Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-04-17
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All oVe'
the State.

nOmaS X. HICKS, 9lZ, anu
Bacon, $I7, all at National Soldiers
Home, Elizabeth City county; jane
Berkeley, $I2; Herman Schcibe $40;
both OF National Soldiers Home, Ellz'
abeth City county; Henrietta v west
Onancock, $I2; Daniel McGowan, DOL
1iers' Home. Elizabeth City county
So: Levin Buxter, Soldiers Home
Elizabeth City county, $I2; Nancy CoT'
nick, Norfolk, So; minors 81 Daniel
Reedy (War with SPAIN. PortsmoiuetHH
SIC; Isaac N. Swatz. Broadway 20
John L. Ellison, Chatham, SI2; Lean.
der Gilbert, Dryden, $40; homa;
Daily. $40; William Cox. So, Nationa
Soldiers Home, Elizabeth City county
Margaret A. Dunning Norfolk, %
Elizabeth A. Copeland, West End, 20
Major Alexander Quail, Of Iowa, ant
his bride. who was Mrs. Maggie Rawl
ings, of Spottsylvana, are now on an eN'
tended bridal trip North. This marriage
occurred few days ago at the home OF
the bride, and the courtship Leading u[
to it was most romantic. Major Quail
while in Fredericksburg last year, saw
the photograph of Mrs. Rawlings, anc
when he returned home he wrote to her
This led to correspondence, which cul'
minated in their marriage at their flrsi
meeting. Major Quail is man of con
siderable means and his bride is an ac'
complished lady. They will for the pres
ent reside at Spottsylvania Courthouse
A son of Mr.. Edgar Goodrich, OF
Fredericksburg, had his leg broken ant
his foot badly mashed by being caught II
a pile of rolling railroad ties on which
he was sitting
Former Mayor Davis Edmondson
Mrs. Lucy Maltester and Albert Rhodes
of Middletown, were held on II addl
tional indictments, charging arson ant
robbery, by special grand jury in thu
County Court Edmondson and Rhode!
are under indictment for burning Ed
mondsons property to secure the insur
ance. These latest indictments charge
that Edmondson. through revenge, hirec
Rhodes to burn other valuable business
property after robbing it, and that the
Maltester woman acted as their fence.
Both houses of the Virginia Legisla-
ture agreed on a bill to prevent child
labor in factories and it was sent to The
Governor for his signature, which will
make it law of the State. The bill a:
agreed upon. is practically the Lyl lie bill
the House receding from its princlpa
amendments. 1t provides that no chic
under II years of age shall be employed
in factories in this State and regulate
the hours Of work for children under II
years.
An official statement was made that
the T. C. Williams Tobacco Company o.
Richmond is to be sold to the British
American Tobacco Company and thai
the deal is about to be closed. The VIII
liams Company has an enormous torelgr
trade, enjoying almost monopoly IL
Australia, and it was for this reason that
the trust was SO anxious to acquire it,
The four Belgian sailors from tht
British steamship St. George. arrested a.
Newport News on the charge of smug
Cling tobacco ashore, were released by
United States Commissioner Carrot. lht
Commissioner did not think the tobacco
would have been brought ashore but to'
solicitation on the part of the go-be'
tween, who already had arranged for thu
capture of the alleged smugglers.
Alex Johnson, colored, was drowned
in the Rappahannock river. near Por'
ROYAL. He was out in skiff, which wa'
upset by the high winds, and though at
expert swimmer, did not succeed IT
reaching the shore.
The National Elks' Home at Bedford
City will be dedicated on May 81. Ih'
orator for the occasion will be Meade ID
Detweller, Of Harrisburg, Pa. Addrcsse>;
will be made by Senator Daniel anf
Governor Montague.
By the collapse of floor overloaded
with brick four workmen on the FRS
National Bank building at Harrisburg
were precipitated from the third story tc
the ground. A white man named Johr
Long was killed. French Turner, col
ored, received injuries from which he
cannot recover and two colored boy;
we're badly hurt.
The Petersburg Chamber of Com
mcrce and the Young Mems Business
Association were consolidated under the
name of the Petersburg Chamber OF
Commerce. Simon Seward was elected
president.
Miss Ida Brscoe, young girl about
16 years of age, was killed by the acci-
dental discharge OF shotgun neal
Abingdon.
The trouble between Parkersburg arc
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
PAW has been compromised. The city
grants the railroad the right to lay track:
for few feet on Avery street. and the
railroad promises to lay no more tracks
there without 30 DAYS notice.
Members of the Virginia Legislature
are to play bail in Richmond for the
benefit of the Confederate Bazaar.
Clifton Maynard was arralgned in
Richmond court, charged with stealing
diamond rings from a Jeweler. After
changing his name in the indictment tt
Manor he pleaded guilty and was sent tc
| the rcformatOry.
George Blaine. who was shot in Staun
ton by a Chesapeake. and Ohio con
drctor, is wanted by Roanoke author
ties, charged with killing conductor O
the Norfolk and Western, near Roanoke
Blaine is in the Stanton jail.
The large barn and its contents on thu
farm of 1insley H. Twyman, OF Spott
sylvania county, was destroyed by hre
High winds were destructive to fishing
property along the POTOMAC river. II
Potomac creek a large skiff was cap
sized and sunk, three fishermen having
a narrow escape from drowning.
An increase of wages has been granted
to boicr-makers of the Norfolk anc
Western Railroad.
George Franklin, in charge OF en-.
gincering work on the Norfolk anc
Western at Blue Ridge, has unearthee