Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-04-29
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Son, tobacco dealers, of Richmond,
narrowly escaped death in a peculiar
way. While alone in his office he
raised the heavy lid of a sample box
to get something. A rush OF blood to
the head caused him to fall into the
box. The lid came down and he lay
half conscious a prisoner Tor three
hours, while his friends searched Tor
;im everywhere.
The most disastrous forest fires in
recent years have been raging in
Page county for several days and have
DESTROYED thousands OF dollars worth
Of timber, bark, etc The flames have
burned over thousands of acres OF
land on the Blue Ridge and crossed
the mountain in the direction OF Sper-
ryville, Rappahannoek county The
fire, which had been famed by fu-
rious gales, has dehed hundreds OF
hre-fghters. In many instances houf-
cs have been saved by men fighting
night and day.
Capt. NJ. J. Dimmock, the Rich
mond sculptor, presented to K. +.
Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans, q
statute of Gen. John r. Cooke. Gen
eral Cooke was one of the most dis
tingushed officers of the Confederacy.
The residence of Capt William Kill
burn, u. S. N, retired, about four
miles west of Alexandria, was destroy
ed by fire. The residence had re-
Gently been much improved. A de.
iective hue was the cause of the fire.
The trial of the negro Robert
Bowles, for killing Fireman John A.
Ruff at Clifton Forge, resulted in o
verdict of murder in the first degree.
Judge Anderson sentenced Bowles
to hang on June 24th.
Willie White, the o-year-old- color
ed boy who recently killed his baby
sister, in Madison, by giving he1
ground glass, has been sentenced to
the Colored Reform School by the
Judge of the Circuit Court of Amherst
county
The first practical issue of the Jim
Grow" street car law fight was the
appearance in the Police Court al
contractor. Mr.. Myers boarded q
contractor. Mr.. Myers boarded a
car on which was only one negro pas.
senger. He took a seat in the real
and refused to move forward wher
ordered to do so by the conductor
on the ground that there was no ne.
cessity for it. He was fined S., but
the fine was RENTED, the judge hold
ing that ignorance of the law caused
the offense. AT the same time he laid
down the proposition that in future
all must obey the orders of conduc'
tors.
The jury which has been engaged If
the trial of Walter Burrill, charged
with the murder of Harrison John
son, at Gainesville, Page county, or
February 2, returned verdict i'm.
posing a fine of $I7 on Burrill. The
commonwealth failed to make szout
case of hrst-degree murder, a Il
was shown by preponderance~ Of
testimony that Burrill and Johnson
Lad been on intimate terms up to the
shooting. The $I7 fine was for mis-.
demeanor. Burrill paid his fine i'm
mediately.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
will spend $4,000 900 for rolling stock
at once. The moGey was secured BY
a loan in Philadelphia week ago. II
was semiofficially and automatically
stated that this money will go toward
buying score Of locomotives, 1000
box and coal cars and new stock OF
passenger coaches and combination
express, baggage and mail cars.
A real estate boom, which prom
ises to rank with that of decade
ago, is on in Roanoke, and for sew.
eral weeks past the transfers have
been growing each day. A lot at the
corner of Campbell avenue and Henry
street, which has been held at $4,000
since the collapse of the big boom
was sold for $4,000 to Watt, Rettew
& Clay, who propose to build five
story department store. John Mar
tin, of Roanoke, paid $4,000 for lot
on Campbell avenue, near Jefferson
street There is not vacant resi-
dence in Roanoke.
The jury in the case of Mrs. A. L
Spencer VS.. the Norfolk AMI Western
Railway Company, in which $4,000
damages were asked for the death Of
Mrs. Spencer's husband, who was ar
engineer and who was killed IN
wreck several months ago, awarded
the full amount asked. A motion to-
a new trial was made.
Two Mormon elders are at wort
in Winchester.
The Pocahontas Company, of which
President Robert Mem. Gillespie, 0!
The Chesapeake Western Railway, il
The head official, is rapidly pushing it;
coal mining operation at the present
time on its properties beyond NORTH
River Gap under the direct superln'
tcndence of Mr.. Tiffany, an expert
mining engineer of Philadelphia Its
operations include work on the Big
Coal run, Little Coal run and the
Dora coal mine.
The aged mother of Judge E. w
Saunders, who lives in Franklin coun'
ty, 10 miles west of Rocky Mount, /:
ill., Governor Montague has arranged
with Judge Frank P Christian to pre-
side at Pittsylvania Court i'll Judge
Saunders Place.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Sloat, the last sur.
viving member of an old family, dice
Monday at Winchester Memorial
Hospital. She was 90 years old.
George Henderson, of Marksville
district, Page county, has just beer
admitted to $I,5co bail charged with
abducting Miss Florence Jones, 10
year-old girl of that section. The
girl disappeared from home about one
week ago and all efforts to locate hei
proved futile. She was finally located
where it is alleged Henderson had
concealed her. His arrest immediate
ly followed.
Judge Witt, in the Hastings court
at Richmond, decided that the city
treasurer must accept the poll taxes