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HIGHLAND
RECORDER
VOL. XXIV.
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., OCTOBER 17, 1902.
NO. ll.
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CHAPTER XX1T,
Continued.
*I lltougbt it was Miss Theodora.
She was always running in and out of
tbe garden, feeding the chickens or
looking for eggs or fetching wood from
the stack nt the side of the house or
water from the well."
"So that you just thought it was she,
nnd then troubled yourself no more
about it?" r. ?.. . , .__ __
??Yes."
'Did you hear, ok, think you heard,
her come in again?"
There was a pause. Then Kell whis?
pered :
"Yes."
, "When was it?" -.
'Tt was?a long while after, Just be?
fore I took the tea into the dining
room."
Sir Neville laid down the pen which
he had been holding, clasped his hands
aud looked over his writing-table at
her with an air of exasperation.
"Now, my dear girl, why on earth
didn't you tell the coroner that?"
"I couldn't have told them that in
my answers to their questions," replied
Nell, earnestly. "Don't you remember
that all they asked me was whether I
had been outside the house, not wheth?
er I had heard anybody else go in or
out?"
Slr Neville did remember. He asked
one more question.
"I have heard a report that a canvas
bag containing the mouey collected
for the shipwrecked sailors on tho
uight before your uncle went out o.
bis mind was found in your "roora. Is'
that true?"
"No, sir. Meg, my uncle's servant,
and I found it on the" mat at the foot
of the stairs. And that is really all I
have to tell you, slr," said Nell, with
an air of relief at having finished the
odious recital.
"Well, that is enough for our pur?
pose, fortunately," said Sir Neville, as
he rose to ring the bell. "And now
you must come into the drawing-room
and let Lady Neville give you a glass
of wine. You are a little bit of a her?
oine, although you have certainly
not done much to facilitate the course
of justice," he wound up, with a dig?
nified shake of the head.
But Nell refused to go to be shown
off iu the drawing-room, refused even
to have a glass of wine or a cup of tea
brought to her in the study before sh",
went. She was white, trembling, mis?
erable. But she felt that she wanted
to be alone, to cry her eyes out at the
terrible fact that she had been forced
at last to assist the justice which she
would have diverted from the crim?
inal if she could. One question, how?
ever, she had to put in her turn before
She left the presence of the magistrate.
"They will bring it in that she was
mad, of course, will they not?" sho
asked, anxiously, but with an attempt
to appear quite sure of his answer.
Sir Neville's answer was not reas?
suring, and the look which accompa?
nied it was still less so.
"That is a matter for after considera?
tion."
Nell walked to thc door with stag?
gering feet. Miss Theodora a murder?
ess! In langer of penal servitude, if
not of hanging! The thought was too
. overwhelmingly horrible!
( Nell tottered to the cab and was
driven back to her lodging at Court
stair3 in an almost fainting condition,
e few minutes before the police ser?
geant who had been her escort to Sir
Neville's started for ShingleJjftd with
n warrant for Miss Bost?;l " ?Aen*.
sion.
CIIAPTEPv XXIII. ?
It was tbe police sergeant who had
taken Nell Claris to Sir Neville Bax
who had brought to Shingle End the
warrant for Miss Bostal's arrest. This
warrant he had not, so far, had an op?
portunity of showing to tho Colonel.
Now, however, that the lady had dis?
appeared, and it had become necessary
to search tho place, and mord thor?
oughly, the sergeant respectfully
turned to tho old gentleman to Inform
the latter of the authority by which he
acted.
Colonel Bostal, divining the man's
intention, made a gesture of horror,
and without staying either to hear tho
man's explanation or to look at the
warrant, retreated hastily Into the
house.
Clifford, however, caught sight of the
paper in the officer's hands, and some?
thing of the truth was suddenly re?
vealed to him. It flashed upon him so
abruptly, this knowledge, that the.
shock turned him sick nnd giddy. It
was some minutes before he could ask,
in a hoarse and tremulous voice;
"Is that a warrant?".
"Yes, sir."
"For whom?"
"Miss Bostal." -x-??
And the policeman continued his
Eeavch about the garden andthe house
for the lady who had so mysteriously
disappeared.
"Then it is ?Miss Bostal ?whom
George Claris wants to see?"
