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HIGHLAND
RECORDER
vol. xxiv.
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA.. MARCH 21, 1902.
NO. Il
NELL CROPSEV'S
DEATH UNSOLVED
Thc Testimony of thc Physicians Not
Convincing.
DOUBT THAT THE GIRL WAS KILLED.
Dr. Lumsden Declines to Testify M aa
Expert, Declaring He ls Unable to
Give Expert Testimony Concerning a
Dead Body Tbat Had Been in the Water
37 Days.
Elizabeth City. N. C. (Special).?Thc
Wilcox trial grows more interesting
each day. The State, so far, has not
made out a clear case of murder, al?
though the majority of the people here
believe that she was the victim of foul
play. Though Drs. Fearing and Wood
both expressed the opinion that the
death of Nellie Cropsey was caused hy
a blow on the left side of thc head, the
defense has succeeded in creating an
impression that the evidence against the
drowning theory is not sufficient.
Some people go so far as to say that
Mr. Aydlett will ask the judge to dis?
miss the case on thc ground that thc
State has failed to prove that the girl
was killed.
Dr. W. J. Lumsden, one of the leading
physicians of this section of the State,
gave the prosecution a hard blow when
he refused to testify as an expert, giving
as his reason that he did not consider
himself qualified to give expert testi?
mony in a case where a person had been
dead and in the water 37 days. He wag
not on thc stand more than two minutes,
hut he as good as said that all symptoms
were worthless in such cases.
While there still is feeling against
Wilcox among the people hereabouts,
they realize that the prosecution is fight?
ing in close quarters. The evidence is
of a very uncertain character.
STEAMER LOST, CREW MISSINO.
Lobster Fishermen Find Wreckage of the
Steamer Tiber.
Halifax, N. S. (Special.)?A dis?
patch received here from Canso an?
nounces that the wreck of the Dominion
Coal Company's steamer Tiber has been
found off White Point ledges, five miles
west of Canso. Thc news was brought
to Canso by lobster fishermen. The
steamer is below thc water and pieces of
wood and other wreckage floating about
led to the discovery.
No trace of the members of the crew
has been found, and it is likely they have
perished. The steamer left Louisburg,
C. B., on February 26 with a cargo of
1,900 tons of coal for Halifax, and
nothing more was heard of her until
March 3, when some wreckage and life
buoys from the steamer was found in
the vicinity of Whitehead.
Seven Y.en Injured by an Explosion.
Huntington, W. Va. (Special).?Tom
Edwards and William Strank were prob?
ably fatally injured in an explosion of a
steam boiler at a grist mill at Blue Sul?
phur, a village, io miles from here, and
five other men were slightly hurt. The
cause of the explosion is not definitely
known, but is supposed to have resulted
from the flues getting too hot for lack
of sufficient water. Edwards is a loco?
motive engineer and runs one of the
Chesapeake and Ohio fast express trains
and owns the mill.
M ss Stone Grateful*
Salonica (By Cable).?A press repre?
sentative here has received a letter from
Miss Stone, the American missionary, in
which she expresses her surprise and
gratitude at the universal manifestations
of joy at the release of herself and
Mine. Tsilka. Miss Stone also conveys
her heartfelt thanks to all those who by
their labor, their money and their pray?
ers co-operated to the release of her?
self and companion.
Two Powder Mi.ls Explode.
Columbus, Kan. (Special.)?Two
mills of thc Laflin and Rand powder
works, four miles north of this city, ex?
ploded with terrific force. Walter Reid,
a workman, was killed and several
others were injured. Many thousand
dollars' worth of property was de?
stroyed. Thc explosion was plainly felt
??o miles away.
A Russo-Oerman Treaty.
London (By Cable).?A dispatch
from St._Mer_Unrg to the Central News
says that M. dc Witto, Russian Minister
of Finance, in conjunction with the
German Ambassador, Count von Al
vcnslcben, has completed the draft of a
commercial treaty, the substance of
which has already been approved by the
Government at Berlin.
Help for a Southern Schoo'.
