Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-10-03
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Six men were instantly killed and
eight seriously injured by the prema-
ture explosion OF blast at Potts val
ley Iron Mines, three miles west. OF
Covington. The explosion occurred at
5.45, it being the custom to fire blast
just before work stopped. Ten kegs
of powder had been emptied into. the
hole when a stone rolled in. An incl
fectual attempt was made to move 1t
by hand, then care was taken to pour
a quantity OF water over the powder
before a steel rod was brought into
use. In some manner a spark was
struck, setting fire to the powder.
| Three men about the blast were hurl-
ed high in the air and their mangled
remains were picked up some distance
away. Three men to the side OF the
blast we're buried beneath yards OF tall.
ing dirt. All were killed instantly and
their bodies horribly mutilated. Eight
other working men were nearby and
their escape from death was nothing
less than mirable; as it was, several
were badly injured and their recovery
is extremely doubtful.
On a charge of kidnapping Charles
Weeks, aged II, of the Eastern Shore
of Maryland, and a German boy NAM
ed Carl Kolb aboard the British steam
ship Benefit, Donald Scott, runner tor
a seamans boarding house, in Norfolk,
was arrested. Scott, it is charged, for
chilly caused the youths to board the
Bencliff, which left Lamberts Point tor
Italy last week with load OF coal The
| Seamen's Union has taken the matter
in hand and employed counsel to pros
ecute Scott Letters have been adj
dressed to Weeks at Genoa advising
him to enlist the aid of the American
Consul there.
| Messrs. Ernest B. Kruttschnitts, OF
New Orleans; William Patrick, OF
Stanton. and Mortimer N. Wisdom,
of New Orleans, alternate for Messrs.
John w. Davis, of Clarksburg, w. Va,
and Walter L. McCorkle, OF New York
city. composing the committee appoint
ed and given full power by the alumni
association OF Washington and Lee
University at the annual meeting last
June, are now in session at the uni
versity. This committee was appoint
ed to confer with the board Of trustees
of the university relative to having rep.
resentatives from the alumni on the
board The committee was given FILL
power to devise a plan that may prove
acceptable to the board.
About one hundred girls employed
by the Morotock Manufacturing Com
pany, of Danvile, to make pants, quit
work. The trouble between the girls
and the company is understood to re-
late to some measures Of discipline in
| PRODUCED by new superintendent The
rules seek to correct lax methods
which have recently prevailed. The
girls are identified with the Textile
Workers Union and proposed to have
meeting during business hours
which was forbidden. 1t is expected
the trouble will be soon adjusted.
George Wheaton, an 8-year-old boy
son of George Wheaton, OF Roanoke
was shot and killed by bat shooters
on the outskirts OF that city. He was
shot in the head, having run ahead
after a rabbit that jumped up in the
way of the hunters. Forty-fve shots
were found in his head and neck.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tcnch aged IS years,
died at her home, near billions MILL
Franklin county.
The decision of Judge Witt holding
that all employees, State or city officers,
may use free passes will throw down
the bars for the whole office-holding
class except judges. Many legislators
are employees OF railroads and are let
out under this decision.
At Roanoke the deed Of transfer OF
the West End Furnace from John N.
M. Shrer and William H. Stake, trus-
tees, to Donald Mcleod was recorded
at the office of the clerk OF the HuSt-
ings Court. Much work has been
done putting the establishment in or,
der and it is understood that it will
be operated at an early date.
At Stanton Almond Hager, charg
ed with seriously shooting Crawford
Sheets, had a preliminary hearing be-
fore a police justice and was sent on
to the grand jury. He was bailed in
81 500, his father, F. w. Hager, going
on his bond. Sheets is getting along
fairly well.
Lee Burnett, the waiter at Hotel
Crawford at Salem, who shot and killed
James Haynes, was tried and fined S;
and sentenced to 30 days in jail. The evil
ience showed that the shooting was
purely accidental.
J. w. Connell, general forwarding
agent OF the Seaboard Air Line Rail-
way at Portsmouth, has resigned his
position to accept the post of general
agent at New York of the Ocean
Steamship Company.
The Northern Neck Agricultural AS.
ISOLATION will hold its annual fair on
its grounds at Heathville on October
IS, If and II.
The fish factories in the east end OF
Northumberland county are now catch
ing all the fish they can handle. The
season promises to be a good one
and most OF the factories will make
some money
The question of whether the inmates
Of the Confederate Soldiers Home are
objects OF charity, as contemplated by
The suffrage clause OF the Constitution,
will be a subject for the courts to de-
eide. The appropriations to the home
by the State are based upon contract
hat the valuable Soldiers Home prop
erty is to revert to the Commonwealth
after a given number OF years.
r. M. Weeks, brakeman on the
Southern railway, was terribly crushed
at Arlington. He was taken to the
University of Virginia Hospital, where
he died. Weeks was 20 years OF age
and unmarried.
Jacob Coverstone, a young married
man employed at the furnace at Shen-
andoah, was so badly burned by an eX-