Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-10-09
THE OLD DOMINION.
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The State.

Hamell Jones, $40; EllZaDetn n. DlOW"'
SIS; Daniel Williams, So; William lay
lor, $I2; Dennis Simpson, $50; Henry
r. Robinson, $I2; George B. Bell, 50;
Charles Sturgis, $I2; James II. Brown,
William Heidler and Ellen Linsley,
each So; Richard Booker, ST. Adam
Patterson, $I2; George White So;
Henry Neaves, So; Johnson M. .Spen-
Ger, $I4; Joseph Johnson, Solomon
Pippin, So each.
Professor Fessenden, the wireless tel
egraph expert, of Norfolk, who is test
ing his system on that coast, reports
that he is meeting with success. Pro.
lessor Fessenden has stations at Old
Point, Cape Henry and Willoughby
Spit in working order, and is making
daily tests of the Fessenden system.
The jail OF Princess Anne county is
closed. The only man who was in jail
was discharged two days ago. Judge
B. D. White began the October term
of the Princess Anne County Court
Monday, but there was only one case
to come tip during the term, that being
an indictment against Fletcher Dudley
colored, charged with manning.
John S. Woodrum, all apple grower
in the Bent Mountain section of Roam
oke county, sold his pippn apple crop
on the trees for $4,000. A number OF
the Roanoke farmers have sold their
crops at prices ranging from $1,000 to
$4,000. The shipments from Roanoke
| so far this season have been heavier
than ever before known.
II d. Il ..,tiar,,
S. A., commanded by Capt. c. P. Sum.
neral, and consisting Of no men and
I26 horses, which started on a march
September from Chickamauga to
Fort Myer, arrived at Salem, having
travelled a distance OF 43o miles. The
soldiers are giving exhibitions OF horse
manshp along the line OF march and
are being handsomely entertained By
the citizens.
Mr.. R. f. Clark, a well-known farmer
of Stafford county, was killed by fast
train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad, near his home,
Mr.. Clark had been experimenting the
cutting of corn in a field on the oppo-
site side of the railroad from his horne
and had gone to dinner. Returning, ne
stopped on the track to notice the line
men stringing telegraph wires by the
side of the road. Apparently he did not
notice the approach of the train, his
back being toward it. A lineman called
to him, but just as he turned he was
struck with great force and thrown &c
feet His skull was crushed and an arm
and leg broken. He was not deaf and
it is mystery why he did not get out
of the way of the train. Mr.. Clark /:
survived by widow and three children
AT Pocahontas the I3-ycar-old daugh
ter of William Frazer fell from fence
and apparently soon recovered. Late IN
the afternoon, while playing with some
other children. the little girl was seized
with commissions and died within i've
| minutes.
Clarence Smith, aged 10 years, son
of John Smith, OF Narrows, was IN
stantly killed on the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad while coupling cars at
Radford.
R. T. Knox & Brother, of Fredericks-
burg, have in their possession a curious
war relic found on the Bloody Angle
battlefield, in SpottSylvania county. This
consists of two bullets welded together
which met in midair while flying IN op-
posite directions. One is supposed to be
a Confederate bullet and the other
Federal. Mr.. E. L. Landram, who re-
sides on the Bloody Angle farm, has
three bullets welded together, two hav-
ing met and a third having struck at an
angle at the same time.
On the windows of FL Salem avenue,
Roanoke, are the letters reading "Nlcks
Place" which is a saloon owned by Nick
Gill. About o'clock the other evening
Kate Hill entered and disputed posses
sion with the owner. She began smash
ing bottles in the most approved Carrie
Nation style, when Policeman Hancock
was sent for. After a desperate strug-
gle with the woman, who weighs 200
pounds, she was finally overcome and
hustled into a patrol wagon and taken
to Jail.
Brainard Hall, a construction fore
man for the Louisville Bridge and Iron
Company, who has been on a visit to
relatives ir East Tennessee, lies in a
critical condition as the result of all at
tempt to assassinate him in Bristol at
3 o'clock the other morning. He was
Shot in the back. His comprehension
ert Oliver and Charles o Brlen-were
arrested, but were later released.
The number of hogsheads of tobacco
inspected in Petersburg for the tobacco
year ended on October I, 1903 was 1904;
on hand, inspected, 2o4 hogsheadS; on
hand for inspection, 90; sales of loose
tobacco o,7I6735 pounds; IooI-I0o2,
1868 hogsheads were inspected; sales Of
loose tobacco were ooo6S27 pounds.
Prof. Samuel Ellis, formerly of King
George county, was paralyzed recently
at his home in Tiburon, Cal. Mr.. Rich
ard Ellis, brother of Professor Ellis,
died in King George county a short time
ago at the advanced age of 80 years.
Governor Montague has appointed w.
H. Gaines, of Warrenton, delegate tc
the National Farmers Congress, which
is to meet at Niagara Falls.
The Orthodox Jews of Petersburg
held a meeting and further considered
plans for the building OF $4,000 SYN
agogue in that city.
An association to be known as the
Northern Neck immigration Associa-
ton was organized at Montross with
Judge R. H. Beale as temporary chair
man and w. T. Mayo secretary. a
large number Of members were enroll
ed. The meeting was addressed by
Messrs. Walker, Crabbe, Horncr,
Mayo, Davis and others.
Arthur Thompson, son of the late
Hugh Thompson, died suddenly at his
residence, near Hillsboro, Loudour
county, from heart failure, aged about
| Al wears He is survived by a widow