Danville, Ky., (Special).?President
W. C. Robert . of Central University,
and thc committee in charge announce
that they have been successful in rais?
ing a fund of $25,000 in order to meet
the terms hy which a like sum was of?
fered to thc endowment fund of Central
University hy Thomas H. Swopc, of
Kr.nsas City. Mo.
American Claims in China.
Pekin, (By Cable).?The United States
Minister, Mr. Conger, has commissioned
Messrs. Bainbridge and Ragsdale (thc
latter is the United States consul at
Tientsin) to adjust thc indemnity claims
of Americans, approximating $2,000,000
in poid.
Cholera at Hongkong.
Manila. (By Cable).?Owing to chol?
era at Hongkong, a quarantine of five
days will bc enforced against all vessels
arriving herc from that port.
Dwelling Collapses.
Philadelphia (Special.)?A three-story
brick dwelling at Randolph and Master
streets, in thc northeastern section of
the city, collapsed while the six occu?
pants were asleep. Mrs. Rosa Le
Maire, a boarder, who occupied the
third-story front room, was the only
person severely injured. She was car?
ried from the top floor to the cellar and
buried beneath the debris, being badly
bruised and lacerated. Herman Ehin
ger, his wife and three children escaped
with slight injuries. Heavy rains had
undermined the building.
I
THE NEWS BRIEFLY DLD
Domestic.
The National City Bank of New York
paid out $21,500,000 dividends of the
Standard Oil and Consolidated Gas Com?
panies.
Mrs. Brooks, in a New York court,
testified that Florence Burns said she
would shoot Walter Brooks if he did not
marry her.
The factory owners at Fall River,
Mass., have agreed to the iq per cent, in?
crease in wages demanded by the strik?
ers.
While speaking to a miners' conven?
tion at Des Moines. Iowa, President
John Mitchell was taken suddenly ill.
Gen. W. S. Smith states that the steel
framework in many of Chicago's sky?
scrapers is corroding and the buildings
may soon become dangerous.
A new volcano is reported to have
burst forth near Kenal, on Cook In?
let, Alaska.
Notices were posted at thc collieries
of the Reading Company in the Hazleton
district that the present scale would bc
continued for another year.
Edward Butler, a prominent St. Louis
politician, was arrested on a bench war?
rant charging him with offering a bribe.
He was released on bail.
Henry Clark and Emmet Brown, col?
ored, were arrested in Alexandria, Va.,
on suspicion of having murdered Mr.
Clayton, of Richmond.
Lafe Yerkey, of Flint, W. Va., be?
came suddenly insane and buried a
hatchet in his wife's head and then cut
his throat.
J. Cauffman Stoner, an old-time stage
driver, died from a paralytic stroke at
his home, near Shippensburg, Pa.
Mrs. 0. L. Benson, of Petersburg. Va.,
attempted to commit suicide by cutting
her own throat with a carving knife.
Martin J. Klausdigger had himself
shipped from Kansas City to Chicago as
a sack of potatoes on a wager.
Six deaths occurred on the transport
Sheridan, which arrived at San Fran?
cisco from Manila.
Mrs. Alice Stover shot and killed her
husband, John T. Stover, in self-defense,
in New York.
The strike of the weavers has extended
to the Anchor Mills, in Pascoag, R. I.
Largely through the influence of Gov?
ernor Crane, the strike leaders in Bos?
ton have recommended that the men re?
turn to work, pending results of the
Governor's efforts to secure concessions
from the transportation companies.
Major General David S. Stanley, re?
tired, who fought in many campaigns
and was a corps commander during the
Civil War. died at the agc of 73 years in
Washington.
Governor Odell, of New York, in?
structed his appointee, Sheriff Dilke, to
use force, if necessary, to evict Guden,
who holds on to his office.
Arthur Bathhurst, who attempted to
shoot Miss Minnie Gohn in York, Pa
was arrested on the charge of attempted
murder.
The transport Sheridan arrived at San
Francisco, Gal., with soldiers from Ma?
nila, including a number of sick and in?
sane.
Andrew J. Watrous. a well-known
newspaper writer, committed suicide, in
New York.
