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Petersburg Rim and Veneer Company,
along with large quantity Of ma
terial was destroyed by ire. Loss,
5000; insurance. $4,000.
Harrisonburg Without . single
relative in the world, Miss Susan
Hiser. 70 years old, Is dead at Mount
Crawford. She was cared for by the
ladies' Of the Methodist church. She
had never been outside OF the county
and her last trip to Harrisonburg :
the county seatw nearly 20 years
ago.
Winchester li the repair men on
the Cumberland Valley Railroad be.
tween Winchester and Martinsburg,
quit when the company asked them to
work 10 hours for nine hours pay. The
company also demanded that the men
pay small fee for transportation to
and from work on the companys
motor cars. It is reported the walk.
cut will extend to other divisions be
tN cen here and Harrisburg
Suffolk Immense storage ware.
houses of Holland Beamon Company,
with its contents Of hay, peanuts, corn
and foodstuffs, was destroyed by fire,
entailing loss Of $4,000. Only most
strenuous work on the part of the
fremen saved Suffolk's wholesale dis
trict. Falling walls seriously injured
Jesse Henderson, fireman. Locomo
tive sparks are supposed to have
caused the fire.
Suffolk.-A mortgage for SIC, 000, 00d
on the Virginian Railway Company
was recorded in the office of the CLERK
OF Nansemond county by the Farm
ers' Loan and Trust Company, of New
York The document contained 10l
papers and 34,160 words. The State
taxes on 1t amounted to $52,650 and
! the fee to Clerk Bunting was $34.16
The mortgage was signed by Urban
| H Broughton and Joseph Clark, presi
dent and secretary, respectively, of the
railway company, and E. Settarston
and A. Y. Heely, president and secre
tary, respectively, Of the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company.
Bristol.-A marriage Of wide interest
! in Southwest Virginia was solemnized
| il Texarkana, Texas, when Miss Eliza
beth Purmer, of a Texas family, be
came the bride of Mr.. A. Kyle MORT
son, of the law firm Of Irvine & Mort
son, of Big Stone Gap, Va. The bride
groom is son Of the late Judge H. s
X Morrison and nephew of Gen. r
A. Ayers, present Democratic NOMINEES
| for Congress in the Ninth Virginia dis
trict. The bride and groom will make
| their home at Big Stone Gap. Among
| the relatives who attended the wed
ding were Mr.. and Mrs. j. Speers
! Webster, of Bristol, and Mr.. and Mrs
Hugh G. Morrison, Of Johnson City
| Tenn.
Harrisonburg. Leaving note say
| ing that she would rather be dead thar
slive, Miss Lille Moore, % years old
4 won't out to the wash house at hel
! home, near Woodstock, Shenandoah
county, placed the muzzle of shot
gun at her breast and pushed the
Trigger with stick. The load wen
through her heart Her mother, Mrs
Amos Moore, and her sister, Fannie
rushed from the house, 100 yards
/ distant, and found the lifeless body
lying on the floor, the blood gushing
from an awful wound in the breast
Miss Moore leaves brother and five
sisters, including Miss Annie Moore, O
Baltimore, and Mrs. Susie Schultz, O
Cumberland, Md Miss Moore hat
suffered from a nervous breakdown
and was Respondent
Charlottesville. AT faculty meet
ing at the University of Virginia DR.
Wilton Wylie Humphreys, Prof
Ormond Stone and Isaac Kimbel
Moran rendered their. designations Il
President Alderman. They are all owe
IS years Of age and have served thu
i university for 25 years or more. There
fore, under the provisions OF the Car
] negie fund for retired teachers yearl.
4 payments equal to certain percentag'
Of their salaries will be made to them
DR.. Humphreys has been professor Q
Gl eek at the university since 1887, ant
has filed Isofessorships at Washing
ton and Lee, Vanderbilt and Uni
yersity Of Texas. He holds . Phi. D
from Leipsic and the only LII. D. tina
Vanderbilt has yet given. Professo
Stone has been professor of practica
astronomy and director OF the Leande
Mccormick Observatory at the uni
yersity since 1882. For seven year
he was professor of astronomy In thu
University OF Cincinnati and directo
Of the Cincinnati Observatory. MI
Moran has been busar Of the uni
versity for many years. Dr. Graham
Edgar was advanced to professor 0
chemistry; Hunley. Of Baltimore. t
adjunct professor of political economy
and J. Sugars McLemore to adjunc
professor Of Latin and Greek.
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