Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-03-21
LIVE NEWS OF THE
OLD DOMINION.
Special Condensed Dispatches From
Many Points.
BILLS PASSED BY LEGISLATURE.
ut Her Own Throat With Carving Knife
6hurch Paper Denounces Cigarettes-Epi.
emic OF Crime In Rchmond-Cut Arteries
His Wrlst-Judge George W. Ward Dead
"A Youth Disappears From Home.

Virginia pensions: Robert Killen, Sol
RS Home, $27. so; Owen Brett, Sol
RS Home, $23; Frederick Miller,
|rtsmouth, SEQ so; John Bath, Soldiers
pine, $28; John w. Taylor, Soldiers
pine, $22; John Smith, Portsmouth,
Caleb S. Miller, Portsmouth, $245o;
okter McCusker, Soldiers Home,
$22.7s; Thomas Reed, Soldiers Home,
$2I.75; Louis Weber, Fauquier Springs,
SEQ; William T. Henderson, Fincastle,
$I2; Samuel Justice, Metomkin, So:
Charles Cassen, National Soldiers
Home, Elizabeth City county, So; Mich
ael Mullady, National Soldiers Home,
Elizabeth City county, So.
Among the bills passed by the Legisla-
ture were the following:
To incorporate the Benevolent Aid and
Relief Association of Virginia.
To incorporate the Catawba Valley
Railway and Mining Company.
To authorize the city of Frederlcks-
burg to determine methods of raising
expenses for building sewers.
To amend act incorporating Onancock
and Drummondtown Electric Railway,
Light and Power Company.
To incorporate Norfolk and Lake
Drummond Railway Company
To incorporate the Portsmouth and
Suffolk Rapid Transit Company.
To incorporate Norfolk County Indus
trial Company.
To incorporate the Norfolk, Ports
mouth and Berkeley Tunnel Company.
To incorporate the Lick Creek and
Lake Erie Railroad Company.
Prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of liquors in Tazewell, Russell, Buchan-
all and Dickinson counties.
To amend act making husband and
wife competent witnesses for and against
each other.
To authorize the Board Of Supervis-
ors of the counties and the councils of
the cities and towns of the Common
wealth to subscribe to the capital stock
of the Jamestown Exposition Company.
To amend and re-enact Section I and
TO repeal Section of an act entitled can
act to provide for the registration of any
person, being a resident Of the State,
who desires to take or catch oysters for
sale or planting from the natural rocks
or shoals on the eastern or ocean side
of Accomac and Northampton counties"
To authorize the City Council of
Staunton, Va, to issue and sell bonds
not exceeding $I25ooo
To authorize the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities to
erect wharf at Jamestown.
Mrs. o. L. Benson is in a critical
condition at the hospital in Petersburg
as result of an attempt to take her own
life by cutting her throat with a carving
knife. She was preparing breakfast for
her husband, and left him for moment
to go into an adjoining room. When
her husband entered it a few minutes
later the ghastly sight of his wife in
pool of her own blood met his eyes.
While physicians were attending the
wound Mrs. Benson begged them to save
her life. She said it seemed like dream,
and she could not understand why she
attempted to take her own life. PhySi-
clans do not think she can recover.
The Southern Churchman, which is the
organ of the Virginia Episcopal Associa-
ton, has caused much comment by the
editorial assertion that the harm being
done by cigarettes is as great as that
accomplished by the liquor traffic. II
calls vigorously for some action to rem.
edy an evil which is sapping the strength
of the boys of the country. The Church
man is an influential paper, and its re.
marks are likely to cause crusade
against cigarette smoking by boys.
The chief of police of Richmond has
issued warning to the people not to &C
into certain sections of the city after
dark. This is due to an epidemic OF
hold-ups and murders of late. So serious
has the situation become that move
ment is on foot to increase considerably
the police force, which now numbers Ioo
men. Most of the trouble has occurred
in sections where liquor dives abound,
and the judge of the Hastings Court has
announced that licenses will be granted
in the future only to respectable people.
Governor Montague has granted the
following conditional pardons: Robert
Montgomery, sentenced from the County
Court of Patrick, for murder in the sec.
ond degree, to five years in the peniten-
tiary; Madison Montgomery, sentenced
10 FIVE years in the penitentiary, from the
County Court of Patrick, for murder in
the second degree; Walter Gillespie, sem
fenced from the County Court of Smythe
to six years in the penitentiary for as
sault
Frank Jackson, formerly of Roanoke,
but now resident of Bluefeld, attempt
ed suicide in Roanoke by opening the ar
teries of his wrist with penknfe. Sur
gical attention was secured and his life
saved Jackson is an insurance man and
was in that business when a resident of
Roanoke. He is married.
Judge George w. Ward one of the
leading members of the Winchester bar,
died in that city of heart failure. He was
a son of Col. Daniel Ward, a soldier in
the War of 1872, and was born in Cul-
pepper county, Va, 81 years ago.
A charter was granted to the Virginia
Abattoir Company to conduct its bust
ness in HenricO county, adjacent to Rich.
mond. The maximum capital stock is
100000, and the business is to buy, sell
and STAY the stock w. S. Forbes, Of
Richmond, is president
William Ware drove his horse at
tached to a buggy into the Rappahan-
mock river at Fredericksburg to wash the
wheels The current turned the vehicle
over and the horse was swept from his
feet and drowned. The horse and buggy
foated down the swift stream. Ware
swan ashore.
Ten thousand dollars worth of dia-
monds supposed to have been lost when
the Atlantic Hotel, Norfolk, was de-
stroyed by fire six weeks ago, were found
in the ruins Saturday. The gems are
The property of Mrs. w. J. Donald, of
Norfolk.