Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-07-05
VIRGINIA STATE NEWS.
Budget Of the Latest Happenings
From All Parts.
YOUNG GIRL KILLED BY LIGHTNING
Russell Van ArsdaIe, % Years Old, Arrested In
Richmond Charged With Killing Robert Kelly,
His Aged Great Uncle..Death of Rev. " Ham
A. Crocker..Iron Furnace at Radford Closed
Down for Lack OF Coke..0ther News.

Pensions were granted to Virginians
as follows Andrew Shields, Soldiers
Home, So; John Smith, Eastvllle.. IS;
Increase-Stephen Hughes, Great
Bridge, $I2; William Boone, Bacon's
Castle. So; Frederick A. Emory, Ports
mouth. $40; Daniel Tucker, VIII teston,.
Sc: William Walker, Denbigh, Sc. Ad-
ditional- William Tull, Wattsyllle, 20;
Franklin Matthews. Mountain Gap $50
lanes B. Fristoe. respected farmer
of Bentonville fell from his horse tri-
day last, receiving injuries from when
he died Wednesday. On the same day
his brother, c. B. Fristoe, while on his
way home from the station with min
lister who was to preach his brother
funeral, dropped dead while driving
along the road Thus two brothers VINO
lived within a stones throw OF each
other for 50 years have passed away
They were both soldiers in the Conied-
crate Army, serving in Whites cavalry
command
Mr.. Allen Talbot, for many years
member of the foundry firm OF ABBOTT
Sons, died in Richmond after long
illness. Deceased was So years OF age
His father was a Baltimorean. who.
with two brothers, came to Richmond
more than a half century ago and eS-
tablished the most successful machine
shop in the South. Deceased had been
out OF active business Tor some time.
DR.. J. G. Lumpkins, of Hanover, and
for many years resident OF Richmond;
is dead. DR.. Lumpkins during the Civil
War lived just across the street from
President Davis mansion. While the
seven days fights were in progress
around Richmond DR.. Lumpklns gave
Mr.. Davis much interesting information
in connection with the country which
was the scene Of these conflicts and
which was so familiar to him.
The Berryville Fire Company, which
is a volunteer organization, has shown
its appreciation OF the liberal way in
which the public responded to its call
for aid in procuring its outfit some
time since by having erected hand
some drinking fountain on the pubic
square, where the public can drink
freely the cool freestone water which
comes direct from springs on the sum-
NIT of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
B. F. Dehaven, of Gainsboro, Freder-
lex county, was seriously, perhaps fatal,
ly, injured by being caught in fiywheeI
| at his mill Wednesday. He was oiling
| some machinery, when his arm became
| caught in the hywheel and he was whirl
| ed rapidly around in the wheel. Both
legs were broken, his face mangled, RI
| fractured and he was hurt internally
After an illness OF about SIX weeks
Rev. William A. Croker died at the
residence of his son-in-law, MIR. M:
Blackwell. in Warsaw The deceased
was a prominent member OF the Vir.
pinia Conference Methodist Episcopal
Church South He was brother OF
Judge J. F. Croker, Of Portsmouth.
During a thunder storm near Hollins
a I2-year-od- girl and her brother both
| children of a prosperous farmer named
Broonfield, while leaving field to seek
shelter were struck by lightning. The
girl. who was carrying hoe on het
shoulder, was killed and the boy had
his arm broken
w. Fl. Stell died at the home OF his
father, BENJAMIN Stell, in Petersburg
He was at one time engaged in the shoe
business in Roanoke, and at another
time carried on business in Washing
ton. D. c., where his brother, George
Stell, resides.
Russell Van Arsdale, 20 years old,
was arrested in Richmond charged with
| killing Robert Kelly his aged great
uncle. in Warwick county, last Monday.
Kelly's body was found in Warwick
county.
Wheat harvesting is in full opci alton
| in Clark county. There is some com
| plaint of hy in the wheat but the crop
| on the whole will be above the average,
and the growth of straw is unusually
heavy.
Mr.. William P. Skinker has probably
the largest crop of wheat in Caroline
county. He has been in harvest a week
and has not yet finished. He expects tc
tlresh over 5000 bushels.
w. w. James, pioneer merchant OF
Bristol, died, aged 81. He had accumu
lated a fortune He founded Sullins
College for young ladies and for years
contributed to a fund to educate de-
pendent girls.
Mr.. Alexander F. Robertson, OF
Scranton, has yielded to the request of a
large number of Democrats to become a
candidate for State Senator from Au-
gusta and Staunton.
The new coal plant of Col Thomas B.
Davis, near Pennington, has begun ship
ping coal. The mine starts up full force
this week. This is the only coal mine
Colonel Davis owns individually.
| Mrs. Virgie Gregory, an attractive
Young widow of Roanoke county, sailed
from Norfolk for Cuba few days ago
to wed Sergeant Byron W. Schllllng, OF
the Seventh United Staes Cavalry
The TAYLOR County Oil Company has
resumed drilling on Booths creek. The
we'll will be sunk deep enough to make
a final test of that territory.
| Col. B. F. Harlow, for many years
owner and editor of the Greenbrier In
1 dependent, published at Lewisburg, died
of paralysis.
Mr.. Musgrave Stone, formerly one OF
the wealthiest men in Pulaski county, is
dead
The iron furnace at Radford has clos
ed down for the lack of coke.
Robt. Johnston, aged 70 years, Of
Langesville, Ohio, who was on visit tc
relatives, was drowned in Guyan river
West Virginia.
DR.. Philip A. Taliaferro one of the
hest known physicians in Underwater,
Virginia, died suddenly while out Sail
ing.
| Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and family will ar
rive in Charlottesville this week and oc
cupy the residence recently leased in tina