Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-08-01
THE OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned From All over
the State.

Lynchburg, $50 (war with Spaiii), III
D. Worreli, National Soldiers home
Elizabeth City, s.; Joseph H: Dillon
Flovd. S17; Shadrack Gray, Wlcomico,
Church, Sc; John E. Bankard, NATIONAL
Military Home, Elizabeth City, $40;
VIM. |. Moss, National Soldiers Home
Elizabeth City, $I2; Annie {; Bingham
East End, So; Robert P. Philip, Harris
onburg, So; Robert PARROT deceased
Downings, $I2; Nancy Parrot. Down
ngs, So; Sarah H. Kelly, Mountain
Grove. So; Patrick J. Fallon, N: M;
Home, Elizabeth City, SO; Whltforo
Staten, Suffolk, So.
Information was received in Leesburg
that Austin Mulburn, generally called
Oscar, while walking on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad at Point OF ROCKS
was struck by a passing train, from the
effects of which he died in an hour or
so. He was a citizen Of Loudoun, and
for some years after the war an efhcient
engineer on the Washington and Ono
branch of the Southern road, running
through Leesburg. He was about 81
years old.
The Mayor, DR.. Riddick, and Health
Commissioner Newbill are fighting over
the vaccine that shall be used in Nor
folk. The Mayor holds out for ivory
points. DR.. Newbil contends that to
so revaccinate the population is ridicu-
lous. Ivory points, nevertheless. have
been prescribed by the Mayor, the lay
member OF the Board Of Health voting
with him.
Hon. ]. L. Marye, ex-Lieutenant-
Governor Of Virginia, and prominent
lawyer and brother Of State Auditor
Morton Marye, is very i'll at his home
in Fredericksburg.
AT Stanton the Blue Bell Iron and
Steel Company purchased at public auc-
ton 1870 acres OF mineral land in the
Rlue Ridge Mountains, near Waynes-
boro, for $1,000.
Mrs Willis, wife OF Superintendent 0:
the Public Schools B. P. Willis OF Fred
ericksburg, is i'll with typhoid lever at
the home of her father, Mr.. I. M. Har-
ris, in Culpeper county.
Mr.. Taylor Smith, son OF Mr.. Edward
J. Smith, OF fredericksburg. mas
through Senator Thomas 5. Martin
been appointed as third alternate to the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, and has
gone to that place to enter upon Ills
studies.
]. R. Grcenway, the Chesapeake and
Ohio cashier, who has been missing
from his office in Norfolk since Satur-
dav. July IL. has been located in Henri
co county. He is in demented condi-
ton. It is believed his accounts will be
found correct
Bishop Robert A. Gibson, of the Epis-
copal Diocese of Virginia. has issued an
address to the clergy and lalty OF the
diocese setting forth the need OF more
contributions to missions and Tor the
spread of the missionary spirit.
Brattamon Thomas, farmer, and his
son were drowned in the Shenandoah
river near Shendon.
7. Bouldin Saunders. one OF the most
prominent citizens OF Bedford county,
is dead.
Governor Montague granted IL con-
dtional pardons. besides resplting a
man sentenced to be hanged. The most
interesting case was that Of J. w. Jen-
kins, a white man OF Norfolk. who was
given an absolute pardon. During the
recent street car strike in Norfolk Jen-
kins was arrested for placing an OBJ.
struction upon the track, was convicted
and sentenced to two years in the penn
Tertiary. The car in front OF which the
obstruction was placed was empty, and
it was removed before any damage had
been done. In granting the pardon the
Governor says that it appears from the
certificates OF two physicians that the
man was weak minded and mentally I'M
balanced
Sergeant Brinkley, Of Suffolk, shot
Ernest Hill, desperate negro. Hill
was wanted on three charges, and, see
ing a possible escape through an open
door in the house in which he was ar
rested. made a dash through the door,
slamming it on the officers arm with
such force that the officer was tempo
rarilv checked i'll his pursuit OF the ne
gro. After calling Haiti three times.
the officer fired in the air, when, the
negro turned and, drawing revolver,
attempted to shoot the officer, who then
shot to hit. The negro fell, and was
...~n disarmed and placed in jail: The
ball took effect i'll the groin. He Will
recover.
Mrs. Jacobs died suddenly at her
home in Leesburg of heart disease.
Trinity Methodist Church, Lexington,
has contracted for a new pipe organ to
cost $1,000.
A negro servant in Portsmouth gave
aged Mrs. Kreiger carbolic acid, think
ing it was medicine Mrs. kreiger died
in few minutes.
A new business enterprise has just
been started in Leesburg. Messrs:
Hickman, Bitter, Wallace, George .ans
Thomas Whipple have recently purchas-
ed the power rights at Mavin's Mill, on
Goose creek, below Leesburg, and will
at once set about bringing the power
into town for manufacturing purposes
A movement is also on foot to establish
knitting mill in Leesburg Tor the
manufacture of hosiery. =,
President Kimball, OF the Norfolk ana
Western Railway, says that Roanoke
will soon have new union passenger
station.
The residence OF John T. Minor, at
Comorn. was struck by lightning and
nearly every room in the large building
was slightly damaged.
Joseph Pemberton, rs years old, son
of Postmaster Pemberton, at Matthias
Point. died in Washington OF typhoid
fever.
Nothing has been heard from Freder-
ick Moore, the Newport News mer-
chant. who disappeared leaving bride
Of a month and number OF debts.
VIM. L. Campbell, a well-known
Young farmer at Ogden, few miles
south OF Roanoke, who is somnamb,u-
list, walked out of the second-sto WIN