Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-12-04
THE OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned From All over
The State.

6. Hylton, $40; Anderson Ward, Jonn
A. Wise and Annie NJ. Hawpe, So each;
Woodson Hickerson and Thomas k:
Peak, $I2 each; Thos. J. Jerman and
Charles burlington, $24 each; Mason
Gaines, Sc; Adam Washington, $T2;
Ephraim Reddick and Marshall John
son, $40 each;4 Thomas Barrett, 70;
James Cuff, James Henderson and
Lydia Young, S. each; William Camp
oell, $40; Susan NJ. Burgis, $L2; Levi
Gilbert, $I7; Herbert V. Fletcher, S24;
Peter Lambert, $I2; John J. Sawyer,
sI2; Robert Snead, So; Patrick Nc
Laughln, $I2; Henry Souders, $40;
John Smith, So.
Carl Cox, son OF ]. Wilmore Cox,
81 55 F Emmeft kTiSsonY wIle they were
hunting. The shooting was accidental;
Fifty-two shots have been extracted
rom the young mans leg.
Prof. Robert Frazer, representing
he Southern Educational Commission,
addressed a large gathering at stat.
lord Courthouse on Education,
strongly urging the Improvement OF the
public schools of the State.
Claude Wolcott, young son OF c.
Wolcott, OF Fredericksburg, while play
ing with a pair of scissors, stuck one
Of the points in his eye and so injured
it that it is thought he will lose hi'
sight.
A northbound freight train collided
with two loaded cars on the Southern
Railroad, in the southern suburbs o!
Lynchburg. Engineer Swift Hooper,
Of Spencer, N. C., was thrown on the
boiler and his shoulder was dislocated'
The coored fireman was thrown
against an embankment and sustained
internal injuries. The two cars that
caused the trouble had just been push
ed from a siding. Two cars filled with
cattle were piled up on the engln and
the animals wee fearfully crushed and
bruised. and their cries and struggles
were pitiable.
The residence OF E. c. Hammer in
Lynchburg was burned Loss, abow
5000; insurance, $500.
Miss Mabel Paige, who played a
weeks engagement at the Academy, OF
Music, Danvile, was accidentally shot
in the arm with blank cartridge by
a member OF her company and pain.
full wound was inflicted by the wad and
powder. The shooting occurred1be'
tween acts.
Two stores on Washington Sqr re-
the most prominent business block lr
Suffolk, were entered by burglars. From
the hardware store OF +. l.. Folk
CO. they got a lot OF pistols. Z. I.
Jordan lost IA watches, gold pens
bracelets, spectacles and silverware.
About $500 worth OK goods was Scout
ed. Blyodhounds followed the trail to
a railroad track, where the burglars are
supposed to have boarded a freight
train.
Frank Washington, a young Stephens
City negro, was accidentally killed in .
cunning accident Washington and sew
eral companions, including Walter Gray
were hunting, when Washington came 10
range of Gray's gun. The charge nearly
tore off his head, death resulting instant
". The authorities declined TO take any
action, it being proved that Washington's
death was purely accidental
The telephone fight has reached an
acute stage in Winchester. The Onrte@
Telephone Company, which enjoys the
present monopoly, is being fought to
finish by the Southern Bell Company,
which is striving to gain admittance n
that city
Philip Alger was convicted in Il
of the murder of his brothers wife
was sentenced to Is years in the
Tertiary Alger, who is only "a
old, killed his sister-in-law on Sept
26 on Tanners Ridge, near Mari
The brother, his wife and Philip
on their way home when the she J
occurred The shooting was W.
provocation, and Alger testified -
did not remember sRyfpLc,sM
affair because he Il
time. His victim, who We
old, died almost instantly. The m
derer is an iiterate mountaineer.
wife and child sat with him during
trial
Judge S. Houston Letcher has del
the injunction asked for by Mr.. J
Sheridan to prevent the town author
from closing up Back Spring. Thu
the spring located in Lexington,
which its supply of ice is manutisl1
by Mr.. Sheridan and the watS
were pronounced CONTAINING
pertS.
Mr.. James Cummings, who
the foot of House Mountain
AGED 81 years. He was twice
and five children of the first
and four of the second survive
was the grandfather Of as CHI
had as grcat-grandchild+an'--
Mrs. Ellen Green had her hand eau
in one of the machines at the kog
Steam Laundry at FREDERICKSBURG,
her arm was drawn into the .machi
The hand was crushed and her a
broken to the elbow.
The Virginia Military Institute, viii
had suspended for 80 days owing to
existence of typhoid fever, resumed stu
les. The majority of the cadets return
during the past few days, and as far
known not one cadet will fail to- lSui
The fever has been wiped out anq,,
is no further apprehension OF its
renee. With the exception OF one
all have been discharged from the Il
oital The exception is cadet lzoTc, =
Baltimore, whose father-Dr. Lowe, is
with him.
Herbert Leith was killed by being
thrown from horse which he was tram
ing for R. H. Gray, Of North Fork.
Though crippled by the loss of both legs
in the Civil War, he was an expert
horseman. Mr., Leith was S. years old.