Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-02
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
The State.

! ledQlng Planter VI nlS COUNTY dliu 80
brother-in-law of Mayor H. A. Maurice,
of Manchester.
]. A. Stringer, well-known citizen
| of Manchester, has disappeared, and his
| friends fear foul play He has not been
seen since he left home Saturday morn
ing. NJ
Leonard c. Carson probably was fatal
ly injured by fall from the new Capt.
tol building, Richmond.
The Corporation Commission has
chartered the Colbourn Bros Oyster
Company of Wheaton, with capital OF !
$4,000 A S. Colbourn is president, G.
! D. Howeth vice-president and w. w.
Marshall treasurer.
Morris Isenton and Henry Pord, "
,awnbrokers, of Portsmouth, were ar
.ested by United States Marshal Wes'
on the charge of receiving revolver
which were stolen from the Unteo
States Government. The revolvers afs
valued at SIS each, and it is allegep
hat Henry Crofutt, sergeant OF mar
rines, sold one and J. Miller, marina
sold the other. These are the speclhc
charges which will be presented to the
grand jury now, but recently the officers
Of the navy seized many wagonloads OF
property in the stores of the pawnbrok-
.rs said to be worth $4,000. The COM
mandant of the station and the officers
Of the court have de!|S lined to sup
press stealing from ~ ns and lie
navy yard.
Two tickets have been annouficl
he approaching Lexington munif ipS
| 4. Al, CohtfpI
B. Walker, Jr., and Capt. w. F. Pier-
son, former Mayor of the town. Mayor
Walkers Council is composed of Messrsy
Paul NJ. Penick, w. P Irwin, c. K.
Beaver, G. w. Oflighter, A. G. Hutton
and Dr. Hunter Pendleton. All except
he last two are members of the present.
Council. Capt Persons associates are 4
Dr. James Lewis Howe, DR.. Reid White,
Messrs M. B. Corse, Lawrence En-
bree, l.. B. Miller and 7. H. Boley.
The election will take place June 10.
Virginia Institute, Bristol, has -Just
:losed successful year. The annual ING
.rary address was delivered by DIR. w
9. Pickard, of Lynchburg The you1
aides receiving diplomas were~-AAfrss,
Gates, Moffett, Floy Harris, Selma Bur
ION, Emma Gholston, Alice Huskins'
Cynthia Orr, Pauline Cody and Marian
Johnson
Gardiner & Clark and Mahan e. 'Cyree,
:wo wholesale produce firms, of Dat lx1lIa1
were burned out The two concord
,upy a three-story brick structure, 0
by Mr. J. R. Jopng. The insuran|
building and goods will nearly
IfIC fuss.
The new catalogue of the vi
Polytechnic Institute shows the
number of students who have ma
lated for the session of I9o4-Ioo
728. Among these there are men kof
nearly every State in the Union, AfgenY
tina, Canada, Cuba, Ecuador Newfdundy
land, Santo Domingo and Spain. Out OF
the senior class of 1903 it is expected that
about y or 50 will receive diplomas on/
commencement day.
The Jewish congregation OF T3up
Emmanuel, of Roanoke, has purchb$9
the church property of the United Br
rem and will in the future occupy IL
a place of worship
Engineer A. A. Linkous, Of the
folk and Western Railroad, had
hand crushed off under his eng
night last week at Glade Spring.
under the engine adjusting a
the machinery when the engineer
other locomotive attached TO the
train pulled the throttle, starting
train. Mr.. Lin.ous, whose home is
Vickers, barely escaped with his life
following night some mScreant shot
the westbound passenger trajH OF
Norfolk and Western soon afrer the
left Marion The ball passed 'thro
the day coach within few inches Of
head of the conductor, Captain Walt
News has been received in Bri
that Manager Kenyon, of the Hell
Lumber Company, met a tragic
in the mountains near Damascus. A
car ran away down the mountain
collided with car on which Mr.. Kc
Won was seated He was thrown und
the wheels and instantly killed, his bo
being mangled. Mr.. Kenyon was abb
90 years old His home was at Cal
novia, N. Y.
1t is reported in Bristol, although
report lacks confirmation, that Geo
l.. Carter has bought the coal and m
eral interests of the Interstate Coal
Iron Company, in Southwest Virgo
The price reported to have been
for the company's possessions is
ooo The civil engineer of the
state Company has left SoutIrw
pinia and is looking after the cor
interests in lower East Tennessee
Ebert Boyd, young man WI
10 have been tried at BlountsvillS
for the murder of Thomas Gu
has been adjudged insane by a
Jury that heard evidence as to h
al condition. He will be sem
asylum. The jury's verdict provA
should Boyd eventually recc-~
he is to be brought back and I
! murder.
For the murder of William
: ION. highly respected citizen 0
Bristol, who was shot to death OF
,ast fall. Grover and Clinton
brothers, both young men, were
% Is years each in the penltent'i
mitigating circumstance that say
from the death penalty was fhaF
heir neighbors had threatened Il,
yiolence il they did not leave
nunity.
Thomas J. Glass, aged 40, a
:or the Bristol Gas and Elect
,anv. was killed almost insta
1ad climbed up to the top OF
Dole to adjust a wire, wheh
broke in two at the bottom
catching the lineman and