Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-19
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From Ali Over
The State.

French Ambassador, the members of
the General Society of the Cincinnati
went to Yorktown and spent an entire
day inspecting that historic place, where
a century and half ago CORVALLIS sur
rendered to the combined armies and
fleets of the Americans and the French.
The distinguished visitor was intensely
interested in all that he saw. He will,
it is said, write an article on Yorktown.
Announcement was made at LynchEurg
that Rev. DR.. Paul Whitehead, presiding
elder of Norfolk district DR.. R. E.
Blackwell, president of Randolph Macon
| College, and Congressman Carter Glass,
| of Lynchburg, have been appointed from
Virginia by the College of Bishops to
represent the Methodist Episcopal
| Church South in the Interchurch Con-
ference on Federation, which meets in
New York November IS to 20, 1905.
Patrolman Robert A. Phillips, who
shot and killed Artilleryman George A..
Dowrey, in Phoebus, was sent on to the
grand Jury and was later released on
| bail Of $1,000. The verdict of the cor
oner's jury recites that Dowrey was
| killed by Phillips while the officer was
| on duty and was endeavoring to retake
an escaped prisoner. Dowrey'S body
was sent to LOWELL Mass, for inter-
ment. Edward Johnson, a machlnest,
employed at Fort Monroe, was fneds$2o
on the charge of endeavoring to incite
riot in connection with the killing Of
Dowrey.
A million dollars worth of waterfront
property has been acquired in Ports
mouth by persons connected with the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad The pre-
sumption is that the road has an ALI
ance with the Rock Island and other
Western railways to furnish Atlantic
terminals for exports.
During a sever thunderstorm at Dan
Vile, which ragged from midnight until
| the morning was we'll advanced, the
First Baptist Church was struck by
| lightning and set on fire. The interior
of the building was completely destroy
ed, the walls being about all that re-
mains. The loss is estimated at $4,000
with an insurance of $2I,5oo.
Mrs. Eliza Barton, wife of Andrew
J. Barton of Jeter's Chapel, died while
| on visit to her son, at Vinton. She
was &C years old and leaves a large
family.
|. o. Gardner died in Norfolk from
stroke of paralysis. He was "a years
of age and for many years prominent
real estate agent.
Mrs. Maggie Irwin, wife of MIR. L,
R. Irwin, of Woodstock, died after 9
! short illness, aged about 40 years. She
is survived by her husband, one son
and three daughters.
Mr.. George r. Ford, of Round Hill
has announced himself candidate ioI
reelection to the State Senate tom tht
district composed 70 Loudoun and Fat
| quier counties.
MIR. William Owens, of Montgomery
county, Maryland, has bought the Det
wiler farm of $50 acres, near Herndon
from w. L. Palmer.
Ground was broken for the foundation
of the new gas works in Fredericksburg
| Councilman George II. Morrison threw
the first spadeful of dirt
Betty Washington Lewis Chapter.
| Daughters of the American Revolution
has requested the Mayor Of Fredercks
burg to call mass-meeting to urge thai
the remains of John Paul Jones be IN
tered there.
An OK on the farm of Mr.. George W..
Thompson, in Lancaster county, .gorcd
| two valuable horses, killing one OF them
instantly and and the other will proba
bly, die.
lanes Coburn, painter, about s.;
years old, of Winchester, attempted to
commit suicide by drinking the contents
of a bottle containing fluid used Tor
washing metal. He was found in a
diving condition by the police and taken
TO headquarters, where his life was saved
by heroic work.
Having disregarded the warning OF his
parents to be careful in handling kero-
sene oil. Lennie Jones, I2-year-old son
| of Junius Jones, sought to light with Oil
a stove fire at his home, in Nansemond
county. The stove exploded and so bad
" injured Lennie that: he lived about
four minutes.
A deal has been consummated at
Lynchburg by which tie Radford Pipe
Works, at Radford, passes into the pos
session of the Lynchburs: Foundry Com
| pany. of which Henry E. McWane is
president. The Radford plant is now be-
ing operated by the Glamorgan Foundry
Company under lease which expires
in July, 1906, at which time the Nc
Wane people will come into full posses
sion. Actual transfer of the property
will take place on June IS, but the Cla-
morgan company will continue to operate,
the plant under its present lease until
the expiration.
Erwin Davis, aged II years, was
drowned at Drewry's Bluff, in the James
River. He was a member of the class
of Miss Nelson, at Madison School,
Richmond, and she had taken her class
out to study nature. Young Davis waded
into the river stepped into hole and
was drowned before help could reach
him.
After being under sentence for three
months Mrs. Sallie NJ. Hanna, who con-
fessed that she attempted to extermlnate
the family of Hamilton Faulkner by poi
son in January, was taken to the State
I! Penitentiary to begin her FIVE years term.
The woman has been detained i'll Lynch
burg by the prison authorities because
there was case of smallpox i'll the jail
in February.
Because the Bertha Mineral Company
at Pulaski would not restore 10 per
cent. cut made in the wages of its tur-
mace men year ago, all the men went
On strike.
John Whaley native of Sweden and
a PROSPEROUS farmer at North Landing