Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-03-30
THE NEWS.


Public oplnion in Virginia Is divided AZ
the Governors responsibility for the bu
porla lynchings, but there is a genera uu
dercurrent of satisfaction at the result. LII
body OF the negro Cotton was taken
Norfolk.
Thirteen young girl students OF the "es'
ern Seminary for Girls, In Oxford, o., wer
: suspended for indecorous conduct In hoiuih
IN Initiation Ia cemetery vault.
Albert r. Talbot who was to have pee
best man at his brothers marriage 10 MIS-
Lucy Bigstaff, of Bath county, KY. change'
places and became the girls husband.
The York Cotton Mills Company, OF Soui'
Carolina, will deduct three per cent. iron
the annual dividend and add it to the wage
OF the operatives.
After quarrel with her lover In Paterson
N. j., Miss Anne Volande laid her head OF
railroad track and allowed a train to de
capitate her,
| Or. II. A. Ward, OF Baltimore, and r.. W
Gate&ood, of Old Point, had narrow %
cape from drowning In Hampton Roads.
In Mount Kisko, N. Y, Mrs. George Feine
attempted to lash Frank Drowfoogle FOL
poking fun at her husband.
Lena Cook, in Philadelphia made fourth
unsuccessful attempt to kill herself
Captain George H. Flagg died in Charles
town. W. Va, Of apoplexy.
yolney V. Ashford, formerly Hawaiian
revolutionist, died in Oakland, Cal.
The differences between III. C. Frick and
Andrew Carnegie have been settled. This
announcement was made officially by the
Carnegie Steel Company.
The japanese Liner Hong Kong Maru has
| arrived from the Orient via Honolulu. No
mails nor passengers will be landed until
the vessel has been passed by the quarantine
inspectors.
! Sheriff Suter, OF Frankfort, swore in a
posse of 125 special deputy sheriffs. About
| half of those sworn In are members OF the
| new Beckham militia company recently or
ganized.
Guns and ammunition were stored in
buildings adjacent to the jail in Frankfort
where the Goebel suspects are confined.
This action was taken on the strength OF
rumors that armed bodies OF men from the
| mountain counties may come there to the
preliminary trials.
Thirty-two students at Lawrenceville On.
j. Academy were sent to their homes 10 pre-
vent the spread Of diphtheria prevalent
there.
The Lick Observatory will send out an ex-
petition to observe the total eclipse of the
sun May %.
The Kansas City Chief of Police offered to
pay s25 out OF his salary for tho body OF
each highwayman killed in that city.
Musical works of all nations will be ad-
mitted to the Paris Exposition.
The Chicago Board of Education dropped
from the list OF supplementary reading Tor
the public school histories Of England.
1t was stated In the Canadian Parliament
that the plague had reached Port Townsend,
WASH
Three were hurt in falling elevator at 247
Centre street, New York.
Opposition to Virginias new valuation law
eliminated In the refusal OF Judge Hanckel,
OF the Corportion Court Of Norfolk, to allow
a recently appointed commissioner to quail
ify, on the ground that the law is unconsti-
tutiona.
Special masters to take evidence have been
appointed by Judge Waddill In the Seaboard
Air Line consolidation case.
Judge Fields. of Perry county, KY, said
In Lexington that he saw "Tallow" Dick
Combs in barber shop in Beattyville, ard
he said he was not hiding.
H. W. Eamick and r. r. Horner were
elected delegates to the National Republ
can Convention from the Eighth Virginia
district.
One hundred and fifty machin'sts went on
strike at Cleveland. They want eight hours
work with pay for ten hours.
1t was rumored in New York that all the
compassionate companies In this country
will shortly be consolidated.
The gold statue OF the American Cir. oil
which Miss Maude Adams was the model,
was cast In New York.
Frank W. Elliott. an editor, was shot in
the side and arm at Troy, Kansas, by an un'
known man.
Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder will succeed
Captain Leary as naval governor Of Guam.
Thirty people were injured in Chicago,
some seriously, by the fall OF an elevator.
1t was reported that the Prince of Wales
intended to challenge for the Americas cup,
but that he was interfered with by the South
African war.
Two gentlemen have given the University
of Chicago $50, 0 apiece under the Rookie
Teller offer to give $4,000, 00) provided 1t was
duplicated from other sources.
A letter dated Cape Town, South Africn,
has been received at Grand Rapids, Mich,
from Gen. William L. White, the indicted
quartermaster-g general Of the Michigan Ma
tional Guard.
The Rumford medal OF the American
Academy OF Arts and Sciences was awarded
to Charles F. Brush OF Cleveland.
Several manufacturers appeared before
the subcommittee OF the Congressional In
dustrial Commission In Chicago, which met
to investigate manufacturing conditions in
the West.
A Are In Piqua, O., destroyed the W. P.
Orr Ltnseed Oil Mill, owned by the Ameri-
can Linseed Oil Company.
President James O'Connell and his assist
ants. representing the International Asso-
citation OF Machinists, have prepared two |
general circulars to be sent to the organiza.
ton at large.
One OF the giant spurs Of the San Jacinto
Mountain, In California, tumbled into val
ley beneath it,
The Chicago packers are watching the
struggle In the German Reichstag over the
meat bill.
The Philadelphia Conference OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church adopted paper In
support OF the expansion policy OF the pres
mt National Administration.