Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-12-07
THE OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned From Various Parts
of Virginia.
MISTOOK THEM FOR MOONSHTNERs.
Petersburg Iron Works Building New Light
Ship on Swans Island..Gen. Washington's
Account Book FOund..Lewis Exonerated by
COroner's Jury-Fatal Hare Hunt In Prince
George County. Other Live News.

United States Deputy Collector
Charles Gee, who with Collector John
H. Chapman was shot while making
raid on an Illicit still in Brunswick
county, says they were not shot by
moonshiners, as had been reported,
but by revenue officers from North
Carolina. His statement in regard to
the shooting is that Collector Chap
man, United States Marshal Bendit
and himself drove to the land Of Val
entine, in Brunswick county, on the
border line of Virginia and North
Carolina, to make search for the Illicit
still of the Bradley brothers. At the
same time Deputy Collector Lewis and
two posse men named Cooper and
Johnson were searching for the same
illicit still. They reached the still be-
fore he (Gee) and his party did and
opened fire on the Bradleys and drove
them off. The Bradleys offered no re-
sistance, but Lewis and his men fired
some twenty shots at them as they
ran off.
The city of Alexandria has prop
erty yard in the rear Of the jail yard,
but 1t has no dump, and all the ashes
and dry refuse swept up by the street
cleaners on the paved streets or taken
from dwellings with ashes by the city
carts are placed on the streets north
of Princess street, between st. Asaph
and Fairfax streets, and on the low
lying lands adjacent. AS soon as the
dump is made all its infammable por-
ton is set on fire, so that the new
streetways seem always burning and
the adjacent marsh lands to be also
on fire. On one of his newly deposit
ed loads last week Superintendent
Dale found what was apparently an
account book Of General Washington.
Other finds of interest are sometimes
made, and rag-pickers are numerous
around the fires on the new streets.
The Petersburg Iron Works Com
pany is now building for the United
States Government on Swans Island,
on the Appomattox River, short dis
lance east of the city, mammoth
light-ship. The ship, as listed, is No.
"a, and her station, when completed,
will be at Cape Elizabeth entrance to
Portland Harbor, Maine. The princl-
pal dimensions are: Length on load
line, 11S feet; beam nodded, % feet 6
inches; hold at center, IA feet z
inches. These dimensions merged
into the profile Of the model show
curvature equivalent to the wave for
nation as ordinarily seen along the
North Atlantic coast. The light-ship,
which is one Of the largest ever built
in Virginia, will cost about $4,000
Charles Davis, the second-story
burglar, against whom the Richmond
police are daily piling up indictments,
is in love, and love letter to Callie
Jones, the woman, who is nearly white,
but not quite, arrested as his accom-
plice, was intercepted. Davis de-
clares he loves Callie better than his
own life, and that 1t nearly kills him
to know that he has caused her to be
put in Jail, and that If he had feared
any trouble to her he would have
taken her to some distant city, where
they could love each other without fear
Of harm.
In moving the county records of
Westmoreland county from the old
clerks Office to the handsome new
courthouse building at Montrose, in
which the new clerks Office is located,
the original will Of John Washington,
one of the ancestors of the present
family of Washingtons in Westmore-
land county, was found. The will was
written in 1875, is on parchment, bpt
shows the marks of time, some of the
writing being hardly legible. The will
is the oldest document in the records
Of Westmoreland.
The shooting of Thomas Fogarty at
Norfolk was the result of quarrel
Lewis had with Fogarty and James
Kinnear, who was arrested upon
charge of assaulting Lewis. Fogarty
shot Lewis three times, the first bull
let grazing the right hip, the second
entering the right armpit, lodging in
the body, and the third entering the
lower part of the chest. 1t is this
wound that may cause Lewis death.
Lewis only bullet crushed through
Fogartys brain. A coroner's jury has
eXonerated Lewis.
In Prince George county, Gilbert
Malone, the 13-year-old son of Mr..
William Malone, United States Collec-
tor of Customs in Petersburg, with
companion named Charles Simmons,
of Prince George, and some other
friends, were out hunting hares, when
gun in the hands OF young Simmons
was accidentally discharged, the load
entering on the right side of Mahone's
neck and passing through the head.
He died instantly.