The innkeeper, who had now sub?
sided Into a stolid silence and tran?
quility, was watching the front door
of the house. It was Hemming! who
answered:
"Yes, slr. He's not ciulte himself
yet, but he's not too far off it to have
been of use to us. We've had him un
-4er our eye these last few days, and|
'." ^ever he sets the chance ha mAkea!
sTraighrfor this bouse, and clamors to
see the woman who robbed him. So
we brought him with us to-night to
Confront her. She wouldn't give us
the chance till we got the warrant."
"She doesn't seem to mean to give
you a chance now," observed Clifford.
Hemming affected to think that her
capture was only a matter of minutes,
as he kept to his post,'watching the
front of the house, while the other
men searched the premises at the back.
But he hardly looked so confident as
might have been expected from his
words.
? Indeed.-he had cause for uneasiness.
It was ho who had first conceived sus?
picions of Miss Theodora, and it had
taken all the ingenuity of which he
was master to get together enough evi?
dence against her to justify him in
asking for a warrant. The sight of an
old scar on one of her little hands, on
the occasion of one of his visits to
Shingle End, had suggested to him
that she might have been the woman
whose hand he had burned with the
fuse at the inn.
But lt had been a long time before
he could make out a case?not, indeed,
until he had thought of using the now
._alf-Witted_ George Clari _t 'whom_ Jig
had got out of the hands of simple
Nell under a promise, which had been
faithfully kept, that, ho should be well
taken care of, and that he should re?
turn to her very shortly. Even then
the difficulties in the way of the police
had been great. At first Claris was
sullen and taciturn. No questions
would obtain from him a clear answer
ns to tho events of tbe night which had
turned his brain. It was not until that
very afternoon that he had accused
Miss Bostal by name of the thefts, and
this furnished the police with enough
data for further proceedings.
Clifford listened in dumb bewilder?
ment.
"What can she have done it for? Is
she mad?" asked he, presently.
Hemming shrugged his shoulders.
"Doesn't look much like madness to
have shot the man who was going to
Inform against her,!' said he, dryly.
"Good gracious! Then you think
she-"
It was hardly conceivable to bim
even yet that the prim, rigorous little
old maid, who had been so much
shocked at his walking along a country
road on Sunday in a light suit, could
have been guilty of the systematic
crimes now laid to her charge. In the
silence which followed his words one
of the two Stroan policemen came up.
"She's got away," said he, tn a low
voice. "We've hunted all over the
place. There's no way by which she
oomjd have got back into tbe house."
"How could she have got far with
that short start of you?" asked Hem
ming, incredulously.
"I don't know, but she's done it. [
I'm going to search the house, so you
keep your eyes open."
The front door had been left open
by tho Colouel, whom the sergeant j
found in the dining-room, sitting with
head bent over thc dying embers of the
fire. 'ihe mau felt tony for him and
spoke In a subdued voice.
"Beg pardon, sir, but I shall have to '
search the house again."
Tho old man acquiesced by a nod,
and the officer withdrew. From tha
ground floor to tbe first floor, from the
first floor to the attics, he bunted in
every corner. Hardly in vain. For
although he did not find Miss Bostal
he found evidence enough of her pre- !
datory habits to convince any jury of
her guilt of the mluor crime of theft
at least.
Under the boards of the attics, sewn
up in the mattress of the lady's own
bed, hidden away in holes in the din
used chimneys, the officer found a
hoard as varied as it was interesting.
Money, in notes and silver and gold;
jewelry, of little value for thc most
part and apparently taken new from
shops; half a dozen men's watches,
pencil-cases, purses, pieces of stuff,
scraps of lace, card-cases, silver spoons
and forks. These were a part ouly of
what he found.
Covered with the dust of years mos|
of them were; the gold and silver tar?
nished and discolored with ago and
damp. On the whole a fine collection,
and amounting in value to seine hun
dreds_<_f pounds
Nothing less than a sheet was of any
use to hold the collection, and even
when the sergeant made his way
down the stairs with a huge bundle on
his back ho felt by no means certain
that there was not more behind.
A bent figure stood in front of him
at the opening of the dining-room
door.
"Am I under arrest, too?" asked tho
Colonel, In tranquil tones.
