Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-10-19
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

six months agreement, the abolition
| of the sliding scale and the redress OF
other grievances by the operators
The Supreme Castle, Knights of the
| Golden Eagle, in session in Youngs-
town, Ohio elected officers and select
ed Buffalo for their next meeting
/ place.
John Hanley, of Jersey City, drank
carbolic acid on the grave OF his 1rst
wife in the Hudson County Catholic
| Cemetery He may survive.
Joseph Moreland, of Morgantown,
was nominated for judge of the CIR
cult Court for the Second Judicial Cir
cult of West Virginia.
| Mrs. M. E. Holt has been lying In
| comatose condition. for 60 hours In
Dover, Del, from inhaling gas escap-
ing from heater.
Charles A. Naulty was sentenced In
| Newark, N. j., to thirty years inl-
| prisonment for killing his stepmother
The American liner st. Paul reports
| the French liner La Lorraine, from
Havre to New York, disabled at sea.
Charles Fargo, second vice-presi-
! dent of the Wells, Fargo & Co. Ex-
press, died at his home in Chicago.
The mosquito fleet of five small gun
| boats intended for the customs service
left Philadelphia for Cuba.
| A Western Maryland train ran into
a Reading train at Boiling Springs, Pa,
and caused a wreck.
The steamer City Of Seattle arrived
at Seattle, Wash, with $4,000 in
treasure from the Klondike.
The big miners convention was be-
gun in Scranton, Pa President Mitch
ell. of the Mineworkers' Union, pres.d-
| ing The settlement was unanimous
| against accepting the offer of the oper-
| atOrS.
Proceedings are to be instituted
| against Miss M. C. Sibel, a Philadei-
phia dressmaker who brought num-
Der of rich gowns from abroad, which
were seized by the customs officials.
| Upon receipt of a telegram, which
proved to be bogus declaring that her
husband committed suicide in New
York, Mrs. Philip Hardy killed herself
In Chicago.
Bert Waite, IS years old, accused of
forgery in San Francisco, confessed
having robbed the United States Ex-
press Company at Ravanna, o., last
| August.
| w. V. Powell, who for seven years
was grand president of the Order of
Railway Photographers, was expelled at
a meeting of the delegates in st. Louis
Col. A. G. De Marest, who command
ed the Twenty-first New Jersey during
the Civil War, died at his home at
Tenafly, N. ].
The new battleship Wisconsin ex-
ceeded all records on her trial trip off
the California coast
Isaac L. Lightner died in Hanover,
Pa, from injuries received while walk
ing in his sleep.
The Pennsylvania Railroad awarded
contracts for 100000 tons of steel rails
at s26 ton.
Twelve spectators in puts and calls
were arrested in Chicago.
Northumberland Woodruff, OF
New York, declined to honor the
requisition Of the governor of Texas for
the delivery of the officers and direc-
tors of the Standard Oil Company
w H. Carter, NJ T. Holland and
William Stewart were arrested near
Martinsville, Va, for counterfeting.
Molds and spurious quarters. were also
found by the officers.
The situation and outlook in China
| fha A W
of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions, in session in st. Louis
The delegates to the National I'm
| dertakers' Conference were caught in
a blizzard on Pixies Peak and had a
narrow escape from death.
Three large brick arches Of the new
Christ Reformed Church in Martins
burg, w. Va, collapsed, completely
wrecking the building.
Erward Eye, president of the Ard
more Hardware Company, of Philadel-
phia, killed himself because his part
ner had robbed him.
John White, of Kingston, shot and
painfully injured two members of a
mob that was giving him a mock
serenade.
| Thirteen additional names were add
ed to those selected for places in the
Hall of Fame in New York University.
The big barge Edith Howe was
abandoned, waterlOgged with large
cargo, off the North Carolina coast.
Isaac L. Lightner, of Hanover, Pa.
while walking in his sleep, fell and
seriously injured himself
A. P. Deer, an aeronaut was killed
| by a fall from his balloon at Gays
Mills, Wis.
Rev. Henry e. Clare was married
| in Fayetteville, Pa, to Miss Sara Ann
Roth.
There was big parade and mass
| meeting Of the miners in Scranton
where a speech was made by President
| Mitchell. who declared that the 10 per-
cent. offer of the companies was not
enough, but that the sliding scale and
company stores should be abolished
and semi-monthly payments instl-
| tuted.
| The attempt of the strikers to pre-
vent the running Of train at Oneida
| colliery, near HazletOn, Pa, resulted in
a clash between the strikers and the
| coal and iron policemen, as result OF
| which one officer was killed, one man
on each side wounded and others less
| seriously hurt.
The delegates from district No. to
| the miners convention will be in
structed to demand recognition, be-
| sides the redressing of grievances.
The Williamstown cOlliery shut
down. and there is now no mining be-
ing done in Lykens Valley.
Ex-President Harrison gave out a
| statement at New York containing
some of his views on the campaign is
sues.
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