Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-12-11
THE OLD DOMINION.
,atest News Cleaned From All Over
the State.


Assembly in the recent election
hat less money was spent thar
ore. Many aspirants fa
ionors say they spent noth
Socialist candidates in Richm
heir party spent about $40 I'd
ng and distribution OF literatt
f. Allen, who ran for the Hon
Lunenburg sends in one item
IL for postage. The expenditures OF R
late Irvine, Of Big Stone Gap, who
vas beaten for the Senate, were the
argest given, amounting to SIo5.o7
Samuel V. Hurst, who was beaten II
Page and Rappahannock, spent $93.o2
Of which 1913 went to Girls work
.ng on circulars" Of the $33.I7 spent
by J. F. Lumsden, OF Orange, S. was
or watching for violations OF law al
three precincts. w. A. Powers, Jr., o.
Dickinson and Wise, while out cam
paigning paid IS cents for dinner ioi
himself and twice as much Tor dinner
or his horse.
Mrs. Virginia Greenlaw, widow Of
Price w. Greenlaw, died OF paralysis
1t Hollywood, her home, in Stafford
county, aged 65 years. One son-Dr
q. I. Greenlaw, of Washngton-and
:hree daughters-Mrs. Fannie Dune.
gan and Mrs. Jackson Lee, both o.
Washington, and Mrs Minnie B. Settle
Of Stafford-survive.
Mayor Riddick won the silver tee
set offered by the ladies OF St. Paul!
Catholic Church, Portsmouth, to the
most popular executive. Mayor Baird
oi Portsmouth, and Mayor Riddicl
we're the contestants, and the latte
Won, receiving 23Io votes against I7ol
:or Mayor Baird. The sum raised by
The contest aggregated $4oI.4o.
Jesse N. Russell, OF Clarkel county
lied from consumption, aged p years
He leaves II children. During the Civil
War he served in Company c. MGsby''
Rangers, and was twice severely
wounded.
A suit was instituted in LyEchbur9l
% upset the will OF George M. Jonesa
Who recently left an estate OF $780,
oo bequeathing the entire property
Nth the exception OF several small be
quests, to his wife. The complainantsI
| dozen or more sisters, brothers
1cphews and nieces, allege that Mr.
Tones several years before his death
executed a will while in good health
and sound mind. They charge that
subsequently, when incapacitated ply
'ically and mentally, he was induced
% adopt an inmate Of all orphan asylum
md that a week aiterward Mr. Jones
signature was procured to pretended
Will, in which the adopted child is made
beneficiary. A number Of Lynch
)urgs' prominent citizens are interest.
ID in this litigation. The trial OF the
suit promises to be the sensation o,
he hour.
James Gardner a well-known
Southampton county farmer, who lived
lear Cypress Bridge, has been miss
ng for nearly week. 1t is believed
hat he committed suicide by jumping
ITO the Nottoway river. After quar-
| eel with his wife last Saturday morn
ng, 1t Is reported, Gardner left homs(
With a handbag and -S-dog. Some tim
lfterward the bag was iosud on
bridge guarded by the dog The
vas dragged several times, but the y
race of the missing man found in ~
water was his hat, picked up 200 yards
below the bridge. The last time Gard.
Ter was seen alive he is said to have
old man he met on the road that
lie meant to end his life.
Recently Dale Sheppard, Bristol
roung man, confessed that he had ia.
ally shot Brainard Hall, Louisville
nan, in Bristol. The confession was
laid to have been made to save his
weetheart, Dorothy Hensley, who, to.
,ether with her mother, was in Jail
harged with the shooting. Sheppard
Mas captured after his confession and
vas sent to jail without BAIL He was
ewarded for his faithfulness when he
md the Hensley girl joined hands
through the prison bars and were unit:
ID in marriage.
Being commanded by stranger tc
hrow up hi. hands, Allen Fields, re-
pectable negro OF Sussex county, re-
:eived a charge of gunshot in his abb
iomen and fell over dying. Fields was
,n bypath leading from the Cox farm
. the Neville road, about four miles
rom Waverly, when the man accosted
him. Fields in his dying statement said
lie knew OF no motive for the crime, nor
lid he know the man who shot him.
Fields wife was nearby and narrowly
missed seeing the fatal shot. The as
;assin fed to the woods.
Charles MINIS, colored, was shot and
rstantlv killed by Aubrey Smith, col.
pred, with a pistol in Buena Vista City
The shooting occurred in livery sta
bic. where Smith was employed. Min
nj, entered and, it is said, started row
Smith gave himself up and was lodged
in Jail at Lexington for saiekeepinQ
after a preliminary trial.
Edward Lawler, 3-year-old child OF
Police Commissioner Lawler. Of Alex.
lndria, got into the medicine chest and
swallowed a preparation which con
tanned arsenic The father was at the
inc absent in Baltimore The prompt
services OF a doctor saved the child:
lie.
L. Helm, a dairyman, was held ur
near Newport News by two highway.
men. who, at the point of pistol, went
through his pockets, stealing $50.
Mayor Thornton F. Jones, of Hamp
.on, announces that, for business rea
sens, he probably will resign his Office
at the January meeting of the Towr
c. uncil.
DR.. w. A. Gordon, of Orange coun
y, lost several outbuildings by fire. in.
;olving a loss of $500, upon which there
was no insurance.
J,,,ec Armetrono Of Stafford cOiltl.