Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-05-20
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All Ovar
the State.

high-prlce record on the Richmond
market this week, reaching $40 a
hundred pounds. The tobacco which
brought that price was raised by Mrs.
Blanche Rcy, of Caroline county.
The Anti-Dey faction is considering
the suggestion that its voters take no
part in the new primary at Norfolk,
in which they claim the Dey forces
will have all the election machinery,
Mayor Dickey. of Bristol, on petit
ton of 42o residents, vetoed the or
dinance providing that cows shall not
be allowed to run at large in that
town.
The F. L. Sublett Hay Company, OF
Harrisonburg, shipped an entire spec
ia tran-load of p cars OF hay to
Norfolk for export.
The Virginia Daughters of the
American Revolution have raised over
81 900 for the erection of the Month
cello Building at the St. Louis Expo
sition. Mrs. V. NJ. Strother, OF Lynch,
burg, has been appointed regent OF
the Virginia Building.
Richmond merchants are moving to
prevent the removal of the headquar'
tiers and relaying station of the Pos
tai Telegraph Company from Rich'
mond to Washington.
Mr.. J. II. Leslie, of Leesburg, has
been awarded the contract for the
erection of I4,ooo-gallon tank al
Mount Weather, the United States
weather station in Loudoun county,
Rev. F. D. Martin, pastor OF the
Roanoke Baptist Church. has declined
a call to Salisbury, N. {.
The crop report SHOWS that most
of the Virginia corn crop has been
planted and that spring wheat is max
ing considerable progress.
The largest quantity of strawber'
ries that ever passed through Rich
mond was handled by the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway Company. Tues
day night. There were 255 retrlg,era!
tor cars, making IL trains, all OF which
were loaded with strawberries and
vegetables from Florida, Georgia
North Carolina and South Carolina on
the way to Northern and Western
cities.
Harry Hanrahan, rural mail carrier
OH the route from Portsmouth to Nam
semond county, was tried at Deanf
Station on six warrants on charge
of selling liquor without a license
The defense was that the liquor wa'
purchased as an accommodation tot
persons in the county. FINES aggre
eating 5000 were imposed.
Henry L. Myers, son of Major A
Myers well known insurance agent
of Norfolk, was shot in the head ane
seriously wounded in handling PTS
to1 He fell to the floor of his bed
room and bled profusely, but thu
physicians say the wound is not dan
eerous if complications do not arse
Members of the family deny thai
there was an attempt to commit SUI
eide.
War is in progress in Richmond
between members of the Stuart Monu
ment Association because of the Sc
lection of the model offered by Fred
erick Moynihan, of New York. The
association has 100000 with which to
erect monument to the memory Of
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. Those opposed
to the Moynihan design claim thai
it Is practically an exact copy OF thu
equestrian statue to General Outram
in Calcutta, the design for which wal
prepared by Foley, whose pupil Moy'
milan was. Strenuous efforts are be-
ing made to induce the committee
! OF award to reconsider its decision.
In fight at Roanoke with colored
moon shincr named Albert Greasy
United States Deputy Marshal J J
Harris, in order to save his own lie
fired two shots into the Negroes body
one of the bullets passing near TIT
heart. The negro had knocked Har'
ris down and was trying to shoo'
him. Greasy has figured in hght'
with the officials on several occa
sions. His wounds are not though
to be fatal.
DR.. !. A. c. Chandler, dean of thu
faculty of Richmond Academy.
branch of Richmond College, has ten
dered his resignation to become edi
tor of the publications of Silver, Bur
dette & Co., of New York. DR.
Chandler is regarded as one OF TIT
brightest young educators i'll the state
At the commencement exercises o
the University College of Medicine
Richmond, ffty-two graduates re
ceived diplomas. DR.. Henry Levi
Smith, president of Davidson College
North Carolina, was orator OF tn
evening.
The New York and Atlantic ex
press, known in railroad circles a
No. 40, on the Southern Railroad
was wrecked about midnight at Rock
fish. Although every car OF the tran
COMPOSED of six cars-was total
wrecked, none of the passengers wer
injured. The dead number only two
negro tramps, names unknown, VIII
were riding on top OF the expires
coach. One died a short time ate
the accident of injuries sustained
the wreck. The escape OF the pas
senpers and crew is nothing short
miraculous.
The following order OF interest
shippers all over the state was issue
bv the corporation commission;
;s ordered that so much of rule. 3 a
requires notice to consignee OF tn
arrival of shipments be suspended
r. ali steamboat and steamship con
panies and lines, except IN the cas-
If shipments consigned to and arri'
ing at the following cities, towns an
placee in Virginia.: Richmond, hle'
andria. Fredericksburg, PETERSBURG
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport. New
Hampton, Smithfeld, City Point an
West Point, provided that no whar
aae. storage or demurrage charge
are to be made on shipments comm
within the suspension prescribed
this order"
Edward Maupin, 60 years old, W;
.,,,, over INV a passenger train on II