Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-09-07
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

Ice Company.
Musician Henry Vance, who deserted
to the enemy in the Philippines ant
was captured, was brought to Sal
Francisco to serve a sentence Of ninet!
years Imprisonment.
| The contractor erecting the new
Federal building in Chicago signed
the agreement of the union and dis
| charged the -unionists.
The Otter Creek Lumber Company's
| plant, near Parsons, w. Va, was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being about
| quarter of million.
| A report recommending the restric'
| ton of brokerage was made at thu
| convention of fire insurance agents In
Milwaukee.
The residence of Rev. F. j. Cobb, Of
| Statesville, Ca. was struck by light
! ming and Mrs. Cobb was killed.
Charles Moody killed his father
while the two were working In a Goa
mine near Belleville, Illinois.
A number of arrests were made In
Akron, Ohio, on account of the recent
riots there.
Forty-four cotton mills in Fail River
Mass, shut down for week.
The American Bar Association elect
ed officers at Saratoga and adjourned
Mr.. John Hinkley, of Baltimore, was
chosen secretary, and Henry st. George
Tucker, of Lexington, Va, one OF the
executive committee.
E.. Washburn, president of the Kan
sas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Rail-
road Company, died at Rye Beach, Me.
David Beetle, a farmer, living near
Clements Bridge, N. j., shot farmers
son, and while in jail drowned himself.
DR.. Wilkinson and Josephine Pack
ard, of Dover, Del, have eloped Sec
ond time, this time from Philadelphia.
Second Lieut. Henry N. Way was
killed in Luzon on August %. He was
born near Rutland, ILL.,, in 1874.
Thomas Jones, negro preacher, who
murdered family of six, colored, was
hanged at Raleigh, N. G.
1t is said that NJ. E. Ingalls, may be
chosen president of the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company.
Over 100000 has been secured by
the Sons of Veterans for national col
lege.
Harry Howells, aged sixteen, was
killed by train near Avoca, Pa.
Forest fires are doing much damage
in Colorado.
Captain Gilley, an Alaskan explorer,
is dead.
Thomas ]. Powers, commissioner of
banking for Pennsylvania and lead
ing Republican State politician, was
found dead in the outskirts of Phila-
delphia. He had fallen from train.
George R. Peck, of Chicago, deliv-
cred the chief address before the
American Bar Association at Saratoga.
His subject was THE March of the
Constitution.
Claims against New York for in
juries received by colored persons in
the recent riots filed in the Comptrol-
ler's office now aggregate 100000.
The Supreme Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias chose San Francisco as the
place of the next biennial gathering
Of the order.
Supreme Vice Chancellor Ogden H.
Fethers, of GAINESVILLE, Wis, was elect
ed deputy chancellor Of the knights
of Pythias.
The population of Evansville, Ind,
is 59,007, as against 50,756 in 1890.
This is an increase of 1851, or 1926
per cent.
The population of Detroit, Mich, is
285,7O as against 205,876 in 1890 This
is an increase of $685. or 1877 per
cent.
Senator Hanna has purchased for the
Chesapeake and Western Railroad
Stribling Springs, Augusta county, Va.
w. ]. Rodgers, in the Eighth, and j.
r. Whitehead, in the Fifth, are Repub-
lcan Congressional nominees in Vir-
ginia.
Direct Geographic communication
was opened between New York and
Germany through the new German
cable
A party of Christian EndeavOrers
arrived in New York from Europe af-
ter many hardships.
Albert Knierien, a Democratic poll
tician of Nyack, N. Y, died OF gun
shot wound received from Frank Quin-
tan last Saturday.
Senators Davis and Dolliver, Speak
er Henderson and others made ad-
dresses at the banquet of the Hamll-
ton Club in Chicago
The Census Bureau announced the
population of Paterson, N. j., to be
1O5,171, as against 78,347, an increase
of 34.24 per cent.
Charles A. Beach was appointed SUI
perintendent of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railways Atlantic City d..
vision.
Herr Won Brandt, former German
Minister to China, says that the trou-
BILE in China is not yet at an end.
A. M. Waddell, of Wilmington, N. c.,
announces himself as candidate for
United States Senator.
Bills to repeal the Goebel election
law were introduced in both houses of
the Kentucky Legislature.
william Nicholas was shot and Killed
at Atlantic City by his father who was
arrested.
Mrs. Mary e. Reese, sister of ex-
Senator John Sherman, died at Lam
caster, Ohio.
The postoffice at ST. Joseph, Mich, was
robbed of $4,000 in cash, stamps and
postal cards.
Governor Roosevelt will speak at the
annual apple carnival in Leavenworth,
Kan. Mr. Bryan may also be asked to
make an address.
The 32d annual reunion of the So
Ciety of the Army of Tennessee will be
held at Detroit, Mich, September 26
and q.
The census of Boston, Mass, is $780,