Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-05-23
LIVE NEWS OF THE
OLD DOMINION.
Latest Happenings Cleaned From All
Over the State.
BIG LIST OF NEW PENSIONERS.
Rockbridge County Has Valley Railroad Stock
to SeIl-Large Turnout Of Confederate Vet
Grams and Others at Norfolk-Elks Carui'
val at Staunton-Narrow Escape ofFireman
Chandler From Death-0ther Live News.

val at Staunt0n-Narr0w escape oIrlremdp
Chandler From Deatt-Other Live News.
Virginia Observation-Disclosures
F. Haney, ST. Elmo, So: Increase, resto'
rations, reissue, &c-Edward Burns, Ma
tional Military Home, Elizabeth City,
So; Andrew Brooks, National Soldiers
Home, Elizabeth City, So; Charles +
Reed, Salem, $40. Original widows, &c
Especial, accrued April 25).Mary A
Shotrof, Prospect Hill, So. Original
John Clark, Chuckatuck, 50. Increase
Restoration, Reissue, etc.-George w.
Riley, National Military Home, Eliza
beth City, $40. Mexican War-Miles r
Bahaman, dead, Lynchburg, $T2. Orlgl!,
nal Widows, etc. Especial, accrued April
28)-Lucinda Morris, Portsmouth, So
Increase Robert James Wilson, Nation
al Soldiers Home, Elizabeth City coun-
ty, $40; John B. Weirouch, Reliance, So /;
William Hawkins, National Soldiers
Home, Elizabeth City county, $I2; Jas.
Carr, National Soldiers Home, Eliza
beth City county. S.
A singular wreck occurred in the
freight depot yard of the Norfolk and
Western railroad, in Petersburg. AS a
train of as gondolas, loaded with coal
from Lynchburg, was pulling into the
yard the locomotive and five of the gon-
dolas left the track at switch. The To-
connective after running a few yards was
turned sideways and ran into the black
smith shop building of the Petersburg
Iron Works Company. The tender was
overturned and one of the cars was
thrown lengthwise across the track. The
engineer jumped from his cab and was
not hurt. Fireman Vernon Chandler. re-
NAMED at his post and was caught be-
tween the end of the tender and firebox
of the locomotive, in which position he
was wedged for more than half an hour
while large force of men were kept at
work endeavoring to extricate him. All
this time a plug stream and buckets of
water obtained from the river close by
were thrown on him to prevent his being
burned to death.
Confederate Memorial Day was OBJ
served in Norfolk with appropriate cere-
monies. The celebration was the largest
in many years, veteran camps from Rich
mond, Petersburg and other nearby cit
les, as well as the entire Seventy-hrst
Virginia Regiment, participating in the
big parade. a feature of which was a
division composed of 1000 school chill
dren.
Much interest has been excited in Lex
ington and Rockbrdge county by the
agitation in Baltimore for the sale of the
Valley Railroad stock. Lexington has
$25,o invested in this stock and Rock
bridge $4,000. The majority Of the
stock is controlled by Baltimore and the
county of Rockbridge. Therefore the
county is watching with great interest
the course of events in Baltimore.
Confederate Memorial Day will be ap-
propriately observed in Lexington on
Tuesday, June g. that day being the
birthday of President Jefferson Davis.
Lee Jackson Camp Confederate Veter-
ans, has invited Rev. DR.. G. w. Finley,
of Augusta county, to deliver the memo
rial address. Dr. Finley was captain in
the Confederate Army.
Every arrangement for the Elks' car
nival at Staunton, May 20-3I, is fast ap-
preaching completion, and it promises to
be magnificent affair. The decorations
will exceed anything of the kind ever
undertaken, the merchants having agreed
to decorate, and are already getting
ready. A large number of entries are al
ready in for the floral parade.
The academic class of the University
of Virginia met and elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: Charles 5.
Brent, Jr., of Lexington, KY, president;
Garrett Waters, of Norfolk, Va, vice
president; James Hay, Jr., of Madison,
Va, secretary and treasurer; William
Leigh, of Houston, Va, librarian.
For the death of his I2-year-old son,
who was killed by falling telephone
pole that had rotted at the base, L. B.
Moore, of Bristol, received judgment
in the Federal Court at Greeneville
against the East Tennessee Telephone
Company for $1,000 damages.
Senator Carter Glass, of Lynchburg,
has announced his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination for Congress in
the Sixth district, to succeed the late
Hon. Peter J. Otey. Senator w. P.
Barkdale, of Halifax, has withdrawn and
will support Mr.. Glass.
The large farm of the Brooke estate in
Louisa county, containing over 1000
acres, was purchased at auction this
week by Messrs. W. J. and J. H. Crank
for $500.
Walter Miller, who was indicted in
the county court of Shenandoah county
upon the charge of assaulting Charlie
Cline on last Christmas day, was tried
and acquitted.
Judge B. A. Hancock, of the Circuit
Court of Prince George County, has
granted charter of Incorporation to- the
Charles N. Romano Fireworks Manu
featuring Company. The authorized
capital is $4,000.
A. C. Smith, editor and owner of the
Bristol Evening News, and Mrs. Emma
7. Meinheld, of Elmira, N Y, were
united in marriage in Washington, D. c.
The couple will reside in Bristol
The Board of Pension Commissioners
of Rockbridge county has cut down the
list of names for pensions to I3I from
I67. During the past year 20 deaths have
occurred among the old soldiers.
Mr.. Charles Payne, one of the oldest
citizens of Orange county, died at his
home, near Lahore, at the advanced age
of % years.
John T. Moore, aged 81 years, we'll
known farmer of Prince George county,
committed suicide by shooting himself in
the head.
Capt. w. w. Berkeley, of Roanoke,
has announced himself as candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Congress
in the Sixth district.
The store of P. A. Phillips, at Glou-