crowd was cool ana
orderly. and as soon as Long was dead
| they went to their homes.
Mr.. George Pope, of Richmond, a
brother of the late John Pope, OF
Brooklyn, a protege of Lewis Ginter'
has lust had made fer him in Rome,
[taly. a bedstead which cost about
$4,000. This piece of furniture Is the
creation of Mr.. Sewers Richmond ar
fist. The bed was brought to TINS
country recently and delivered to MI:
Pope in Brooklyn. The bedstead is OF
solid mahogany, with bronze panels.
The headboard has bronze medallion
Of Mr.. Pope. surrounded by allegorical
figures of day, night and silence, sur
mounting a bas-relief in bronze or the
seven ages of man. The footboard Is
surmounted by a shield, with f1gures
of slumber supporting it, while the
bronze panel represents the triumph
If Venus" The work required ABOUT
eighteen months. Precisely what Mr..
Sievers received for his work ne de-
clines to say, but the figures are re-
ported at $4,000 or more. -,..--.,
The first criminal in Nansemond
county to be actually run down by
bloodhounds is George Cofield, negro,
who now lies in the county jail, where
he was placed on the. charge OF break
ing into Peter Hudgns' house and
stealing a suit of clothes and watch.
Hurricane Branch took his dogs to
window from which the thief is sup
posed to have jumped and after trailing
over two hours they proclaimed 1e
end of the hunt by prolonged bayHs
at the home of Irwin Gardner. OH
of the dogs being let in pointed oW
Cofield. who has acknowledged beng
in the neighborhood of the burglary
and who has not long been out OIL
prison.
Circuit Judge Robert R. Prentis, SIT
ting in vacation at Suffolk, sustained
one verdict and set aside another
against the Norfolk and Western RAJ
road both of which had been render
bv Nansemond county juries as dSM'
ages for the killing of men in frelgn'
wreck at Lake Kilby June OF las
wear Judge Prentis sustained the
iury's finding of $4,000 in favor OF Rev
n T. Dadman. of Petersburg, admins
traitor of William Poale, a fireman
one of the three men killed. In the
ease of Wells, administrator OF william
Wells, brakeman, killed at the SANE
time. Judge Prentis set aside the yer
dict for $4,000.
! There are many rumors afioat~I
Richmond regarding contemplate
[ changes in the Office and personnel o
!, the Chesapeake and Ohio. Some O
. the rumors have the ear-marks OF au
thenticity, despite the fact that thos
who know declare there is nothing Il
IT," One of these "rumors" is to IN
effect that the Chesapeake and Ohi
will be modelled after the Pennsylvani
system. and with the promotion o
, General Superintendent Doyle to tn
! position of general manager the cfiic
Of general superintendent VIII D
, abolished.
,, The Society for the Preservation o
! Virginia Antiquities and the daughter
of the American Revolution are ar
ranging for a brilliant entertainment
at Fredericksburg during Christina
week. to be known as the "Colonio
Assembly" Among the dances VIII
the Virginia reel, quadrilles, etc., an
all of the participants will wear Colo
NAL costumes. An elegant suppe
will be served, after which the youn
neoule will take the floor for tn
5 Christmas german.