Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-04-12
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The Southern Amusement Company
was granted charter at Norfolk by
Judge A. r. Hanckel. The company
which is capitalized at $4,000, is en-
powered to purchase, sell and lease
vaudeville theatres, merry go-rounds'
pleasure railways, photograph galleries
or such other amusement plants as are
usually operated at seaside resorts: Inc
following are officers Z. Duke, o.
Norfolk, president; J. II. Livingston,
OF Atlantic City N. !, vice-preS!dent
and general manager; George a. FLICK
of Norfolk, secretary and treasurer.
These. with George NJ. Glazier George
A. Frick and Charles M. Miller, OF
Norfolk; O. II. Nuttridgc, OF Atlantis
City. N. J., and F. H. Grace, OF Baltl-
more, are directors. An amusement
scheme of magnitude at Virginia Beach
is contemplated.
DR.. w. w. Wood, a well-known
dentist. who has been a patient at the
Virginia Hospital Richmond, for two
months, accomplished peculiar escape
from that institution and is now at ms
home. A few weeks ago DR.. WOOD
right leg was amputated, and since that
time he had not left his bed until We'd
nesday night when, without any assist
ance. he lowered the.nvalid chair in his
ward to the ground and by means OF
the bed clothing got out OF the WINDOW
| As soon as he was free from the nos
| pital DR.. Wood placed the chair on the
| pavement on the Eleventh street siac'
and, getting in. rolled himself to his
home. When his absence was discov-
cred at the hospital there was a STR
but soon a report came from ".
| Woods home that he was SAFE
| The State Board OF Agriculture he'd
q meeting in Lynchburg. The meeting
| was called to order by the president OF
| the board. Mr. Ruffin. Routine matters
principally occupied the attention OF the
| board. One OF the most important
items of business considered was the
"test farm" the land for whlch--5oo
acres-was given by the Board OF
Supervisors OF Charlotte county. Ater
a thorough discussion Professor ,. V.
Hedges, of York, Pa, was elected gen
eral manager of the farm Mr.. Hedges
is one Of the most scientific men il,
agriculture in the United States, ana
under the Cleveland administration was
| the chief prOmOloSlSl Ill th@ HNP"'
ment of Agriculture.
An attempt was made to burn the
new Science Hall OF Richmond College,
which was only completed few months
ago. The building cost $4,000 Inc
firemen found that hole several inches
in diameter had been burned through
the eastern basement door. Kerosene
had been poured on the door from the
outside and the fire had caught at the
bottom. burning its way entirely
through the door. The fire seems 10
have gone out Of itself, though the
wood was still warm when the tremen
entered the building.
The house OF Mrs. Esther A. Wilson,
of Collierstown vicinity, was burned
The evening before an old stone chm
new was burned out with straw. and 1t
is thought that a stone had fallen out
and some of the fire fell on the fiooi
in an upper room. All the inmates
made their escape, as warning was
given by a colored man.
Samuel Page, Green Wilson, William
Pevton and Robert Peyton, the tour
negroes arrested in Winchester recently
for chicken stealing, were found gully
in the County Court OF Clarke and
given heavy sentences. Page got hve
years, Wilson six years, William Fey
ton four years and Robert Peyton hVe
years in the pententiary.
The first contribution to the fund to
erect a monument over the grave oil
General Daniel Morgan at Winchester
was received, when Congressman james
Hav sent his check for $Ioo to the Nor
| qan Memorial Association. Twenty-Five
thousand dollars will be raised for the
monument.
| Stokes Post Office, on the James
River division of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, was broken into by
some unknown parties and thoroughly
ransacked. One registered letter was
gone. The stamps amounting to a con-
siderable sum, were in another portion
of the building, and were overlooked.
The Bristol (Va) Council has Or
dered the purchase of five building lots
in one block from the Sisters of Visi
tation OF the Roman Catholic Church
at cost OF $500. The city will later
erect a handsome school building on
these lots The Sisters of Visitation de-
cided to sell these lots after it had been
decided to move the Catholic convent
from Abingdon to Wytheville.
Judge c. E. Nicol, OF the Circuit
Court, at Warrenton, granSd n: A..
Harris bail in the sum OF $1,000 and put
him under peace bond for $500. 1t is
alleged that Davis attempted to poison
the well OF Thomas B. Stewart in De
cember, 1890. The Court OF Appeals
recently granted him a new trial Judge
White had refused him bail pending a
new trial.