Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-07-21
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but not fatal injuries. He is supposed
TO have assembled the post with the
intention of doing himself harm, having
been very respondent since the recenl
death of his mother, yHe will probably
recover.
Charles Lcynard, white, who was scrv-
ing term in the Danvillc jail, maze
sensational escape from the cham gang
He was closely pursued and jumped INTO
The river to elude capture. Lcynard has
not been seen SINCE and it IS not den
nitely known whether he got out OF the
river or was drowned. The gang was
employed at a rock quarry near the
river
A blast SET off by men employed on
the Winchester watcrworkS extension
created panic among East Side resi-
dents, when large stones were thrown
high in the air. One stone, weighing
nine pounds, hurled distance OF 80!
yards, crashed through the tin roof OF
John w. Myers residence, knocking
big hole in the ceiling, and fell in the
middle of bed from which his son,
Walter Myers, had just risen.
A horse driven by Edgar A. Stickley,
a prominentsFrederick county man, fell
in a ditch, and the. driver fell under the
horse. Before being rescued from his
peFtleus position, Mr. Stickley was Sc
verey kicked in the face by the animal,
his nose and several bones being broken.
Mrs. w. w. Rule, about 90 years old,
of Roanoke, while waiting for trolley
car on the Vinton line, was attacked by
a young negro, who threw her down.
took her handbag from her hand and
ran. This is the third case of this kind
to occur in five days.
The alleged shortage of w. b. Jen-
kinS, money-order clerk of Portsmouth
postofice, is $1,000 He returned $500
to Inspector Bulla, and says he will re-
store The $1,1oo balance if allowed
short time.
Third Vice President George L. Pot
ter, of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, and other officials were at Stras-
burg, Shenandoah county, comforting
with the municipal authorities regarding
the Councils proposed legal steps to
compel the railroad company to run its
trains into the town of Strasburg, in
stead of stopping at the junction, as 1t
has for many years, in violation of its
charter. 1t is said that an amicable
agreement will be reached.
Evelyn Stevens, young daughter OF MIR.
and Mrs. R. B. Stevens, died at the home
of her parents, in Stafford county, of en-
largement of the brain.
Muscoe. Russell Pace, Jr., lies dead at
his home in Richmond with bullet in his
brain. Whether his death was the result OF
accident or intent will never be conclusive
" known, but the opinion OF the cor
oner is that he took his own life. The
probable cause of the act is loss OF his
position as a messenger of the Southern
Express Company and the consequent
interference with his plans to be mar
ried.
Mrs. Estelle Townsend Smith, who
was recently convicted in the Hastings
Court of Manchester of having whipped
to death her son Ralph, is i'll in her cell
in the Manchester Jail. A five-yGar term
in the penitentiary was the penaty liked
by the jury Next week her counsel
will ask tho judge TO set the verdict
aside. If he fails to do so the case will
go to the Supreme Court Of Appeals
The big Touring mills in Carroll
county. owned by A. w. Westmoreland
and Sons, were destroyed by fire OF IN
cendiary origin.
The Hamburger Tobacco Company,
Norfolk. of which S. Hamburger is
manager, was forced into bankruptcy,
with liabilities amounting to $1,000 ana
assets not exceeding 81 200.
A fire the other morning, starting III
the lumber shed of Joseph F. Ravel, OF
Woodstock, situated in the rear OF his
furniture factory, practically destroyed
the upper part of the building and sew
eral thousand feet of molding and lliin-
Der. The loss is 500.
= The naval tug Hercules has blown up
the wreck of the schooner Clara Z. Ber-
gen, off the Carolina coast. The Bergen
was run down by steamer severai
weeks ago, and since that time has been
drifting almost submerged i'll the path
OF coastwise shipping. On account OF
the dangerous nature of the derelict, the
Navy Department sent the Hercules 10
detroy it,
An explosion, which cannot be &C
counted for, occurred at the Dixie En-
tract Plant in Bristol, resulting IN the
death of Noah Hardin, thirty-six years
old and married, and in serious injury
to George Wolford, colored. A machine
in the clipper room exploded and the
room was torn to pieces, pieces OF cast
ings weighing form three to four hun
dred pounds were hurled through the
walls of the building and carried over,
a thousand feet away The property
damage is heavy. The machine that ex-
ploded was idle at the time. Manager
Bramm barely escaped injury. There is
a suspicion that dynamite might have
been placed under the machine, but there
is no known motive.
Roanoke and vicinity has been Wis
tied by constant rains tor the past month";
and the wheat crop, the best for many
wears, is ruined in the shock. The grain
has sprouted, and the shocks are per-
fectly green The loss to farmers OF
the wheat, hay and oat crops on account
of the constant rains will reach several
hundred thousands of dollars.
Tobacco grower Of Campbell county
met at Lynchburg for the purpose OF or,
ganizing county branch of the Ameri-
can Society of Equity. H. B. Sherman,
|. national organizer, will attempt to or
ganize all of the tobacco-growing coun-
ties of Virginia and North Carolina in
the coming three months.
Two employees of The Portsmouth post
office were suspended. Inspector Bulia
filed information of irregularities in the
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