Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-04-22
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From ALI Over
the State.

Templar, at Stanton, Is having lis
asylum and antechambers frescoed by
Valiant & Co.. of Baltimore, the Tres
coers of the new Valley Bank building
there. The Masonic banquet hall VIII
also be improved
The old wooden warehouse between
Baker & Browns and A. ErSkine
Millers, in Stanton, will be tori
down and fve-story brick structure
erected for HUMPHREYS & Timberlake
wholesale confectioners.
CYRUS r. Fox, OF Reading, Pa, Is
to manage the Roanoke Fair agar
this year.
The Spring term of the United
States District Court, Judge Henry
c. Mcdowell, presiding, is in session
at Danville.
Miss Margaret Mason has returned
f. her home, in WoodViIc, after ar
absence of some mouths in Charles
town, Baltimore and Washington.
The Bath County Telephone Com
pany will extend its line from Warm
Springs to Millboro, with a centra
office at Millboro Springs, AMI iron
there will extend down Cowpasture
river to Clifton Forge. They vii
also build a line up the river to con
meet with Wiliamsville line, and q
line from the central Office to Goshen
There were II conversions as re-
suit of a revival at Warm Springs
conducted by Rev. William c. White
assisted by Rev. Henry Miller, OF
Rockbridge Baths. Rev. Colin Stokes
later began revival in Covington.
The Bath county farm has been solo
by the Board of Supervisors, who
will purchase better place. Mr.. }
i. Blakey bought the property tor
$1,000. -,
The Bath county School Board will
meet on May a to select books.
Dr. Thomas McClintic, of Washing
ton, spent several days with his
mother, Mrs. William McCllntic, o.
WilliamsvilIe, Bath county, on his
way to Tampico, Mexico, where he
goes to study yellow fever and Other
tropical diseases.
The Old Diminion Steamship Com
pany will appeal to the United States;
Supreme Court from the decision OF
the State Supreme Court upon the
corporation commissions assessing
for taxation the company's steamers
engaged in traffic between Norfolk and
points out Of the State.
What is believed to have been .
systematic conspiracy to detraud the
Cumberland Valley Railroad Company
out of thousands of dollars worth OF
lumber was unearthed at Winchester
by detective w. B. Blair, of York
Pa. AS result James F. Hotel, a
lumber Inspector for the railroad, Is
in jail and is alleged to have made a
complete confession. Officers are on
the track OF others who are suspected
of being in the conspiracy Several
arrests OF prominent persons will, It Is
said, take place in a few days. he
plan was for Hottell to give vouch-
ers to the haulers who were IN the
conspiracy for a greater quantity Of
timber than they had really delivered
Agent Bentz of the railroad then gave
checks to the haulers for the amount
of the vouchers and they and Hotel
divided the surplus. One hauler made
a complete written confession. In this
way, it is alleged, the railroad has been
systematically robbed of thousands
of dollars.
Robert V. Ladow, of the depart
ment of Justice at Washington, is If
Richmond to secure the original pa.
pers in the Aaron Burr trial. LadoW
will experience no difficulty III Sc.
curing them. They are i'll the custod.
of the United States District Court
An order allowing the papers to BIZ
turned over to the government to BIZ
exhibited at St. Louis has been drawn
The hotel proprietors of Richmond
agreed to provide a hall and com
mittee rooms and to pay for printing
and music if the Ienomocratic state
convention is held there. Committees
were appointed to begin work on thu
necessary arrangements at once
The residence of Emerson Dennis
near Franktown. was destroyed b,
fire. The loss was about $4,000, partly
covered by insurance. Part OF the
household effects were saved.
The Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany, through Messrs. White, Iuns
tall & Tom, of Norfolk, will appeal tt
the United States Supreme Court from
the decision of the State Supreme
Court upon the corporation cOmmlS
sion's assessing for extra taxation the
company's steamers engaged in trail
fc between Norfolk and points out o.
the state. The ground taken is tha
the company is chartered TIN Ter the
laws of New Jersey and liable to tax
alton by that state.
D.f,o Choeb,ra epOtuppr on tDC
tug Ellis, was tried in Norfolk toi
shooting George Alger, also an engl
neer of the tug. Cheshire was giver
one year in prison. The prisoners
wife and child, who were in court
wept when the verdict was rendered
| Cheshire is yet to be tried foF shoot
ing Engineer Davenport, of the same
tug. Cheshire was drunk at the time
Of the shooting, which was without
| provocatiOn.
The Virginia. Caroline Chemical
| Company has called a meeting OF
stockholders for May Is, in Richmond
to consider the issuance of $6,ooo,ooc
Of preferred stock to cancel the float
+ ing debt incurred last summer. The
|; stock will bear 8 per cent. interest
"The company borrowed 10000, 900 last
summer" said an officer of the com
pany. "Of that sum it has beer
found necessary to use only S4,5oo,'
600. The proposed issue of So 10000
of preferred stock will enhance rather
than depress the value of the common
stock" The business of the conf
pany is said to have increased 20 pei
cent. last year.
NJ. L. Bauserman, who runs the
Middletown stave factory near Fro:
Royal, has bought of Keller & 90
two tracts of land lying near Cedar.
Vile. known as the McDermott lane