"No, sir. But we've got to watch
tha house."
"And what have you got there?"
The policeman, by the dim light of
the lamp In the passage, displayed his
find in silence. In silence, also, the
Colonel looked, and Immediately with?
drew into the room. The sergeant left
the house and met Clifford on the lit?
tle path leading to the gate. He
jerked his head back in the direction
of the house.
? "Sorry for the old gentleman!" said
be, in a low voice. "It's about broke
him up, has this. He's moping there,
all by himself."
l - < To be Continued. > ?
HORGAN MAY END STRIKE
Secretary Root's Report to President
Roosevelt.
ANOTHER MOVE FOR ARBITRATION.
Reported that President Cassatt, ol the Peon*
sylvania, Will Assist In Bringing About a
Set.hni.nl. The Operators Likely to Soon
Announce a Concession of an Advance in
Wages.
New * York (Special).?There are
! strong indications that the settlement of
thc coal strike is in sight. Both the
| President and the administration leaders
in Washington arc confident that the
i next 72 horns will sec important devel
] opincnts and that there will bc an end
of thc strike before Sunday.
Secretary Root called on the Presi
1 dent and told bini some important facts.
First. J. P. Morgan is working to end
I the strike, in connection with A. J. Cas
j satt, president of thc Pennsylvania Rail
J road.
Second. There will be no settlement
i with, or account of, politicians, whether
i they are Governors, Senators or of lower
i degree.
Third. Morgan acknowledges that
soldiers cannot make thc strikers go back
to work, nor will their presence in the
strike region make any apparent differ?
ence with the number of men who will
go back.
Fourth. Secrctar- Root now believes
that an announcement by thc operators of
a concession to thc miners of at least
5 and probably 10 per cent, advance in
wages will be made this week. Indeed,
Mr. Root is inclined to think from what
Mr. Morgan said to him that the an?
nouncement will come within two or
three days.
The notice of an advance of wages will
probably be posted at the mines, as in
1000. and the strikers will vote to go
back to work.
Mr. Roosevelt is in possession of full
information concerning the stand Mor?
gan bas taken in the coal difficulty.
The President now h t definitely in
mind to aopoint a commission to investi?
gate the conditions 011 the coal fields.
Carroll D. Wright will be a member of
that commission. The President is seek?
ing one or two other members.
The committee of manufacturers will
he the medium of settlement. President
Mitchell consulted with this committee
in Buffalo, and the coal road operators
met the committee and received its
proposition in Philadelphia]
KILLED BY BURGLARS.
A Merchant of Lexington, Ky.. Shot to Death
In lils Own Home.
Lexington. Ky. (Special).?A. B.
Chinn, of the finn of Chitin & Todd,
dry goods merchants in this city, one
of thc most prominent business men in
Kentucky, wa- shot to death in his
home by two masked burglars at 3.30
a. m. Hia son Asa. who heard the
noise, rushed to his father's rescue and
opened fire on the burglars through a
closed door. The burglars returned
the fire, and Asa was perhaps mortally
wounded. Citizens and police are
searching for the murderers, but no
clue has been found.
Thc battle in the hall was a sharp
one. So close were the burglars to
Asa Chitin that the powder burned his
face. His room is near that of his pa?
rents, and he bad scarcely gotten to
sleep when his mother's screams arous?
ed him. The two burglars stood at
the bedside of Mr. and Airs. Chinn. and.
striking a match, covered them with
their revolvers, demanding money. It
was by thc light of this match that Mrs.
Chinn saw their green masks. Her
impressions of thc personal appearance
of thc men is very hazy. A. B. Chinn.
thc murdered man. was-a deacon in thc
Central Christian Church.
DAMAGES FOR BROKEN NECK.
A Man Who Has to Keep His Head Brac:d
Awarded $.5,000.
Chicago, 111. (Special).?Thirty-five
thousand dollars for a broken neck was
the verdict in Judge Kavanagh*! court
against thc Union Traction Company
and in favor of Frederick Thoerfel, a
carpenter, formerly in thc employ of
that corporation. Thc suit has been
fought bitterly for ten days.
