Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-02-07
LIVE news OF THE
OLD DOMINION.
Special Condensed Dispatches From
Many Points.
FRANCHISE TAX ON THE RAILROADS
One Per Cent. Tax Win Yield S25O,0OO Yeai
Oyster Lands OF the Stale TO Be Sold OF
Rented--Town OF Ivanhoe Nearly Wiped
0.t by Firc-Amerlcan Ship Masters Or.
ganize at Newport News Other News.

bChtSu--lOhu VI 1khy "'pSO
Oat by Firc-Aalerlean Ship Masters Or.
ganize at Newport News Other News
Virginians received these pensions -
John Smith (second), Portsmouth, SIS;
Owen Brett, National Soldiers Home
Elizabeth City, $I3; Caleb S. Miller
Portsmouth, $3.50; John w. Taylor
National Soldiers Home, Elizabeth
City, $I2; Thomas Reed National Sol
diers Home, Elizabeth City, $I2; Rob
crt Killen, National Soldiers Home,
Elizabeth City, $I7; John Bath, National
Soldiers Home, Elizabeth City, $40;
Louis Weber, Fauquier Springs, Sly;
Gusts Bell, Grangeville, $I2; James
Harlan, National Soldiers Home, Eliz
abcth City, $40; William J. Hogst@n,
abeth City county $40; VIM. J. Hogston,
Freezing, So; James H. Ward, Roanoke.
So; George D. Elder, Oakley, Sc; Elsy
A. Ford, Richmond, So; Mahala Syca-
more, Berkeley, So; Juliet Brickhousc,
Exnore, So.
In the Constitutional Convention the
committee on finance submitted its re-
port. One of the most significant fea-
lures of this is that it provides a fran
chiSe tax Of one per centum per year on
ali railroads and canal corporations.
This plan was recommended by the rail
roads themselves. 1t will bring in
about $25o,ooo per annum, and is to be
applied to all roads, including those
which are exempt from general taxa
ton. The report also provides that the
General Assembly shall tax all coal and
mineral lands at their fair yalue. The
oyster lands of the State are to be sold
OF rertcd.
The convention resumed considera-
ton of the report of the committee Oh
agriculture. The section electing the
commissioner by the board was adopted,
also an amendment requiring the general
Office of the Department Of Agriculture
to be at Richmond City.
The little town of Ivanhoe, in Wythe
county, was almost entirely destroyed
by fire. The stores Of J. ~. Miller, E.
H. Huddes, J. E. Lawson, Pierce & Co.,
a new brick building Just completed and
intended for a bank, two grocery stores,
the postofice and several dwellings were
burned. The building III which the post
Office was located WAS also used by
Postmaster Jewett and family as a
dwelling. The flames started in the
store of !. w. Miller, but the origin or
the money valuc Of the losses have moi
yet been learned.
The Continental Tobacco Company
has turned over, or will turn over, BY
lease or sale, its plant in Petersburg to
the American Cigar Company, which \
latter company expects 10 have plant
much more extensive than any the Con-
tinental Company would have had, and
employ many more hands than the Con.
tinental Company would have employed.
Within the next two weeks the American !
Cigar Company will have a large force |
of steamers at work and within month |
or two will begin the manufacture OF |
cigars Oh a large scale.
The people along the Potomac river.
in King George and WeStmoreland |
counties are complaining very much OF |
the poor transportation of facilities just |
now. There are only two boats week.
one on Sunday and the other at night
1t is rumored that the WeemS Line may |
put boat on the Potomac from Wash
ington to the lower counties, touching
at all intermediate landings. Such a
move would be very popular and the
steamer would be we'll patronized.
The Virginia Pocahontas Coal Com
pany has been chartered at Bristol. 1t
will open up and operate extensive coal
fields in Southwest Virginia and pre-
pare for market iron, COAL. stone, clay
and timber. The charter specifies the
capital shall be from $4,000 to 100000.
T. P. Trigg, of Abingdon, has. been
elected president of the new company.
The American Ship Masters Protect
i've Association Of Sail Vessels perfected
it's organization at Newport News, with
H. A. Haines, of Taunton, Mass, pres
ident, and a. L. Crowley, Of Boston,
secretary. Thirty-five ship-owners and
masters weie present. The organization
is the result of two years effort.
Mr.. Charles H. Hurkamp, of the
Amaret stock farm, Frederick, has sold
to Mr.. Constantine Brun, the Danish
Minister at Washington, the handsome
chestnut hunter and saddle horse Red
Rock. Mr.. Brun personally inspected
and tried the horse and is highly pleas
ed with his purchase.
The .Anti-Saloon League of this State
IS planning organizations on large scale
lust now and will shortly strike out in
various directions. In every county in
lie State meeting will be held and
county league, which will have direct
SUPERVISION of the temperance work in
hat section, will be organized.
As a result of a mistake on the part
IF her little daughter, Mrs. L. ". Nc
Intosh, of Winchester, will likely lose
lie sight of her eyes. She was using
wash for weak eyes, and yesterday her
title daughter by mistake dropped mu-
-iatic acid into her mothers eyes, burn
ng them frightfully.
+. c. Johnson, a well-known druggist
,f Roanoke, has received a postal card {
warning him that if he doe; not deposit |
II eco in greenbacks at a certain place g
" stated time he will be killed. There
s 10 clue to the writer Of the postal
ard.
The Virginia Electrical Railway and
Development Company, OF Rchmond, !
viii spend 100000 on new powerhouse {
nd other improvements.
Information was received In Richmond
hat Noah Mullins, a man of about 35
wing in Wise county, shot and killed !
is wife aud three children day or two (
90 and then PUT an end to his own life
ealousy prompted hin, in his murder I
us purpose
A consolidation Of the Nansemond
Water Company, the Portsmouth and ]