Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-01-13
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at home recently OF i'll nedltH. llC ~
Is years old and unmarried. During the
absence of his mother he says, he at
tempted to shave. The result was long,
dangerous wound in his throat, which
barely missed the jugular vein. HIS
relatives declare the wound was acct
dental, but it, with his feeble condition,
puts his life in jeopardy.
Suit for $4,000 damages was entered
in the Corporation Court, Newport News
by the administrator of A. N. Calhoun,
against the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Drydock Company Calhoun was
The Richmond man who fell into the Dig
irydock at the yard the day the battle.
ship Virginia was launched and died
IS a result of njuries received.
The War Department mine-laying
,oats. General Evans and Sarah F.
Evans, are at Old Point Comfort, where
instructions are being given the officers
If the Artillery School in the art OF
aging harbor-def mines.
Col. Thomas F. Goode died at Boyd
.on. He was distinguished Conted-
crate veteran and a man universally
owed and respected He was the owner
If the famous Buffalo Litha Springs
N Mecklenburg county. 1t was Colonel
Goodies custom for a number OF years
% donate $1,000 annually for the care OF
he aged Confederate veterans OF Neck
Ienburg county. The Colonel leaves
several children, among them Thomas
F. Goode, Jr., well-known banker OF
Boydton.
If was ascertained in Lynchburg, from
what is believed to be a reliable source,
that out of s. members of the junior
class of the Virginia Polytechnic In
,ttute who left the school before Christ
mas on account of the expulsion OF Cadet
Coulter. of Richmond, only IL have been
reinstated, and they are under strict
probation. 1t was stated by cadet who
is not a Junior that not more than us
Of the 600 or more cadets had returned
from the holiday vacation, although the
leave was good only until last Wednes'
day.
The Court of Appeals refused writ
of error in the case of Joseph H. Copen-
haver. the convicted Clarke county wife
murderer. who is now i'll the Berry
Vile Jail. and he will have to serve the
sentence of IL years imposed upon him
in the lower court. Copenhaver shot
and killed his wife while in drunken
frenzy last April. His trial was held
at Berryville last August and resulted
in the verdict of guilty. Since the crime
was committed he has been i'll jail at
Berryville. where he has received atten'
ton not accorded other prisoners.
Under a new law enforced by the
CORPORATION Court, Norfolk, two men
were released from Jail on giving bonds
to contribute to the support OF their
families. John A. Griffin's mother gave
bond for him to pay his wife $50
a month. He had been in jail OH the
complaint of his wife. J. w. Haskell,
an insurance solicitor, gave bond to
pay his wife S. week There are other
cases of similar character pending.
William Sanderlin, conductor OF the
police patrol wagon, obtained YER
dict of ST. 800 damages i'll suit against
the Norfolk Railway and Light Com
pany for injuries sustained III COLLISION
with a street car. Sanderlin and Otflcer
Hoy were both crippled i'll a collision
last April.
w. f. Crismond and c. H. Stokes
clerks in the postoffice at Portsmouth
were discharged from the service on
the recommendation of the Civil Service
| Commissioner on account OF alleged IT.
regularities in their examinations Tor
the places. The cases have been pend
ing a long time, but the order OF dis
missal came from the Postoflce Depart
ment, in Washington.
Harry Starr, young man OF educa-
ton and refinement, went to jail III
Portsmouth to recover from the drug
habit. He was arrested for houSebreak-
ing, but Judge w. n. Portlock decided
to acuuit him if he would return vol
unfairly to the Jail hospital, to be under
the treatment OF the jail physician, BY
whom he has already been partially
restored to self-control
The death of Theodore Thomas has
recalled the fact that his father was
a member of the band of the United
States ship Pennsylvania, at the Nor
folk station. and that Theodore Thomas
spent years of his youth in Portsmouth
in house on High street, now
bakery.
John Alexander Dowie blessed Rich
mond as he passed through Oil his way
to Miami, Fla. Standing on the rear
platform Of his private car Ranger
he stood with uncovered head and up
lifted hand until his train had passed
the city limits. Then murmuring "Pnr
coliseum" he went inside. Dowie was
accompanied by his private secretary
and numerous attendants, cooks and
porters. He talked for while with
newspaper men. He said that he was
going to Florida for short stay OIL
account of his health.
account of his health.
Hancock Brothers & Co., plug to-
bacco manufacturers, Lynchburg, ship
ped solid train of 10 cars OF plug
tobacco.
The Lynchburg Lodge of Elks, for
the first time, held its weekly meeting
in the lodge room of the new home,
which has recently been completed at
cost of $4,000. The lodge has
membership of about $50
Sydney Cole, of ParkerSburg, who
has served three years of an IS-year
sentence in the penitentary tor killing
William Lerry, ships carpenter of the
steamer Keystone State, while that boat
was landing during flood near Coles
home four years ago, has been granted
a new trial
The Board of Supervisors of Clarke
county have accepted from the builders
the new steel bridge over the Shenan-
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