Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-10-25
OLD DOMINION
STATE NEWS.
The Rouss Mausoleum at Winchester
Completed at a Cost OF sSo,oW'
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The Southwest Virginia Petroleum Company
Began Boring for 1 Near Marion--li'n Oh
w. HIT Frightiu!ly Slashed b James walker
In NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Granted-Soap'
stoue Quarry In Nelson County.


Virginia James K; DAVIS
Wilton, $40; John J. Woodail Ua6heth
Theta $I2; Bernard Martin. Fo o9
mouth, $40; Julia Odom, Nortoik' 90
The Rouss mausoeum, erected III
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester;
by Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss, OF
| New York, at cost OF $4,000, was
completed by the removal Of the bodies
OF MIR. Rouss' family from the graves
in the family lot to the crypts in the
mausoleum. During the removal OF the
remains no one was admitted TO the
cemetery and the gates were lockeo'
The bodies were placed in oak cothns,
lined with zinc. and after being placed
in the crypts the catacombs we're sealed
over. The remains OF Mr.. Rouss' son.
| Charles Fl. B. Rouss, who died over
ten wears ago. were found intact anc as
lfelike as on his burial day. The other
bodies removed were those OF NJ
Rouss parents, his two sisters and MS
wife.
Clinton w. Hit, who went 20 Lynch
burg from Richmond nearly year ago
and has been in the employ OF the
Bell company AS a presSnlah' was az.
tackled on Main street by a negro i'ia.
named James Walker and was cut -
times with knife. Someone III SPil!
OF fun knocked the negros nat OH, enc
thinking that Hit was the perpeua'ol
of the Joke the negro struck MN III 20, 'nc
face with his first and then attacked nh.
with knife, slashlng him III i''os'
fearful manner.
The Southwest Virginia Petroleum
Company began boring for oil near
Marion, where they have secured, OPP
lions on nearly 10000 acres OF lano'
They have erected the largest derrick
ever built in Virginia, and the boring
will be prosecuted night and day Until
a sufficient depth is reached to test the
field Experts from the Pennsylvania
field have been employed and they de-
clare that they have never seen better
prospects. -,
The Constitutional Convention VIII
do little between now and the coming
election. There is disposition on the
! mart of MANY in favor Of taking recess
, until after that contest. but It VIII prop
ably not be done. Should the conYeh'
ton remain in session 1t is quite sure
. not to transact any important business
: before the election. All subjects abou.
= which there is any doubt will be carried
4 over until after that time.
i. The Board of Health OF Richlnond
0 will report to the Council OF that ei'y
n that the public schools have all been tX-
/ amined and found in most admirable
c condition. They will suggest some
$ minor changes, but the report AS it now
Y stands will be a complete yndication d
the School Board.
: The committee on public institu-
t;ons Of the Constitutional Convention
visited and inspected the Contra! state
q Hospital, all institution Tor the colored
n insane. located in Dinwlddie county
near Petersburg.
The William R. Trigg Company OF
Richmond. has been requested to sub
: NIT proposals for the building OF ilve-
: masted steel schooner for mining COM
nanv in New York. This vessel will DC
n be as feet long, IS feet beam, and Whcn
/, loaded will draw n feet.
u Mr. Stephen P. Lane, a well-knoHn
- citizen of Spottsylvania county. is de4@,
IS aged 81 years. A young widow ara
| hVe CnllQ1cll WV iiiiii'
Rev. w. N. Claybrook. OF Rappahan-
/ mock county, has resigned his charge Ill
t. that county and accepted a call % i
church in Tyler, Texas
AT Suffolk, Va, Milton RiddicI,, d
+ Newport News, war married 70 Gl'SS
n Funice Omega Lynn, daughter OF A. ,.
- Lynn
f. Mr.. Henry Koontz, one OF the oIde"t
ne citizens of Shenandoah county, died J
II, few days ago in the 18th year OF MS age
he John NJ. Flory. prominent reslden'
Of Pleasant Dale, Hampshire COUNTY. .
dead from a complication OF diseases.
Wild turkeys and other game a.e
" ouite numerous III the section adiaCe"'
'e, to Fredericksburg.
IL Northern parties are arranging ''
Is ,vorL . large soapstone quarry III Mel
~ son county.
III III The Virginia oyster navy is to be pro
-. yided with one-pourd guns.
The motion for a new trial for Cicei'
Harris. the negro who was convicted @
re- murder in the Corporation Court o
ice Bristol last week, was denied ana JUGS
Stuart sentenced Harris 10 be hanged G
ie- Friday, November II.
S Sn The Chamberln Hotel, at Old polH'
ne opened Tuesday after having been close
Y Tor the summer for repairs. The ny
DC oeia. which was open all summer. c'ose'
-, This morning for the winter.
~ lanes Coffee. a well-knowr youH!
the Lynchburg man, was found on Tic s'rec
suffering from laudanum poisln'ng ~
M ter hours of work he was rcS'orc'i
tbs consciousness.
an DR.. Paul Whitehead, presiding cldrl T.
the Lvnchburg district Methodist ~
INK copal Church South, has returned fr"'
on london, where he attended the Ecune
ical Conference of The Methodist Churc'
old The Common Council of Rchm0n
the nasscd the ordinance granting the &c
is Telephone Company franchise III ' .I
=, sity. The ordinance was vetoed oy I"
nay mayor few days ago =,
NJ / N. Hall, who claimed to be a n Mo-
loi- mon minister, was driven from mellow
ell county by indignant citizens
the Judge Edmund Waddlll, lr,, d!s II!
,. w. ;udge for the Eastern District OF V!
az, ginia has been designated to hold un'
In. cd States Court at the regular Mover
y Der term, owing to the continued Sic
rms ness of Judge John Paul, o. Harriso
the burg.