Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-11-18
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pressed by debt, Miss Emma Probst
about rs years of age, drowned her.
self in Forest Hill Park lake, a short
distance from Manchester. Her body
was found there in the afternoon
Miss Probst and her mother had held
positions in baking establishment,
but there was not sufficient work tG
keep them steadily employed. The
young lady told her employer some
days ago that her debts worried her
so that she felt inclined to take hei
life. Friday morning the girl rose
early and went to the Allen & Gintei
branch of the American Tobacco
Company in search Of work. She
had no experience in that line, and
it is thought that she became deSpcr.
ate when she ascertained how little
she could make before she acquired
experience. With her last nickel she
paid her way on the street cars t.
Forest Hill Park. No one saw he,
approach the edge II the lake AMI
throw herself in, but the condition OF
the body when il was discovered
showed that she had been in the water
| only few hours.
Although he fell six stories and
struck the hard ground, Rufus Hlck'
man, a giant negro laborer, Of Rich
mond, escaped without broken bone,
although he is cut and bruised and
possibly internally injured. Hickman
had gone up to the sixth story on
construction elevator with a wheel
barow-load of material. He was en-
deavoring to roll the barrow off the
elevator when it slipped over the side
The negro chung to the handles and
the heavily loaded vehicle pulled him
over the side, both landing with q
crash on the ground below.
The city of Richmond formally TOOK
possession Of its new electric PUMPING
plant, which has been in the course
Of construction for a year. 1t has
500 horsepower and will pump 1000
gallons OF water minute.
Kenneth B. Mcleod, 20 years old
and veteran of the Spanish-Amcri.
can War, died in Suffolk. Though
afflicted with consumption, he fel'
better during the afternoon and was
out driving when he died. A widow
and 5-year-old son SURVIVE him. The
deceased and his widow who was
Miss Lille Dennis, were married i'll
Richmond on the eve OF the soldiers
departure to war.
Walter Rose and Jasper Ross, the
negroes charged with holding up and
robbing John Wills, oo-year-old far
mcr, two weeks ago in Amherst cOun-
ty, have been sent on to the grand
Jury by justice OF that county.
Detective Reynolds, of Newport
News, identified the negro captured
at Primers Point by Norfolk Coun-
ty officer Hubbard after a fight as
Shorty" Brown wanted for highway
robbery and jail breaking The negro
was shot twice in the breast and arm
before surreudcring. He bit Officer
Hubbard's hand severely in the en-
counter.
The Richmond Council is consider
ing recently offered resolution look
ing to a municipal ownership of the
street railways of that city. The lines
are now in the hands of receivers and
he resolution contemplates their pur-
chase by the city if the mortgage OIL
them is foreclosed. The idea was sug
gested by w. J. Bryan's recent stand
IN municipal ownership.
The Hastings Court OF Richmond
has under advisement the legality OF
an ordinance recently passed by the
City Council which forbids anyone
holding a city office from being a
member OF any political committee or
acting as judge or clerk of election.
Several Councilmen held such Offices
and they are making a fight to have
the ordinance declared illegal.
John Mcbride, who robbed the post
office at Port Norfolk last June, was
sentenced to the penitentiary Of Geor-
gia for five years in the Federal Court
at Norfolk. He got $500 in money
and property, and implicated two other
men, but there was no proof against
the others.
Because his wife would not quit he'
job in a peanut field when ordered,
Martie Martin, colored, of Southamp'
ton county, became enraged and fired
a pistol five time into crowd OF pea.
nut pickers. One bullet wounded his
wife in the arm and another struck
Sydney Williams, cOlored, on the
head. The ball which hit Williams
head was nattened and made little
impression. Martin escaped.
August Zocckler, a young butcher
of Fulton, committed suicide by jump
ing into the Ohio river. His body
was recovered a little later.
The Milk Producers Association Of
Virginia and Maryland, representing
shippers in Loudoun,. Fairfax and ad.
joining counties, has increased the
price of milk to IS cents gallon t.
dealers in Washington, D. c.. from
October to April, inclusive.
John Cornick, colored, OF Princes:
Anne county, whose house, is neal
Virginia Beach, was called TO the dooi
of his house the other night and shot
by Timothy Hopkins, another negro
with whom he had quarreled during
the day. Cornick died Immediately
and Hopkins fed and has not been ar
rested.
Newmarket Lodge, I. O. o. F., No
zoo, was instituted with the following
officers: r. d. Grabill noble grand
S. G. Good, ce-grand; B. H. Riddle
berger, chaplain; R. l.. Tdler, treas.
urcr; NJ. L. Stickley, warden; T. NJ
Wise, conductor; Z. f. Tidler, inside
guardian, and J. H. O'Roark, outsid,
guardian. Rev. NJ. A. Kciffer acted
as installing officer. his lodge start;
off with a membership OF 26
Lewis Smith, colored, who has been
driving the mail wagon between the
Fredericksburg postoffice and depots
and wharves, has been arrested on the