Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-05-27
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The fourteenth annual conference
of the Home Mission Society of the
Virginia Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, adjournej
at Lynchburg to meet next year al
Central church, Portsmouth. The fol
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year: Mrs. w. J. Young, OF
Richmond, president; Mrs. J. T. Mas
tin, of Richmond, first vice president
her assistant to be appointed; Mrs
L. B. Betty, of Richmond, second vice
president; Mrs w. W. Lear, of Char
lottesville, third vice-president; Mrs
NJ. n. Norman, of Lynchburg, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. K. |. Ow
ems, of Lynchburg, assistant; Mrs. {
v Winfree, of Lynchburg, treasur
err Mrs. H. E. Wall, of Farmville, re-
cording secretary; Mrs. Minetree
Folkes, of Richmond, superintendent
of literary and press work.
J. Scott Moore, clerk of the Rock
bridge county trustee electoral schoo'
board, has been notified by Frank
P. Brent, secretary of the state boart
Of education, that Superintendent
Southal has appointed G.. Willis Ell
finger, of Natural Bridge district
acting superintendent of schools OF
Rockbridge county, vice DR.. A. Nasf
Johnston, deceased, until the edu
cational board of Virginia can APP
point a successor.
Under a decision rendered by the
state corporation commission the Dis
NAL Swamp Canal Company must
pay taxes to the state just as Other
corporations do. The company was
also fined $Ioo and costs for fail
ure to make returns of its property
for taxation. The company will prob
ably take an appeal.
Contract for fuel for use in the pub.
lie building at Norfolk, Va, for the
next fiscal year has been awarded to
the Norfolk Coal and Ice Company.
The Norfolk and Southern Rail
road, recently indicted by the Prin'
cess Anne county grand jury, was
fined $500 for violating the Jim Grow
car law, which provides for separate
coaches for the races. This is the
first conviction of its kind in the state
Tilted by the man to whom she
came to Richmond from Norfolk to
wed two months ago, Mrs. Lula B.
Harper, formerly of Ohio, committed
suicide sometime during the night by
drowning herself in the reservoir lake
near Richmond. Her body was found
sAoating in three and half feet Of
water, showing that she had lain down
and determinedly kept her head TN
do. curf,oa ,,nt,1 Ja,+t, c,,,,a II N,
hat, pocketbook and comb were found
on bench near the edge of the water.
At the concluding session of the
Virginia Conferences of Charities and
Corrections at Norfolk the following
officers were elected: c. E. Vawter,
of Albemarle county, president; Rev
C. S. Blackwell, Norfolk; John NJ
Higgins, Richmond; Col. S. w. Lane,
Williamsburg, Prof. c. w. Kent
Charlottesville, and Thomas H. d
Lafferty, Roanoke, vice-presdents.
A heavy freight train crashed into
the rear of a passenger train near
Penola, on the Richmond, Frcdercks-
burg and Potomac Railroad. The last
coach was split open and Engineer
Harry Perdue, of Richmond, was pain
fully bruised. Failure to display sig
nails is said to have been the cause.
The stockholders of the Krise Bank
ing Company have decided to con.
vert that institution into national
bank, to be known as the American
National Bank of Lynchburg, with q
paid up capital of $4,000.
J. Thompson Baird was nominated
for the mayoralty of Portsmouth
Baird's nomination is equivalent tc
election. He has been mayor OF
Portsmouth for twenty-eight years
Mayor Baird had two opponents, and
it required a two-days contest to de-
eide the election.
George Hansborough, driver for
the Belle Pre- Bottle Works of Alexan
dria, was killed by an engine on the
Southern Railroad at the crossing in
front of the Office of the bottle works
the horse he was driving being also
killed. NJ. Hansborough was about
s. years old, and is survived by
widow and two children.
David Hook, a prisoner at the Win
chester jail, escaped from police
man by clever ruse. He apparently
got a message stating that one OF his
children was dying and begged sc
hard to be allowed to see the chile
before it died that a court order wa:
issued granting his request Not
wishing to intrude on the supposed
death bed scene the officer stood nea,
rear door while Hook went into
his house. Hook then escaped by the
front door and has not been captured
His child was not sick. He had JUS
been sentenced to year for larceny
James M. Anderson, as years Of
age, died near Winchester of hydro
phobia, after suffering terrible agony
A year ago he was bitten by dog
said to have been mad, and later he
showed symptoms of hydrophobia
Again he was attacked by another
mad dog and terribly bitten. Aboui
May I hydrophobia developed, and i
was necessary to tie and handcuf
him in bed.
William Sleadman, Jr, aged about
10 years, son of William Sleadman, o.
Leesburg, while attempting to boart
running freight train at Palonar
Springs, near Leesburg, was so seri
ously injured by the train running
over both his legs that amputatior
will be necessary.
The Sanford & Brooks Company
of Baltimore, general contractors fo'
the building of the Norfolk and AT
lantic Terminal Line, trolley from
Norfolk to Sewels Point, filed a me
chanics' lien upon the property, claim
ing $II4,7748o balance alleged to b.