Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-03-07
LIVE NEWS OF THE
OLD DOMINION.
Special Condensed Dispatches From
Many Points.
WORK or THE LEGISLATURE.
Pensions Granted Virginia Peritentlary-
Its Crowded Condition May Lead to Legal
Proceedngs-A Practical Road Law-op'
posed to Child Labor Bi;I-Young Woman
Takes Ac;d-Hotel Wrecked


Virginia pensions: Increase, restoora-
ton, reissue, etc.-Henry Stewart, Ma
tional Military Home, Elizabeth City:
$40; Ellis l. Hall, National Soldiers,
Home, Elizabeth City, $L2. Original
widows, etc.-War with Spain-Jennie
Dennis, Bluff City, $I2 Increase, res
toration. reissue, etc.-James w. Cooney'
Lurav. So. Mexican War-Joseph Wat
son, Warm Springs, $12; Samuel WHEY,
National Soldiers Home. Elizabeth lily
county, IS. Increase-MoseS Dawley,
Norfolk, $I2: John R. Gunnell, Great
Falls. $I2: Henry ]. Davis, National
Soldiers Home, Elizabeth City county,
SIC; Horace Pitts, Wattsville, So; Rich
ard A. Jones, GAINESVILLE, $24
The following bills were passed by
the Legislature:
Senate: To incorporate the town Of
Fairmont.
To amend charter of the Southwest
Virginia Improvement Company -,
To empower School Board OF Clarke
to borrow money.
In relation to Virginia volunteers car
ryng the flag of the State
Authorizing Prince Edward county to
issue bonds.
To amend charter of Charlotte County
Railway Company.
House: To legalze the subscription,
by the voters Of Henry county OF $4,000
to the capital stock of the Mount Rogers
and Eastern Railroad Company.
To incorporate the Manchester and
Richmond Free Bridge Company.
To amend and re-enact Section q of
Chapter 685 of an act entitled An Act
to Amend the Charter of the Town OF
Cape Charles, in the County of North
ampton"
TO incorporate Norfolk Chamber of
Commerce.
To repeal an act entitled IAN Act
for the Protection of Crabs in the Wa
tiers of Lynnhaven River and Its Tribu-
taries, in the County of Princess Anne.
To authorize the clerk of the County
and Corporate Courts to receive taxes
on real estate. the sale of which to the
Commonwealth for delinquent taxes
thereon has been declared irregular and
void.
To authorize the County Court and
Board of Supervisors of Essex county
to allow monument to the Confederate
dead to be erected on the public square
of said county.
To allow the voters in a certain por-
ton of Augusta county to vote on the
stock law and provide for putting the
same into operation.
To repeal an act entitled "An Act in
Relation to the Erection>of Gates Across
Public Highways in the County OF Rock
bridge"
To authorize and empower the Board
of Supervisors of Isle of Wight county
to contribute to erection of monument
to Confederat dead of Isle of Wight
county. -,
To permit w. D. Turner to erect and
maintain a wharf on his land at Shoaj
Bay, in Isle of Wight county
1t is possible that the question OF the
overcrowded condition Of the Virginia
Penitentiary may be brought before the
courts on a writ of habeas corpus pro-
ceedings. Governor Montague is in re-
ceipt of letter from prominent law
yer, in which he raises the question as
to where such a proceeding would not
result in the discharge of many of the
convicts The ground would be that the
prisoners are being subjected to cruel
and unusual punishment" in violation OF
the State Constitution, in being kept in
overcrowded cells 1t is suggested that
a case might be made UP for the Fed
eral or the State Supreme Court. The
| whole thing appears to be bluff to force
| the Legislature to provide better quar-
tiers for the convicts.
The new road bill for Stafford county,
adopted in public meeting of citizens
| and presented to the Legislature to be
enacted into law, is said to be a very
practical measure 1t contemplates con-
centrating the money on the most trav'
eled roads, making those good and max.
ing outlying roads wait. Should the
Board of Supervisors see fit it can con-
centrate the money on one of the most
important roads in each district the first
year, making these roads permanent
then next year add to them, and in the
course of a few years have number
Of good roads.
While playing in a cut on the Pied
mont, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail
road within the corporate limits of the
city, some boys unearthed the skeleton
of man supposed to have been a soldier
| who fell in battle here during the Civil
War.
The Oriskany Ore and Iron Company,
| c. II. Zehnder, president, has taken
charge of the Empire Steel and Iron
Company's furnaces, located at Goshen,
Rockbridge county, Iron Gate, Allegany
county. and Shenandoah, Page county,
and will operate them. Messrs. Frazier
& Efinger, of the Rockbridge Alum
Springs, have leased to this company,
| for a period of 20 years, the ore on the
springs property. The company will be-
DIN at once the erection of a washer be-
low the alum spring to be used for ores
| from the several mines.
Mrs. J. D. Morris found her sster-in
law. Miss Dora Morris, lying across her
bed in extremis, at their home, in Char
lottesville. 1t was soon discovered that
che had taken carbolic acid Although
musicians were summoned, it was too
late Miss Morris accompanied her Sis
ter-in-law shopping, and showed no more
evidence than usual of depression. She
was 10 years of age the sister of ]. D.
Morris.
AT a meeting of the executive COM
mttee of the Lynchburg Board of Trade
for the purpose of considering measure
now before the Legislature to prohibit
the employment in manufacturing
plants or mercantile pursuits of children
under ID years of age, resolutions were
unanimously adopted opposing the pro-
posed measure, and Judge John D. HorS.
lev and Mr.. John A. Faulkner were ap-
pointed a committee to 60 to Richmond
against the passage of the bill.
The wife Of Rev. J. T. Kitchen, ;