Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-10-14
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were arrested and sent to the Norfolk
County Jail on suspicion OF having
drowned Joe Butts, another negro boy.
whom they took with them i'll a boat
on Tanners Creek on Tuesday. The
boy has not been seen since, and they
are suspected of having murdered
him.
At the trial of Battaile Johnson, the
negro charged with attempted crimi'
nal assault upon Mrs. Marmaduke La
cey. in the Circuit Court of Spottsyl-
vania county, the evidence was not
strong and when the case was given to
the jury, at 3 o'clock, the members OF
it were unable to agree The result was
hung jury and the jurymen were
discharged Counsel for the prisoner
will ask for bail. The case will proba'
bly, not come up again before next
term of court Sentiment is divided
as to the guilt of the negro. There
is no feeling or excitement about the
case.
M. Levi. owner of large furniture
store in Petersburg, has just received
letter from his father, whom he has
never seen. Mr.. Levi, in his letter to
his son, says that he has for years
been endeavoring to find him, and
that he has had detectives searching
for his son. Mr.. Lewis father is said
to be a banker in St. Petersburg. Rus
STA. His home is about seven miles
from St. Petersburg, near one of the
Cars palaces, and he is said to be
the only Jew allowed to reside there.
At joint meeting of the Lynch
burg City Council city officers were
elected for the term beginning Janu-
airy I, as follows: T. N. Davis, audi
tor, and John M. City, city clerk.
In the Board of Health DR.. P, H. Ca
sey was made presi lent, and J. H.
Faulkner and DR.. John Lloyd COM
| pose the board.
I. 0. Epps, merchant of South
ampton county, went with his family
to religious meeting at Ivor. He
was seized with a sudden attack of
asthma and died in short time. His
body was taken home in coffin by
his family.
Miss Valerie Crute, a weli-known
young lady of Roanoke. committed
suicide by shooting herself through
the head. She went to the home of
neighbor, where she secured revolt
vr. A shot was then fired, which she
said was accidental. Aftcrward she
secured tho same weapon and killed
herself: She was the daughter Of
Capt. 8. L. Crute, one of Roanoke's
best-known citizens
The daughter of Mr.. A. M. Chand-
ler, of Westmoreland county, was bit
ten by a large black spider and she
remained in nervous state, border
ing on commissions, for several days,
but is now improving.
After being in session at Lynch
burg for four days the Virginia Chris
| tian Missionary Society and several
other missionary organizations of the
Virginia Christian churches adjourned
The next convention will be held at
Norfolk next year at time to be
chosen by the board. The officers
elected are: President, Prof. w. F
Fox, of Richmond; first vice-presi.
dent, John S. Elicit, of Richmond;
second vice-president. Rev. P. A
SdNN, VI INlSlHlOHuy lCSOl QlllR oSIiS-
tary, E. N. Newman, of Richmond;
treasurer, T. A. Cary, of Richmond,
and auditor, F. I. Sutton, of Rich.
mond.
In the case of John w. Brown, at
Winchester, said to be holding 10.
month-old boy as collateral for the
payment of debt of $40, Rufus Mar
tin, father of the child, obtained
writ of habeas corpus. Brown now al
leges that the parents of the child left
for Pittsburg nine months ago and
promised him $r5o week to take
care Of the infant; that they never paid
him any money, and that the child
was in a sickly condition when he
took charge of him. The case has
created great interest.
Mr.. Henry L. Schmelz, president Of
the Bank of Hampton and formerly
president of the Virginia Bankers AS
ISOLATION, and Miss Annie Moomaw
were married at the home of the bride,
Cloverdale, near Roanoke.
J. B. Thompson, a conductor on the
Newport News and Old Point Railway
line, has returned from Ocean Grove,
N. J., with the prize fish story, as
well as with two medals offered by
reel manufacturer for the largest fish
caught in contest during August
and September He won with 43-
pound black bass.
The infant daughter of Robert Saw
age, billing clerk Of the Southern
Railway at Primers Point, fell into
tub OF water in the yard and when
found last night was drowned.
Anthracite coal mined in Virginia
near Radford and resembling the Ly-
kens Valley (Pa.) variety is offered
for sale at Sc ton. 1t burns to ashes
and is economical, but there is not
much on the market.
Burke Coates, foreman of the Pitts
burg Construction Company, at work
on a building in the navy yard, and
four colored men were injured by the
fall Of the scaffold on which they were
at work. Coates left arm was broken
and the negroes were badly bruised.
1t is likely that two may die from
internal injuries.
In Corporation Court at Lynchburg
the jury in the case of the Common
wealth VS.. Ernest Wheeler, colored,
who was charged with the murder Of
Richard Smith, also colored, rendered
verdict of IS years in the peniten-
tiary The negro struck the other on
the head with a stone, causing his
death month later.
In the Circuit Court of Charles
County Judge Thomas w. Harrison
sentenced Joseph H. Copcnhaver for
IL years in the Virginia Penitentiary.
Copenhaver's attornics, Marshall Nc
Cormick and Blackburn Smith, Sc
cured stay of sentence for 90 days