Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-02-23
TIE NEWS.

CD. Markle & Co., anthracite coal mine
operators, have increased the wages OF tneil
1900 employees five per cent
Mrs. Thomas Mexican, OF Philadelphia.
has g'yon $4,000 to tho University Oh
Pennsylvania.
Suit was filed In the Circuit Court in Frank
fort. KY, by Governor Taylor to enjoin
Beckham and Castleman from exercising the
functions OF the respective offices they claim
Beckham also filed suit against Taylor.
Judge Taft, In the federal court sitting In
Cincinnati. decided that he had no original
Jurisdiction. but that the case might be car
ried to the Supreme Court on writ OF error.
Floods did considerable damage both In
New England and theSouth. Towns In YER
mont, Massachusetts, and along the Chatta-
hoochie River, in Georgia, were flooded.
Mr.. Montcalm Oldham, clerk of Accomac
(Va.) County Court, committed suicide by
shooting himself at his home. at Accomac
Courthouse. Mr. oldham was about hity-
1--WE years old and had been clerk OF Acco-
mac county for twenty years.
The bill to permit persons holding dipio-
mas from reputable medical colleges to prac-
tice without taking state board examlna-
ton was adversely reported In the virginia
House OF Delegates.
At Charlestown, W. Va, Louis Stewart,
aged nineteen. shot and killed his father,
who was about to assault the boys mother.
The antitrust conference at Chicago
adopted q plan of organization, elected OIL
GERS and adjourned.
Major Austin Leyden, well-known hotei
proprietor and inventor, died suddenly in
Atlanta.
Twenty-Five out OF the twenty-nine steer
sheet mills have combined.
Henry c. Robinson, ex-mayor OF Hartford,
Ct, died at his home.
William F. Parker, a young North caro-
!inian, killed himself at Norfolk.
Arthur H. Kemp killed himself at Macon,
Ga.
Henry Clay Frick flied bill in equity In
the Court OF Allegheny County, Pa, against
Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Steel
Company praying for decree that the pre-
tended transfer of his interests in the COM
PAW was and is null and void, and that he
IL still the owner of such interests. The
bill shows the enormous profits made by the
company.
Tt is feared the steamer Gate City may DO
lost. Life-savers think the cargo can be
secured.
DR.. Lorenzo Holmes, formerly OF the hush
Medical College, died in Chicago.
Carver B. Cline, q theatrical man, died in
New York.
Floods have caused some damage in
Georgia.
A resolution was offered in the Kentucky
Democratic legislature at Louisville calling
upon Governor Taylor to surrender the ex-
ecutive offices to J.. G. w. Beckham, "the
lawful governor"
News was received in Philadelphia OF the
death of Mrs. Simon and Mrs. Beck, the mis-
sionaries, ct Monrovia, Liberia.
Governor Roosevelt has issued public
statement declaring that he will not accept
nomination for the vice presidency.
William Steinitz, former chess champion,
was placed In the Manhattan State Hospital
for the Insane, on Wards Island.
The bail bond OF Theodore F. Taylor, the
absconding deputy clerk OF Henrieo county,
w., was forfeited.
Rev. E. l.. Goodwin, OF Charleston, S. c.,
accepted call to st. Marks Episcopal
Church, In Richmond.
Maria Smith and her six children were
burned to death In their home at stony
Creek, Sussex county, Va.
The steamer Henry NJ. Stanley struck the
Kentucky pier OF the Southern halfway
bridge and sank.
Jacob Shirreff was arrested in Richmond
for opening letters addressed to Miss Annie
Eskins.
Ella Leabelt was instantly killed by fall
of slate at quarry at Slatington, Pa.
The New York Presbytery has declined to
try Rev. Dr. McGiffert for heresy.
Martin Jordan, his wife, and their Eve
months. old babe vera aspbyxiated by gas in
their home in Chicago.
The protected cruiser San Francisco is to
he very thoroughly improved at the Norfolk
Navy Yard.
James Sweeney, white laborer, was
lynched for killing fellow-workman at
Port Arthur, Tex.
Governor Roosevelt wants the United
States to have the right to fortify the 18th
milan Canal.
Masked men robbed Mrs. Marian S. Sax
ton. an aunt OF Mrs. Mckinley, near Canton,
Ohio.
The postoffice at Athens, Ca, was burg
larized and every letter was opened.
Governor Taylor has refused to sign the
Louisville agreement, and has announced
that he will allow the controversy to take its
course. The matter will now be fought out
in the courts. Gov. Taylor has ordered the
troops to dispense andthe legislature to meet
at Frankfort. The Democrats. however,
have concluded to hold their legislative ses-
sions In Louisville for the present.
The Virginia Senate committee, by vote
OF II to f. reported In favor of granting
charter to the Richmond and Washington
Air Line Railway Company.
United States Commissioner Shields de-
cided In New York that the Gaynors and b.
D. Greene must 60 to Savannah for trial in
the Carter conspiracy case.
1t is probable that the suit of II. G. Frick
against the Carnegie Steel Company will be
compromised before the matter comes into
court.
The Jury in the case OF Justice Oscar I.
Fleming, in Princess Anne, Va, accused OF
murder, was unable to agree.
RI. Jones was arrested In Norfolk, Va,
on the charge of using the mails for fraudu-
lent purposes.
John and Thomas Morrison were con-
victed Of robbing Samuel Cooper in Rom
ney, W. Va.
Another destructive fire occurred In the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. Admiral Philip was
slightly hurt by broken glass.
Ira Tressler, twenty-ore years OF age,
eloped from Uniontown, Pa, with his step
mother, seventeen years old.
A winS.or swept through the North