Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
THE OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned From All over
the State.

Pensions granted Virginians;-Ver-
non c. Harris, Norfolk, SO war WIN
SPAIN; Horace Savage, CHESAPEAKE,
$40; Dennis Battle, Portsmouth, 80;
Alfred Giddngs. Pungoteague, SI2;
Augustus Wise, NassauwadoX. 50; Dan
iel Tucker, Whitestone, So; Owen
Hughes, National Military Home.
Elizabeth City, ST.; David Chambers:
Bellehaven. So; Edwin Prescott, Big
stone Gap, So; Michael McGinnls, Ma
tional Military Home, Elizabeth lily.
Sc; Shryer Slower, Morrisvile, $24;
Joseph J. w. Pinnell, Stapleton Mills
$I2 (Mexican WARP.
Thomas Jefferson, a colored porter al
the general Offices OF the CHESAPEAKE;
and Ohio Railroad in Richmond, iel
from a thrid-Story window while al
work. The negro dropped distance OF
90 feet, head first. He was taken TO
hospital, where it was ascertalned thai
he had sustained only slight fracture
OF the skull. The physicians there De-
ieve he will recover.
The case OF John w. BauSerman
against Lane Brothers & Co., IN the
Circuit Court at Woodstock, was con
cluded and given to the jury, who rem
dered a verdict OF $3.50 damages in Ia
vor OF the plaintiff.
Mr.. Charles E. Davis and others Will
build large canning factory on inc
Potomac river in King George county,
which will be conducted by the Didc
Canning Company. Three hundred
acres in tomatoes are now being con-
tracted for.
The rule placing Rockbridge county
within the district in cattle quarantine
due to the Texas cattle fever has,
through the appeal OF the County Su,
pervisors to Virginia's Senator's and
Congressman Flood, been changed anG
the embargo removed.
The Frances McChesney farm, con
tanning 328 acres OF choice land, IN the
vicinity of Brownsburg, has been sold
by the executor OF the w. b. Mottet'
estate, F. S. Mcclure, to J. W. Church
man and 7. c. Dikinson, OF Augusta
county, and J. H. Mcclure for $4,000
Mr.. ]. A. Conner, aged 70 years, who
lived near Rockbridge Baths, died az
his home Wednesday. He served
Throughout the Civil War as a member
of the Rockbridge Battery, and was
twice wounded--in the arm at the pattle
OF Sharpsburg, and in the thigh at tne
battle OF Gettysburg, where he was tax
en- prisoner and kept nine months IN
Point Lookout prison. he aiterWailu
enlisted at the close OF the Civi! war
Ia the United States Regular Army. and
for nine months was member OF Com'
pany Z. First United States Infantry
and saw active service on the tronfie'
in the Northwest during an Indian out
break there. Mr.. Conner was pension
ed for his services. He is survived by
a widow and 10 children.
C. M. Luster, a well-dressed travel
ing man, IS years OF age, who repre-,
sented a West Virginia inStallment
house. was shot dead at Abingdon by
a negro woman named Baler, it is be,
lieved. Two shots took effect, the fatal
one er&ering his stomach. When dis
covered the mans body lay in the door
way of the humble cabin home, with
one glove off. and the supposed muir
derer has made her escape. The pre-.
srpmtion is that the shooting followed
a dispute about the womanS account
Mr.. David Crone, the Oldest man III
Winchester, died Unexpectedly after a
brief illness of pneumonia. aged %
years. Until the day of his fatal illness
he was in robust health, and could DO
as much hard work on the farm as a
young man. He was native OF YORK
county, Pennsylvania, and came here
in 1870.
A serious accident befell MIR. John
Chamblin, one of the propreitors OF the
Hamilton Touring mills, LeesDurg.
While standing on a stepladder, which
was placed between two large revol,y-
ing wheels, adjusting some betting, the
ladder tilted and he was thrown against
one OF the wheels. He was hurled
acajnst.,a. grain elevator and a-deep