Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-08-05
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
The State.

tHdt FORMER senator II. VI. DAVIS and
Senator Stephen B. Elkins are the
principal capitalists back of the plan
for building the Tidewater railroad
from the Flat Top (W Va) coal
regions to the seaboard at Norfolk
There is charter for the road anG
the survey has been made for several
hundred miles.
Mr.. Lewis Moncure, of Stafford
county, during visit in Greenbriei
county, West Virginia while watching
game of baseball was whiting
stick, when the ball struck the knife
in his hand and caused it to cut his
kneecap nearly off. He was taken tc
hospital in Richmond for treatment
Mr.. Fred Nussey, of Spottsylvanis
county, who lost an arm in the EN-.
plOy of Contractors Douglas, Gilmore
& Co., in the double-tracking work
on the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac railroad, has entered
suit for $4,000 damages.
Mr.. Tyler Moffet, foreman of tn,
mills OF J. w. S. Jenkins & Co., al
Leesburg had his foot crushed il
the machinery. Amputation may be
necessary.
A ludiCrOuS row among two Rich
mond policemen, constable and 9
citizen of Henrico occurred in the
Mayors office, when he undertook to
award the 5000 offered by the city
of Richmond for the capture of James
Goode, the negro slayer of Captain
Shinberger. The lie was passed sew
eral times, and free fight was mar
rowly averted. The policemen will
be reported TO the Police Board fol
discipline. The money was equally
divided among the four men.
There is undated interest and in
tense feeling in Buckingham over the
failure to find verdict against f. {
Woodbridge for burning J. H. Forbes
house. 1t is the general belief that
the life of Woodbridge would be il
danger if he returned to his home If
the neighborhood of the burning. Fol
this reason his counsel kept him If
Jail previous to the trial, although
bail had been granted, and it is likely
he will pursue similar course now.
A loss of several thousand dollars
was sustained by Col. Joseph Hob
son by the burning OF large barn
with contents, on his farm in Pow
hatan county He carried a small in
surance on the building.
Mr.. Robert H. Glass, business man.
ager of the Lynchburg News, dice
after long illness. His malady wa
cancer of the stomach. Mr.. Glass
was 81 years OF age and he leaves
widow and an infant daughter
J. Baxter Jones, for many years
yardmaster of the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad at Crewe, was run over b!
freight train at that place and in.
stantly killed. Six cars passed over
him and his body was horribly
mangled. Mrs. Jones was a Miss
Pope, of Brunswick county, who sur
wives him, with several children. Al
the time of the accident she was
visiting relatives in Brunswick county.
The store of James A. Hatch, nea'
Prince George county courthouse
was destroyed by fire with its con
tents. The loss is $4,000 and IN
surance ST 800 How the fire origr
mated is not known.
lula Divers, the young daughter
of w. A. Divers. prominent man OF
Rosymount, kept a huge rattlesnake
captive under her feet for 10 minutes
and came out unscathed. She, hei
&. father and little brother were on a
picnic on Grassy Hill, at the foot OF
a big mountain near the town, when
she stepped on the venomous reptile.
The snake was in coil, but unable tc
strike because of her weight. She
recognized her danger and planted the
other foot firmly on the writing
serpent and called to her little broth
err. He went nearly quarter OF q
mile for his father, who dispatched
the RATHER. The snake measured hve
feet and carried nine rattles.
Conductor Robert Carnahan, OF the
Virginia and Southwestern Railway
fired a pistol ball into the brain OF
Wesley Martin, Bristol negro, Fl
wears of age, near BenhamS. Martin
died three hours later. The conductor
surrendered to an officer, after having
wired the railway company ofhcials OF
what he had DONE Martin had un-
dertaken to beat his way on the tram,
and after Conductor Carnahan had
three times elected him he assaulted
the conductor with stones, striking
him blow on the cheek.
The following charters have been
granted by the Corporation Commis-
sion: The National Land Improve
ment, Benevolent and Investment
company, of Southampton county; the
Norfolk Kennel and Hunt Club, the
Bradshaw Lapam Manufacturing
Company, of Nottoway, and the
Laurel River Lumber Company, OF
Richmond.
Charles Buss, an inmate of the
National Soldiers Home, tried to XII
himself in the Hampton Jail by cut
ting the arteries in his wrists and
vein in his forehead He was saved
by fellow-prisoner. Buss said ne
wanted to die because 10 years. is
long enough for any man to live.
The largest crowd that ever as
sembled at King William courthouse
was there to attend the unwilling of
beautiful monument to the Con
federate dead of that county. Miss
Jessie Carter Lewis, daughter OF Mr.
H. l. Lewis, prominent veteran
drew the cords that unveiled the shalt
At the close of the exercises dinnei
was served to all Another interesting
feature of the dav was the unwilling
in the courthouse of portrait o
the late Col. William R. Aylett. Judge
T. B. R. Wright made the presenta
ton address and H. | Lewis re
Sponded.
Ernest Steinman, a car builder, is il
the Richmond Jail. charged with at
tempting to commit a criminal assault
on Carrie Goode, the I4-year-ol'
daughter of Andrew Goode. Th
n;r1ic rnnther ALLEGES that Steinmal