Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-11-11
THE OLD DOMINION
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St. Johns Church yard, Richmond
the body Of Edmund Pendleton, the
distinguished lawyer and statesman,
who was one of the sgners OF the De
claration of Independence and presi'
dent of the Virginia convention which
assembled in St. Johns Church Just
prior to the Revolutionary War. Ap'
plication has been made to the city
for reintermcnt and action IS AWAITED
The remains OF Sang Oyawa, Japan.
csc stuIent, who died OF typhoid fever
six months ago, and whose body, en-
banned, has been awaiting instructions
from his parents in Kobe. was taken
to Randolph Macon College, where
he was educated, by delegation OF
students and memorial services held
At night the body was taken to Wash
ington, where it will be cremated and
the ashes sent to his far-off home.
While shooting rats Tommy Pierce
the little son Of john Pierce, OF New
upton, Gloucester county, instantly
killed his small brother Marquis, who
STEPPED in front Of his gun.
-Four hundred men are expected to
be added to the pay roofs OF the Rlcn'
mond Locomotive Works, as contract:
have been signed for the building OF
20 locomotives for the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad and five for the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac.
The Petersburg and Norfolk Nav
igation Company has been organized
with T. +. Bowden, secretary and
treasurer, and John A. Gill, w. +
Ramey and James Weddel, as di.
rectors. 1t will run a steamer on
James River, between Petersburg and
Norfolk.
The Common Council has abolished
the Fire Board of Newport News and
turned the affairs OF the Fire Dc
Dartment over to the Committee on
Fire and Water.
Mrs. Annie Fishburne. vile OF I,
D. Fishburne, Jr., died at Charlottes'
vile. Her maiden name was Annie
Price.
Mr.. J. NJ. Yount. aged 80, died at
Staunton, at the home Of his mother,
Mrs. Z. R. Yount
Mrs. w. II. Layman. So years OF
age, who resides in The most fashion,
able resident section OF Roanoke, was
attacked by a negro in her own yard
about daylight. His purpose was EVIL
IDENTIFY that of assault, but she escaped
by rushing into the house and alarm
ing the occupants. He threatened 10
kill her II she screamed,
Temporarily demented by nervous
prostration, Henrietta Davis, wife OF
Alexander Davis, prosperous col
ored man, of Winchester, leaped from
thrd-story window and received
probable fatal injuries by falling on
4 bottle. cutting her arms and feet
and sustaining fracture of the skull
While reading a newspaper late the
other night H. w. Glove, a proml.
ncnt ieweler of Winchester, kicked
over coal-oil stove and set fire 10
his establishment, which had just
Ibeen thorough renovated. The fire
spread rapidly and was licking the
walls when extinguished by the hre-
men.
The resumption OF the manufacture
of pig iron in Southwest Virginia,
East Tennessee and Eastern Ken
tuckv now seems matter OF only
few weeks. The Virginia Iron. Coal
and Coke Company, OF Bristol, is
making preparations to start its plants
One Of the furnaces at Middlesboro
Ky.. will 60 in blast at once, and be
followed by one at Radford, then at
Max Meadows and Bristol
George NJ. Duke, OF Jefferson coun'
ty. died near Uvilla in his iitySev-
enth year.
John Rockcnbaugh, an old resident
of Hall Town, died in Jefferson coun'
ty.
The Petersburg Norfolk Navigation
Company, recently organized at Pet
ersburg, has chartered the steamer
Granite City, OF Baltimore, which will
be run between Petersburg and Nor
folk.
While Rev. William H. Mitchell!
of Portsmouth, fifty years old, OF
"Sanctifcatonist" belief, was deliver
ing an imprisoned sermon before the
Friends Church, Newport News, he
was stricken with apOpleXy and tel
dead i'll the pulpit. The tragic event
created great excitement among the
members Of the church, and physicians
were hurriedly summoned. They de-
clared, however, that death had been
instantaneous.
S. H. Buchanan, a banker, OF Jones.
boro, Ga, was shot i'll Danville and
is in critical condition. He was III
the room of Mrs. w. T. White, at
the latter's home, at the time and She
has been arrested, charged with the
crime. She declares, however, that II
was a case of attempted suicide. Buch-
anan is said TO have wife living III
Georgia. Mrs. White says she knew
Buchanan in Georgia before coming
to Virginia.
The body of II. c. Johnson, ma
chinst employed i'll the shipyard at
Newport News, was found OIL the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway track
near Toauo, cut almost III two by be-
ing run over by train. The man
had a wife and three children in Rich
mond, and it is said he was beating
his way to that city on the bumpers
of freight train when he is supposed
to have fallen to the track and was
run over by passing tram.
The fine residence ofs Judge John
w. Woods, in Roanoke, was burned
1t was new and nearly completed. The
cost was $500, covered by $4,000 IN
surance.
George Washington Calling, one OF
the most prominent citizens of Prince
Cooroe d;ed at his home in that cOutl>