Nearly $3,000,000 is pledged for the
use of the medical school at Harvard.
Foreign.
Russian students drew up a declara
i tion of demands for civil liberty.
Count Tolstoi, in a letter to a Swedish
I committee, calls money a curse.
Baron d'Estournelle de Constant,
I French diplomat, is enthusiastic over his
visit to America and highly praises Pres?
ident Roosevelt.
A wooden boat, supposed to be nearly
2.000 years old, was dug up in County
Mayo, Ireland.
Capt. B. D. Greene and Col. John F.
Gaynor, who are in Quebec, have en?
gaged some of the most noted lawyers in
Canada to oppose their extradition.
Field Marshal Lord Wolseley sails for
Cape Town to advise Lord Kitchener.
and probably direct British operations
himself in South Africa. Lady Methuen,
wife of the wounded General Methuen,
will be a passenger on the same steamer.
.Mrs. Conger, wife of the United States
minister at Pekin, assisted by ladies of
I the American legation, entertained 11
! princesses?another departure from the
j exclusiveness of the Chinese court.
A dispute has arisen between the 11111
! nicipality of Lyons, France, and the
j United States consul there, on account of
an attempt to impose certain new taxes
j upon that official.
Princess Alice of Albany started from
I The Hague for Berlin, and it is reported
I she will be betrothed to Frederick Wil
I liam. Crown Prince of Germany.
Ihe French government may send war
; ships over to participate in thc exercises
I when the Rochambeau statue is dedicated
I in Washington.
The Lower House of the Danish Parlia
1 ment approved the treaty for the sale of
the Danish Wesf Indies to the United
States.
The failure is announced of Lord
I'rancis Hope, of England, he petitioning
creditors' claim being ?4,000.
Boer Commandant Mentz, with his
j men. broke through a British blockhouse
line at Gothenburg.
The North German Lloyd ..nnoimced
I an increase of io per cent, in steerage
I rates.
Mr. Brodrick, thc war secretary, an
' nounced in Parliament that General
] Methuen, captured womided by thc
j Boers, had been released by General De
larey. Timothy Healy, Irish National
| ist, suggested that the government show
equal magnanimity to Commandant
Kritzingcr.
Members of thc councils of South?
ampton and Battcrseaborough, England,
oppose appropriations for coronation
festivities, two councilmen of Battersea
declaring that the King was a mere fig?
urehead, and it did not matter which in?
dividual occupied the throne.
The Spanish Cabinet resigned, and
Premier Sagasta declined the Queen Re?
gent's invitation to form a new one, to
include all the sections of thc Liberal
party.
Financial.
Rock Island has declared regular quar?
terly dividend of i}A per cent., payable
May I.
The principal movements of currency
this week indicate that the banks have
lost $6,026,800.
Pennsylvania Railroad new bonds are
quoted at 106 to *4. $70,000 changed
hands at 106 and interest.
The directors of the United Shoe Ma?
chine Company have declared a regular
quarterly dividend of ilA per cent, on
preferred and 2 per cent, on common
stock, payable April 15.
BIG BLIZZARD IN
THEJORTHWEST
Transcontinental Trains Snow-Bound
on Three Lines.
ALL BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL.
Every Effort Is Being Made by tbs Road to
Keep Its Passengers Who Are Snowbound
Warm and Well Fed, and for This Reason
Trains Are Being Held at Stations Where
the Accommodations Are Good.
St. Paul, Minn., (Special).?North Da?
cota and the Canadian Northwest are ex?
periencing the worst snowstorm in many
years and railroad traffic is practically
paralyzed. The Northern Pacific and
3reat Northern have not moved a wheel
for nearly 36 hours in the blizzard-strick
.11 district and have abandoned all efforts
to run trains until Ute fury of the storm
abates.
