Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-10-30
THE OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned From All over
the State.


phen, So; Theodore S. Roney, So Alon-
20 Hill, $I2; Spencer Hallett, SIoi JOS
eph Robertson, So; Margaret A. Pugn'
IS; John Donnelly, Cyrus Greger, eacf'
$40; William F. Snyder, Peter Mullen
George w. Wilkerson, Guy w: NC
Allster, Peter Mallen, each $I2; LIMO
thy Garvon, $I2.
The Fair Ground property that be-
longed to the Rockbridge County Far
Association has been sold to William L..
Washington, colored. the principal OF the
negro school of Lexington, for ST. eco. .
Three persons, Jesse cambridge, aged
Is years, Waiter Robinson and an TN
known companion. were journeying home
from Buena Vista when dispute arose
over dog owned by ore of the party
and while, as claimed, examining a re-
volver owned by Robinson it was dis
charged and the bullet entered the groin
of cambridge.
The large cattle barn and horse stables
on Strathmore, the farm of John l..
Wissler & Sons, were destroyed by FIRE
at all early hour the other morning. The
JOS is $1,000, fully covered by insurance,
Tie loss other than On buildings con-
sisted Of farming implements 500 barrels
OF apples, 400 empty apple barrels and
500 worth of phosphate. The loss on
the buildings is $1,000.
J. ". Tinsley, of Culpeper, cadet at
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. was
run over ard killed by train at the
freight depot in Salem He was ~ years
Old. 1t is supposed that he accidentally
fell from a passenger train and was run
over by freight. His body was terribly
mutilated.
Prof. J. H. Riddick has resigned his
position as professor of the department
of physics and biology Of Randolpb-Ma'
con Woman's College
R. E. Bell, a patient at the Eastern
State Hospital at Williamsburg, COM
mitted suicide in his room by cutting
his throat. Bell, who had the freedom
OF the yard, probably secured the knife
at the dining room. DR.. Southall, who
has recently had charge of the male de.
partment, and the three ward attend
ants who had charge OF the patient,
testified before the coroner'S jury that
they did not know that Bell was sui
cidal patient. The jury declared that
grave oversight had been committed
by the hospital authorities in not CIV
ing such information and instructions
as would better protect patient whose
commitment papers said that he was
of suicidal tendency.
Charles Lacey attempted suicide at
his home in Danville by cutting his
hroat with a razor Mr.. Lacey has had
a cancer on his face for some years,
which had greatly depressed him at
times, and it is supposed that in state
of mental alteration lie made the at.
tempt to end his life. Mrs. Lacey had
handed him the razor at his request,
which he proceeded to sharpen. While
his wife's attention was fixed upon
other matters he slashed his throat on
both sides, and his wife only became
aware of what had occurred when the
implement fell from his hands to the
floor. He asked for the razor again IN
order to finish the job, but it was kept
from him and he was too weak to make
much effort to get it. There is chance
for his recovery.
Typhoid fever has broken out at the
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington.
Nine cases have been reported to the
State Board OF Health at Richmond.
The report was made by Gen. Scot
Ship, superintendent OF the institute,
who stated that only two OF the cases
we're considered dangerous.
Typhoid fever has appeared at wash
ington and Lee University, where seven
students are i'll with the fever: There
have been "a cases in all i'll the town
Of Lexington since October I.
United States Revenue officers have
been making number OF arrests in the
Northern Neck for violations OF the
internal revenue laws by selling liquors
without license. ~, TT
Mr.. Harvey Sydnor, son OF Mr.. II.
H. Sydnor, OF Richmond, was killed by
an electric shock in Chester, Pa.
Henry S. Todd, former resident OF
Norfolk, died at Augusta, ia. lie serV'
ed in the Confederate Army as lieu.
tenant in the Baltimore Artillery ana
afterward as Government purchasing
agent at Morgantown, N. 1. =,
Marshal Williams, who recently dis
appeared from his home in Roanoke
was committed to jail at Bedford city,
charged with unlawfully selling morse
belonging to Roanoke llveryman.
A head-on collision occurred on the
Southern Railway between keysviiIe
and Meherrin at about o:I5 O'CLOCK the
other morning. Four tranmen were III
stantly killed and five injured. Nearly
all the dead and injured we're from
Richmond. Each train was crowded
with passengers, who suffered from
the shock. -, 1T
In the corporation Court OF Norfolk
Commonwealth Attorney Tilton pro.
nounced one of the charters granted
to a social club bogus" The mana
ger of the club, z. c. Hoffman, was
fined $Ioo and sentenced to jail Tor Is
days.
Mr. J. Few Brown, assistant cashier
Of the Shenandoah Valley National
Bank, Winchester, has received a letter
from Mr.. A. B. Hodsell, OF Buckeye,
Ariz., asking Mr.. Brown in all serious,
ness if he cannot send a. carload OF
Winchester girls to Buckeye wmere
thrifty and industrious husbands VIII DC
provided for them at once. MI HOO
sell saws there are practically no wo'n'
en- in his section, and the young lar
mers there, while thrifty and prosper
ous. are unhappy because they cannot
oct wives. Mr. Hodscll says that the
Young men OF Arizona are not particu-
lar as to age, looks or other quallfca..
lions. and guarantees that he will find
good husbands for carload OF Eastern
females within "a hours after their ar
rival in Arizona.
Mr.. Brew Miller, deputy postmaster
at Cupcpcr, dropped dead at Fairvicw
Cemetery during the Masonic exercises
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