Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-07-18
THE OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned From All OVer
the State.

East Richmond So. Increase. kestora-
ton ReIssued, etc.-Isaac NJ. Hale
Herald, $50 'Original-Wlllie I. Cole,
man, Fredericksburg, So. Orlglhal
Widows. etc. (War with Spain Rosa
hell Lester. mother, \Alum Ridge; $l2.
Albert Scrrills, National Military
Home Elizabeth City, $12. Minor OF
George Deveney, Richmond, $40.
The new Constitution upsets many
arrangements in different cities OF me
State In Richmond it will prevent, the
present board named by the Council :or
the Carnegie Library from acting. On-
der the Constitution the Council cannot
elect members OF that body to any pc.
sition or office. Several members d
the library trustees were taken from We
Council. 1t can be stated on higf au.
thorty that any State, city or county,
official who accepts tree pass WIi'
promptly have instituted against h;ln
proceedings to vacatc his office.
The requirement OF the Council com,
mittee that the keeper OF historic ola
St. Johns Church and burying ground
shall hereafter appear in the costume OF
a Continental is bringing about some
amusing results. This innovation when
carried out will be watched with inter
est. Odd to relate, the keeper OF the
church in which Patrick Henry sad
Give me liberty or give me death Is
not an American, but an Italian, named
Antonio Graffinga. He speaks Only
broken English, but is more familiar
with the history OF the old church than
many OF the oldest residents. 1t IS &c,
clared that few men i'll the State could
stand in old ST. Johns and recite Pat
rick Henry's famous speech with as
much feeling as Gratfinga who is 10
wear the Continental Uniform prescriD'
ed for him by the city fathers while
walking among the graves OF the dead
OF two centuries agone.
A charter was granted at Roanoke
by Judge Tucker, OF the Circuit Court:
to the Bent Mountain Apple and Cold
Storage Company. The incorporators
are Hon. John w. Woods, J. B. Fish
burne. X. H. Woodruff. Ernest b.
Fishburne, James B. Woods. me
company proposes to erect large cold
storage plant in the Back creek neigh
borhood and acquire and develop irult
lands and plant orchards. The capita,
stock OF the company is 100000. and
the quantity OF land it may acquire Is
10000 acres.
Annie Kccton. colorcd, IS years q
age, of Danvile, was shot and instantly
killed by Robert Peatross. also colored.
Five shots were fired. She was struck
just above the left breast. The tragedy
took place in Royalties Bottom, Just IL
the rear OF the cigarette plant OF the
American Tobacco Company. PeatrosS
escaped. There were no eye-wltneSSeS.
but from the Encouragement OF the flr-
niture it looks as though there was
struggle between the man and woman.
Speaker Ryan, OF the Virginia House
of Delegates. says he does not think
the present session OF the General AS
sembiy will last more than two or three
weeks. He does not think it is at all
necessary to pass new election law tor
the fall elections.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Company has decided to pension its
employees who are superannuated or
disabled.
Dixon V. Conn is under arrest at
Roanoke charged with having obtained
the Endorsement OF prominent citizen
of Petersburg to draft for SI25 by mis-
representation.
w. A. Douglas, Chesapeake and Ohio
section master from Fulton to Fort
Lee. was instantly killed by the Rich
mond-bound passenger train in the Fu-
ton yards, Richmond.
Mr.. Henry w. Harrington, one OF
the most successful farmers IN Rich
mond county, and manager OF the
Island farm, near Warsaw, died after a
brief illness OF typhoid fever.
John H. Maggie. a Richmond post
man, died from the effects OF the heat.
William o. Thomas, a wcll-known
citizen of Stanton, died after long
illness. He formerly resided in Rich
mond
Mrs. Alkaline Rogers. wife ii Deputy
United States Marshal John D. Rogers.
died at her residence near Stanton al
ter an illness of two months.
In the United States Court at Alex
andria Judge Waddell announced that
no shirtwaist men would be allowed in
his courtroom, and that those who came
there hereafter must be alfred i'll the
coat.
Four barns on the State pententiary
iarm. p miles west OF Richmond, were
destroyed by the recent storm. The
oss was considerable, yet not SO much
as might have been expected. since all
he cattle escaped. One convict, who
was in one OF the barns, was quite Sc
,iouSly injured.
In October the committee OF the
Grand Lodge OF Odd Fellows meets i'll
Richmond to select site for the new
orphan asylum which that order is to
erect i'll Virginia.
According to the very latest s,atis-
les, the population OF Richmond city
S o3.23o, OF which 6o.2of are white and
'3.o.3S colored. These same statistics
give the suburban population OF Rich-
nond as 7II3. and the population OF
Manchester and suburbs at 1873 The |
population OF the city proper. with sub
rbs. is Ioo.452, and the population OF
he two cities, with their suburbs. in
eality one big community and nracti-
ally one city, reaches a total u 49,
IS.
Eva Jones, IS years old. daughter OF
Wiley Jones, OF Suffolk, and ohm |
Bradshaw cloped 10 North Carolina
where they were married.
Edgar Dawson, of Albcmarlc county. |
ccently graduated from the University |
t LEIPZIG with the degree Of doctor OF !
philosophy. In 1900 he received his |
,aster's degree from the University OF
'irgina.
The Mitchell Manufacturing Gem
any, OF Petersburg. large printing