Thoerfel appeared in court daily, his
head supported by a sort of cage known
among surgeons as a "jury mast." With
the pitiable condition of their client so
apparent the attorneys opposing thc
company made thc most of their oppor
tunity. A "jury mast" is a brace of iron
supporting the spine and at the top is
a ring. In this Thoerfel is compelled
to keep his head or else it would fall.
A band also supports thc neck, while
straps arc worn around the body to
keep thc mast in position. Ile is com?
pelled to use crutches.
I he case is one of the few on record
where thc victim of a broken neck lives.
Roosevelt on Crutches.
Washington, D. C. (Special).?Presi?
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt went out for
a drive iu an open landau at ir.30
o'clock thc other morning. For the
first time since his illness thc President
reached his carriage unassisted. In?
stead of being carried downstairs in
an invalid chair he came down upon
crutches. He descended thc steps in
front of thc house without assistance
and crossed to thc carriage. He held
up his injured leg so that the foot did
not touch the ground. A large crowd
in front of the house applauded as he
took his scat in the carriage. He ac?
knowledged thc greeting by raising his
soft felt hat and bowing right and left.
Five Persons Injured.
Pittsburg. Pa. (Special).?Fire at
Homestead. Pa., caused by an explo?
sion of natural gas. badly damaged the
Seventh Avenue Hotel, postofficc and
office buildings of thc Homestead Im?
provement Company, and seriously in?
jured five persons. The explosion oc?
curred at 2.15 p. m., in the cellar of
a confectionery store on the first floor
of thc Homestead Land Improvement
Company building, at 614 Ann street
Thc loss was about $20,000.
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
? Domestic.
Justice Van Sickel. in Trenton, N.
J., filed his opinion in the case of Mi?
riam Berger against the United States
Steel corporation in favor of the latter.
General Gobin declared that his sol?
diers have nothing to do in thc coal?
fields, no calls having been made upon
them for protection.
Janies H. Lynch shot, with probably
fatal results, James Morse, a Raine's
hotelkceper. in New York, who hid
Lynch's daughter.
Three members of the Board of Ed
ttcation of South Omaha have been
arrested on the charge of receiving
bribes.
One man was killed and four were in?
jured by the collapse of the wall of
a new hotel building at Jackson, Mich.
A. R. Chinn. a merchant of Lexing?
ton, Ky., was shot to death by masked
burglars in hil home.
A colored woman died in Chicago
who claimed to have lived IJJ years.
Governor Odell sharplv called down
President Baer, of the Reading, at the
conference of the Governor, Senators
Platt, Quay and Penrose and thc op?
erators in New York. Thc Governor
said the Miners' Union should bc rec?
ognized, and he intended to use all the
power he possessed to remedy the in?
tolerable situation.
Charles Cawly, aged 17 years, who
displayed wonderful inventive genius,
is accused of murdering his mother
and sister and of injuring four other
children at Homestead, Pa. Ile is be?
lieved to be insane.
The police authorities of Camden,
N. J., state that Paul Woodward,
charged with the murder of Walter P.
Jennings and John Coffin, has con?
fessed to complicity in the crime.
Gus Bush, colored, was hanged in
Macon, Miss., for the murder of Ern?
est Dismukes, white. Two thousand
persons witnessed thc execution.
An agreement has been reached be?
tween the United Mineworkers and thc
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Com?
pany of Birmingham, Ala.
Governor Nash, of Ohio, granted a
pardon to Mrs. P. V. Taylor and
daughter, convicted of kidnapping lit?
tle Margaret Taylor.
Thc National Convention United Or?
der Colored Odd Fellows, at New Ha?
ven. Ct., voted $75,000 to establish a
j national headquarters.
The flint-glass manufacturers at a
i meeting in Pittsburg, decided to form
j a combination, to be capitalized at $30,
i 000,000.
The Reading Coal and Iron Com
i pany denies any agreement with other
coal companies to regulate the prices.
Five persons were injured and prop?
erty damaged by an explosion of nat?
ural gas at Homestead. Pa.
Striking girl boxmakers attacked
those who had taken their places at
the Vf. C. Ritchie plant, in Chicago.
James Pendleton, mayor of Gentry.
Mo., was sentenced to five years in thc
penitentiary for bigamy.
There were 13 deaths on thc trans?
port Sherman, which arrived at San
Francisco from Manila.
