Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-21
THE OLD DOMINION.
latest News Cleaned Prom All Over
the State.

Sc. Increase-Thomas B. Davis, N. .
Home Elizabeth City, SO.
With appropriate ceremonies Grea'
Bridge Chapter, Daughters OF the Ameri-
can Revolution, of Norfolk, unveiled a
monument concentrating the battle OF
| Great Bridge, the first conflict between
the British and Continental armies Inc
stone is situated on the battle-ground on
the banks of the Albemarle and Chesa-
peake canal, not far from Norfolk. a
party of about 50 members of the chap
ter and their friends left Norfolk on
tug and went to the monument, which
was erected last spring. Here. after, an
address, the monument was unVeileu:
Miss Mary Elizabeth Nash, daughter OF
| DR.. Herbert M. Nash, of Norfolk, whose
grandfather was the only American
wounded in the conflict, pulled the cord
which held the covering.
Near West Norfolk freight train OH
he Atlantic and Danville division OF the
Southern railway was derailed by some
small obstruction on the track. Inc
engine turned completely over and rolled
down an embankment. Engineer John
Human had both ankles broken, and the
brakeman, William Redman, colored, was
badly injured. Both men were taken 10
St. %Vincents Hospital, in Norfolk Tor
treatment.
Joseph A. Peck was taken up on the
streets in Roanoke insane and lodged III
Jail. ION investigation it was ascertained
that he was well connected and was at
one time High Sheriff and Treasurer OF
Logan county. West Virginia He is
brother of ]. Ed. Peck, formerly super
intendent of the West Virginia Peniten-
tiary at Moundsville His relatives IN
West Virginia have been notified OF his
condition.
Miss Bessie Jones and Herbert Draper,
who ran away and were married al
Blackston, were remarked at the home
of the brides parents in Brunswick
county. The bride gave her age at the
runaway marriage as I'll, while she way
IS, and her parents contended that IL was
not legal union, and they were not SAT
isfed until the second ceremony was per-
formed. =, -,
lake Lea, a colored man from NORTH
Carolina, who reached Danville with a
LOT of tobacco. was murdered some time
during the night 1t is supposed that ne
was lured into some obscure place and
killed for the money he is supposed 10
have received from the sale OF hn
tobacco -,
Ex-Postmaster Samuel Burroughs, OF
Portsmouth. was tried i'll the Unlted
States Court at Norfolk, OIL charge OF
instrumentation of Government tunds
amounting to $2,263. The jury faiieo
to agree.
In excavating for the Cameron street
sewer in Alexandria, workmen found
at Pitt street the remnants OF all ancient
BRIDGE built across Oronoko creek when
Alexandria was a small village. zen,
eral Washington's town house occupied
the hill just above the bridge, and IT was
probably erected for his accommodatlon'
Joshua c. Cooper was sent to the penn
tertiary for one year for robbing 'he
mails at Surry Courthouse .postoftlce;,
Mr.. Robert Fulton Cutting, OF New
York, has given SIoo, through Hon.
Henry ST. George Tucker, to the Palmer
Academy, in Rockbridge.
Walter Finks, 30 years old, had part
Of his right forearm blown Oft while WIN
hunting cartridges near Woodstock Inc
gun exploded. .-.
Dr.. Fred a. Wood, young dentist
who nysteriously disappeared from HI;
nome. in Richmond. early in the spring
has been found in a hospital at Ne"
Tick" Turner. about 20 years old.
WAS shot and possibly fatally wounded
at Tazewell by Rosa Dean, who. de-
clares she shot to prevent Turner from
shooting ner. 3;
The Confederate .veteAS OF lamp.
bell county met and orr lied a camp
10 be known as the Gen. James Dear
ing Camp, the principal object OF which
viii he TO erect a monument 10 the
Confederate dead. Major Adam Glenn.
ents was chairman OF the meeting and
: Mr.. Palmer Evans secretary. Senator
Daniel was elected president OF the
camp. Major Clements vlce-presiden'
and Mr.. Thomas Patrick adlutant.
The City Council OF Alexandra has
increased the salary OF the city police
ment $3.50 month.
Missile Waller, the colored woman
who was sentenced in Campbell county
to. 10 years in prison for infanticide'
has been granted new trial by the
Circuit Court.
w T. Yokum, a clerk in the Sea-
board Air Lines general office in
Portsmouth, has been missing from his
home since November l. Nothing has
since been heard Of him by his wife
and three children.
Fierce mountain fires have been rag
ing on the Fort Mountain, south oil
Woodstock, and are destroying large
quantities OF timber. In several IN
stances dwellings and outbulldings mar
rowly escaped destruction in the Fort
Valley.
Ingles & Simpson, civil engineers
and railroad contractors OF Radtord
have secured the contract for the loca-
ton and construction OF the Virginia
Anthracite Coal and Railway Com
pany's road from Christiansburg De
pot to Blacksburg. passing directly
through the coal company's valuable
mines in Prices Mountain.
Ransom Dudley, colored, OF Glouces'
ter county, died at St. Vincents Hos
pital, Norfolk, from pistol wound IN
the stomach said to have been accident
ally inflicted near his home.
Bishop A. Coke Smith, OF Norfolk,
dedicated the Franklin (Va.) Methodist
Church South. The building, which
was begun IL years ago, was presented
on the part OF the official board by 6.
c. Vaughan. Sr. 1t cost about $4,000
Joshua C. Cooper, IS years Of age,
son Of the postmaster at Surrey Court.
| house was arraipned before United