Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-24
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

ton had been retailed at so cents a hun
dredweight.
Extraordinary precautions were TAX
en- to guard the life of President Nc
Kinley at the services at st. Matthew
Catholic Church, Washington, for the
late King Humbert Of Italy.
Mrs. Wilkinson, of Dover, Del, whose
husband eloped with her sister, has in
her possession two love letters to her
husband which show her sisters in
fatuation for him.
Mrs. Susan Austin, of McKeesport
Pa, who inherited a portion OF John
McCaffery's fortune. says she has
found that suddenly acquired wealth
has many drawbacks.
Miss PHckard's mother arrived in At
1anta and tried to persuade her daugh-
ter to give UP DR.. Wilkinson and re-
turn to Dover, Del, but she refused to
10 so.
Caleb Powers, who was convicted OF
completely in the murder of GOebel,
has issued a public statement in which
he declares his innocence.
Estimates for the Georgia cotton
crop place the yield from $4,000 to
100000 bales shorter than it was last
year.
Surveys for a new anchorage for the
Diamond Shoals lightship have been
completed, and the ship is being fitted
cut at Norfolk.
An insane man, armed with revol-
yer, escaped from his keeper near
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, and is still at
,arge,
The Comptroller of the Currency sp-
pointed r. D. Garrett temporary re-
,eiver Of the Somerset National Bank
ing Company, Somerset, KY.
Receiver Daniel D. Wing, of the
Globe National Bank, has paid to the
Clearing House Association of Boston
the last of the 100000 which that
institution advaced to the bank eight
months ago.
Boycotts in force against clothing
manufacturers in Rochester, N. Y,
were raised by the United Garment
Workers.
Charles f. Ruggles. of Chicago, for
merly of Manistee, began suit i'll the
United States District Court to pro-
cure a dissolution of partnership OF
she Buckley & Douglass Lumber Co.,
If Manistee.
Two thousand vestmakers are on
strike in Manhattan. Their demands
are for the payment of the same scale
If wages which was in force last year
or 10-hour day and for weekly pay
mentS.
A passenger train on the Perkiomon
Railroad struck a team of horses and
wagon at Palm, Montgomery county,
Pa, and instantly killed the three oc-
,upants of the vehicle.
Poison in deadly quantities has been
found in the stomach of Edward p.
Herrick.
The third-rail system Is to he tried
Oh the Albany and Hudson road.
Lake Shore train No. 8, westbound,
VAS wrecked at Bay Bridge, near San
husky, Ohio, and seven persons were
INJURED.
Charles A. Towne, it is stated, will
open his campaign at Duluth within
10 days and will follow Governor
Roosevelt.
Two Italians, one of whom, it is
said, had planned to attack President
Mckinley, are 10 be deported
Forest fires prevail in the West and
Northwest.
A deliberate attempt was made to
>urn and pillage Smithfield, III.
The remains of Coils P. Huntington
we're laid at rest in WoOdlawn Gene
cry, New York.
The international Typographical
Union refused to permit the Stereotyp-
,rs' Union to withdraw.
Application has been made to dis
solve the Distillerics Company OF
America.
Asa Packer Wilbur. of San Francis
70, who claimed heirship to some Of
he Asa Packer estate, died pauper
It San Francisco.
Three persons were killed by an ex-
1losion of natural gas in a Chicago
lOuSC anu III &C az iOPOi ISu ihio'''" -
Six hundred prospectors returned
rom Cape Nome with stories of desti-
.ution and illness there.
Two Kentucky train robbers were
ientenced-One to four, the other to ten
Years imprisonment.
Public land in Northern New Mexico
vas withdrawn from sale, in order to
save the cliff dwellings from destruc-
ion.
Chairman Hanna denied a report
hat his health was bad and that he
would give up active campaign work
The anti-imperialists at Indianapolis
'ormally declared for Bryan.
Miss Emma Graves, school teacher
If Wilmington, Del, and her niece,
Lizzie Graves aged eight years, were
drowned at Riverside Park, New Cas-
lie, Del. The child fell from the pier
nto the Delaware river. Miss Graves
plunged overheard to save her, and
10th sank.
Governor Beckham, of Kentucky,
las ordered the General Assembly to
meet Ill thlId StNSIOH W IOiiSlucl tuC
5oebel election law.
Frank A. Stauber, wellknown So
,ialist of Chicago, has disappeared.
His debts arc estimated at $4,000.
Wilkinson, who eloped from Dover,
Del, with Miss Packard, has been
raced to Charlotte, N. c.
A design for a monument over the
grave of President Lincoln's mother
las been accepted.
The first warship from Greece to
ross the Atlantic is expected shortly
IN this side.
A large creamery at fredericksburg
vas burned. Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
At CharlestOwn, w. Va. Jubal
Young shot Mrs. Susan Morrison in
he shoulder.
Mrs. CrOmer Butts was burned to
ieath in q charcoal nit near Richmond