Jere C. Hutchins, of Detroit, was
elected president of thc Street Railway
Association.
Foreign.
At a meeting at Utrecht. Holland, in
honor of the Boer generals. General
Botha said, that President Kruger had
I not carried off state funds, and that he
i had contributed liberally to thc Boer
cause.
Troops have been sent to the French
j coalfields to check the rioting. In an
encounter between gendarmes and
! strikers one of the latter was killed
j and several wounded. Thc strike is ex
| tending.
Thc Swiss Parliament authorized the
j mobilization of 2.000 troops, including
I a battalion of sharpshooters, should
j their services bc needed, to quell strike
j disturbances in Geneva.
Reginald Ward, of New York, pre?
sided at thc annual banquet of thc Dra?
matic and Musical Benevolent Fund,
an old English charity, in London.
In the English Church Congress in
London there was an outspoken criti?
cism of the Bible's infallibility which
caused considerable discussion.
Adam Ru._.cll. a German subject, has
been murdered in Venezuela The
crime is attributed to revolutionists.
General Nord, war minister of the
Haytian provisional government, has
been defeated and is in retreat.
Generals Corbin and Young arc thc
recipients of much social attention in
London.
In connection with thc increased mil?
itary measures taken by the Turkish
government in view of thc revolution?
ary movement in Macedonia, three bat?
talions of Redifs have been dispatched
to the Djumabala district.
At the opening of .the German Co?
lonial Congress in Berlin Max Shickel,
a banker, adovcated the co-operation of
Germany with the United States and
Great Britain in securing and protect?
ing over-sea trade.
Thc Workmen's National Convention
decreed a strike throughout Switzerland.
Soldiers have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness for an emer?
gency.
Thc Boer generals attended a church
service with Mr. Kruger at Utrecht.
Holland, the occasion being his seven?
ty-seventh birthday anniversary.
The Pope said to Archbishop Chap?
pell that Washington was thc most
loyal and generous government thc
Church had ever to do with.
Rear Admiral Casey is trying to
bring about peace between thc contend?
ing clements in Colombia.
Thc striking miners in France arc
trying to prevent nonunion men from
working.
Tao Slit, viceroy of the Provinces
of Kwangtung and Kwangsi. is dead.
The Boer generals declined to seek
presentation to Emperor William
through the British ambassador, and thc
fact has caused a sentiment against them
in German court circles.
Financial.
Thc Japanese loan of $25,000,000 was
over subscribed 5 per cent, in London.
American Railways' gross earnings
for September increased $24,819, or 30
per cent.
Western Union's profits were greater
in 1902 than for any previous fiscal
year since 1893.
A New York bond house offered
$300,000 long 4s to the Government at
138 1-4. but they were not bought.
It is definitely announced that Phil?
adelphia city bonds are accepted by tb.e
Government at 75 per cent.
MASKED MEN 6ET $50,000
Express Car On the Burlington Road
Hcld-L'p and Robbed.
SAFE BLOWN OPEN WITH DYNAMITE.
Two O'Clock in the Mornln% the Time and a
Spot Four Miles from Lincoln, Neb., the
Scene?Three Men Wave Red Light and Stop
the Train, Two Cover Engineer and Fireman
With Revolvers While Third Wrecks Safe.
Lincoln, Neb. (Special).?Three
masked men held up the Pacific Coast
express train of the Burlington road,
four miles from Lincoln, shortly before
2 o'clock a. m. They used explosives
on the express car, shattering it badly
and after wrecking the safe, rifled il
of its contents, securing booty ot au
estimated value of $50,000.
The train was a few minutes late and
in charge of Conductor C. A. Lyman
and Engineer A. L. Clayburg. On the
crest of a hill midway between the city
and the town of Woodlawn, the en?
gineer saw a red light waved across the
track and brought thc train to a stand?
still. Two men sprang quickly into the
cab, covering Clayburg and his fireman
with revolvers. They lost no time in
giving their orders, and were just as
promptly obeyed. The express car
was cut from thc balance of the tram
and sent ahead a short distance. The
robbers found the door locked, and af?
ter commanding Messenger William
Lupton to open it and getting no re?
sponse fired two or three shots into
the car. The door was then opened.
