Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-12-23
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zee on the Charge VI NOhoNN'o "
listilery According to report made
o United States Marshal Frank G.
Thompson, in Richmond, when the rev.
.nue men caught the minister ne asked
he officers to Join him in prayer before
,hey led him away to imprisonment
Governor Montague has declined to
grant a pardon 10 Harry Long, of Ports
mouth, a youth sentenced to serve
year in jail for killing his one-tlme
friend. Howard Cleaton. Il find no sutfl-
.ient reason for clemency" says the
Governor.
Frank Jay Gould was elected presi,
dent of the Old Dominion Iron and
Nail Works at Richmond. Mr.. Gould
mas recently acquired controlling IN
!erest in the plant.
Presence of mind saved Mrs. Bar
tholomew Martin, of Richmond, from
terrible death and her house from
destruction. In attempting to put out
kerosene lamp she blew down the chin
ney. An explosion followed, which SET
fire to her clothing. Rushing from the
house, she threw herself down in the
snow and rolled about until the fire
was extinguished. Then, remembering
her little child alone in the house, she
filed her apron with snow, ran back and
out out the flooring, which was ablaze.
The senior class of the Virginia Poly.
.echnic Institute, which recently gave
offense to the faculty, by circular let
.er sent to the parents of members OF
the Junior class, held meeting and
prepared another letter, stating that the
first had been sent when the situation
was not thoroughly understood
The juniors, resigned in body be-
cause of the expulsion of Cadet Boiling
Coulter, said to have been one of those
concerned in the hanging in effigy OF
the cadet ccmmandant. The action OF
the seniors was satisfactory to the fac
ulty. A number Of applications for re-
instatement have been received from the
juniors, and a committee of professors:
has been given charge of the matter
Peace now reigns al the institute.
John Oxford, treasurer and stock.
holder of the Stuart Manufacturing
Company, of Stuart, has been sent to
Jail in default of bail bond Of $1,000
on the charge of forgery. The charge
made against Oxford is that he forged
and uttered oo-day acceptance of ST.,
200 on A. Lobdale & Co., of New York.
diScounting the paper at Danville bank
Oxford is New Yorker. who went &c
Stuart about year ago. lie enjoyed
the full confidence of the people there
As the Patrick jail was recently burned
Oxford will await the action of tho
grand jury in the Henry county jail al
Martinsvile
A dispatch received from St. Louis
announces the death of Mrs. Albert P
Miller, 30 years old, wife Of forme,
prominent shoe dealer of Winchester
She had been taken from her home al
Trenton, Mo-, TO St. Louis hospital tc
undergo All operation for appendicitis
She was Mr.. Nliller's second wife and l.:
survived by him and one son, Carroll
Miller. His first wife was Miss Fowler
daughter OF former State Treasurer Of
Maryland.
]. f. Wright, alias W. f. Stains, is
in Jail in Manchester, under three indlct'
ments charging him with HOUSEKEEPING
and having burglars tools in his posses,
sion. '7n-a trunk in his room was found
a collection of watches, diamonds, ear
rings, finger rings, stickpins and Other
jewelry worth i'll the aggregate about
ST. 900 The man is said to be wanted
in Wheeling, w. Va, AMI I.ynchburg
on charges OF burglary and is said to be
d fugitive from Tennessee justice.
Judge Henry Clay Mcdowell, who
succeeded the late John Paul as Judge
of the United States courts for the
Western dirstrict of Virginia, has draft
ed a bill, which is to be introduced III
Congress by Representative Slemp, for
the creation of another judicial district
to be known as the Middle district OF
Virginia, which will, il passed, abolish
the court of that jurisdiction at llar-
risonburg. The new court is proposed
to be established at Charlottesville, and
these counties will compose the district:
Warren, Shenandoah, Hall
fax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick, Char
lotte, Campbell, Bedford, Appomattox
Cumberland, Fluvanna, Al
bemarle, Nelson, Amherst, Rockbrldge,
Bath, Highland. Augusta, Rockingham,
Greene, Madison, Page and Rappahan-
mock. The bill provides that the pres,
cnt Judge of the Western district shall
be the Judge of the Middle district, but
it is provided that the district attorney
and his assistant and the marshal OF
the Western district shall continue 10
exercise their duties in that district.
Representatives of 20 mills, controlling
practically the entire output Of Virginia
and North Carolina pine lumber, decid-
ed not to make any change in the scale
of prices which became effective Novem.
Der 10. An invitation from the Secrc-
tary of Agriculture to attend the Amerl'
can Forest Congress in Washington
from January to E, 1905, was accepted
and delegation named to represent the
association.
Charles Bolden, colored, janitor of the
Loyal Street Public School, Danville
was arrested on the charge of selling
liquor to a I2-year-old boy pupil of the
institution. The head janitor discovered
the plot in time to keep the liquor out
of the hands Of the boy, and it was on
his complaint that the arrest was made.
Bolden makes no denial of the grave
charge, but claims to have been ignorant
of any violation of the law.
Judge William Gordon Robertson, OF
Roanoke, has been retained to defend
Charles Fishburne, the slayer of DR.. Le-
ew, at Roanoke. Judge A. Phlegar, of
Montgomery, and Hall, Robertson &
Wood, Of Roanoke, have also been re-
aimed. The trial is to commence at the
January term of the court.