Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-11-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

for violation Of the pension laws. H
made contradictory affidavits regard
ing his support Of widow receivin
pension.
Leonard Day, a young Minneapoli
millionaire, was stabbed to death i
a drunken quarrel, and Frank H. Ham
ilton, the sporting reporter on loca
newspaper, is accused OF the deed.
Austin Hamilton, an aged hermit, Il
Chenango county, NJ. Y, died from tn
effects of torture inflicted by some I'm
known persons to force him to reyea
the whereabouts OF his money
The British steamer Adler, which ar
rived at New York, reported that he
master, Capt. Nv. Reid, had died O
yellow fever and was buried at sea-
Philip Goodman, a lad CT Is years
was arrested in Philadelphia on tn
charge OF attacking Mrs. Mueller will
intent to rob her.
The Norfolk friends of Mrs. May
brick are again stirring themselves Il
secure her release from the British
prison.
The Buckhorn Portland Cemen
Company, at Mannheim, w. Va, ha:
been placed in the hands of receiver
President Mckinley was the guest o.
honor at the Founders Day banquet o.
the Union League in Philadelphia,
Pearl Newman was convicted o.
murder In the first degree in Hunting
don. w. Va. and sentenced to ths
penitent1ary for life.
The United States monitor Nevada
was christened at the Bath Iron
Works, Me-, Miss Annie G. Boutelk
being the sponsor.
The steamer Governor Dingley ran
into and sank the filming schooner
Minette near the Portland (Me.)
Breakwater.
Edward G. Bruce, OF Winchester
Va, a prominent antebellum editor oil
Virginia, died at the age OF Is years
Vincent Cody, who had served 80
years of life term, was pardoned by
Governor Roosevelt.
John Auker and William Bradley,
two youths, were whipped at New
castle Jail for larceny.
Floods are reported at various points
along the Little River In Kentucky.
W. F. Mellick, the cattle king of the
Snake country, maho, became a raw
ing lunatic from the effects Of a sand
bagging administered in Chicago by
robbers.
Judge Heisley in Freehold, N. j.,
quashed the two remaining indict-
ments against Rev. DR.. Henry M.
Wharton.
According to the census report the
population of West Virginia has in
creased rs per cent. since 1890.
The revenue bill prepared by the
Republican members Of the Ways and
Means Committee provides for the
abolition of the stamp tax upon tele-
grams, bank checks, express packages,
warehouse receipts and insurance
policies.
Captain w. M. Meredith, of Illinois.
was appointed chief of the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing.
Frank Wilson, one of the accused in
the divorce-mill conspiracy in New
York, pleaded guilty of perjury and Of
Tered to turn states evidence.
The Methodist Annual Conference
passed a resolution forbidding preach
ers to ride ON trains or street cars on
Sunday. They may ride horseback.
The steamer Fife, new vessel, was
lost in the Straits of Belle Isle during
a snow storm. The crew reached land
after rough experience.
John DAILY, lac. of Is, was shot by
Joseph e. Neamar, bartender, in
New York, who then committed suicide
by swallowing carbolic acid.
Frank Hindberg was sentenced to
ten years In the Penitentiary for at
tempted assault in Newport News, Va,
on the daughter of John LEM.
Two old ladies-Vio,et j Cooley and
her niece, Jane Colt Cooley-were
murdered in their home, near Char
lotte, N. c., and their house looted.
A warrant was issued for the arrest
Of Assistant Cashier Brown, who loot
Cd the German National Bank OF New
port, KY.
ainister Harris sailed from New
York for Austro-H Hungary to wind up
his affairs there preparatory to re-
signing.
The long diouth in ihe mining re-
gions of Pennsylvania has at last been
broken.
Thomas Farley xii ed his wife and
himself in tEtir fiat in New York.
The widow OF the late Commodore
Forrest died In Charlestown, W. Va
Representative Hopkins, chairman Of
The Committee on Census, estimates
that thu increase in the membership
Of the new House under the new GEN.
,us will be between fifteen and twenty
members.
The Chinese minister spoke before
The American Academy of Political and
Social Science In Philadelphia, and ex-
planned the causes of ill-feelisg Of
Cinnamon toward foreigners.
At a meeting In St. Louis of repre-
;entatives of commercial bodies, 1t
vas decided to memorable Congress to
modify the Interstate Commerce law.
Chicago Methodist ministers will ask
President Mckinley to recommend to
Congress the enactment of legislation
o prevent lynchings
The House Ways and Means Com
nittee took up the consideration of a
'eduction in war taxes.
Lieutenant Haeseler, Of the navy,
who was we'll known as an inventor,
lied in New York.
The hulk of the wrecked Maine Will
re removed from Havana harbor.
One case of heat prostratiOn is re-