Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-09-14
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

swept the coast towns OF Texas nearly
entirely destroyed the city of Calves
ton. 1t is estimated that 1000 people
perished and the property loss VIII
run up into the millions. The towns
of Sabine Pass and Houston also SUI
fered heavy losses. In Galveston 1000
houses were destroyed.
The executive board of the United
Mine Workers left it in the hands OF
President Mitchell and Secretary Will
son to order a strike II the influences
said to be at work to bring about an
adjustment Of the pending differences
do not succeed.
Maria Santello, a little S-year-old
girl, saved the Chicago express from
bad wreck at Bound Brook, N. j. She
removed large tie from the track
while six men stood idly by.
The excursion steamer john Endicott
struck sunken rock off Minot Light,
Massachusetts, and foundered, but all
of her 600 passengers were safely taken
off.
Customs officials in New York seized
the trunks of Mrs. Elizabeth Shanahan
and Mrs. Anna E. Conlin, dressmakers,
who had dresses in them they had not
declared on.
Mrs. Margaret Shannon was saved
from death in the quicksand at Lake
Hoptacong, N. j., by Farmer joseph
Saunders, who rescued her after she
was nearly lost
James f. Mems. Waterman at the
New Haven poorhouse, became de-
spondent from the misery he saw and
committed suicide.
Coroner Lloyd, in st. Louis, held the
Seekner Contracting Company respon-
sible for the electrocution of two po-
licemen by improperly placed wires.
VIM. Bullock, colored, who had been
three times tried in FREEHOLD, N. j., Tor
the murder of the chief of police OF
Red Bank, escaped from jail.
Rev. Lorenzo Waugh, supposed to be
the oldest Methodist preacher In the
world. died suddenly in railroad sta
ton in Williams, CAL
The cigarmakers of A. F. Hostetter,
of Hanover, went on strike because
he refused to adopt the shop system.
Four men were horribly burned in a
powder explosion at the Sterling col
liery, near Shamokin, Pa.
The strike of the iron-workers ON the
new East river bridge in New YORK
was settled by compromise.
Chief Llowahe, an aged medicine
man of the Yakima tribe, was stoned
\, frfn a
Night Waterman Aulgur, of the Chi
cago and Alton Railroad, was killed IN
Marshall, Mo-, by robbers.
Fire destroyed Sankey's Hotel and
a number of adjoining houses in Lib
erty, Tioga county, Pa.
The National Association of Letter
Carriers, in session in Detroit, re-
elected the old officers.
officers had battle with safe~blow-
ers near Cananvllle, Ohio, and cap
tured two of them.
Jealous John Riedeck killed his wife
and himself in Brooklyn.
The Spanish-American War Nurses
Association was organized at New
York.
The Carnegie and Rockefeller inter
ests have ordered the construction of
nineteen big vessels to export iron and
steel.
William Watkins, aged SO years, was
killed by Cape May accommodation
train at Woodbury., N. ].
George Vanlew, a telegraph lineman,
of Roanoke, Va, was killed at Eek
man, w. Va.
David e. Folsom was nominated for
Governor of Montana by the Republic
cans.
VIM. j. Morgan, Comptroller of the
State of New York, died at Albany.
Dysentery prevails in parts of Adams
county, Pa.
The Secretary of War has instructed
General Shafter, commanding the De-
partment in California, to discharge all
volunteers in San Francisco.
The Navy Department will bring
home the remains of officers and en-
listed men of the navy and marine
corps who were killed since April, 1893.
Capt. Harry E. Householder, who
was captain of Company l, First West
Virginia Infantry, during the Spanish
American War, died at his home in
Berkeley Springs.
At Saratoga, N. Y, the Republican
State Convention nominated b. b.
Odell, Jr., for Governor, and Timothy
L. Woodruff for Lieutenant-GOvernor.
Rev. E. M. Cravath, twenty-five years
president of Fisk University, at Nash
VILE, Tenn, died in Minnesota.
Paul Cronin killed Mrs. Miller, a
widow, at Waukeshaw, Wis, and then
fatally shot himself
Eliza w. Zeisse, while in delirium.
leaped from window in Philadelphia
and was killed.
Marion Stuart Cam, aged Al years,
an editor, died at Scranton, Pa.
Fire at Dover, Del, caused consid-
cradle damage.
The British transport Montcalm,
with 400 mules for South Africa, which
was to have sailed from New Orleans,
was held up by mutiny of the stokers
and muleteers.
The colors of the Thirteenth Louisi-
ana Regiment, captured during the
Civil War by the Forty-Sixth Ohio,
were returned to committee of the
survivors.
Miss Alvina Bollen was killed in
Denver, Col, by VIM. c. Barager, re-
jected sutton, who then made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to commit suicide.
The Atlantic division of the Young
People's German Christian Endeavor
Society, in session in Philadelphia,
elected officers.
Five persons were severely burned
In Milford, Mass, by the explosion of
q plumbers firepot.
There was a severe thunder Storm in
Cumberland Valley. Some damage
was done in Shippcnsburg.
Two policemen were killed by cross