The high wind has piled the snow in
the mountains and packed it in solid
masses, many deep cuts being entirely
filled. The temperature has been grad?
ually falling and is now at or below the
*ero mark. Not a trans-continental train
has arrived at St. Paul since Friday, and
none is expected for several days. Every
effort is being made by the road to keep
its passengers who are snowbound warm
and well fed. For this reason trains are
being held at stations where the accom?
modations are good rather than attempt
to get them through, with a possibility
of being tied up between stations. The
Red River Valley division of the North?
ern Pacific between Frankfort and Win?
nipeg, Manitoba, has been entirely aban?
doned. The telegraph wires have been
carried down by the burden of sleet that
preceded the heavy snowfall.
The Great Northern is tied up entirely
between Grand Forks and Williston, N.
D., a distance of about 35 miles, and all
wires have been lost beyond Fargo. All
communication by wire with Western
Dakota and Montana points has been
lost.
The branch of the Great Northern run?
ning to Winnipeg is also tied up. No
trains have been started northward since
Friday night, and those that were caught
out on the road by thc storm have been
held at the station near the border.
Winnipeg is reported entirely cut off
from railroad communication with the
outside world. The Canadian Pacific
trans-continental trains .are snowbound
somewhere west of there and no prospect
of relief is yet in sight.
M'KINLEY MEMORIAL CERTIFICATE
lt Ts a Fine Piece of Work, Nine by Eleven
Inches in Size.
Cleveland, Ohio (Special).?At a
meeting of the executive committee of
the National McKinley Memorial Asso?
ciation, held here, the design for the
contributors' certificate submitted bv a
New York firm was accepted and much
other business of a routine nature trans?
acted. The certificate will be printed
from engraved plates upon fine card?
board, suitable for framing. The de?
sign is very handsome, being 9 by li
inches in size. In addition to thc scroll
work it contains a fine picture of the
late President, thc White House and
the McKinley home at Canton.
The report of the treasurer. Myron
T. Herrick, showed that the fund for
the monument is rapidly increasing, the
contributions received during February
being larger than for any month since
the organization of the association.
The following members of the execu?
tive committee were present at the meet?
ing: Judge William R. Day, Canton;
George B. Cortelyou. Washington; Wm.
A. Lynch, Canton, Ohio; William Mc
Conway, Pittsburg; Rycrson Ritchie,
Cleveland.
Judge Confesses He is a Defaulter.
Utica, N. Y. (Special.)?John D. F.
Stone, a prominent lawyer and until a
year ago judge of the City Court of this
city, appeared before Supreme Court
Justice Scripture, at the Justice's cham?
bers in Rome, and announced that he
was a defaulter in the sum of $5,000 in
the moneys of the Thomas L. Kingsley
estate, of this city. He told the Justice
that there was no way in which he could
make restitution and asked to be com?
mitted to prison to expiate his crime.
Justice Scripture refused to do this. He
adjourned the matter for 30 days and re
liiested that Stone make an effort to
have someone indorse his note and make
good the money which was due.
Chatham Swept by Fire.
Danville, Va.. (Special).?Fire broke
out in the store of J. P. Hunt, at Chat?
ham, the county seat of Pittsylvania, and
spread with such rapidity that $20,000
worth of property was swept away in a
few hours. The losses arc: J. P. Hunt,
55.500; J. Iv Lanier's storehouse, $800;
dwelling house of Mrs. Sallie M. Coles,
$1,000; Hotel Bennett and stables,
S7.000; two stores of W. R. Fitzgerald,
value not stated, and several small dwell?
ings. The town is without a fire depart?
ment and the people were powerless to
io anything to check the flames.
Would Delay th: Treaty.
Copenhagen, (Special).?The president
>f the Landsthing, Dr. Matzen, who is
ipposcd to the sale of the Danish West
Indies to thc United Stales, seems in
dined to delay consideration of thc
rcaty. He hrs called the first meeting
>f the Landsthing for April io. The
iress criticises his attitude on the ground
hat the delay is considered discourteous
0 the United States. It is thought that
1 few of the President's own party will
support the government, thus insuring
he ratification of the treaty without a
ilebiscite by a small majority.
Open Switch Caused Wreck.
Knox, Ind., (Special).?Thc west
jound Nickel-Plate passenger train due
icre at 2.50 P. M. ran into an open
(witch, resulting in a disastrous wreck,
rhree persons were severely injured,
rhe train was running at high speed
vhen it collided with a number of freight
ars that were standing on a side track.