A heavy charge of dynamite torc the
safe to pieces. The two men who
were in thc car politely bade the train?
men good morning, jumped from the
car and disappeared in the darkness.
Thc passengers were not molested, nor
were the trainmen asked for their per?
sonal property.
While the robbery in the express car
was going on. a third robber walked
alongside the track by the passenger
coaches, firing his revolver occasionally
to keep inquisitive passengers quiet.
Brakeman Moore, who alighted from
thc rear coach to go ahead, found a re?
volver pushed in his face with a warn?
ing to go back where he belonged.
He ran the four miles to the Lincoln
yards, and was the first to give the
alarm. Thc robbers were cool, talka?
tive and apparently experts. Thc
whole job occupied little time. The
train was. run back to Lincoln. Thc
wrecked express car was taken out.
and at 4 o'clock it resumed its jour?
ney, the original crew going out with
it. Following it was an engine car?
rying Chief of Police Hoagland. De?
tective Malone and his two blood?
hounds and three police officers. At
the scene of thc holdup the hounds
took thc scent, and the pursuit of the
robbers was begun. Every town and
village marshal and every county sher?
iff in Southeastern Nebraska has been
( notified of the robbery and told to be
j on thc watch. The Adams Express
Company says its loss is not large.
The booty of the robbers consisted
j principally of gold coin. This made thc
j burden 'of the robbers exceedinly heavy
and accounts for a broad trail discovered
by Chief Hoagland. The robbery was
j originally planned to take place at St.
j Joseph, and the railroad men were on thc
lookout. One of the criminals '?tipped"
the scheme off to the company, and this
probably accounts for thc shifting of the
crime to Lincoln.
DEADLY WORK OF SCHOOL TEACHER.
Fatally Shoots His Pupils and the Trustees of
the Institution.
Grand Forks, N. D. (Special).?In a
quarrel between a school teacher anc'
thc board of trustees at Akoona, .
little station on thc Great Northern
seven miles north of the Canadian linc
seven persons have been shot. One o'
them is dead and five others arc dy?
ing.
The school is near a little village in
thc settled part of thc valley, which
has a population of but a few hundred
people. Thc settlers are all Manion
itcs. who have lived in the vicinity for
years. The school has been in charge
of a Mennonite teacher named Henry
I. Toews. There has been some dis?
satisfaction with the management oi
the school, and this has led to a great
deal of bad feeling in thc community.
Three members of thc board of trustees
met at the schoolhouse during school
hours to talk over the trouble with thc
teacher. Hot words were exchanged,
and suddenly Toews drew his revolver
and shot down the three trustees.
He then rushed into the schoolhouse.
where he shot Reider's two daughters,
aged 8 and io years, through the body.
They will die. The n-year-old daugh?
ter of Rcmpt was then attacked, but
thc bullet struck her in the arm. break?
ing thc bone. Thc suicide followed.
MILLS IN COTTON MERGER.
The Freis Committee Goes Carefully Over
Values of Plants.
Greensboro, N. C. (Special).?Henry
Fries, who is engineering thc cotton-mill
mercer, is herc assisting the committee
in eliminating from thc list of 70 mills
those not considered eligible to enter
thc Southern Textile Company under the
following clause of thc option agree?
ment :
"No plant of business shall bc pur?
chased in thc organization of thc new
company except with the written unani?
mous approval as to the desirability of
puchase and as to the proprietary price."
The members of the committee present
were: T. W. Pratt, Huntsville, Ala.; S.
B. Tanner. Henrietta, N. C.; John Fries,
Winston-Salem, N. C.: C. G. Latta,
Raleigh. N. C.; A. W. Haywood, Haw
River, N. C.
Twenty Killed in Riot.
London (By Cable).?In a dispatch
from Gibraltar, the correspondent ol
the Daily Mail says thc rioting which
followed the closing of the socialist
club within the Spanish lines resulted
in 20 men being killed and a large num?
ber badly wounded. The latter include
a lieutenant of the Spanish Civil Guard,
whose life is despaired of. Documents
seized at the Socialist headquarters
showed the place was the center of an
anarchist group which had been in com?
munication with anarchists in towns
of Europe.
