Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-08-14
THE OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned from All Ove'
the State.

A. Hudson, each So; Daniel Rahlly, So
Isaac Giesler, So; Juda A. Jasper, So;
Robert c. Crawford, $I2; Catherine
Jones, So; Rosetta Bright, So
Bette Lucas, colored woman living
near Kopp, has been married twlce
and is the mother Of "a children. Mrs.
Anderson, who lives at RcctortowJ,
Fauquier county, adjoining county. has
been married once and is the mother
Of e children There are three men
living at Stafford Courthouse who have
70 children: There is living within
lew miles OF Manassas a young mar
whose wife within IL months present
I'd him with five children. He is 81
years old and is the father OF 10 chill.
iren, all OF them living.
H. c. Baxter, OF Pulaski city, was
earfully beaten on an excursion train
at Roanoke by a crowd OF negroes.
They used blackjacks. knuckles and
beer bottles. His face was beaten into
an unacceptable mass and his con-
1ition is serious. 1t happened Just as
The train was pulling out Of the station
1t was stopped and the injured man
was removed and taken to a surgeon:
office No arrests were made
Suit was instituted in Richmond by
Pollock & Lamb in behalf OF Mile (.
Cook, who asks $4,000 damages from
Alexander TompkinS and others. TIL:
plaintiff sets forth that she paid TIE
defendants $Io3 for a room for lifc'ir
he house at oTIH North Sixth street
1t is contended that she was denied
admission to the room at night, hav-
ing to remain out in the weather and
suffered from cold
DR.. F. S. Goodman, steward in The
o. S. hospital service, Norfolk, will per-
NIT "malarial" mosquitoes to bite hin
in the interests of science. lie wishes
to see whether one bitten by them vii
be inoculated with malaria. Dr.. Good
man believes he is immune from yelloy
ever.
The Lynchburg City Council author.
zed the Water Committee TO expcni
5000 for the purchase OF land for the
lam site and watershed for the pro.
posed gravity water supply. The Coun.
Ill also authorized Joint committee
70 place the public school buildings in
thorough sanitary condition, 4 WORT
hat will cost about $1,000.
Samuel Dennis, while at work on the
bridge which is being erected across
he Rappahannock river at Rem.
ngton, was killed by being caught
under heavy beam, the rope by which
was suspended having broken.
After five attempts to commit sui.
eide Mrs. Jas. Smith, OF Stanton, a
years old, succeeded in ending her Lie
by strangling Mrs Smith came to
otaunton several weeks ago from Mil.
ler's School to spend the summer for
ler health, and she made three unsuc-
:essful attempts to throw herself in
:ront Of the Stanton street cars. Last
Friday she was taken to the Western
State Hospital. where several days ago
she tried to choke herself with cord.
Thursday after dinner she succeeded i'll
slipping away from the guards ran
into a room and tied handkerchief
around her neck. the other end OF which
she tied to a window guard, and threw
herself forward, stranglng to death
She was in the inhrmary ward and
close watch had been kept on her ever
since she had been confined in the hos
pital. This ward has more guards and
is the closest guarded ward in the hos.
pital. Hers was case OF suicidal
mania, and in such cases patients are
under strict guard AT the coroner's
inquest no blame was attached to the
authorities.
William Coulter and his sweetheart
went to the Court Clerks office at VII.
hanson to secure marriage license.
The document was written by the
IL L. I'LL Joi
lar, evidently believing that to be the
fee. When informed that it required
that much more he was not able to pro.
duce it and asked the young woman il
she could advance the amount. She be-
came enraged and refused to marry
him. They left the office quarreling
and upon reaching the street Coulter
became enraged and iercely attacked .
his companion, beating her unmerci
fully. He was arrested and lodged If
jail. Next morning when Jailer Thorn
as took Coulter's breakfast to him he
was found dead OH the stone floor OF
the cell He had been dead several
hours when discovered.
Judge A. A. Phlegar, late OF the STU
preme Court Of Virginia, has announc-
ed himself candidate for the State
Senate from the Fourth district. Sena
tor Lyle, the present Senator, for bust
ness reasons will retire Judge Phle
gar was for years the general attorney
OF the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coks
Company. He was later general mana
ger, and retired recently to resume thS
practice Of law.
Edward C. Carly and his cousin,
Maggie Carly, the latter a pretty gir'
Of IS years old, eloped from Castle
wood, Russell county. They Travelled
all night, crossing the mountains i'll all
open wagon and arriving in Bristol al
, o'clock in the morning. They were
married and started for home as they
zane.
R. C. Stearns, of Salem, announced
his candidacy to represent his district
IN the State Senate of Virginia, subject
70 the Democratic nominating pri
nary.
A barn belonging to d. E. Kefauvcr.
Commissioner OF the Revenue for Ro
lnoke county, was struck by lightning
and totally destroyed. The loss Is
s. 200 with $500 insurance.
Mrs. Cornelia R. Johnston, So years
old. of Memphis, Tenn, who was spend
ing the summer at Virginia Beach, wa:
told she had received a telegram and
died from the excitement beforesthe mes
sage, which was of minor Importance
could be read to her. She was daugh
ter of the late DR.. 7. B. Johnston, o
Kentucky. The body was shipped tc
Memphis.
Late Saturday evening, while drivins
from Pamlin Depot to his farm, Oti'
Gillian, young farmer, of Lynchburg
was shot in the head by spent bullet
which came from no one knows where