Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-06-14
VIRGINIA STATE news.
Budget of the Latest Happenings
From All Parts.
HOUSE DAMAGED LY DYNAMITE.
Mr.. rrareis s. Jones Re- n aims Iourd'.Gen:rsl
liz Lee Will Make His Permanent home in
RihmouG. Custavus Dorscy Sentenced to IL
Years Ia tie Pcnitt ntiay..WiIl Montague
Reelected President B. Y. P. Convention

VIII lcllQ duultsOldl lllNINo' ~ 49,
palgn. General Lee, who came 70
Richmond to vote. is in splendid health
and high spirits. Il have determined,
said he. to make Virginia and Rich =
mond my future home and am here to
look for a house" Continuing. he sad
that he should certainly enter some
business pursuit that would occupy all
OF his time. He is not decided as 10
the nature OF his work. but it IS belieY-
ed it will he OF an industrial character.
The General does not hesitate to admit
that il will be hard fer him to keep on.
of politics. When asked if he would
ever become A candidate for Office Gen
era Lee was non-commit.al. He. how
ever, cid say that in all probability ms
business would occupy too muc1 OF ms
time for him to ever again occupy d"
official or political office.
The remains of Francis s. Jones. first
secretary OF the American Legation az
Buenos Ayres, who was drowned IN
September last in little stream IN Al
bemarle county. were found three mules
down the Rivanna river. The theory IS
thai tones body was carried down me
creek half a mile or SO and into the XII
wanna river: that it sank in a hole IN
the bed Of the stream and was covered
with drift, thus battling those who drag
ged the stream. The recent gh rams:
it is believed, uncovered what renamed
of the body and washed it into the held
where it was found.
In the Clark County Court the trial OF
GuStayus Dorsey upon charge OF ROB
bing, at pistols point, MIR. Albert FL
sea. a storekeeper at Mount Airy. was
concluded by a verdict of guilty and
Dorsey was sentenced to IL years in
the penitentiary. He was recently re-
leased from the penitentlary IN West
Virginia and brought here under re-
QUESTION and after the expiration q.
his present sentence he will be tried ii
Loudoun county for similar ottense
committed there.
At late hour at night an effort was
made to blow up the house at Br'. tcl
of John Watts, colored. with dynamite.
A portion OF one wall was torn away
by the explosion, but Watts and his
wife were not injured. A jealous wo-
man who was a rival for Watts prior to
his marriage is suspected Of having had
a part in the dastardly attempt at muir
der. Watts wife has recently received
threatening letters.
At Huntington, William Fllinger as
saulted Mrs. Nancy Mccoy aged 60,
at the Continental Hote! and inflicted
injuries which it is belieyed VIII cauy'
her death Fillinger alleged that ne
purchased a cook stove OF the woman
and that she refused to give him the
cooking utensils when he called tor
them. Filinger is in jail.
Mr.. J. Edgar Corley, CT Grcenvilie,
Texas, has been appointed from Was1
ingson and Lee University as d teacher
to the Philippines for three years a: an
annual salary OF $1,000. &c succeeds
Mr.. w. J. Elgin, OF Leesburg, STU
dent also at Washington and Lee, who
recently was appointed. but resigned
the position.
There are no tidingS whatever OF
Rev. David NJ. Ausmus, who registered
at the Central Hotel in Petersburg as
from Boston. and who left the hotel
Wednesday, leaving a note for the pro-
prietor informing him that he was 60
ing to the river to drown himself
In Rockbridgc county, William Rey-
nolds, II years Old. Whit; near ar Ell
CINE used for running a sawmlll. vas
caught by the fiywhccl and thrown
against the hot engine Tic vas ter
riblv burned about the face and neck,
but it is expected he vii! recover.
While the strike in the Riverside
Cotton Mills, Danvile, has not been
officially declared off, nearly all OF the
striking operatives have returned to
work On the old schedule of II hours
day.
The Shenandoah Valley Dairy and
Creamery Company, which was char
tered recently to do business at Eden
burg. has secured a good site for its
building, which will be erected :mme-
dately.
Mrs. Abraham L. Spandour, OF Nor
folk, has brought su against the Royal
Tribe Of Joseph, OF that city, for $1,000.
the amount OF a life Insurance policy
held in the order by her deceased huS-
band.
The Washington Guards, Capt. NJ. B.
Rowe. and the O:der OF Red Men OF
Fredericksburg, will unite in giving an
all-dav entertainment on a large scale
at the Fair Ground, j,:sf outside the
city, on July a.
Norman Christians and Ben Aston
ESCAPED from Southampton county ia
at Cortland. Christians had been sem
fenced to the penitentiary and Aston
was held for robbciy
The Methodist Episcopal Church
Cemetery at Moutross, through the e.
forts Of number OF ladies, has been
enclosed with az ornamental wire fence
and other Improvement: made
Two boys and two girls named HILL
nj under II wears of age, eloped from
Boone county. w. Va, and when last
heard of had passed St. Adams, beyond
the reach OF their parents.
Tn the CORPORATION Court OF Norfolk
The trial OF Wallace Ethcridge for the
murder OF Carlisle Ship May was
concluded. The Jury rendered YER
dict OF acquittal
Rev. 7. F. Proctor has resigned nc
oastorate of Chestnut Avenue Metho-
dist Church, Newport News, on &C
count of i'll health.
Judge Holt, at Philippi, AWARDED an
iniunc ion compelling the County Court
of Barbour county, w. Va, to erect d
new courthouse.
The faculty and corps of cadets OF
the Virginia Agricultural College. at
Blacksburg, ESQ IN all, visited the Blu