Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-03-09
THE NEWS.

granite quarrleS OF New England uaVestfu
for 50 per day and an eight-hour day. At
Barre, VT, where two thousand men are en-
ployed, a compromise has been effected.
The barn OF ]. H. Whetsell, near Martins
burg, w. Va, was destroyed by an incen-
diary fire. Farming implements and stock
we're also lost.
In Richmond William Miller, convicted OF
the murder OF Beverly Christian, was SEN
fenced to eighteen years in the penitentiary.
Rev. F. J. Brooke, OF Staunton, Va, has
accepted call to the Second Presbyterian
Church OF Alexandria.
A passenger train was wrecked near Plain
Vile, CT. Two trainlnen were killed and
nine passengers injured.
John Z. Mehrer, one OF the pioneers OF At
lantic Cty, died on a railroad train near
Niagara.
Charles Z. Lutz, OF Chicago, shot his bro
Their and his sister-in-law while intoxicated.
Another shipyard may be established In
Richmond, Va.
Unusually heavy and deep snow storms
were reported In all parts of the West. Rail-
road traffic was very much impeded. chi
rago, st. Louis and Kansas City suffered.
Miss Emma Schmidlapp died at Kansas
City, NO., making the third fatality that re-
suited from the collision on the Missouri Pa
eiflc Railroad, near Independence, Mo.
Wilbur H. Stewart, proprietor Of paper
at Mullan, Idaho, gave evidence of the hor-
rors of the "bull-pen" before the House in
vestigating committee.
In a row that followed a Washington's
Birthday celebration at Pllares de TERRA,
Mexico, three Americans and five Mexicans
were killed.
Seventeen universities have formed an or
ganization whose purpose is to establish
uniform grade for the degree Of Phi d.
Frederick Kahler. a. Philadelphia book
seller, was sent 10 prison for one year for
selling copies Of Daudet's novel, "sapho."
John Clean, farmer, near Bluefeld, W.
Va. killed his daughter and her lover, Al
bert Marsh, and then killed himself
Lon Curry, the train robber, was killed by
officers at Dodson, Mo.
Edward Coxon and Harry Henderson, two
boys from Manchester, Va. who had started
out to be road agents, were caught In car
at Bon Air, near Richmond, and sent to the
Reformatory.
The passengers we're taken off the Allan
Line steamer Californian, which went on the
rocks of the Maine coast. 1t is thought the
steamer will be total loss.
Judge Jenkins, in the United States Court,
ia Milwaukee, appointed receiver for the
United States Milling Company, otherwise
known as the Flour Trust.
Vice Chancellor Pitney, in Jersey City, d.
A.. ~ rtu I've cent
dividend to the creditors OF the Middlesex
County Bank.
Emmett Saunders, from Nansemond county,
Va, drank three ounces of laudanum at
Newport News. He may recover.
Prince Poniatowski, OF San Francisco, is
reported to have bought the Island OF Basilan,
in the Philippines, for 100000
The fine residence of Robert Johnson, on
the Hudson, at Mt. st. Vincent, was burning
while he slept In an armchair.
Peter Wilhelm, q veteran, died In York,
and. In accordance with his request, VIII
have four negroes as pallbearers.
George Wooley Allen, of the Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph, died at his home In
Philadelphia.
Wilson Wakelin, a prominent farmer OF
Brock, Neb.. killed his wife and then COM
. mitted suicide.
T. G. Fell and his wife we're nearly burned
to death in their home in Portsmouth. Va.
President II. NJ. Conner, Of the Central Rail.
road of Georgia, died in Savannah.
Four men were killed by the falling OF an
elevator In mine at Scranton, Pa.
RI. Grub. lunatlc in Portsmouth (Va.)
Jail, set fire to his cell.
The firm of Simpson & Co., glovers, Of
Boston, made an assignment.
DR.. Schurman, former head Of the Philip
pine Commission, in an address in Chicago,
saws that the form of government and con-
stitution to be given the Flliplnos Is the same
rs that outlined by educated Filipinos.
Cashier Valentine, OF the Middlesex
County IN. J.) Bank, now serving term,
was arraigned on additional indictments.
He was remanded to await the expiration OF
his present sentence.
The American Newspaper Publishers AS.
ISOLATION, in convention In New YORK.,
adopted resolutions asking Congress to In
ouire into the unjustlfed increase In the
price OF paper.
James Bowling, while cutting wood IN the
Mountain View neighborhood, near Fred
ericksburg, Va. was struck by falling tree,
and died from the injuries received.
Id. Newell & Sons dry goods house, at
Providence. II. l., was burned. A number OF
girls narrowly escaped, Loss 100000.
George L. Evans, stamp clerk at the New
mort News (Va.) Postoffce, was released Oh
bail on the charge of intercepting letters.
The Masonic Temple, the Opera House and
other buildings at London, Ont, were de.
-stroyed by fire. Losses aggregate 100000
One life was lost, several persons injured,
and property valued at $780, 900 was burned
in the millinery district of Philadelphia.
Michael Sullivan, Jr., who robbed his
aged father In Philadelphia, returned to the
house and committed suicide.
Walter Wood, accused of the murder OF
Jack Gloven in Newport News, Va, was &C.
quilted on his second trial,
The METROPOLITAN Hotel at Birmingham,
Ala, was burned, together with other prop
erty.
Three persons were injured by the fall Of
platform at Earls factory, in Norfolk Va.
Mrs. E. P. Hayes, the wife of DR.. E. P.
Hayes, dentist, formerly of Chicago but
now with offices at the Hotel Endicott, in
New York, was shot and killed in her apart.
ments in that hotel by DR.. Frank D. Con.
we'll, an assistant OF DR.. Hayes. Conwell
then shot and killed himself.
The United States transport Mcpherson,
with broken shaft, was towed into Norfolk
by the fruit steamer Admiral Sampson.
John Drashman killed Miss Bessie Miller
In Mobile, Ala, and had narrow escape
from being lynched,