Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-10-16
THE OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
the State.

| Phaap (dead), eaCn 9lZ; Eueioui gu
Foreman, So; Walter Wilson, s.; minor
of David Wilson, $40; Frank Z: Gratz
and Arthur Brnney, each S.; Robert
Mclean, $I2; Joseph Schools, Jonn
Thomas, Jesse Jones, each S.; Dennis
Murphy, $I2. =,
The Hotel Allegheny Company has
sold the Hotel Allegheny, at Goshen
Rockbridge county, to DR.. Frank L;
Webster, of Norfolk, for $2o,5 500, OF
which $500 was cash. The transfer IN
cludes I7H acres OF land and all tur'
niturc and fixtures, with the hotel: III.
Webster will probably convert 1t into
a sanitarlum
A narrow-gauge railroad will, it is
said, be built by the Buena Vista Ex-
tract Works from Vesuvius Station, on
the Norfolk and Western, through Try
River Gap to Montabello, in Nelson
county, eight miles, to facilitate the
handling of chestnut timber,
John Milby, a respondent young man
residing in Dinwiddie county, Just out
side of Petersburg, committed suicide
by taking paris green. Mildly was at
one time a resident of Petersburg.
The first bag of new peanuts was re,
ceiyed in Suffolk Friday. 1t weighed
81 pounds and sold for 81 cents a
pound. John King, president of local
factory, says that the yield will be only
| SO per cent. OF last years crop, but
the quality is good The short crop
was caused by cool, wet June. There
is no old stock in the farmers hands
and the factories will sell all their
cleaned goods before the new season
is fairly launched.
William Jones, one OF the murderers
Of Jacob Lee, North Carolina negro
farmer was hanged in the jail yard IN
| Danville on the same scattold from
which Arthur Wilton, his accomplish
some months ago. paid the penalty Tor
his part in the crime.
The safe of the Strother Drug Corn
pany, at Bristol, was robbed OF S45
The question OF reducing the Hamp-
ton Soldiers Home OH account OF thu.
disagreement over the rental value OF
normal school lands, is said to have
been left on the hands of General Steele.
A young couple that eloped to Brls-
tol, Tenn, from Saltville, would not be
married there because the fec was 81,
and went to North Carolina, where they
| could get a license for ST. paying the
expenses OF trip to Hickory, n. I.
The appeal Of the railways of Vir-
ginia from the decision OF the Corpor-
alton Commission promulgatlng. GER
tain rules and regulations in relation
to demurrage storage and car service
was filed in the Supreme Court OF APP
peals and will be heard in the early part
Of the November term. All the rail-
roads unite in the fight. The case is
Of grave importance, as the usefulness
Of the Corporation Commission WIN
be either established or denied by the
ultimate decision 1t is probable that II
the railways lose their case in the state
court they will carry it ltho the req
eral courts on the question OF the iach
Of Jurisdiction OF the State COMMISSION
Mr.. J. A. Walker, OF Meadow view,
has arranged for the establishment III
Bristol of large lumber yard1 ana
woodworking plant, which VIII en-
brace much of the trade iii lumber, WITH
in a radius of 100 miles. The new
plant will be established and III opera
ion at an early date. AS a beginning
he proprietor has just closed contracts
for 100000 feet of lumber from
Johnson and adjoining counties IN East
Tennessee to be delivered in Bristol
within the next IL months.
Mr.. Robert /. Payne, Supervisor OF
Cedar Run district and prominent
resident of lower Fauquier, was taken
suddenly i'll and died while at church
near Bristerburg. Mr.. Payne was seen
10 arise from his seat during services
and hastily leave the building. When
church had ended he was found lying
dead, face down, across his VENICE,
death having overtakcn him before lie
could drive to his house.
The postoffice at Landmark was
broken open and $50 in stamps was
stolen. No clues have been found to
aid in apprehending the burglars.
The model of Moynihan, of New
York, formerly of Richmond, will, with
slight notifications, probably be adopt,
ed for the monument in Richmond 10
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. The executive
committee is largely in favor OF MS
design. The executive committee mas
discarded all models except those OF
Moynihan. Gudebrod and Morahan, and
those three are to be changed Tor iur'
!her competition. o
Thomas BlOnhelnl, sentenced 10 &c
wears in the penitentiary. for the MUIR.
Jer OF Tohn Green, cut his throat al
the Jail on the arrival OF the guaro
who came to take him to Richmond
lie is now at the hospital in precarr
ous condition
4 brief strike occurred a few days
ago at the Bucna Vista iron furnace
A notice was posted stating that inc
WAGES of the men who received over
81 \ day would be reduced, the reduc'
ion being caused by the fall in the price
of iron. The strike lasted day, when
MANY of the men went back to work:
The Manassas Town Council decd
cd TO organize a separate school DIS
trct entirely within the limits OF Ma,
nassas. This takes the management OF
the town school entirely from under inc
control OF the old board :.
; Policeman w. F. Brown was assault
, ed bv Samuel King a negro employ
ed in the camp Of w J. Oliver q or
near Culpeper, who are doubie-tracK'
mo the Southern Railway Inc negro
disnlaved a pistol, and when the ON,
Ger attempted to arrest him shot al
Rrown three times but without hlttlhs
] him The officer exchanged shots WIZ
:, tLn negro. also without effect. he ne
oro then ran off and lid i'll barn on
. tihe farm of Mr.. Granville, where he
: was captured, brought back to Culpeper
and imprisoned
The will of Mrs Mary Jane Boyd
recorded at Lynchburg, leaves all estate
, ! Of $4,000, equally divided, to. George
K. Boyd, James N. Boyd OF lynch