Ibo baggage coach was torn to pieces,
md the engine and six freight cars were
>iled in a heap, which was completely
lestroyed by fire.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
For Three New States.
The House Committee on Territories
favorably reported a bill providing
Statehood for the Territories of Okla?
homa, New Mexico and Arizona.
It is the intention of the members of
this committee, when the bill is consid?
ered in the House, to change the name
of the Territory of New Mexico. This
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bill for each.
New Chinese Legation Home.
The Chinese Imperial Government jvill
have a legation building of its own in
Washington.
Before Minister Wu Ting-fang was
accredited to this country the legation
occupied a massive brownstone building
on Columbia Heights. Thc present Min?
ister's taste ran to white stone, and look?
ing around for a residence he obtained
the beautiful and massive stone structure
at thc southeast comer of Eighteenth and
Q streets. Deeds were placed on record
conveying property at the northeast cor?
ner of Nineteenth street extended and
Vernon avenue from Julia T. Peck and
A. M. Ely to the Chinese Government
for a legation site. The price paid was
$15,870.
There recently has been a boom among
legations in this direction. The French
Government bought one of the finest
pieces of property in the city for a new
embassy and plans for the building are
now being prepared in Paris by one oi
the national architects. For a while there
was talk of other legations clubbing to?
gether and building separate buildings
upon an entire block.
To Retain Census Clerks.
By a vote of 5 to 4 the House Com?
mittee on Census directed that the bill
drawn by Representative Hay, of Vir?
ginia, be reported, amending section 5
of the recently passed permanent Census
act, by peremptorily placing all of the
employees of thc Census Office who wen
on the rolls on March 7, 1002, cxcepl
unskilled laborers, in the classified serv?
ice.
The purpose of the measure is to re?
tain in the government service the larg?
number of census employees who would
be discharged under the construction
which the executive branch of the gov?
ernment has placed on section 5 of the
new act.
I'ure-f ood Legislation.
Jay Miller, of Chicago, concluded his
statement on pure-food legislation be?
fore the House Committee on Com?
merce, and Robert H. Moses, of New
York, spoke for the National Confec?
tioners' Association in favor of a pure
candy provision.
Mr. Miller held that stringent national
legislation was not necessary, as the
States were regulating thc matter, but
if there is to be Federal law, he argued,
it should be confined to the prevention
of transportation of deletcrius arti?
cles.
Mr. Moses said the confectionery
clause of the Hepburn bill is satisfactory
to the confectionery interests.
Hosiery and Knit Goods.
The Census Bureau has issued the fol?
lowing preliminary report regarding the
manufacture of hosiery and knit goods
in the United States in 1900, with per?
centage of increase since 1890. Number
of establishments 921, increase 16 per
cent.; capital $81,800,604, increase 62 pct
cent.; wage-earners, average number
83.387. increase 40 per cent.; total wages
$24,358,627, increase 47 per cent.; mis?
cellaneous expense $6,599,865, increase
82 per cent.; cost of materials used $51,
07.859, increase 42 per cent.; value of
products $95,482,566, increase 42 per
cent.
"Red Albumen" for Hens.
The Postoffice Department issued a
fraud order against the United States
Salyx Company, of New Concord, O.,
to prevent that concern using the mails
in connection with an alleged scheme to
defraud farmers and others in the sale
to them of a mixture "guaranteed to
make hens lay more eggs in the winter."
The company advertised a "red al?
bum," which, it was alleged, would do
thc work. Samples of thc stuff were
analyzed by the Department of Agricul?
ture. The egg food, it is said, proved
to be nothing more than oxide of iron,
or ordinary red paint.
Printers Complain of Ruling.
A -committee of representatives of
printing crafts talked with the President
and handed him a memorial requesting
that the ruling of the Postoffice Depart?
ment barring from the mails certain
publications issued annually, semi-an?
nually and quarterly, be set aside. They
stated that they represented 1,000 firms
employing 100,000 persons, and that tht
ruling was a great hardship. The Pres?
ident took the matter under advise?
ment.
