Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-08-11
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While john BROOKS anu HIS "iiY W."
reside in Sussex county, were away from
home their residence was set on hre. !
They had left the three children there
alone One of the children, girl about
~ years of age, attempted to klndieta
FIRE with kerosenes pH, when the ollr IN /
the lamp explodfd{ setting her clothllng, 4
ahre and burning her to death. a1He
house was burned to'ths ground
Dr. ]. RufnssHorher, for 10 years pro-
lessor of chemistry in Richmond C ,2li +,
lege, has resignd ito Join his brother
in the insurance business in Ralelgn, r,
N. c. Il
At MopnteLaurel Lizzie Jackson, an
Irish woman Was-- lbrutally Deaten ~
death by EasksSsNioseley, negro.
Moseley confessed 4he icrme and then
fed the country. He claimed that the,s
Irish woman had hoodooed his wife.
The Leath Theatre Company, OF R.c|h-ss'
mond. has appointed Mr.. Allen llcsf
kins business manager of all the Leaths
Theatres except the one in Norfolk. MT.
Jenkins will have his headquarters at
The Academy of Music at Richmond
He will have general supervision OF the
atres III Roanoke, Lynchburg, Peters
burg and Newport News, and will as
1 ;,ist Manager Charles |. Mckee at Rich
rond. ....s.
eeWork Is progressiagF rapidly on the
Dig plant of lCatogii Bros, in Roanoke
efhe plant occupies eight acres, and most
If it will, be under roof. 1t will be an
immense planning mill, scoaf,3 wood and
Ii lumber plant a .#hSf -
Early Ferguson, of Vinton, a young
negro confined in the Roanoke jail, at
4 i:empted to hang himself with leather
4 Self in his CELL He has Served a term
! in the penitentiary.'} 1a" 81 @f"H z,
Alfred Walters, formerly PRESIDENT OF
he Lehigh Valley Railroad, and who is
at thel head of die construction OF the
South and Western Railway, from the
| Southwest Virginia coal fields to a point
on the South Atlantic Coast, was in
1 Bristol III Conference with George l..
Garter. The two men>jdst returned from
4 Kingsport, ION the proposed route tor
his road, where considerable real estate
has recently been optioned, presumably
| ~ Seaboard Air Line interests. Con-
I ,trtiction' crews are BUSY on the noun
ain petitions of the. route, where there
will be at least two years of active
construction work. ev7tl fsenHtu:l
Margaret Moran, a girl Of, 2oqyear;s,
was taken to the Protestant. Hiaspnah
Norfolk, dangerously wounded. :, The
story of the shootitfg.'is that She was
asleep at;4the clubhouse Of Jasn Fergu-
son, at Sewelps Point, Norfolk, county
when he and several companions were
handling shotgun on the other slds
of a. thin partition The gun was dis
: Charged and She was badly wounded
She ran to. the door, fell outside and
! was unconscious when found. The
shooting is alleged to have been acct
dental.
i u. III gKitchen, coloreG was Tried at
4 Suffolk for murder of Justice Holiday
and acquitted. Kitchen, who was with
woman one day last week on an excur.
sion from Portsmouth to Suffolk, had
some Worlds with Clafenee Wright, who
threw an imitation snake in the girls
lap.+ Following the words Wright Sc
verely cut Kitchen, who drew his re-.
i volver and killed Wright and wounded
several others. He was tined iter car;
rying concealed weapons. !.
MRS. amanda Bunkley, an aged widow
who has lived in Newport News tor
4 sevraf years was found dead in her
bed. John Bunkley went to his moth
ser's room to kiss Aler .good-by before lgo7
ling to- work. and found her cold in
death. THE bods5wa4 shipped to Smith
field. where she was buried in Old ST.
Like 'saChurchyard. :
AT great personal risk Miss Maud
Funk, daughter of7Jesse Funk pf Wa
terlick, Warren county, rushed INTO a
burning stable and rescued her fathers
valuable {staliioli which was threatetied
with being roasted alive. The stable
4 had been struck by lightning and the
fire was at its Height when the young
woman went in, cut the halter and
drove out the horse Through fire and
!.SmokeJ 3r,i to'ne''i rtui fN%it
The fiscal year with the sLynehburg
tobacco trade has ended, and mo tobacco
will be sold on market until September
IT.. The crop just sold was the lighteSst,
,with one exception, Fin 80 years, the
deception Beng 1lieSseason Of 1890. The
total sales last, year were ,I5,346,4oo
pounds, or 6,t63Ioo pounds less than
was sold from the crop of Ioo3-Ioo4
The average price during the past year
was about ST. so hundred pounds more
-=rtifan the planters have received in the
past four or five seasons.
+ Robert Dempsey; a fiagfnah on the
4 Virginia and Southwestern Railroad,
was found dying on the tender Of the
a engine thatopilleds- the train ywhen
q stop was made az Hamilton Station.
near Bristol. No indications of bodily
injury could be found Heart failure
probably caused his death. Dempsey
was a young married man. i.+
A strange coincidence is accorded l. IN
the tragic death of Sol Netherland, a
negro, at Big Stone Gap. Netherland
had his arm torn partially FoH and a
hole torn in his head by flying stone as
the result of having remained too near
blast. His companions state. that he
I had just been telling how some years
ago he killed woman. She, held up
her arm to shield herself from the bull
let. The bali, lie said, passed through
her arm, and, entering her torehead
brought almost instant death. Nether-
land occupied the same position with
reference to the fatal blast He stood
81 near, holding his arm before his face a:
if to shield himself from harm, when .
portion of the flying stone tore, his arm
" away and cut the cash i'll his foreheae
that ended his life. f oe
Mrs. ~ Addie Jordan, of Richmond
widow OF DR.. J. c. Jordab4i under
arrest in New Kent county, Charged Will
4 attempting to kill her sister, Miss Eller
& Badkins, With ailianimer. The testimon,
indicates that Mrs. Jordan requested hel