Mexican flustang Liniment
don't stay on or near the surface, but goes In through the muscle, and
tissues to the bone and drives out all soreness and inflammation.
f For a Lame Back,
Sore Muscles,
or, in fact, all Lameness and Sore- |
ness of your body there is nothing ? .
i -, that will drive out the pain and in- i
. fiammation so quickly as
Mexkami
Mustang Liniments
If you cannot reach the spot your?
self get some one to assist you, for
it is essential that the liniment be
rubbed in most thoroughly.
Mexican Hustanp; Liniment
overcomes the ailments of horses aud all domestic Animals. In fa^t,
it is a flesh healer and pain killer no matter who or what th" patient is.
TBE OLD_DOMlNION.
Latest News Gleaned From AU Over
tbe State.
_,
Pensions granted: Joseph T. Divine, j
Waterford. $6: James T. McCracken,
Pha-btts. $8. Widows, minors and depen- j
dent relatives?Priscilla Young, Church- j
land, $8. Herman Backus, Soldiers' ,
Home, Elizabeth City County. $8: Au- i
gti.tus Walker, Woodstock, $12 (.Mexi?
can War). Increase, Reissue, &c.?Wil?
liam H. Sanborn, Crowspring, $12.
W. E. L. Starke. of Natural Bridge.
owner of Rockbridge Baths, a sum?
mer resort 11 miles north <>f Lexiug- I
ton, sold to E. Chas. Carter, of New ,
York city, this property for $8.;,oo cash (
Twenty thousand dollars will bc ex- J
pended in improving thc property by
next season, so stated Mr. Carter.
Thc Grand Division ol Virginia
Daughters ot thc Confederacy in ses
sion at Lexington rescinded its tor- j
mer action relative to uniting with Vir?
ginia Grand Division, in session in j
Norfolk. The Grand Division practi- |
cally conceded everything suggest- j
cd by joint committees from thc two .
divisions at their meeting in Richmond |
last June in order to effect union. A '
telegram, much delayed, stated that thc j
Virginia Division was unwilling to usc
"united" and favored "Virginia divi- ?.
sion'' and would wear Grand Division |
badge. Thc next place of meeting ol' '
the Grand Division, selected upon in- j
vitation, will bc Manassas on the sec- i
ond Wednesday in October, next year.
While blasting rock at thc M. J. 1
Grove Lime Company's plant, at Ste- I
phens City. Edward Black received in
juries which may prove fatal., One blast
which had been fired failed t<-> split the .
rock and Black placed another stick 1
of dynamite in thc hole, when it ex- I
ploded prematurely. Thc man's eye- j
sight is totally destroyed, his hand man- 1
gled. necessitating amputation of sev?
eral fingers, and he sustained serious
cuts about the head and body.
Thc Business Men's Association <>f
Fredericksburg decided to make an
appropriation for the Odd Fellows'
Home, provided it is established in that
city, in addition to thc amounts al?
ready appropriated by thc City Coun?
cil and the local Odd Fellows' Lodge.
A committee was appointed to join the
City Council committee and appear be?
fore the board of trustees in Riclfmond
this week to present the claims of Fred?
ericksburg as the place for locating
the institution.
James H. Crantz, a well-known citi?
zen of Roanoke, died aged 48 years,
from cancer of the stomach. He is
survived by a widow, two grown
daughters and several small children.
At Norfolk C. P. Lewis was acquit?
ted of the charge of having led astray
Miss Myrtle Joyner. The girl ac?
knowledged that thc offense w;is com?
mitted in Baltimore; hence thc local
courts had no jurisdiction.
Joe Wright, colored, was accident?
ally shot at Whitestone, Lancaster
county, by Oscar Nickens, also color?
ed. Thc shooting was done with a pis?
tol, the bullet taking effect in the
brain. Wright will die.
At Porters Crossroads, in Wythc
cotinly. 15 negroes appeared willi guii^
at the place of registration It is sup?
posed that the men went there for the
purpose of intimidating the registers.
A number of white men were present,
so the negroes left without any trou?
ble.
