Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-04-18
LIVE NEWS OF THE
OLD DOMINION.
Latest Happenings Cleaned From All
Over the State.
HAMPTON INSTITUTE ANNIVERSARY
Accident to an Engineer-Norfolk Strikers
Have Split $500 for Hamptou'Sydney
co,or.d Chicken Thief Ki.led-Elks' OPP
ton on Hotel Wi:ches!er- Death OF JONI
". Rrown-D0ub:e Wedding.

-COlored Chicken Thief k.ied-E'Hs oP
ton on Hotel Wi:ches!er- Dea'h OF 'onl
". Rrown-Doub.e Wedding.
A letter from New York to the preSl'
dent of Hampden-S Sidney College, KEY
DR.. Richard McIiwain, from one OF inc
EXECUTORS of the estate of Mrs. ,. +
Lees. gives the gratifying intelligence
that Hampden-S Sidney was among the III
stitutions of learning remembered by
Mrs. Lees in her will The amount
FAMED in the will is ST., 900, which, how
ever. will not be- Immediately available
N account of the fact that some other
)couests have precedence of this one and
much of the property left by the testatrlS
consists of real estate. Some years BE-
ore her death Mrs. Lees founded a min
sterial scholarship in this college, Tor
his purpose giving the sum OF $1,000
The twenty-fourth anniversary OF the
ounding Of Hampton Institute will be
observed April - and %. On the hrsi
lay there will be conference on educa
ion. when addresses will be made by DR.
John Graham Brooks and Rev. Paul K
buckingham, Of Boston, DR.. Felix Ad.
err. DR.. Albert Shaw, DR.. Hamilton W.
Mabe and DR.. Walter Page, of New
York; DIR. Talcott Williams, Philadel.
)hia, and DR.. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell
University. The formal exercises will
be held April %. The Richmond Educa'
tional Association will attend, and Gov
ernor Montague. of Virginia, will de-
liver an address.
1t was stated in Winchester on the
highest authority that the National Coun'
I'll, Order of Eiks, has secured an option
on the Hotel Winchester, with view to
purchasing the property as rendezvous
and Summer resort for members OF the
body The property will be further I'M
proved, and in addition to the purposes
famed a home will be established there
f the national body purchases it. The
! lotel was built at cost of 100000. and
from a hygienic point of view it is ad'
nirably located.
There are now two street railway EN-
,loyes' unions in Norfolk. Samuel II
Kelly, leader of the strike, has been cho'
sen president of the new union. while
-. T. Brooks maintains that he is presi'
lent Of the only legally constituted union
here. When strike funds are hereafter
distributed an interesting wrangle is
ooked for between the two factions. The
International organization will be asked
o adjust the existing differences.
A double wedding ceremony was per
:ormed at the home of Mr.. George H.
5narr, well-known resident of Wheat
ield, when his son and daughter were
United in marriage to two young people
If the neighborhood. The contracting
PARTIES were Mr.. Harry H. Snarr and
Miss Mary F. Hickman and Miss Mary
=. Snarr and Mr. Walter B. Little. Rev.
A. NJ. Smith, pastor of Lebanon Luther
IN Church, performed the ceremony.
John w. Brown, a highly respected
citizen and retired glovemaker, died at
MS home in Winchester Mr.. Brown.
who was 70 years of age, was native
If Loudoun county He has number of
ieiatives i'll Baltimore, including his bro
her. William d. Brown. He is also the
incle of Mrs. Z c. Hollis. wife of Clerk
| If the Council Hollis.
AS Mr.. r. n. Rowzce, the engineer at
he Jenkins steam mill and elevator, in
.eesburg. was changing part of the ma
:hinery he was struck by wheel on the
1ead thrown 10 or IL feet and received
very severe injuries. His condition is
luitc serious, though not considered
critical.
Miss Eugenia Hubbard has sold her
| fine estate known as Howard Place, III
Orange county, to Mr.. w. c. Crenshaw,
Of New York, for $4,000. Mr.. Cren-
shaw has also purchased the w. {.
Graves farm, in the same section, for
| s.. 900. and the Mason farm, in the same
;oanty for S. 500 These are among the
finest farms in the State, being adapted
to both grazing purposes and the criltlva-
ton of staple crops.
The Newport News shipyard has closed
contract to build an ocean-going oil
steamer for the Saginaw Steel Steam
ship Company The vessel is to be TO-
900 tons. 400 feet long. 80 feet beam and
20 feet draft. This is the third contract
the yard has secured in two months, the
other two being for lumber and passen-
| ger steamers.
At Lynchburg, in the Circuit Court
the jury in the case of William Hall
administrators vs.. the Southern Railway
brought in a verdict of $1,000 for the
plaintiff. Hall was killed on the South
ern Railroad about year ago. In the
| first trial of the case the verdict Of
| 81 900 was set aside and new trial was
granted.
'ihe survivors of the Forty-ninth New
York Regiment will unveil monumen
On May IL, on the Bloody Angle battle
field. in Spottsylvania county. in memory
of the dead comrades Of that command
who fell in battle on that field during tn,
Civil War. The land for the site of tn,
monument has been donated by Mr. Z. L
Landram, the owner.
Mayor Beamon, of Norfolk, has mad
emphatic denial of the charges made b,
Navy Chaplain SYKES to the effect tina
| the police of that ciy had been arrestn1
| and holding without cause United State
sailors, who. after the expiration of the
| Jail sentences. had been delivered as de
serters at the hayward, where a rewarc
OF $50 each is paid for all men so deliv
cred.
AT Newport News, Edwin Hawkins
longshoreman, was knocked into the holt
Of the steamship Allegheny, sustainin,
internal injuries, which may prove fatal
A dispatch from Bristol says the re
| port that five of sheriff's posse from
tennessee had been shot and killed in
battle with Jim Wright, an outlaw, ant
his associates in Scott county, Virginia
is authoritatively denied.
1nree well-developed cases of small
pox have appeared in the Hastings an
| Griffith families, ir Cheat Neck, Monon
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