Cavite Marines to Be Relieved.
Washington.?The Navy Department
has made arrangements to have a battal?
ion of marines go to Cavite, P. I., to re?
lieve the present battalion, which has
been there for some time. Major Paul
St. C. Murphy will be in command of thc
detachment until its arrival at Guam,
where he will assume command of the
marine barracks.
Two Civil War Monitors Sold.
Senator McComas, of Maryland, in?
troduced a bill authorizing thc refund?
ing of internal revenue taxes paid on leg?
acies and bequests of a religious, lit?
erary, charitable or educational charac?
ter, op for the encouragement of art un?
der thc War Revenue Act.
Check on Gambling by Wire.
Representative Gillett, of Massachu?
setts, introduced a bill to "protect State
anti-gambling laws from nullification
through interstate gambling by tele?
graph.
LIVE NEWS OF THE
JO DOMINION.
Special Condensed Dispatches From
Many Points.
BILLS PASSED BY LEGISLATURE.
Cut Her Own Throat With Carving knife -
iurch Paper Denounces Cigarettes?Epi*
ernie of Crime in Richmond?Cut Arteries
His Wrist-Judge George W. Ward Dead
-A Youth Disappears From Home.
irginia pensions: Robert Killen, Sol
Irs' Home, $27.50; Owen Brett, Sol
rs' Home, $23; Frederick Miller,
(rtsmoutb, $20.50; John Bath, Soldiers'
ime, $28; John W. Taylor, Soldiers'
mic, $22; John .Smith, Portsmouth,
; Caleb S. Miller, Portsmouth, $24.50;
(ter McCusker, Soldier's Home,
$22.75; Thomas Recd. Soldiers' Home,
$21.75; Louis Weber, Fauquier Springs.
$29; William T. Henderson, Fincastle,
$12; Samuel Justice, Mctomkin. $6;
Charles Casscn, National Soldiers'
Home, Elizabeth City county. $6; Mich?
ael Mullady. National Soldiers' Home,
Elizabeth City county, $8.
Among the bills passed by the Legisla?
ture were the following:
To incorporate the Benevolent Aid and
Relief Association of Virginia.
To incorporate the Catawba Valley
Railway and Mining Company.
To authorize the city of Fredericks?
burg to determine methods of raising
expenses for building sewers.
To amend act incorporating Onancock
and Drummondtown Electric Railway,
Light and Power Company.
To t incorporate Norfolk and Lake
Drummond Railway Company.
To incorporate the Portsmouth and
Suffolk Rapid Transit Company.
To incorporate Norfolk County Indus?
trial Company.
To incorporate the Norfolk, Ports?
mouth and Berkley Tunnel Company.
To incorporate the Lick Creek and
Lake Erie Railroad Company.
Prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of liquors in Tazewell, Russell, Buchan?
an and Dickenson counties.
To amend act making husband and
wife competent witnesses for and against
each other.
To authorize the Board of Supervis?
ors of the counties and the councils of
the cities and towns of the Common?
wealth to subscribe to the capital stock
of the Jamestown Exposition Company.
To amend and re-enact Section I and
to repeal Section 2 of an act entitled "An
act to provide for the registration of any
person, being a resident of the State,
who desires to take or catch oysters for
sale or planting from the natural rocks
or shoals on the eastern or ocean side
of Accomac and Northampton counties."
To authorize the City Council of
Staunton, Va., to issue and sell bonds
not exceeding $125,000.
To authorize the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities to
erect a wharf at Jamestown.
Mrs. O. L. Benson is in a critical
condition at the hospital in Petersburg
as a result of an attempt to take her own
life by cutting her throat with a carving
knife. She was preparing breakfast for
her husband, and left him fdr a moment
to go into an adjoining room. When
her husband entered it a few minutes
later the ghastly sight of his wife in a
pool of her own blood met his eyes.
While physicians were attending the
wound Mrs. Benson begged them to save
ber life. She said it seemed like a dream,
and she could not understand why she
attempted to take her own life. Physi?
cians do not think she can recover.
