Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-01-10
LIVE NEWS OF THE
OLD DOMINION,
Special Condensed Dispatches From
Many Points.


Mary J. Howard, Dodson, So; Lombard
Stockert, national Soldiers Home, Eliz'
abeth City county SIP; John Woomte;r'
Winchester, S.; Alexander Dixson, Glib
sons Station, $I2.
There is determined movement going
on looking to bringing about a compro'
mise on the suffrage question. 1t IS be-
lieved that basis will be reached. 1t IS
certain that Mr.. Thorn, the author OF the
majority plan of the suffrage committee,
is disposed to agree upon the elimination
of the permanent understanding clause,
which is the basis of his scheme, if
property qualification is accepted in its
place This will be most strenuously op-
posed. The feeling is that the confer
ence will soon agree upon moderate
basis, which will contain features of the
two or three most conservative plans.
1t is believed that Senator John W.
Daniel will, in compliance with the gen
orally expressed wish of his fellowmenl-
bers of the Constitutional Convention,
recall his resignation Mr.. Carter Glass
has received a telegram from the Sen
ator expressing his willingness to hold
the matter in allegiance until he can see
and talk with him. The impression is
general among the members that the
Senator will agree to reconsider his &C
ton Mr.. Daniels retirement at this
time, some of the most influential mem
bers of the convention say, would be mis-
understood by the people OF the State.
1t might be regarded, these gentlemen
argue, as an evidence that Senator Dan
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will not meet the approval of the people
and that, therefore, he is retiring as
member of the body. No one for a mo-
ment believes that such thought has
actuated the Senator in his resignation
In his letter to Mr.. Goode the Senator
attributes his course entirely to the state
of his health. He does not think that
his condition will admit of his returning
to the duties imposed upon him in the
convention.
According to a telegram received in
Suffolk by J. E. West, secretary OF tn:
Twentieth Century Fund committee OF
the Southern Christian Convention, they
will be able to meet the conditions Of an
endowment offer made by F. A. Palmer
a New Yark banker Mr.. Palmer agreed
TO give $4,000 if the committee should
raise $4,000 by January of this year
and $4,000 if they got $4,000. Mr..
Palmer has since eXtei ded the time to
February I. The committee row has
about $1,000. The convention EN-
braces four States, six conferences and
10000 members. The money is for edu
cation.
The 8-months-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Curlett of Wheaton, Lancas-
ter county, met with singular death.
AS has been the custom Of Mrs Curlett,
she put the child to sleep on her bed in
the chamber on the uppc- floor. leaving
the door open so that she could hear
when it first awoke Thinking the child
had slept much longer than usual, she
repaired to the chamber and found the
little one hung in all unaccountable way
to the bedstead by its clothes, cold in
death.
Mr.. Charles Critzer, a worthy and
well-known citizen of Roanoke, dropped
dead at an entertainment at the home OF
Mr.. Overstreet He was native of
Rockingham county, was 81 years old
and is survived BY widow and four
children Heart disease is supposed to
have been the cause of death
Gov. Montague has appointed Samuel
w. Bigger, of Richmond, to the position
of executive clerk. Mr.. Bigger is a son
of the late Col John Bell Bigger, for
many years clerk of the Virginia House
of Delegates.
Thomas Templeton was tried before
Magistrate Cunningham, at Wallace,
Washington county, and was acquitted
of the charge Of murder. Templeton
slew Robert Moore on December Fl last,
and his plea of self-defense was sus-
tanned.
Rev. w. R. Reany, who was for some
time rector of Trinity Episcopal Church,
in Fredericksburg, and went from there
to Brunswick, Ga, has just received
call to & large church at Ridgeway, Pa.
While resisting arrest Joshua Jor-
dan was shot and probably fatally
wounded by Deputy Sheriff Hootnagle
| in Portsmouth. Jordan is supposed to
have stolen quantity of copper from
the navy yard.
The Stuart Land and Cattle Company
has sold 700 acres of grazing land in
Russell county to Hon. David Johnston,
of Princeton, w. Va, for $4,000.
Mrs. Martha M. Harper, mother of
| COL L. P. Harper, postmaster at Suf-
folk, died, aged 81 years. She had been
a member of the Methodist Church over
so years
In Rockbridge county, Alexander
Sullivan, colored, while hunting, acct
IDENTIFY shot Charles Ma.sie also colorcd.
Massie died from his injuries.
Edward McCandlich, of Stormont,
had his right hand blown off by the &C
cidental discharge of his gun. The in
jured limb was amputated below the
| elbow.
Mr.. Samuel Stevens, a well-known
citizen of Falmouth, died of pneumonia,
aged 50 years. A widow and four
| children survive him.
COL Robert Catlett, of Lexington, will
be assistant to Hon. William A. Ander-
son, Virginia's new Attorney General.
John H. Parkins one of the best
known citizens of Augusta county died
! of paralysis at his home, near Staunton.
! He was born near Winchester.
Mrs. Mary A. Lakewood, wife of
! Major Martin w. Lakewood, was
found dead in her bed in Richmond.
Mrs. Annie Robins, widow of Rev.
w. F. Robins, died at Kinsale.
Mayor M. G. Willis, of Fredericl<s-
burg, who has been sick for several
weeks, is now able to sit up.
MIR. Adolphus H. Tyree, aged 70 years,
! q native of Richmond. died in Ports