Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-07-17
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bert, SI2; Matilda Hayden, So; GeOrg,
Dlggs, So; Betty c. Z. Jones, So; Cyru'
Iibbetts dead, James Carroway
Spotswood +. Carton, each So; William
Sailor, S.
The operators message which was
said to have been misrcad by Conduc
tor Brubeck and caused the fatal wreck
at Rockhsh, has been found in the
pocket OF Freight Engineer Hale. The
latter. who is at the hospital recovering
from injuries received in the Rockhsf
wreck, has, it is said, acknowledged
that he failed to read the message him.
self, taking the conductors statement
as true that the passenger train was
l hour and 20 minutes late. The bodies
OF nine victims OF the wreck we're buried
i'll lakewood Cemetery. the services be-
ing conducted by Father Crow, OF the
Catholic Church. The bodies were
those OF Charles w. Hamilton, OF
Chase City; Angelo and Maria Sangelli
Italians, four Austrans and the uni
Identified negro, whose head was en-
tircly severed. Flowers were strewn
on the graves by the ladies OF the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union.
The injured at the University Hospital
are doing well. Harris A. Sharpe has
gone to his home in Knoxville, accom-
panied by his young wife. When res
cucd from the passenger coach he was
underneath five dead men.
Mr.. Hunt Chiplcy, Southern manager
Tor the Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany at Richmond, gave some sensa-
tjonal testimony before the City Coun-
I'll Investigating Committee as to the
use of money in the Bell Company 5
fight for new franchise. He declared
That he paid $1,000 each to John F..
Epps, ex-mcmbcr Of the House of Del
:gates; Police Commissioner Chris
Manning and Clyde W. Saunders, and
1000 to William p. Leahman. to be
lsed in the fight for the franchise. He
also said he spent several thousand dol
.ars dining and wining the members OF
The Street Committee.
Jeff" Nowlin, the notorious alleged
noonshincr and desperate, was given
l hearing at Rocky Mount. on the
charge OF attempting to kill Deputy
United States Marshal J. w. Wilson,
who was trying to arrest him. He was
sent on the Federal grand jury at Dan
vile in November and in the absence OF
bail was confined in the Jail at Rocky
Mount. He had $1,000 in cash, which
hc offered to deposit, but it was not
sufficient to give him the proper i'll
demnity.
Mrs Wilcs, wife of Bud" Wilcs, a
former fireman, now employed as .
stevedore, lost her life in a disastrous
fire at Norfolk She was seamstrcss
Of grain bags in the third floor of Jesse
Jones & Sons hay and grain warehouse,
Oh Roanoke dock, which was burned at
? o'clock. There were two adjoining
houses filled with hay. The fire caught
and burned so quickly that the entire
stock was in flames before the Fire De
Fartmcnt arrived Mrs. Wilcs appeared
1t window and was ordered to jump
into the arms of the men beneath. She
hcsitatcd, screamed and fell back into
the hay and was sufocatcd and fatally
burned before the hrcmen could put up
their ladders to reach her.
The Association of Surgeons of the
Southern Railway closed its hrcc-day
convention at Old Point Comfort. There
we're ICo persons present, many of whom
were accompanied by their wives and
children. The following officers were
elected Prcsident-Dr R. L. Payne.
Norfolk, Va. Vice Prcsidcnts-Dr. J.
s. Voyles, Cornith, Miss: DR.. {. =.
Martin, Russellvillc, Ala. Secretary and
Trcasurcr-Dr. ]. ]. Harrison, Lou
loun, Tenn. Member of Executive
Committce-Dr. Rhett Goodc, Mobile,
Ala. Honorary Members-Dr. +. W.
McRehy. Atlanta. Ga; DR.. L. Franklin
Smith, New York city.
Mrs. Kate T.. Blakcmorc, wife of J.
H. Blakemore. died at her home in
Roanoke, aged g. years, after an illness
Of several months with dropsy. Besides
her husband, she is survived by one
son, c. H. Blakemorc, of the Norfolk
and Western Offices three sisters-Mrs.
T. c. Haynes, Mrs. NJ A. Staley, Miss
Mittie Pollard-and one brother. R. A.
Pollard, all of Roanoke. John NJ Pol
lard, OF Scdalia, Mo, is another brother
James w. Doran, a prominent FARM
or of Clarke county, died from sun
stroke while operating a binder in the
harvest field. He was 65 years Of age
and leaves widow and two children.
During the Civil War he served in the
Confederate army in the Clarke Cav
airy. and was captured and imprisoned
at Washington.
Vernon Nash, hagman for w. !.
Oliver G. Co.. contractors for the double
tracking of the Southern Railway was
struck by train and killed near Rapi
Ian Station. Mr. Nash resided at Elk
wood, Culpepcr county The cause OF
he accident is not explained.
George Thompson. Of Tyc River.
charged with illicit distiling, was sent
IN to the United States Court ut Lynch
burg by Commissioner Meredith, who
conducted the trial at Staunton.
Capt. J. G. Fcatherston, member OF
The House of Delegates from Campbell
county, announced i'll Lynchburg that
owing to pressure Of private business.
he will moi be a candidate for re-clcc-
ton.
Lcesburg school trustees have elected
as tcachcrs-principal, Mr.. Joseph Carr !;
first assistant Miss Virginia Taylor:
second, Miss Mercy Grim; third, Miss
Lizzie Bennett; fourth, Miss Ella
IIaupt; primary department, Miss Lizzie
Lewis.
A Blackstone business man, Mr. !. s
Robertson, who rs acquired on>i'cr'
able property will, it is stated. leave
soon for Zion Cny, Ill.,, where he VII
make his home. taking his family WI h
him. He has leased his property in
Blackstone for term OF years. MIR
Robertson is a follower OF Dowie. who
claims to be the second Elijah.
Luther Taylor, puddlcr at the Belle