The large fish fertilizer factory ol
Charles Wackcr & Co., on the border
of Lancaster and Northumberland
counties, was partially destroyed by
fire caused by the bursting of an im?
mense cooler while in operation. Tin
main buildings were almost cul'/ .dy dc
stroyed and most of the costly madlin
cry damaged beyond repair. Thc los;
will amount to '$10,000 or more. Ont
laborer was badly burned. The niosl
serious result is the throwing of thc
works out of operation for thc remain
der of- thc fishing season and layinp
idle the fishing steamers and severa'
hundred hands.
> The Episcopalian rectory at Boydtor
wa_?. destroyed by fire.
The Rappahannock National Bani:
has opened for business al Washington
Capt. R. Ingram, ol Whitestone, an
ex-Confederate veteran. 85 years ol
age, i> dead.
Thc Corporation Court al Alexan
dria granted a charter to thc Herretl
Espey Manufacturing Company, de
signed to manufacture toys and novel
ties. The capital i-. fixed at $10,000
Clerk of the Courts D. G. Smith, ol
Newport News, has had notice served
on thc members of the Council
he will apply for a mandamus to com
pel thc Council to make provision for
building a fire-proof vault for the mu?
nicipal records. Repeated efforts lo
get thc vault built have failed.
Soinc excitement was caused at Fo"t
Monroe by fire breaking out iii a 1 ai
shed near thc 10-inch gun. Thc fire
salute was given and all of the appa
ratus of the fort was brought into ;
thc flames being extinguished b
they had done much damage.
Mr. Arthur Stephen-, of Greene
county, is dt^id. aged 87 year-; li'1
was a lawyer by profession, but retired
from practice many years ago.
Thos. P. McManus. of Portsmouth
was perhaps fatally injured in the navy
yard, being run over bv a traveling
crane.
Mr. Henry Waite, a prominent cit
i/eu of Spottsylvania county, is dead
aged 56 years. He is survived bj
three children.
Burglars broke into the postoftice at
Tazewell Courthouse and blew open the
safe with dynamite. They scoured $Krv
in stamps and $200 in cash. Besides
these losses the office books of thc
postmaster were blown over the office
and almost destroyed. Before breaking
into thc postoffice the party broke into
a blacksmith shop and secured the nee
essary tools for doing the work on the
safe. So far there is no clue to the
robbers.
Dr. C. E. Haworth sold an intered
in the Huntington Evening Herald to
Floyd S. Chapman, who for io year
has been city editor of the AdverlL-ei
Henry Stephens, aged 5,1. a German,
fell from thc third-story window of hi
residence in Norfolk ami sustained in?
juries which proved fatal. He leave, a
widow.
George L. Stephenson and his wife
Ella, of Norfolk, entered suits for $io,
ooo each against thc Bay Shoto Ter
rainal Railway Company. Mr. and MrS.
Stephenson were in the wreck on the
Terminal line in August la?t.
W. R. Brown, ^ccretarv of the Cen?
tral Labor Union of Southeast Virginia,
fell from the second-story window oi
his home in Norfolk and sustained seri?
ous injuries.
A petition is being circulated in Nor?
folk praying thc President to call an
extra session of Congress for thc pur?
pose of a settlement of the coal -trike
At Longfield. Royd Thompson wa;
shot and killed by Warren Thompson
his cousin. Thc shooting was caused
by a quarrel about school children.
Mr. Janies D. Connellee, ?> gallant
cx-Confederatc soldier and a prominent
ind successful farmer, died ;>i War - ?
of cancer.
Miss Valera Peters, the daughter oi
Rev. William II. Peters, a German
Raptist minister of Franklin county,
lied at the Robcrt-on farm, near Roan
okc. after an illness of three weeks, oj
typhoid fever.
Governor Montague has about decid
,d to accept the invitation of the Mayor
of Milwaukee to speak in that city upon
:he occasion of tho Business Men s Car?
nival, October 17.
Commissioner of Agriculture (Coiner
insists upon thc appointment of in
spectors of food for Virginia. It is. he
says, thc "dumping ground" for adul?
terated foodstuffs of thc country.
To -ommand at Sandhurst.
The British military attache al
Washington, Lieutenant Colonel Kit?
son, has been appointed commandant
at Sandhurst, one of the most import?
ant assignments In the British army
Lieutenant Colonel Kitson was former?
ly commander of the Royal Military
College at Kingston, Ont