Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-01-22
THE OLD DOMINION,
Latest News Cleaned From All oVef
The State.

president OF the Fauquler Ndtloi'd'
Bank of Warrenton, vice L. B. White
OF Lccsburg, resigned
Fredericksburg is to make all ehort
. to secure the new State Normal school
A. L. Buncc was acquitted IN Caroline
County Court on the charge OF ma'ic'
iously shooting Writ Thomas.
Mr.. G.. NJ. Henderson, OF King
George, at his sawmill, secured IS rail-
road tics from one tree.
At a meeting OF the board OF directors
OF the Norfolk and Western Railway
Company, held in Philadelphia, n. d.
Mailer, at present general Superintcu'
dent, was appointed general manager
and J. w. Coke, at present general au.
ditor, was made comptroller, to succeed
the late NJ. c. Jameson. w. II. VIII
son is made auditor OF disbursements.
w. |. Griffith. a Norfolk county
trucker, was in court at Norfolk &C
quilted OF the charge OF Intent to com
nit murder. Robert Mccarthy, whom,
Griffith shot six weeks ago, cxonerated
the defendant by testifying that Crit.
filth was justified in the shooting, he
having been beaten by Mccarthy. Nc
Carihy was dangerously wounded II
tho groin and has been a patient IN the
hospital for several weeks.
At the Caroline County Court last week
a silver loving cup was presented Judge
l.. c. Moncurc, who has presided over
tho court for I8 years. For 20 years
he was Commonwealth Attorney
making record Of d. years IN the ser
vice OF the county and he is now repre-
senting Caroline in the Legislature.
Fire broke out in the largest build
ing OF the Riverside Cotton Mills. Ro'
anoke. 1t is supposed to have beer
produced by spontaneous combustion
The fire apparatus in the mill was I'M
mediately put to work and the lame;
were under control by the time the city
fire department reached the scene. The
loss BY fire is small, much more dam
age being done by water.
As a result OF proceedings by John
c. Blair, attorney for New Yor and
Virginia creditors Of the New Rivet
Mineral Company, located i'll Wythe
county, representing claims aggregat,
ing nearly 100000 for money loaned
and supplies sold the company. United
States District Judge Mcdowell has APP
pointed F. NJ Masters temporary re-
cciver OF the concern. The company
owns iron furnaces at lvanhoe. The
plant has been closed and will be sold.
Milton l.. Odell, a Cincinnati trav-
cling man, was attacked by a burglar
while asleep in his room in hotel at
Pincy Flats, near Bristol, at ? O'Clock
the other morning and he narrowly es-
capped being Drained. The burglar
hurled smoothingiron at OdelT s
head. but it missed the mark and shat
tered the top OF the bcdstead The
noise arounsed him and while he was
reaching for weapon OF defense the
burglar escaped. A few years ago Rob
crit Wolfe, depot agent at Piney Flats.
was confronted in his Office by masked
men. SEEING a revolver Wolfe fred
and killed one of the robbers.
G. l.. Lake, of Greensboro, while
washing his hands in bowl at Hotel
Carroll Lynchburg. let $500 diamond
ring slip from his finger. 1t disappear
ed in the pipe leading to the sewer.
The pipe was removed, but no ring was
there A plumber was called in and the
sewer pipe running to the cellar and
then through the cellar to the street
was opened and searched. but still the
ring was missing Finally the sewer
leading under the street was dug up.
and at last the ring was found in the
main city sewer, where it had caught
in the joint Of pipe.
William Daniel Branch died yester'
day at the home OF his daughter Mrs
D. G.. Miller, in Campbell county
aged 81 years. Mr.. Branch was Tor Is
years Mayor Of Lynchburg, and head.
ed committee that surrendered
Lynchburg to General Curtis at the
close Of the Civil War. The Federal
officer in charge removed him from Of
fee because he refused to take the oath
Mr.. Branch is survived by two sons
S. Glenn Branch, Of Texas, and William
B. Branch, of West Virginia--and four
daughters-Mrs. w. H. Whitlow. OF
Bedford, Mrs. D. NJ. Miller and Mrs.
Chcatwood, Of Campbell, and Mrs.
Maurie Dinwiddie, OF Richmond.
James Motley, colored, shot and
killed George Nunnally, colored, at the
Iatter's home, mile north Of Danville.
Nunnally was at work i'll his garden
when the shot was fred. 1t is under
TODD that Motley was i'll search OF
Nunnally's son. whom he charged with
The alleged mistreatment OF his daugh-
Ter. 1t is thought that he mstook the
father for the son, when lie fired on
Nunnally Motley disappeared and has
not yet been arrested.
Miss Ethel Taylor, daughter OF Mr..
John Taylor, OF Westmoreland county
broke through the ice on Monroe bay
while skating, and narrowly escaped be-
ing drowned She was finally thrown
I rope by two colorcd boys, who aid
ID in rescuing her after she had been
N the water for ten minutes.
The Central Hotel, at Fredericks'
burg, has been sold by Mr.. l.. l.. Lay
Ton to Mr.. Michael Long.
Ptomaine poisoning caused the seri,
Gus sickness recently of Miss Anice
Howard and several other ladies OF
Richmond At reception they ate SALAD
with mayonnaiSe dressing and soon
aiterward became sick. An investiga.
ton showed that the mixture, in which
there was considerable lemon juice, had
been allowed to stand day in a tin
bucket. and enough poison was gcnef.
ated according to physician, to XII
40 men. The portion eaten, fortunate.
". did not come from the bottom Of
the bucket
Six dry kilns and contents belong
ING to the Camp Manufacturing Com
pany we're burned at Arringdale. The
blaze is supposed to have originated
from spark The planning mills were