Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-06-12
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleared From All UVer
the State.

H. Day, Agnewville. $40; Levi W. Hun
man, Alexandria, SIS; Clara Jackson
Lynchburg, $I2.
| Bristol has scored an important VIC
.ory in the determine non OF the VIZ
GINA Iron. Coal and Coke Company
and the Virginia and Southwestern
Railway Company to return to brlStoi
with their general Offices on July OF
about that date. These two companie;;
are capitalized at about SI2,oooooo aflo
are doing an extensive iron, coal ano
:Oke business. A few months ago
Judge A. A. Phlegar, who was then
The general MANAGER, moved the offices
% Radiord. Citizens of Bristol re-
Gently urged the companies to return
with their general offices. This invi-
:ation has been accepted and arrange
ments are now being made to accom-
modate the Offices on their return
The upper story OF the new BurDn
Building has been leased for this pur-
| pose. The companies own consider.
able land in Bristol and probably Will
erect handsome office buildings.
Mr.. J. P. Worrell, OF Gladesboro,
well-to-do and best-known citizen OF
| Carroll county, committed suicide by
swallowing laudanum. He leaves
wife and several children. Mr.. Wor-
rcll was in the best of circumstances
financially, and stood high in the COM
munity. He was a ~-ominent Mason
and Odd Fellow, and no cause can be
assi~ned by his family for his SELF
destruction.
| II IT Nd;tcbo1t 1,u,,,ar for,,or ,,,o,,,
Der OF North Carolina Legislature and
| the head OF family of talented singers,
was found dead on the bank OF Shockoe
creek, Richmond. The body presented
a CHASTITY spectacle. During the early
hours OF morning, before life was
hardly extinct, rats had attacked the
face and hands and had mutilated the
body terribly. The left ear was en-
trely eaten away, SO clearly that knife
might have severed it from the head
He was 81 years OF age.
The reward for the capture OF escaped
murderer Graf NJ. Walk, OF Bristol,
who killed Policeman Childress on
February 7, 1908, has been fixed at
| $500, and the money has been secured.
William Currier, aged Is years, res
lQCUl vi hIDCllldllC, NlllC WOIhlIlR DIT
at sawmill, near North Garden, was
struck in the throat by shingle which
slipped from his hand and almost in
stantly killed. He leaves a widow.
Samuel Purks, of fredericksburg
employed by the Western Union Telc-
graph Company, was killed by train
on Hazel run bridge, just outside the
city. He had been digging post holes
and crossed the bridge for something.
On returning the train came rapidly
around a curve and caught him. He
was thrown 80 feet and fell under the
bridge Both legs and both arms were
broken and he was badly crushed
Death was instantaneous.
Eli Winslow. who was charged with
having fcloniously assaulted I4-year-
old Mamie Brooks, deaf and dumb, be-
came raving maniac while on trial
in the Corporation Court at Norfolk.
He was ordered sent to the Eastern
State Hospital at Petersburg for life
He had been showing signs OF insanity
for some time. 1t took four men to
hold him down in the courtroom.
The Locustdae Military Academy,
in Madison county, closed very sue
cessful session with dance.
Mrs. Jennie Jett, wife of Mr.. John
L. Jett, proprietor OF Jett's Hotel, at
Floyd, dropped dead at her home. She
was sister OF the late Judge II. T,
Dobyns.
Mrs. Porter, Sc years old, widow OF
Confederate Naval Constructor Porter,
who designed and built the Virginia,
sometimes called the Merrimac, the firsi
ironclad known to the world, is at
the point OF death in Portsmouth.
The City School Board OF Alexandra
has decided to substitute two fine
schoolrooms for Peabody Hail. Alex.
andria has now about 40 public schools
and five school buildings, one of which
was built in General Washington's time
and accommodated a free school Ell
dowed by him.
While fishing off Brown Shoals, in
the James river, about four miles above
Newport News, Thomas M. Scott, a
negro fisherman, discovered the body
OF mddle-aged negro floating in the
water. The body, which had been mu
tiated beyond recognition, was car
ried to Newport News.
c. E. Stanley and his son, while 60
ing to Church in Roanoke, were at
tackled by three employees OF the Blue
Ridge Mines, who cut Stanley in the face
and then knocked him down with a
rock. Tazewell Greasy was arrested on
a moving train, and with his two
brothers, is charged with the crime.
The effects OF Adolph Michesohn. .
the Norfolk money lender and lawyer
who went into bankruptcy recently,
were sold at auction Law books cost
ing originally S. and $40 sold for as
many cents. The whole sale did not
net enough to pay Michelsohn's cred
itors per cent. on his 81 900 liabili-
ties.
G.. H. Kent & Co., OF Kent's Store,
made a general deed of assignment for
the benefit of their creditors, naming
s. M. Sheppard as trustee. The assets
are placed at about $4,000 and the liza
bilties at about $4,000.
Jacob Schcriff, a fashionable ladies
tailor, who has the richest women OF
Richmond as his customers, was ar
rested for bigamy The warrant was
sworn out by Mrs. G. Zurow, who
claims to be his first and le~al wife.
Exports from Norfolk last month
amounted to $I,2o8,023, as against
S362IoI the same month last year.
Capt. Venable s. Hardwick, OF Rich
mond, is dead He was in his thirty,
first year and was born in Bedford
county.
The election held in Orange county
on the question of issuing bonds tor
good roads was overwhelmingly de
feated
Mcssrs. c. H. Kendrick, D. =. Oct