The Southern Churchman, which is the
organ of the Virginia Episcopal Associa?
tion, has caused much comment by the
editorial assertion tbat the harm being
done by cigarettes is as great as that
accomplished by the liquor traffic. Il
calls vigorously for some action to rem?
edy an evil which is sapping the strength
of the boys of the country. The Church?
man is an influential paper, and its re?
marks are likely to cause a crusade
against cigarette smoking by boys.
The chief of police of Richmond has
issued a warning to the people not to gc
into certain sections of the city aftet
dark. This is due to an epidemic ol
hold-ups and murders of late. So seriou.
has the situation become that a move?
ment is on foot to increase considerably
the police force, which now numbers le?
nten. Most of the trouble has occurred
in sections where liquor dives abound,
and the judge of the Hustings Court has
announced that licenses will be granted
in the future only to respectable people.
Governor Montague has granted the
following conditional pardons: Robert
Montgomery, sentenced from the County
Court of Patrick, for murder in the sec?
ond degree, to five years in the peniten?
tiary ; Madison Montgomery, sentenced
to five years in tiie penitentiary, from the
County Court of Patrick, for murder in
thc second degree; Walter Gillespie, sen?
tenced from the County Court of Smythe
to six years in the penitentiary for as?
sault.
Frank Jackson, formerly of Roanoke,
but now a resident of Bluefield, attempt?
ed suicide in Roanoke by opening thc ar?
teries of his wrist with a penknife. Sur?
gical attention was secured and his life
saved. Jackson is an insurance man and
was in that business when a resident of
Roanoke. He is married.
Judge George W. Ward, one of the
leading members of the Winchester bar,
flied in tbat citv of heart failure. He was
a son of Col. Daniel Ward, a soldier in
the War of 1812, and was born in Cul
peper county, Va., 81 years ago.
A charter was granted to the Virginia
Abattoir Company to conduct its busi- j
ness in Henrico county, adjacent to Rich?
mond. The maximum capital stock i?
$100,000, and thc business is to buy, sell |
mid slay the stock. W. S. Forbes, of
Richmond, is president.
William Ware drove his horse at?
tached to a buggy into the Rappahan
nock river at Fredericksburg to wash the I
wheels. The current turned the vehicle
over and thc horse was swept from his
feet and drowned. The horse and buggy !
floated down tbe swift stream. Ware
.warn ashore.
Ten thousand dollars' worth of dia?
monds supposed to have been lost when
the Atlantic Hotel, Norfolk, was de?
stroyed by fire six weeks ap:o, were found
rn the ruins Saturday. The gems are
? he property of Mrs. W. J. Donald, of
Norfolk.
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mation there is no remedy to equal "Mexican Mustang Liniment.
aw easy way
and a sure way to treat a case of Sore
Throat in order to kill disease germs
and insure healthy throat action is to
take half a glassfull of water put into
it a teaspoonful of
Mexican Mustang
Liniment
and with this gargle the throat at frequent intervals.
Then bathe the outside of the throat thoroughly with tho Uni- J
ment and after doing this pour some on a soft cloth and wrap/
around tho neck. It is a POSITIVE CURE.
25c., 50c. and $1.00 a bottle.
IT Ml AV DC Vnil have long been troubled with _ running
ll MAI DC IUU sore or ulcer. Treat it at onco with Mexi?
can Mustang Liinmen* and you can depend upon a speedy cure. .
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE FARMER.
A
NEW
OLD
PAPER.
For sixty years the NEW-YORK WEEKLY TKIIJ
UNE has been a national weeklv newspaper, lead al?
most entirely by farmers, aud has enjoyed the emil'
dence and support of the American people to a degree
never attained by any similar pub (cation.
THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE PARR ER
is made absolutely for farmers and their famines. The
first number wns issued November 7th, 1901.
Every department of agricultural industry is covered
bj special contributors who ere tenden lo this respective
lines, and the TKI8UNE FARMER will be iu every sense
a high chass, up to date, live, enterprising paper, pro?
fusely illustrated with pictures of live stock, model build?
ings and homes, agricultural machinery, etc.
