Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-01-20
The OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
The State.

consumption.
In the Corporation Court at Lynch
burg Herbert Burnley was convicted OF
breaking into a Chesapeake and Ohio
freight car last month and given a year
in the penitentiary.
The new Academy of Music in Lynch
burg, which cost $4,000, will be opened
on February with a musical comedy
The initial performance will be bene-
fit for the company, the proceeds being
used for the interior decorations of the
playhouse, and the seats are being sold
at $40 each.
Mr.. II. B. Sherman, the national or
gained for the American Society Of
Equity, will close his winter campaign
of the State with a rally at Lovington,
Nelson county. The object OF the So
c;ety is to organize the planters for
Withholding their products from the
market until the demand forces the
prices up. Mr.. Sherman is confident
that the cotton and tobacco belts will
be so well organized by the society dur
ing the present year that he expects 10
see the planters dictate the prices fol-
the crop OF 1905.
Two justices of the peace OF the Nor
folk city administration recently elected
are i'll trouble. ]. J. Blick was convicted
in the Corporation Court of collecting
fees of SCI in excess of the legal fees on
bail bonds, the charge being extortion
J. J. Kelly is under investigation by a
committe of the City Councillor alleged
malfeasance in office in issuing warrant:
for arrests not properly drawn.
jules Morein, a citizen of Norfolk
for many years, died at his home, or
Debrec avenue, Park Place, after ar
illness from which he had been con.
fined to his home for two years. The
deceased was 70 years old, and leaves 8
widow and four children, the latter be-
ing Mrs. L. r. Bohannon, Mrs. NJ. Y.
Ahren, Msr. Forrest McGinnis and Miss
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Charles l.. Batten, Of Princess Anne
county. SO years old, died at St. Vim
cents Hospital, Norfolk.
At Sussex Courthouse Charles Ran
dolph Stewart was acquitted. He was
charged with numbering his cousin, An.
ME Boiling, and then burning her body
The jury stood at first eight for &C
quittal and four for verdict Of mfr
der in the second degree. After consid-
Grafton the four came over to the ma
iority. The acquittal of Stewart is said
TO be due 10 the proof of an alibl and the
instruction OF the Court OH that point.
The girl, who was an inmate of Stew
arts home, disappeared, and lated hei
charred remains were found in the
woods. Her death remains a mystery,
but the theory is that she was struck By
lightning.
Zacharial, Armstrong, young white
man of Goochland county, was ~ years
ago accused of criminal assault upon
the daughter of Mrs. Susan Peasants,
and was sentenced to term in the peni-
tertiary, which he served. The girls
mother has just submitted a statement
embodying the affidavit of her daughter
made just before her death, in which
she swore that Armstrong was not the
guilty man. The young man, who is
out on a conditional pardon, will be
granted all absolute pardon by the
governor very shortly. He was thrifty
man, with wife and children and
some property. All of the latter has
been swept away.
The Berkeley Town Council has adapt
ed resolutions calling upon Mayor Allen
TO transact all public business in the
Town Hall. This grew out Of the re-
cent trial in private of sensational
police court case of much public inter
est.
The Atlantic Coast Lines new Flor.
ida limited train is said to have cost
$4,000, Exclusive of the engine and bag
gage car. Richly furnished bridal
chambers and drawing rooms are among
the features.
George l.. Barton, former general
manager of the Suffolk and Carolina
railroad, and OF the Gay Manufacturing
Company, Suffolk, has entered suit
against both these corporations fot
salary he alleges 10 be due him for the
month OF November.
Petersburg citizens are urging an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for improving
and widening its harbor
The several boards of directors OF
State hospitals held their quarterly
meeting at the Central State Hospital
in Dinwiddlc county, three miles from
Petersburg. Reports were received from
each hospital. which showed that in all
four hospitals in the State there are
1914 patients.
Mr. John B. Newton, vice-president
and general manager of the Virginia
and Southwestern and the Virginia and
Southeastern Railway Companies, in
statement from Radiord, Va, says there
is no truth in the reported sale OF the
companies he represents TO II. b. Hol-
Inns & Co., Of New York. and Eugene
Zimmerman, of Cincinnati who are re-
garded as representing the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railway
The board of governors of the Peters
burg Chamber of Commerce has ap
pointed committee to appear before
the City Council at its meeting and con-
fer with that body i'll regard to inviting
President Roovscelt 10 visit Petersburg
There are many sights in and around
Petersburg, which doubtless would in
forest the President, especially the
noted battlehelds
Wednesday night the sawn!ill of A.
NJ. Nash, near Newland. was destroyed
by fire. Loss, about $500; no insur-
ance
Mrs. Feltner, wife OF Adolphus Felt
ner, of Clarke county, died, aged &c
years. Her husband and four children
survive her.
The barn belonging 10 Mr.. J. w.
Clark, near Unionville, i'll Orange coun-
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