Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-08-22
The OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned Prom All Over
the State.

+ Barhamsvile, Sc: lanes GRACE, National
Military Home, Elizabeth City, $6; Lo-ii
renzo D. Donaldson, Cherrydalee' 20;
James Sturgis dead, Craddockvi4lLSe,i
$I2; Leah Sturgis, CraddocEville, 50;
Gilead Carter, National Soldiers Home
Elizabeth City, $I2; Samuel J. Cooper
Dickinson, Sc; Willis Z. Brown, Nor
folk, Sc; David C. Blake, Portsmouth,
S3o.6S; James Henderson, Eastvllle, 80;
James NJ. Wiggin, National Soldiers
Home Elizabeth City, So; Cornelius
Parker, Magnolia. So; Charles u. To-
bets. Lynchburg. $I2; Maria Jones, re-
tersburg, So; Charlotte A, Michael LOT
cas-, S.; John Z. NORRIS, MaryVille'
$I2.
It is reported in Norfolk upon what is
considered good authority that George
Gould is negotiating for the purchase
OF the Bay Shore Terminal Company :
electric railway in that city. II. L.
Page, the president Of the company
neither denies or affirms the report.
w. II. Robinson, general manager OF
the Chesapeake Transit COMPANY
whose lines extend from Norfolk to
Cape Henry. which road has also been
reported as being sought by the Gould
interests, denies that any negotiation;
ior the sale Of that property are gong
on. The transit company has Splendld
deep water terminals at Cape Henry
and traverses rich and fertile section
Of Norfolk and Princess Anne counties
1t has been said that the Goulds desire
70 secure this road in order that they
may enter Norfolk via Cape Charles
and Henry.
A dispatch received from Hon. A. "A.
Phlegar. the receiver Of the Virginia
Iron. Coal and Coke Company, to MIR.
Boiling, superintendent OF the large FUR
nace located at Buena Vista, apprlsed
him of the sale OF the furnace to the Al
leghany Iron and Ore Company, sub-
ject to the confirmation by the court.
The price was stated, though not att
:horitatively, to be $275,ooo. The new
purchasers will assume charge OF the
plant as soon as the sale is confirmed.
Ores for consumption by the furnaces
will be supplied from the mines known
as the Oriskany, in Allegheny, and the
Vesuvius, in Rockbridge counties. :
A young man named Murray Steele,i
Of Washington, D. C., while visiting:
friends in Buena Vista, Rockbrldge
county, during his sleep walked off a
I6-foot porch and fell to the ground
He escaped with sprained wrist and a
few bruises OF no consequence.
Behind the announcement OF the mar
ragc OF Mr.. Elmer Logan and Miss
Lola Farmer. at Charleston, w. Va. lies
Il romance OF interest and OF unusual
circumstances. The couple live at Der
rvyille and the brides father objected
strongly to the match. When the daugh-
ter got as far as Winchester on all
copement early in July her father cats
cd her arrest for being incorrlgible and
Sworc out warrant Tor young Logan
for abducting the daughter. For
month Logan remained in hiding in the
woods near Berryvilc while officers
searched for him. He was frequently
chased and often shot at but always eS-
capped his pursuerS Recently the Off
GERS gave up the chase. and at the first
opportunity Logan communicated with
Miss Farmer and they went to Charles.
town. where Rev. J. H. Wolff married
them.
A small boy named Lioore concealed
himself in D. R. Beale & Co.'S dry
goods store. Roanoke, and stole SI6o.
He had recently been discharged from
the store. When confronted by de-
tective he confessed to the theft and re-
turned the entire amount OF money, to-
gether with pistol he had stolen.
Revenue officers captured US gallons
OF moonshne whisky from Floyd and
Franklin counties. There were IS five
gallon casks, all OF which were full. 1t
was taken from number OF saloons Ill
the city, and the propprietorS say they
will test the legality OF the revenue OFF,
GERS in conhscating it.
The Virginia penitentiary has been
placed under quarantine by DR.. I. '.
Darlington, surgeon at that place. IL his
was done as a precautionary measure
against the possible introduction OF
smallpox into that institution and its
spread into the city.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed at
Lynchburg by Oscar L. West, OF Gravel
Hill Buckingham county, with Gabili-
ties Of $47Io.42 The creditors are OF
Baltimore, Richmond, Lynchburg and
other places.
Several thousand people attended the
annual reunion OF Rce-Neff Camp,
Confederate veterans, at Forestville,
Shenandoah county. Speaking by prom
inent veterans was preceded by basket
picnic.
At Covington. Walter White. colored.
was killed by the accidental discharge
of a gun which his sister-in-law was
carelessly handling.
Mr.. Thomas Jenkins, an eXConfed-
crate soldier and well-known citizen OF
the Belmont, neighborhood, in Spottsyl-
vania county, is dead, aged 63 years.
Robot w. Smith, the I5-year-old son
OF Mayor G.. w. Smith, OF Lynchburg,
died OF typhoid fever at the home OF his
grandfather, ex-senator r. E. Withers,
in Wythevile.
Miss Mary Anne Lawson died at the
home of Mr.. William Jordan in Caro-
line county, after long illness, aged
70 years.
Ole Williams. the gypsy accused OF
running off with I6-yearold Fannie
Smith, with whom lie was captured at
Emporia, after six days chase. failed to
appear in court at Norfolk and his $500
bail bond was declared forfeited. Loca!
bondsmen are secured by cash, most OF
which is in gold. representing gypsy
hoardings collected from several States:
Williams was indicted by the grand
jury. No further effort will be made to
arrest him.
East Radiord has adopted curiew
ordinance, and it will be vigorously en-
forced.
During the past two weeks large
number OF rattlesnakes have been killed
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