Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
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which was only partially insured. The
origin of the fire is a mystery. One OF
the factories destroyed was occupied by
John B. Anderson & Co., and the other
one jointly by the same firm and MIR.
Chalmers Patterson, leaf dealer. Both
which were brick structures,
were destroyed, together with their con-
tents. The Union warehouse, George E.
Coleman & Co., proprietors, was badly
damaged. ]. B. Anderson & Co. are the
heaviest losers by the fire. They had to-
bacco valued at $4,000 stored in the
house and carried $4,000 insurance.
Lee Barksdale, colored, an escaped
prisoner from the chain gang, was shot
Danville by Alfred Henderson, colored,
who had also escaped from the chain
gang. Barksdale's wound, which is in the
shoulder, is not considered dangerous.
A dynamite explosion at the Clayton
mines, operated by the Pulaski Company,
near Pulaski, killed William Goings, col
ored, blacksmith, and dangerously
wounded his I4-year-old son. A third
of box of the explosive had been left
in the blacksmith shop, where the men
were working How it was exploded is
not known. The shop was blown into
kindling wood and all the clothes were
blown off of the dead man. He had been
at work only a short time when the ex-
plosion took place.
Henry Purden, the o-year-old son OF
Captain Purden, of the Seaboard Air
Line Railway, Portsmouth, has lockjaw
and is likely to die. He fell from tree
several days ago and suffered a COM
pound fracture of his arm. Both bones
were broken and the flesh was badly
lacerated. Gangrene has developed and
there is little hope of saving the boys
life
But for the timely arrival of several
men Miss Annie Dixon, who conducts
a fashionable hairdressing parlor for Ia
dies on the fifth floor of the Law Build
ing, on Main Street, Lynchburg, would
have been burned to DEATH Miss Dixon
was using an alcohol lamp, which ex-
ploded, throwing the burning fluid over
her clothing. Instantly she was in
light blaze. She ran to nearby bath
room, screaming as she went, and en-
deavored to throw water upon the flames.
She returned to her parlor, and there she
was thrown to the floor and rolled in a
rug, which completely extinguished the
fire. Miss Dixon was severely injured
and all her clothing from her waist up
was burned off her.
The police authorities of Stephen City
are investigating the discovery Of heal
thy looking white baby, about weeks
old, that was mysteriously placed on the
front porch of the residence of John
Massie, in the suburbs of that town, while
the family were absent. Suspicion is said
to point to woman whose name the
police refuse to diyulge.
AT Mountain City, near Bristol, "Jef"
Church has been sentenced to 10 years
in the penitentiary for the murder OF
James Campbell. The citizens are said
to be indignant over the verdict. The
murder was brutal one, Church having
tramped his victims face while the latter
was pleading for mercy after he had been
shot 2 times.
Buried for nearly an hour under sew
eral tons of lumber was the frightful ex-
perience of John HaineS, a teamster from
Hampshire County, West Virginia, in
Winchester. He is at Memorial Hos
pital in precarious condition. A wheel
of the wagon which HaineS was driving
fell off and the lumber wagon upset,
pinning Haines under the heavy lad.
Two las6e surgeons, one weighing
200 pounds and the other about 200
pounds, were captured i'll the Rappahan-
mock river at the foot of the falls above
Fredericksburg. Both surgeons had got
ten into shallow water
Roanoke was offered $4,000 for the
Gish farm of 10 acres, purchased about
two years ago for $4,000 for park pur-
poses. The offer was made by the Tide
water Railway Company, which recently
purchased the fair grounds of 80 acres,
lying half mile east of the Gish farm.
The offer must be accepted within ten
days or it will be Withdrawn. Roanoke
business men say it indicates that Ro-
anoke is to have the shops of the new
road.
Superintendent of Construction J. +.
Wrenn, of the Underwater Railroad, an
nounced that VIM. J. Oliver, represent
ing Sands & Oliver, of Roanoke, had
closed million-dolar deal with the
Southern Railway. The contract calls
for the double-tracking of the Southern
from Morristown to Knoxville and the
building of branch line from Chatta-
nooga to Stephenson, all in Tennessee.
Sands & Oliver were recently relieved OF
part of their contract ito build the
roadbed for the first 100 miles of the
Tidewater. Superintendent Wrenn says
the contractors get $2,ooo,ooo for build
ing mile-long tunnel between Knoxville
and Morristown, which is now being
constructed under Lookout Mountain.
Wallace w. Hunter, capitalist and for
mer treasurer of Norfolk for IL years,
shot himself in the mouth in Elmwood
Cemetery. He was found all hour after
ward and sent to St. Vincent's Hospital
He was conscious, but too weak for an
operation. The bullet came out at the
top of his head, and the surgeons, when
they had examined the wound, said there
was little hope of his living. Mr.. Hunter
is 68 years of age and has long COM
planned of i'll health. His wife was Miss
Grandy, the sister Of the wealthy banker,
c. Wiley Grandy, and he has son and
daughter, both grown. The only ex-
PLANTATION of the shooting is Mr.. Hun
ter's i'll health. He was we'll educated,
popular and OF high character.
The resignation of Rev. DR.. Robert J.
McBridge as rector of Robert f. Lee
Memorial Episcopal Church, of Lexing-