Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-04-24
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the State.

Mathews. Scottsville. So Henry i.
Jackson. National Soldiers Home,
Kennedy. Norfolk, So; Samuel Murphy,
National Soldiers Home, Ellza6etr
City county. S.; Stephen Malta, Ma
tional Soldiers Home. Elizabeth CITY
county, $I2 James n. Bordine, Green
dale. $Io Davis Forbes. Norfolk. 20
James Prcnderville, National Soldiers
Home, S. Leopold Won Wulffen, Ma
tional Soldiers Home, $I2: 'Patrlcs
Lcahy. National Soldiers Home, IS
Widow-Esther Norris, Alfonso, 81
Thomas Daily. $40; William Cox. So
National Soldiers Home, Elizabeth
City county; Margaret A. Dunnlng
Norfolk. S.: Elizabeth A. Copeland
West End, So Mary + Andrews, Pu
laski, $I2
F. Kaminsky. OF Berkeley. who suct
the Norfolk Railway and Light Com.
pany for $1,000 damages because he was
struck by live wire, was awarded
verdict OF ST..
\ movement is on foot to have Bish-
Op \. Coke Smith, row residing III
Charlotte, n. C., move to Norfolk a
fund is being raised to purchase a rest
dence and present it to him. Bishop
Smith was formerly pastor of the Ep-
worth Methodist Episcopal Church If
Norfolk.
Many improvements have recently
been made in the Seaboard Air Line
shops at Portsmouth. Machinery which
doubles the comprcssed-air capacity o.
the shops has been installed.
The Jury i'll the case OF George NJ
Pecd, administrator, against the Ports
mouth Street Railway for $4,000 dan'
ages on account Of the death OF his
father, Leroy NJ. Peed, awarded him
verdict of $500
Ex-Mayor David Edmondson, OF
Midtown, charged with arson, was &C
quilted in the County Court at Win.
chester When the verdict was render.
ed there was an uproar that continued
Tor several minutes. Hundreds Of per
sons Kissed a man who interrupted At
torney Holmes Boyd. Jr, during his
argumnet to the jury by shouting that
the attorneys remarks were untrue:
EdmondSon was admitted to 5000 bal
pending the disposition Of other indict-
mens against him for arson. Albert
Rhodes, the principal witness, confess.
ed that EdmondsOn had paid him to
burn Charles L. Edmondson's property
because the latter had talked about Da'
vid EdmondSons relations with Mrs.
Lucy Maltcsta. This woman and her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Wiley,
were Jointly indicted with Edmondson,
an arson conspiracy being alleged, but
all the indictments, it is thought, viii
now be quashed.
Edward /. Joyner. OF Windsor has
filed petition i'll bankruptcy. The la
bilities are 5000.
While entering St. Paul's Catholic
Church, Portsmouth, Mrs. Alex. Zrena
Gray fell and fractured her hip.
The steamer Guide, owned by Han
cock & Dewey, of North Carolina, was
libeled by the Old Dominion Steamship
Company at Norfolk for $3oo3, on &C
count Of repairs made while the steamer
was under charter by the libellant.
Miss Virgie Print, an employc OF the
Cuba Rica Cigar Company, at Win
chester. fell through a shaft at the fac
tory. a distance OF two stories, and sus-
tanned serious and perhaps fatal it,
iurieS.
Mr.. r. +. Richardson, merchant OF
New Kent county. has discovered on
his lot at TalleySville an oil well which.
it is believed, will develop into a valu-
able property.
An unusual case OF sisterly devotion
has come to light in the Mary Wash
irgton Hospital, Fredericksburg. Miss
Carrie Sale, OF King George county,
permitted a quantity of skin to be taken
from her arm to be used in order to
save the arm OF her young brother
which had been badly torn by the &C
cidcntal discharge OF gun. The ply.
sicians had decided that the arm could
not be saved except by migrating q
quantity of healthy skin from the arm
Of another person. The recovery OF
the youth is now assured.
Brstors fine new union passenger
station provided by the Norfolk and
Western Railway Company was opened
to the public ,,.,r
Prof. Josephus Hopwood, OF Milf
gan College, Tennessee, has practically
completed arrangements Tor the pur
chase OF the property OF the West
I.ynchburg Hotel and 70 acres OF land
which will be used for the establishment
OF coeducational institution. to BE-
known as the Virginia Christian Col
! Iege. Professor Hopwood pays SIj'
300 for the hotel, which i'll the boom
days cost about 100000. The college
will be ready to open for next season
Miss Matte P. GriSncr, Io-year-olc
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas w
Grisner. of Stanton, and Mr.. RALPH
| w. Nickel, OF Sink Grove, w. Va.
went to Washington, and before any
| one knew their whereabouts were mar
ried. They arrived in Stanton Tue,
day night, and Wednesday MIR. Nick
| ellis fellow-studentS OF Dunsmore Bust
ness College, serenaded him in granc
style.
The Senate Finance Committee de
cided by majority Of one VOC t.
favorably report the bill appropriatine
100000 for the Jamestown Exposition
Virginia lawmakers are preparing &c
forestall any danger OF merger by plac
inc a section i'll the corporation meas
IRE to prohibit the merging OF an!
railroads or other transportation line'
in this State where they are IN com
petition or have tho same terminals Ir
Virginia.
Governor Montague signed the gen
oral revenue law. which includes the
Mann liquor section; It IS the mos
weeping step toward prohibition ever
taken in this State. The bill will. it 1;
claimed, abolish practically all saloons
in the counties and i'll towns OF les;
than 500 population.
An appropriation Of 100000 for the