Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-10-07
THE OLD DOMINION
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!ate, Travellers Rest, in Stafford
county, to the wife of DR.. 0. D. Nor
ton, surgeon in the United States
Navy, for $4,000. Mrs. Norton has
paid only $500. She has made repairs
to the residence, but it is understood
that she now declines to take the
property. Mr.. Gray has, entered suit
here for $4,000 damages and has
levied on valuable furniture Mrs. Nor
ton has stored.
In the Circuit Court of Charles
County Judge Thomas w. Harrison
sentenced Joseph H. Copenhaver for
IL years in the Virginia Penitentiary.
Copenhaver's attornies, Marshall Nc
Cormick and Blackburn Smith, Sc
cured a stay of sentence for 90 days
and will take the case to the State
Supreme Court Copenhaver shot and
killed his wife last April while on.
spree. He had been confined in the
insane asylum at Stanton on several
occasions.
J. Lewis Evans, one of the Oldest
locomotive engineers in the world,
died in Lynchburg, in the seventy
ninth year of his age. He had been
in the employ of the Southern and the
older companies for over half CEN
fury, and for 40 years was engineer on
passenger trains, having operated the
first train on the old Grange and Al
exandria Railroad He had lived in
Lynchburg about 40 years, but during
the past year had been very feeble,
Mrs. Catherine A. Brady. widow OF
the late John L. Brady of Scotttsville,
Albemarle county, died at the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. Robert A. Sanders,
at New Baltimore in her nlnety-hrst
year.
AS the result of a row at Buena
Vista, Stuart Farrow, resident OF
that city, had his legs cut off by a
freight train, and Edward Tinsley is
now confined in the jail at Lexington
for shooting Robert White. The lat
ter are negroes and quarreled over
liquor. Farrow was watching the fight
and did not notice the approach OF
the train. He is not expected to live.
Mrs. Jane B. Meade. widow of Rich
ard Kidder Meade, died at her home,
near White Post. Clarke county, aged
Sc years. She was daughter OF
Benjamin Grymes, of Somerset, King
George county.
A large mortgage is now being
spread upon the records of the Cir
cult Court of Warren County. 1t
is deed of trust by the Norfolk and
Western Railroad Company to Sc
cure the sum of $3s,oooo 900. The in
strument, which is in book form,
bears the date of July I, 1904, and
contains 70 pages of closely printed
matter. The State tax amounts to
$4,000, and the document has to be
recorded in every county through
which this railway passes. The trustee
is the Guaranty Trust Company of
New York.
The attempt to wreck freight train
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
near Lynchburg evidently was
planned by four men whose purpose
was robbery. One Of the men was on
the train when it struck the obstruc-
ton, and when it stopped he began
throwing merchandise from car
The attempt to loot the train, how
Roy Christie. ID years old, of New
port News, was thrown from a bicy-
Gle and had his skull fractured from
ear to ear. He was removed to the
hospital and an operation was per-
formed, but the physicians entertain
little hope for his recovery. The boy
was speeding along the street on his
way from school, when his wheel
struck rock.
In the Police Court at Lynchburg.
Mayor Smith acquitted E. E. Lips
comb, an expressman, of the charge
of feloniously shooting Pullman Con
ductor Charles L. Harrison in that
city two weeks ago. the evidence
showing that the shooting was ar
accident. A fine SIS was imposed or
Lipscomb form criminal carelessness
in handling a loaded weapon. The
case will be appealed.
The Lynchburg City Council adopt
ed resolution in joint session author.
izing the City Attorney to take steps
to stop the pollution of the James
river by pulp mills. 1t is believed that
this is the beginning of big fight
to be made against pulp mill owners
in the vicinity of Covington. Recent
ly the water has become black.
Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, Of
Oatlands, has donated to Leesburg
the free services of professional
nurse in memory of her sister, Miss
Morton, daughter OF ex-Vicc Pres
ident Levi P. Morton, of New York,
who died recently in Paris from ap-
pendicitis.
Walter S. Johnson, of New York,
has sold his minority OF $500 shares
in the Norfolk and Southern Rail
road, and Albert H. Flint, of New
York, president of 1.-THE Chesapeake
Transit Company, is in control Of the
two properties. The merger OF the
roads was determined months ago, but
was stopped ON the application of the
minority stockholders by an injunc-
ton from Judge Greenbaum, of New
York. The price was less than $780,
300, but the names of the purchasers
are withheld by the attorney who
made the transfer in New York. This
sale confirms the merger of the two
roads and assures the value of the
Line to Cape Henry by
the profits of the Norfolk and South
ern.
Benjamin F. Levy, 20 years OF age,
of Norfolk, was sent to Jail for beat
ing his mother, 60 years of age. after.
a quarrel about rife the boy wished
to take.
The third annual exhibition Of the
L ynchburg Horse Show Association,