Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-10-02
THE OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned From All 0ve'
the State.

son, So; Dennis Simpson, $50; FRANK
Smith, 81; James R. Patton, 50; James
White, So; Isaac c. Buck, $I2; minol
of James McGarvey, $40; jeremiah
Toomey, $8; Richard Robertson. $40
! John w. Davis, S.; Cornelius Dabney
SIC; Granville Thomas Turner, $40
Henry Williams, So; Samuel Harvey
$40; Louis Winter, So; Joseph A. Tai
ley, So; James Mackey, $40; Johr
Abrahams, $40.
At 7.3o a. m, near Hickory Hill
two Southern Railway freight trains-
the second section OF No IL and daT
BILE header No. 73-collded. A confu'
sion in orders was the cause. Two Ell
gines rolled down 3o-foot embank.
ment, while the third was turned across
the track. The contents of eight bo,
ears were strewn broadcast. r. G. Dill
lard, of Tye river, was caught under
the train and seriously injured. Brake,
man w. C. Smith, of Alexandria, hai
his back twisted.
Fire destroyed the grocery of J. Fl
Leonard, of Bristol, and a boarding
house in the second story OF the sam,
building, entailing loss of $1,000, par
tally insured. Mrs. Leonard ant
others in the upper story narrowly es'
capped with their lives. Some OF them
were cut off from the stairway ant
forced to jump from the upper win
| dOws before the fire department ar
| rived
A quantity of money was burned.
Mr.. William Whiteman, a bridge
| builder at work on the Southern Rail
way bridges at Riverton, fell from til:
! bridge to the bank of the river, 40 feet
below, sustaining probably serious in
| jury. DR.. Hansbrough was called and
examined the injured man. He report
ed that several bones were broken and
there had been a slight conclusion Of
the brain. Mr.. Whiteman was taken
10 Strasburg.
The kitchen and the rear OF the
Gladstone Hotel, Norfolk, were burn
ed, with a loss Of $1,000. The house
was full of guests, but they all got out
safely. Members OF three theatrical
companies were stopping at the hotel
but they were playing at the time and
knew nothing of the fire. Sailors on
shore leave went through the build
ing to awaken and assist the guests.
The Newport News Chamber Of
Commerce held an enthusiastic mass.
meeting in behalf of the jamestown
Exposition, and $4,000 of the capital
stock OF the company was subscribed.
The third fair Of the Southwest Nir-
ginia Agricultural and Livestock As
ISOLATION will be held at Radford October
70, Id, Is ard TO- For cattle $1,000 will
be given in premiums, $500 for racing.
$1,000 for shorthorns, an equal amount
on Herefords and smaller sums or
Angus cattle, sheep, swine, agricultural
and horticultural products. A move is
on foot to make the District fair an in
ter-Statc event The president is ex-
Gov. J. Hoge Tyler, of Radford: first
ice-presidcnt and general manager,
Major John T. Cowan, of Montgomery;
second vice-president, J. r. K. Bell, OF
Pulaski; treasurercr, Frank Cassell. OF
Radford, and secretary H. c. Tyler, OF
Radford.
In the $4,000 suit of D. F. Taylors
administrators VS.. the Lynchburg Trac-
lion and Light Company the jury gave
verdict of $1,000. Taylor was killed
while attending boiler at Hancock
Bros factory and it was claimed that
his death was caused by an electric
shock from defective wiring. The case
will probably be appealed.
Burglars broke into the depot at Rust.
burg. They broke open the safe, but all
hey secured was razor and razor
;trop. The safe had, been broken open
several times previously and the agent
makes it rule to take all his cash hons
with him.
The electric wiring in the Capitol
building has been pronounced defective
by both an expert of the Southeastern
Tariff Association and City Electrician
Thompson, and companies carrying in
,urance on the building laid the reports
before Secretary of the Commonwealth
Eggleston. with the formal request that
the defects be remedied in 60 days or
The matter of withdrawing the policies
will be- considered.
Engineer Chas. w. Tucker, of Ports.
mouth, was injured in a head-on coils
ion on the Seaboard Air Line railway at
Seaboard, a small station near Weldon
N. C. A north-bound freight train ran
into a south-bound train of empty pas
scnger cars going for an excursion party
No one except the engineer was hurt
but several hours were required to clear
the track of wrecked cars.
Riley T. Booth, young man OF
Wears, Montgomery county, who was
employed as machinist in the Big -Four
shops at Columbus, Ohio, was killed by
being run down by an engine III the
yard.
The Mayor of Alexandria fined Alfred
Strobel $50 for cutting Trolleyman
Frank Pulen on the electric train. he
also fined a lad named William Ohlet
SEQ for throwing stones at an electric
car conductor.
A telegram was received here an
bouncing the death at Cameron. in
Wise county, of w. S. Rhodes, who at
.cmpted suicide last Thursday. Rhodes
Who was formerly merchant, shot
himself with a Winchester rifle. 1t
S not known why he committed sui'
tide. though it is thought to have been
due to the fact that his property had
been advertised for sale. Rhodes had
been travelling for a jewelry house tor
year or two.
A collision occurred on the log road
of the Otter Creek Lumber Company
between an engine and hand car near
Hendricks. One Italian was killed and
another injured.
The Mountain Top Hotel, on: the
Blue Ridge Mountains, near Alton
NoIeo, county has been DESTROYED by