Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-05-30
LIVE NEWS OF THE
OLD DOMINION.
Latest Happenings Cleaned From All
Over the State.
THE GREAT COUNCIL OF RED MEN.
Pensions Granted Vlrglnians-Johr Miner
Assaulted and Beaten to Death by Thomas
Corbln - Small Boy MangIed - Business
Part Of the Village Of Clover Destroyed
by Flre-Electlons

dOeln lily, 9lZ. OT1RlIldl-O"0H DuinNo
Wy, National Soldiers Home, Elizabeth
City, S. Increase, Restoration, Reissue,
etc.-Matthew Sullivan, National Sol
diers' Home, Elizabeth City, $40; James
Dorton, Masons Store, $40. Original
Pleasant Hawkins, Greendale, So; VIM.
H. Crocker, Boxelder, So. War with
Spain-Paul S. Evans, Alexandria, $I7i
| Joseph F. Smith, PhoebuS, SID. In
crease, Restoration, Reissue, etc.-JoS-
! eph H. Gardner, National Military Home
Elizabeth City, $Io
Following are the latest results of the
recent municipal elections in Virginia
cities and towns AT Fredericksburg the
Democrats made a clean sweep. About
5000 votes were polled. Officers were
elected as follows: Mayor, J. H. Clutch
ms; City Sergeant, F. R. Tillett; Com.
missioner of the Revenue, w. F. Bryant;
Treasurer, w. M. Turner; Common
wealth's Attorney Everett Perkins;
| Clerk of the Courts, S. S. Brooks. The
Democrats elected 8 out of 10 Council
men. AT Roanoke w. c. Graicen (Rep.)
elected Mayor over R. T. Barton
| (Dem.) Harry R. Kern (Rep) Com
monwealth's Attorney. The Republicans
elected one Councilman, making the next
| Council stand Democrats and a Repub-
| lcans. At Winchester Mayor M. G. Will
| lis was reelected Mayor by majority Of
81 out of LOO votes cast. All the pres
ent Councilmen were reelected except
| W. E. Bradley, who was defeated by nine
votes At Leesburg, B. V. White was
elected Mayor by majority of IS over
| c. F. Harmon B. w. Franklin was re-
| elected Recorder and most of the old
| Counclmen were reelected.
The Great Council, Improved Order
| of Red Men, adjourned at Roanoke, to
meet next year in Fredericksburg. The
| following officers were elected and in
stalled: A. M. Tennis, great sachem;
William A. Walden, great senior saga.
more; David Johnson, great junior saga
more; S. S. See, great prophet; Corne-
Illus S. Wells, great chief of records; H.
A. Southall, great keeper of wampum;
F. w. Moore. great Sannip; J. w.
Brown, great Mishinewa; S. w. Caugh-
ley, great guard of wigwam; J. S. Ham
ilton, great guard of forest; R. W. Jones,
D. G. Calyer, and ]. A. Brown, great
trustees; ]. w. Cherry Charles J.. Phil
lips, S. S. See, Ira T. Halt E. E. Davis,
representatives to the great Council Of
the United States.
A fire almost destroyed the town of
Clover, Halifax county The loss is
estimated at from $I75.ooo to 100000.
Eleven stores, five tobacco prize houses,
four dwellings and hotel were de-
stroyed. The fire started in the factory
of Payne & Gregory. The loss is par
tally covered by insurance. The entire
business part of the village was de-
stroyed, not store being left standing.
The fire broke out at $50 o'clock in the
morning and spread rapidly sweeping
everything in its wake from Payne &
Gregory's factory out to the Southern
Railroad depot Clover is prosperous
village in the northeast part of Hall
fax, on the Southern Railroad. The chief
business was the manufacture and sale Of
loose tobacco.
Thomas Corbin, young railroad man,
assaulted and beat the life out Of John
Millner, young man about Fl years old,
in Danville. 1t is stated that the assault
was provoked by Milner speaking to
one or two women with whom Corbin
was walking near the race track Mill
ner, it is alleged, assumed that the
women were common characters, and
when the one to whom he spoke failed
to make any reply he remarked that she
seemed not to know him. Then Corbin
struck him, knocked him down and beat
him until life was extinct All parties
are said to have been under the influence
of intoxicants.
| The Capitol Commission met and &C
cepted the consolidated plans of Frye &
| Chesterman and Nolan & Baskerville
| for the changes to the State House. The
commission also adopted resolutions to
| the effect that the work on the Capitol
is to be done by union labor.
The body of a man supposed to be
| Conductor Z. A. Whitaker, who was
drowned near Lynchburg last December,
was found in the river at Richmond The
widow of Conductor Whitaker married
Mr.. Francisco in New York few days
ago.
The contract for the construction of
| the belt line of the Norfolk and Western
| and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroads
at Glasgow, which includes fill of 5000
yards, has been let to Mr.. w. G. Mat
hews, of that place.
Plans are being perfected by the To-
bacco Association of TIE United States
to bring from the North independent
insurance companies to compete with the
Southern Tariff Association. The to-
bacco men in the South claim that the
rates of the latter are excessive.
After offering for sale by public auc-
ton 1000 acres and the hotels located
thereon at Natural Bridge, the same was
withdrawn by the commissioners, due to
no bidders being present.
Henry Ganzet, one of the best-known
painters in Richmond is dead, aged 70
| years.
Rev. DR.. Buckner, president Of King
College, Bristol has written letter to
the Falling Spring Presbyterian congre-
CATION, of Rockbridge, indicating that
the call recently extended to him will re-
ceive favorable consideration.
The keel of the new battleship Vir-
ginia has been laid at the Newport News
| shipyard. and work on the warship will
now proceed without interruption as
rapidly as men can be put on 1t.
After a three days session in Buena
Vista the Southern Conference of the
Lutheran Synod of Virginia adjourned
last evening.
Trixey Meyer, the Io-year-old son of
Mrs. Fannie K. Meyer, was run over by
a Chesapeake and Ohio yard engine at
Stanton and his left leg and left arm
were cut off,