Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-11-13
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SI2; Charles Fisher, So; Joseph II
Mann, So; Augustus Stone, SI2; geo
W. Brown, So; John Harmon Sloi
Henry Powell, So; Agatha Evans, SI2
George Savage, So; Frank +. kelly
$40; John Coates, So.
"No developments; deny enphatlcally
all rumors my son is YET missing CIV
there is no clue to his whereabouts, wa!
what Dr. J. S. Wentz said at briStol
He is the father of Edward l.. Weiltz
who disappeared from the mountains
near Big Stone Gap four weeks ago las
Wednesday. The rumors CURRENT ina
the kidnappers were holding the young
man until a ransom ri 100000 was pa'c
them are most -efnphatically denied, no'
oulr by the father, but by others closely
allied with the Virginia Coal and Iron
Company and the Stone lGa.) Coke allo
Coal Company, in which the missing MAP
has large interest.
The Bristol Iron Furnace las beer
closed for extensive repairs, which VIII
cost $4,000
The machinsts of Bristol have organ
lied and are now part OF the Macni'F
lists Union OF the United States.
The firm of Coleman & Johnson al
Warsaw. has made an assignment tor inc
benefit of its creditors The cause o.
the failure is attributed to the loss OF
most of the canned tomatoes put UP oy
the firm this season. The tomatoes were
not sufficiently ripened.
Full official returns from the election
in Stafford county show majority OF
onlv four for H. G.. Cheslcy. Republican
at present Treasurer of Stafford county
against w. B. Reamey, the Democratic
nominee 1t is said that a contest WI"
be made.
The reunion of the survivors OF Ma
homes Brigade, who made the famous
charge at the battle Of the Crater on July
40 1864, when the fiercest hand-to-Rano
fight of the Civil War took place, VA
held OF the Crater battlefield which Is
lust outside of Petersburgi The parade
of the veterans and military and tlre de-
partment through the principal streets
was witnessed by several THOUSAND, PEG
pie, and the stores and private dwellings,
were beautifully decorated with flags and
bunting The banks and schools were
closed and business was practically Sus'
pended.
A suit for 5000 has been instituted
against the Lynchburg Telephone, Com,
pany by Franz; Booker. 1t is claimed
that a defective wire OF the company
caused Booker to be so badly burned
that he had to have part OF one hand
amputated.
An enthusiastic meeting was held III
Hampton in behalf of the Jamestown
Exposition. Addresses were made by
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, Congressman Harry
L. Maynard and others.
Charges were filed with Mayor Moss,
Of Newport News, against Chief OF the
Fire Department w. K. Stow, who Is
charged with gross neglect of duty and
misconduct. 1t is alleged that Stow
made an unprovoked attack upon Pai.
mer billiard, well-known young man"
at a fire recently.
Samuel Z. Smith, an old resident OF
Port Norfolk, fell from his wagon near
his home, and when assistance arrived
was dead, his neck being broken. lie
was GO years old, and had suffered from
asthma for many years. But the au'
topsy showed that the fall from the waS'
on was due to apaplexy.
Owing to compulsory vaccination or
dcrs being issued by the Board of Health,
and the sending out of DR.. Norman and
DR.. Webb, accompaniedby poilr..ee1r--
ficer, a great commotion has been stirred
up in Belmont, where the physicians are
now vaccinating the children in the pub
lie schools. Many patrons of the inst
tuition visited the schools and took their
children home. Several children are said
to have tainted while undergoing the or.
deal, and many had TO be held in order
that their arms might be barred for vac.
cination. Patrons of the school are in
rebellious mood.
During the year 1910 John Trent. the'
a young man, left his home in AmeLc@
county, Virginia, and went to <1ickmar
county, Kentucky, to make his home
Fridayhe arrived in Petersburg OH a visit
to his brother, George w. Trent, whom
he had not seen before in more thar
81 years. The two aged brothers EN-
braced each other and the meeting be-
tween them was affecting. John Trent
is about 70 years of age
The Commissioners of Elections Ct
Dinwiddie county met at the County
Courthouse and canvassed the returns o.
last Tuesdays election The returns
give T. f. Clark (Dem.), for the House
Of Delegates, II majority over hi; op.
ponent, J. E. Young. Clark is all cx.
member of the Legislature.
. Further evidences have developed &c
show that Lillian Shaw, the young mu.
latto woman whose body was found H.
the mountains of Johnson county, was
murdered. 1t appears that she was slair
three miles from the spot where hei
charred body was found under partially
burned log heap. Two men tied the
corpse on a rail and carried It through
the mountains to the secluded spot where
it was found. The rail having broker
in twain, the men cut pole and attached
the body to it, carrying it thus 10 the
fire that was to consume it.
James Daley, a resident Of the Dis.
trict of Columbia, while at work OH the
cornicc of the new postoficc addition
at Alexandria, fell from the caves 10 The
ground and was fatally hurt
William P. Ward, a well-known rail.
road contractor, was struck by an en-.
CINE on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail -
road at Lynchburg and received injuries
that resulted in his death Mr.. War was
examining piece of track which nc had
Just constructed, and in the thick fos
Of the morning. failed to see the ap.
preaching train. He was q son of the