Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-10-26
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

ministration. and the degree of LID.
was conferred on Secretary OF State
Hay.
The Jury in the case of Henry e.
Youtsey .stried In Georgetown, KY, on
the charge of being principal In the
murder Of Governor Goebel, found him
guilty and placed his sentence at life
imprisonment.
Fourteen persons comprising the
families of Thomas Miller and Andrew
Benaswitch, were made seriously SICK
in Reading, Pa, by eating toadstools
for mushrooms.
Both houses OF the Kentucky Legis-
lature passed the non-partisan election
law and Governor Beckham will sign
it.
While his wife was sewing and sing
ing. John Pfeiffer hung himself In Chi
cago in her presence without attract
ing her notice.
John DOMAIN and John Ford were
killed by an avalanche of dirt and rock
IN the Excelsior Slate Quarry, near
York.
A daring burglar robbed the house
of Colonel Charles l.. Richardson in
Fredericksburg Va.
Miss Frances Griscom won the Bal
timore Cup in the golf tournament at
Short Hills, N. ].
Charles Dudley Warner, the noted
author, dropped dead at Hartford, CT
The Grove Avenue Baptist Church
in Richmond was burned.
William Airgood died at Williams
port from the effect OF Knockout drops
given to him and his companion by
a couple of men who robbed them
Milry johnson, colored, who shot
conductor on the Texas and Pacific
Railway, was taken from the officers
at Port Allen, La, and lynched.
The people of Montgomery present
ed loving-cup to Naval Constructor
Hobson, Gen. Joseph Wheeler making
the presentation speech.
Capt. John B. Adams, past COM
mander-in-c of the G. A.. r.,
dropped dead in the Statehouse at
Boston. He was SO years old.
Miss Mary Chenewing was burned
to death in Kanawha county, w. Va,
her clothing having caught fire from
an open CRATE.
Nicholas Scalp, a Swedish naval
cook, who was on the Maine when she
was blown up, committed suicide in
New York.
S. l.. Morris was arrested in Chi
cagO on the charge of plotting to XIII
John w. Gates, the former steel king
Gen. Scott Ship, superintendent OF
| the Virginia Military Institute, dis
missed three students for hazing.
A sealed pouch containing $1,000 dis
appeared from the st. Paul Office of the
American Express Company.
Three masked men dynamited the
| safe of the Farmers Bank in Nevada,
| Mo-, and killed Constable Maron.
DR.. William F. Reilly died at his
| home in Carlisle, Pa. He served in
| the recent war.
Representatives of all the big coal
| mining companies met in Scranton,
| Pa, and decided TO insist on decrease
! in the price of powder being COM
puted as part o. the increase in wages
| to contract miners.
Nearly every cotton mill in North
Carolina is tied up by a strike, the
| loomworkers demanding the discharge
| of the supervisors, claiming that they
| are brutal tn their employees.
A Norfolk, Va, jury brought in
verdict against the Norfolk Railway
and Light Company for $4,000 dam
ages for causing the death of K. j.
Bass.
George Brown, colored, was convict
ed in York Pa. of an attempt to out
rage Miss Nora Holdinger, and was
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary.
The wrecking steamer COley was
sent to endeavOr to save the cargo or
the Baltimore schr John A. Curtis,
which was sunk in Hampton Roads.
The testimony was concluded In the
trial of Youtsey for completely in the
murder of Governor Goebel, of Ken
lucky.
Erastus Warfeld, colored; who tried
to assault a farmers wife in Elkton,
KY, was lynched by mob.
The presidents of the big anthracite
COdJ-CdTTylUS IuduS, DIT d
held in Philadelphia, agreed to pay the
10 per cent increase, guarantee 1t un-
til April 1 and abolish the sliding
scale.
Eleven Slovenian strikers were ar
rested in Hazleton and taken to Beltz-
Vile, where they were accused OF caus-
ing the rioting and murder OK Ralph
Mills at Oneida on October 10.
The torpedo-boats Dahlgran md
Cravan were in collision outside New
port and were Obliged to put back
slightly damaged. They reached New
port safely.
Samuel Hargadine, farmer, living
near Dover, Del. was seriously injured
by an explosion of dynamite.
John Hughes, postmaster Mt Cam
bria, Pa, shot and killed burglar
who was trying to rob the postoilica.
Harry Howard Stewart was arrested
in New York, charged with killing his
child in Cleveland
Eight people were burned to death
or suffOcated in a fire in Hester rtreet,
New York.
Prof. Charles C. Everett, dean of the
Harvard Divinity School, died, aged IL
years.
Joe Pazen was shot, it is believed
fatally, in Chicago by ZOrah Card, an
actress.
Thomas F. Lane sOn-in-law of
United States SenatOr-elect Blackburn,
of Kentucky, committed suicide at his
home by shooting. Ill-health is as
signed as the cause of the act. Mr..
Lanes little daughter was in the room
with him at the time.
Twenty Americans repairing wires
were surprised by FilipinOs near San
Jose, Luzon, and all killed or captured
except seven. Three American scouts
were also killed near TaklOban.
Bids were opened at the Treasury