Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-10-17

! The Rappahannock National Bank
has onened for business at Washington
Can't. R. Ingram, OF WhitestOnc. an
ex-Confederate veteran, s. years OF
! age, is dead.
The Corporation Court at Alexan
dra granted a charter to the HerreIl'
Espey Manufacturing Company. De
I signed to manufacture toys and novel
ties. The capital is fixed at $4,000.
Clerk OF the Courts d. q. Smith. oi
Newport News. has had notice served
on the members OF the Council that
he will apply for a mandamuS to com
Dcl the Council to make provision Tor
building a fre-proof vault for the mu-
nicipal records. Repeated efforts 10
get the vault built have failed:
Some excitement was caused at FO"t
Monroe by fire breaking out in car
shed near the Io-inch gun. The fire
salute was given and all OF the appa-
ratus OF the fort was brought into play
the flames being eXtingulShcd before
thew had done much damage.
Mr.. Arthur Stephens. OF Greene
county. is dead. a ged 81 years. He
was a lawyer by profession, but retired
from practice many years ago.
Thos. P McManuS. OF Portsmouth
was perhaps fatally injured in the navy
ward. being run over by travelling
crane.
Mr.. Henry Waite, a prominent CIT.
izen OF Spottsylvania county, IS dead
aged g years. He is survived by
three children.
Burglars broke into the postOfiice at
Tazewel Courthouse and blew open the
safe with dynamite. They secured $500
in stamps and 5000 in cash. Besides
these losses the office books OF the
postmaster were blown over the office
and almost destroyed Before breaking
into the postoffice the party broke into
a blacksmith shop and secured the nee
essary tools for doing the work on the
safe SO far there is no clue to the
robbers.
DR.. c. Z. Haworth sold an interest
in the Huntington Evening Herald to
Floyd s. Chapman, who Tor 10 year;
has been city editor OF the Advertiser
Henry Stephens, aged 81, a German,
fell from the third-story window OF his
residence in Norfolk and sustained IN
iuries which proved fatal. He leaves
widow.
George L. Stephenson and his wife
Ella. of Norfolk, entered suits for $Io,-
600 each against the Bay Shore Ter
minal Railway Company. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stephenson were in the wreck on the
Terminal line in August last.
w. R. Brown. secretary OF the Cen
trail Labor Union of Southeast Virginia,
fell from the second-story window OIL
his home in Norfolk and sustained Seri-
ous injuries.
A petition is being circulated in Nor
folk praying the President to call All
extra session OF Congress for the pur'
pose of settlement OF the coal strike
At Longheld. Floyd Thompson was
shot and killed by Warren Thompson.
his cousin. The shooting was caused
bv a quarrel about school children.
Mr.. lanes D. Connellce, a gallant
cx-Confederate soldier and prominent
and successful farmer died at Warsaw
Of cancer.
Miss Valera Peters, the daughter OF
Rev. William II. Peters, a German
Rantist minister OF Franklin county
lied at the Robertson farm, near Roam.
3ke, after an illness OF three weeks, OF
typhoid fever.
Governor Montague has about decid-
Cd 70 accept the invitation OF the Mayor
ri Milwaukee to speak in that city upon
he occasion of the Business Mems Car
nival, October II.
Commissioner Of Agriculture Koiner
insists upon the appointment OF in
spectors OF food for Virginia. 1t is. he
saws. the dumping ground" for adul-
lerated foodstuffs OF the country.