Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-10-21
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From ALI Over
The State.

erS Gap Turnpike Company, char.
tered in 1871, the case was decided
against the company by Judge Z. T.
Nicol. The company has been oper,'
atting two toll gates on the pike, which
runs from CaStleman's ferry, in Clarke
county. to Bluemont, in Loudoun
county, only few hundred feet apart
The Confederate Memorial Literary
Society, of Richmond, which is deep
ly interested in aiding the Govern
ment in securing a complete roster
of the soldiers who took part in the
Civil War, has decided to allow the
original rosters of the Contederacy,
in possession Of the society, to be
taken temporarily to the War De-
partment, at Washington.
The application for a receiver tor
the Commonwealth Tobacco Com
pany, made before Judge Barksdale,
Of the Lynchburg City Circuit Court,
IN the suit of George P. Butler, was
granted, and Jerome Taylor was APP
pointed receiver and gave the, $4,000
oond. The company is New York
concern. A receiver was appointed
several days ago in New York court.
The Matoaca and Pocahontas cot
ton mills, which have been closed,
have resumed operations These two
mills give employment to 800 opera
tives.
Miss Lula Barr, of Winchester,
nurse in Garfield Hospital. Washing
ton, was married in that city to Rob-
ert ]. May, whose brother, Charles
May, married Miss Barr's sister one
month ago.
Paul Painter, in the Circuit Court
of Rockbridge County, was convicted
of criminal assault on Sarah Francis
Clark, aged 7 years. The jury brought
in verdict for 20 years i'll the peni-
Tertiary. The crime was committed
last April in South Mountain.
David, the Io-year-old son of L. c.
Hylton, of Gage, Floyd county, was
killed by stack of lumber falling
on him.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Norfolk and Western
Railway Company was held at Roa-
noke. Henry Fink, chairman of the
board of directors, presided, and 80
per cent. of the entire stock of the
road was represented.
The old board was reelected, and
its report was approved, together with
other matters stated in the call.
At a subsequent meeting OF the
board of directors Lucius E. Johnson
was reelected president and general
manager and Henry Fink chairman OF
the board of directors. All other gen.
eral officials Of the company were re-
elected.
At the meeting the following an
nouncement was given out:
"The Norfolk and Western Railway
Company announces the sale tc
Messrs. Brown Bros. & Co., of New
York, of 100000 division first lien
and general mortgage bonds The
proceeds from these bonds will be
used in vigorously prosecuting the
work heretofore authorized upon con-
struction, secondtracking, yards, re-
placement of bridges and for new
equipment, reference to which was
made in the last annual report"
The directors left on special train
for Cincinnati and other points along
the line of the road.
Having become respondent from
brooding over financial reverses, AL.
gernon Turner, farmer of Isle OF
Wight county, drank 10 cents, worth
of strychnine and died in IS minutes.
Formerly a lumber manufacturer and
we'll to do, Turner had lost money
and credit. He went to Smlthheld
and failing to get trusted for family
supplies returned home without them
after investing a dime for poison
Shortly after arriving home Turner
swallowed the drug. He was about
90 years old and leaves family
In Nansemond Circuit Court Judge
Prentis decided that railroad is not
immune from paying damages for OBJ
structing county roads with its trains
Justice Stallings had fined the South.
ern Railway $40 for blocking the road
at Copeland Station 10 minutes, and
the defendant corporation appealed
The court affirmed the magistrate )
decision.
The United Realty Company alb.
sorbed or gained control of nearly all
undeveloped suburban property i'll Sui.
folk. This includes purchases OF
Kingsboro Heights holdings for $4o,-
600 and the Montrose property for
$4,000
J. w. Wilkinson, aged so years, was
found HANGING from a ladder at the
rear end of his residence, in Roanoke
He was in his night clothes and was
discovered by his wife, who woke up
and found him missing. How long
he had been dead could not be de-
termined. He had been in i'll health
for several weeks and was very de-
spondent. He was a native OF Prince
Edward county.
In the Circuit Court at Winchester
a Jury in the case of David Edmond
son against the North British and
Mercantile Insurance Company re-
turned a verdict in favor of the plant
if for $500. Edmondson's store, at
Middletown. was burned in Febru-
arv. 1909, and trial of alleged guilty
parties followed. For want of salts
factory proof of loss the company re-
fused to pay the insurance.
Lexington Presbytery OF the Synod
If Virginia, in session at Bridgewater
adopted a strong resolution in oppo'
sition to the proposed organic union
of the Southern Presbyterian Church
with the Presbyterian Church in the
United States.
The most disastrous fire in the hi;
tory of Shenandoah occurred there
earlv the other morning. The flr'
originated in the Kaufman Hotel, i
is said, about 1890 o'clock. Ih'
flames spread rapidly, the efforts o
property owners and many residents