Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-02-09
THE NEWS.

with the right to carry 1t to the Supreme
Court OF the United States. The Goebel men
rejected the proposition, being unwilling to
let the matter 90 beyond the State courts.
The president of bank which is q deposit
tory for Kentucky State funds refused to
honor vouchers signed by Governor Taylor,
and the warden OF the penitentiary refused
to release a convict whom, Governor Taylor
had pardoned The militia still guard the
capitol grounds and building, with instruc-
lions to receive no orders from Goebel The
condition of Goebel continues critical. Gov.
Taylor sent telegram to President MeKtn-
ley declaring that he was doubtful OF his
power to control the situation, and asking
that the President recognize him as gov
crnor
The funeral train bearing tue remains OF
Major General Lawton, Major Logan and
DR.. Armstrong started for the east from San
Francisco.
While trying to save children from fire
In parochiaI school building in st. Louis. a
Catholic sister persisted with one of her lit
tie pupils.
Former Bank President Charles H. Cole,
of the Globe National Bank OF Boston, gave
bail in $50. 900 to answer the charge OF en-
bezzlement.
The fast passenger train on the Plant sys
tenn was wrecked near Tampa, Fla. Several
passengers were killed and others injured.
Miss Filemon D. Geneva leaped from the
third-story window OF burning tenement
in New York and was killed.
LII 4 H.
cago by Nicholas Hotzer, whom she had re-
fused to marry.
Fire in the manufacturing district OF Day
ton, O., caused loss of $500, 900.
william Goebel was sworn in as Governor
of Kentucky, and j. II. Beckham as lieuten-
ant governor. The Democratic members OF
the legislature filed written statement say
ing they were In favor OF seating him, but
had been prevented by Governor Taylor.
who kept them ont of all halls by the mill
iary. and issued proclamation adjourning
the legislature to meet in London on Febru-
airy g.
Loriston NJ Fairbanks. father of United
States Senator Fairbanks, died at Pasadena,
Cal.
Smallpox is prevalent in the central sec
ton OF West Virginia.
Wade Paugh was frozen to death in Richie
county, W. Va.
The British steamer Marston Moor went
ashore off New Inlet, near Cape Hatteras.
The Haywood Brothers chair factory, In
New York, was destroyed by fire.
The Patternmakers' Union of Chicago has
| demanded nine-hour day.
| Mrs. Fred Reed Of Boonton, n. j., found
her runaway husband near MiddletewD. n.
Y, and then made the discovery for the first
time that she was stepmother.
One man was killed and dozen others
fatally injured by an explosion of battery
of four boilers in the steel department OF
Phillips Minnick & Co.'s mill. in Pittsburg
Jesse Wilson, a colored undertaken OF Nor
folk, Va. was arrested for burying three
year-old child in the same coffin with an un-
known woman.
W. d. Smith, of Macon Ca, was sentenced
to Imprisonment for life for throwing acid
into the face of Mrs. Susie billiard, perman-
emily binding her.
The union painters and decorators OF New
port News, Va, demanded a reduction OF
one hour per day at the present wages.
Former Captain Ike T. Jobe, accused OF
fraudulently issuing transportation orders,
was captured near Johnson City, Tenn.
Luella C. Cakes. Of New York, sued her
former husband and his present wife for
putting her in an insane asylum.
Alice Kelly, bride of three months, went
from sleep to death In New York, gas COM
ing through unused pipes.
Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, OF New York, proposes
that saloons shall lie allowed to sell beer on
Sunday.
Henry Noble aud his sweetheart were
blown from a bridge while driving near
Danbury. CT, during storm.
The Southern Naval Stores Company was
chartered in Savannah Ga, with capital
of 100000.
Major Thomas A. Brander, prominent
ex- Confederate, died at his home In Rich
mond.
The bill providing for separate cars for
whites and negroes on the railways passed
the Virginia Senate without dissenting
vote. The governors approval is fore
gone conclusion.
In collision between special passenger
train and freight train at Waycross. Ga,
fifteen passengers were Injured.
The Philadelphia coroner's jury found
four persons responsible for the death OF
Miss May Bibighaus in the opium joint.
The Canajoharie On. Y.) National Bank
suspended, and e. J. Graham. national bank
examiner, was placed in charge.
Six hundred operatives at the American
Hide and Leather Company's tanneries in
Lowell, Mass, went on strike.
James and Amos Pierce were arrested in |
Chester, Pa, on suspicion OF having MUIR
dured George B. Eyre.
Frederick Lempke, Christian scientist,
committed suicide by ,hrusting his head into
a red hot stove.
six thousand dollars worth of diamonds
was stolen from Joseph X. Davidson & Son
in Philadelphia.
The third dynamite outrage in Leadville,
COL, wrecked the home OF A. Y. Hunter,
the millionaire.
Lewis Havens, Of Philadelphia, died sud-
denly In a car at Lenoir, n. G.
A fire at Dawson City destroyed s4OO, 900 |
worth of property.
Samuel Peter Meyers was hanged at Som
erset. Pa.
R.. H. Nicholas, native OF Baltimore, and |
superintendent OF the New York, Philadel- |
phia and Norfolk Railroad, died in Philadel. |
phia.
Judge Wallace, In the United States Court |
at Albany. concurred with the lower court |
in refusing to grant writ Of habeas corpus
in the case OF Captain Oberlin M. Carter,
convicted of conspiracy against the gov
eminent.
Brigadier General Charles W. Squires, a
prominent Confederate during the Civil War,