Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-05-06
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Temperance Union of Portsmouth an
nounced that it would take a leading
part in the election for mayor, which
takes place this month. The union
will use its influence against any can
didate backed by the liquor dealers.
William Bradford, in trying to get
off car on the narrow gauge rail-
road running from Edinburg to Lib
erty Furnace fell on the track and a
car passed over his body, crushing him
so seriously that he died. He was
about 28 Years of age.
Henry Woodland, a negro convict
ed of the murder of Frank Tabor.
white, at Pocahontas last December.
was hanged at the Richmond Jail.
Tabor was mine boss for the Poca-
hontas collerics. He had had difficulty
with Woodland, and the latter shot
him dead. On the gallows Woodland
made speech, saying he was innocent
and was going to heaven. The man
was half Indian. He was native OF
Louisiana. When he was first arrested
he was with difficulty saved from
being lynched.
A daring but unsuccessful attempt
was made TO wreck the southbound
Chesapeake and Ohio fast passenger
train, which passes through Alexan
dria about II.34 P. NJ, at St. Asaph
Two heavy railroad ties had been
placed across the track and stone
wedged in between the rails at q
switch. The obstruction was discov'
cred by the operator at st. Asaph
Vergil Davis, who, when he attempt
ed TO operate the switchboard to give
the train a clear track, found that il
would not work, and upon Investigate
my found the obstruction. He Their
ran up the track toward the approach
ing train and signaled, stopping the
rain few hundred feet from where
the ties were across the track.
By the action of their indignant
fellow soldiers two cadets have been
summarily dismissed from the Vir'
ginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacks
buzz. The commandant of the in
stitution was not consulted, and knew
nothing of the affair until the Of
tenders, whose names are not known!
had gone. The offense charged
against the two young men was in
sulting girls while in state of in
toxication. AS soon as the cadet
corps heard of the occurrence they
held a meeting, made an investiga
ton and decided that the parties were
guilty. A committee of two from
each class was appointed and in
formed the pair that they could nc
longer remain at Blacksburg. The
whole corps then drew up in marital
array upon the parade ground. The
two culprits were brought forth, and
while the young soldiers looked on in
silence the stripes and monograms
were cut from their uniforms. They
were then ordered to leave college
as expeditiously as possible, only suftl'
Gent time being allowed them to pack
their trunks. In the past action SINH
lar to the above has been taken BY
the cadets, who are jealous of the
reputation of their corps.
Quite a stir was created at tht Uni.
versity of Virginia, Charlottesville,
when it became known that student
of teh law department and one in the
engineering school had been expelled
for failure to attend lectures. Both
young men are poular in athletic and
fraternity circles and socially prom
inent.
The commonwealth attorney OF
Richmond stated in court that it is
becoming we'll nigh impossible to con.
vict those accused of selling liquor
on Sunday because witnesses perJure
themselves. In the case of one Mas
sic two witnesses against him failed
to remember anything prejudicial to
him, The presumption of perjury
was so strong that the pair were put
under bonds for twelve months as
suspicious characters. The liquor
dealer was perforce discharged.
The stockholders of the Chesapeake
Transit Company, of Norfolk, author
ized an increase in the capital stock
from 100000 to $I,5oo,ooo. The
Transit. which operates trolley line
from Norfolk to Cape Henry, re-
gently bought a majority of the stock
of the Norfolk and Southern Railroad
which was formerly owned by the
On petition of creditor of the
Blackstone and Southern Railway,
Judge Waddill, of the Federal Court
appointed A. B. Dickson
and Benham Morris, of Blackstone
receivers for the road. The claims OF
Watson, the creditor, who is a New
Jersey contractor, amount, it is stated,
% $4,000.
Thomas Owen and J. w. Wheatley,
who are charged with the murder of
R. H. Crockett, a special agent of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, have
been captured after a desperate fight
n the mountains near the head of
Big Creek, in Logan county, and are
low in jail at Huntington.
Thomas Mccormick, Roy Young
md Richard Young were sentenced
TO a year each in the penitentiary in
he Corporation Court at Lynchburg
'or having stolen ffty-six pairs Of
shoes, valued at SLIP, on April IS from
4 Chesapeake and Ohio freight car
nto which they had broken.
The local option election held at
Basic City on April rs, and which was
Won by the "wets," will be contested
n the courts. The first step in the
proceedings was taken by the "drys,"
when complaint was filed in the Cir.
.uit Court at Staunton. The COM
'laint alleges that the election was
ordered with the view and purpose to
prevent an honest and fair expression
If the voters of Basic City; that the
county Court had no jurisdiction to
,rder the election; that it was fraudu.
emily ordered and illegally held
The Halpin Newcomb Tobacco
Company, of Richmond, and the Bland