Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-11-02
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

granted the concessions demanded by
the striking miners in the Hazleton
district and there were many paradeS
ard other demonstrations.
Governor Roosevelt celebrated the
forty-third anniversary of his birth b.
campaigning through New York.
1t has been finally decided that the
!; Passaic county On. j. authorities have
jurisdiction in the case Of Jennie Bos-
schieter, who was killed by knockout
drops.
Minister Conger preferred charges OF
cowardice against Captain Newt ].
Hall second in command of the Marine
Corps during the seige of Pekln'
Julian T. B. Arnold, son of the poet,
Edwin Arnold, sailed for London from
New York prisoner on the charge of
cmbczzlement.
Cant VIM b. Pendleton, who killed
VIM. d. Francisco in Richmond in self
defense, was cxonerated by the coro-
neer's jury. :"
Professor Williams reported that he
found arsenic and mercury in the stom-
ach and intestines Of millionaire Rice.
One man was killed and three in
jured by collision on the Beach Creek
Railroad. near Beach Creek, Pa
In a drunken fight Burdick Weekly
stabbed his best friend, Howard Hick-
man, near Clarksburg w. Va.
The transport Lawton arrived at
PCrt Townsend with over six hundred
stranded miners from Alaska.
Three hundred miners employed at
the independence gold mine, near VIC
tor. Col, went on strike.
Two wildcat freight trains on the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
collided near Henryville, Pa.
In a personal difficulty at Cuckoo,
Louisa county, Va, Capt. W. B. Pendle-
ton a one-legged Confederate soldier
and ex-member of the Virginia House
of Delegates, shot and killed William
Francisco.
]. NJ. Mcknight, former president Of
The German National Bank, of Louis
Vile, Ky, was sentenced to five years
imprisonment for embezzlenent.
John Addison Porter, former private
secretary to President Mckinley, is "
ing dangerously i'll at his country resi-
dence in Pomfret, CT.
Charles M. Hays, general manager
CT the Grand Trunk Railroad, has been
decided upon as president OF the South
ern Pacific.
Harry Gudgen, 1S years old, killed
Matte Nicholas, aged &c years, and
then committed suicide, in Chillicothe,
Ohio.
William j. Beckley was arrested in
New York on the charge of embezz ing
$1,000 from ~ w. harris K Co, bank
ers.
Former Secretary of State Hawkins,
of Delaware. pleaded guilty of embez-
element in the Kent County Court
Miss Bertha Allen, daughter Of Gov
ernor Allen, of Porto Rico, was mar
ried to Lieutenant Logan, U. s. n.
President Mckinley registered as
voter at his home in Canton, o.
The annual convention of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society OF
the Methodist Church of the United
States was held in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts.
Rev. DR.. J. N. Craig, of Atlanta,
dropped dead in the pulpit at Newport
News. va. while addressing the Pres
byterian Synod of Virginia.
John d. Hawkins, former secretary
of state in Delaware, who was to have
been tried at Dover for embezzlement,
escaped from the sheriff.
A pension fund for employees OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company west
Of Pittsburg will be established by the
company.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Church has
raised $4,000 as its twentieth century
thank Offering.
Dr. Lawrence Turnbull, an eminent
physician and chemist, died at Phiia-
delphia, aged 10.
Ar endowment fund of $3.50 900 has
been secured for Beloit College
The grand jury at Monmouth cour"
ty. n. j.. returned three indictments
against the Rev. II. NJ. Wharton, who
was charged with taking money lille
gally and fraud.
Charles i. Alvord, Jr., note teller OF
the First National Bank of New York.
is fugitive from justice and a de-
faulter to the extent of S700 600
Five men have been arrested at Pat
ersOn, n. J., for causing the death OF
Jennie tBosschieter by knockout drops.
The Marietta. Columbus and Glove
land Railroad Company was incorpor-
ated at Columbus, o.
c. ]. Matthew was arrested at
Seattle charged with stealing in New
York jewelry worth $4,000.
Kessam Hall was presented to Van
derbilt University. It is the gift Of w.
K. Vanderbilt.
The Russian battleship Retvizan was
launched at Cramps yards, Philadel-
phia.
Professor d. S. Gibson died at Fair
mont, w. Va, aged SO,
Henry f. Youtsey was put in jail at
Frankfort, Ky.
President Mckinley arrived at Can
ton, o.
President Mitchell Of the United
Mineworkers. said that if all the com
panies will guarantee an actual ad-
vance of 10 per cent. till April 1st and
abolish the sliding scale the terms
would be accepted by the mineworkers.
Harry Belts and Daisy BlydenburG.
lovers. of Cory, Pa, were found dead
locked in each others arms. Belts
had shot both.
The workers at the Scranton WASH
erv. near Wilkes-BarTe, were stoncG
by a mob of boys and women and
forced to quit work.
Daniel Asher was arrested for aD-
Quoting the 17-year-old daughter or W.
G. r. Plank, Of Seven Stars, ADAMS
county, Pa.
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