Farmers' wives, sons and daughters will find special
pages for their entertainment.
Regular price, .1.00 per year, hut you eau bay it with your
favorite home weekly newspaper, The Highland Recorder, one
year for 51.50.
Send your subscriptions nnd money to THI RECORDLR,
Monterey, Va.
Send your n. nn nnd ad.Irrss to tho MSW YOUR TKI
IJUNK FAKMliK, New York Cit), nnd a free sample copy
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] Value of
Farm Lands
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Reasons Advanced for ?
the Continued In?
crease In Prices.
f mrnrm ttttmt mrwr Tmrmnmrn.
There are increasing evidences that
real estate investments in the country
are of increasing value. There are rea?
sons for this that will continue and
grow more potent with time. It has
dawned upon the intelligence of the
American people that the abundance of
our surplus 1 .nds is rapidly dwindling.
The ability of Uncle Sam to give every
man a farm is terminated, and the
time is not far distant when we will
have none beyond the holdings re?
quired for his cwn use.
Another fact affecting values in this
line is that population is rapidly gain?
ing upon food production. This is true
in the United States, and to a large ex?
tent that farming becomes more profit?
able and the land on which to conduct
it more valuable.
When machinery was introduced In
are "boundless" West the immediate
result was to deprecate farms in the
East and to drive young men from the
country to the city. There was a con?
gestion of labor in these centers, and
much of the trouble it has encountered
ls the result of this cause. But the
West has filled up.
Skill and Ingenuity have done about
ill possible in the output of agricul
;ural machinery. This again puts th?
East on a basis of profitable produc?
ion. Its farms are advancing in value
md many of those that were aban
ioned during the western boom ar?
jeing reclaimed. The most depressing
demand for help is now in the country,
md a vast amount went to waste dur?
ing the last season because the laboi
required in harvesting was not to ht
had. Now there is a tide setting in
toward tho country.
The income of the farmer is practi?
cally assured and the demands upor.
his products are h.und to increase witt
each year. The means of communica?
tion are greatly improved, new and
paying crops, such as beet sugar and
northern tobacco, are being raised; tht
farmer is now in touch with the world
aud the outlook for him was ncvei
brighter.?Detroit Free Press.
What a woman loves is to her al
once beautiful and noblp.
No woman wants to know anything;
all she needs is to believe.
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? Naval Equipment f W;M^ ..s!SZr I
] of the Present Day 1 They cln C"TV 1
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The description of the two armored
cruisers the Pennsylvania and Colora?
do, now building at the Cramps yards,
bring out the fact that they will be
packed with guns. Each vessel will
carry sixty-six pieces of ordnance,
ranging In caliber from the 8-inch
breech loading, high-powered rifle to
the 1-pounder. Each vessel will mount
four 8-inch and fourteen 6-inch guns,
which will constitute the main batter?
ies. The auxiliary armament is made
up of eighteen 3-inch, twelve 3-pound
ers, eight 1-pounders, two 3-pounder
field guns two machine guns and six
automatic pieces.
Such an armanent reveals a tenden?
cy to return to the old method of giv?
ing a ship as many guns as she could
carry and serve effectively. In the old
days of the sailing navy some of the
line-of-battle ships, notably the Penn?
sylvania, carried as many as 130 guns.
Very few of th?ce pieces were of heav
ler caliber than the 32 or 42 pounders
The 68-pounder was then regarded a?
a very heavy caliber, and the larget
shell gun was supplied but sparingly.
A ship like the Pennsylvania of thi
old days?she was burned at the Nor?
folk navy yard in 1861?required fr; ir
1,000 to 1,200 men to perform the du?
ties of seamen and artillerists. Thc
broadside weight of metal thr.v.i:
from a ship of this class was very light
as compared with one of her suer. - y
ors of today and the amount of phys?
ical labor required to produce this re?
sult was enormous. The aggregate ol
metal thrown by twenty-five 42-pound
ers each of which was served by a
crew of six or eight men, would not
equal, or more than equal, the weight
of one modern projectile of the highes!
type.
The man who makes a fool of him?
self seldom boasts of being self-made