Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-01-12
THE NEWS.

for +. b. Bayley q Co., Oh Cnicaso, luz
missing for nearly month.
The strike OF the girls at the Allen q uih-
ter Tobacco Works in Richmond, va, WAS
amicably arranged.
Major Taylor, surgeon In charge at HOMO
lulu. reported six deaths from pupohio
plague up to December Is.
Governor Roosevelt pardoned Chiara
Cignarale. who was serving life sentence
for numbering her husband.
The accounts Of ex-County Treasurer her
shey. of Lancaster, Pa, were found TO %
$685. 90 short.
Peter Dunkle was arrested near Henpeck,
Ind. on the charge of numbering May VOL
wig in 1886.
F. Bianchi Il Co., wholesale dealers In MIL
lnery goods in New York, made an assign
ment.
BIB. Wyatt Of Roanoke, Va, was arrested
on !. charge OF felonious assault on Mrs.
Thomas N. Simpson, of Newport News, who
had been kind to him when he was sorely ID
need OF food.
Edward Doyle. OF Chicago, has sued John
Robson. Board Of Trade operator, tor
1900, 600 damages, several times the amount
of losses in speculation.
Howard Tryday and his wife inhaled iilu-
minating gas in Philadelphia. The husoahd
Is dead and the wife in critical conditlon.
Five Klondikers were found frozen to
death, two of them on the Summit OF Wnite
Pass.
Freeman D. Somerby. supreme president
of the Iron Hall, died in Philadelphia.
w. Murray Crane was inaugurated as
governor OF Massachusetts,.
Governor Roosevelts message to the New
York legislature was largely taken up with
discussion OF trusts. He advocated the re-
peal OF the Horton boxing law.
The United States tug Resolute was sunk
in Boston harbor by collision with the steel
ocean tug Swatara. All on board were saved
except the engineer.
North Carolina Republicans will contest
the constitutionality of the suffrage amend
ment to the constitution to be voted on next
August.
At the United States mint in Philadelphia
during 1899 there were 122,79O,5 23 coins
made. representing value of over $685.
000.0 900.
George L. Price was sentenced to eighteen
months In the Easton penitentiary for lar
ceny OF Photographic supplies in York, "a
Edward Cressinger, nineteen years old,
was hanged in Sunbury, Pa, for the murder
OF Daisy Smith, sixteen years old.
The Democratic caucus of the Mississippi
legislature nominated Senator McLaurin for
the long term.
The girls at the Allen & Ginter Tobacco
Company works In Richmond, Va, went on
a strike.
Oscar I. Fleming, the Princess Anne coun-
ty magistrate who shot and killed Clarence
L. Snyder. OF Norfolk, few weeks ago. was
indicted in Princess Anne county. His bail
was increased from 81 900 to $40, 200, and
his trial set for the first Monday In Feb
ruary.
Fire in Richmond. Va, destroyed large
part of the G. & O. office building, records
and other papers, the damage being about
$4,000.
Former Senator Blackburn was chosen for
United States senator by the Democratic
members OF the Kentucky Legislature.
The L. A. W. will try to get Congress to
vote five million dollars to construct good
roads all over the country.
Water was turned into the Chicago drain
age canal. The canal cost thirty-three mil
lion dollars.
Star Edwards, aged ffty-Ave, died in
York county, as the result OF stroke OF
paralysis.
A baby's life was lost and nine people
we're injured in fire in tenement in New
York.
Junius Robinson, colored, was hanged in
Dinwiddie county, Va. for killing W. NJ.
jolly.
The wages OF 25, 900 men in Pittsburg were
advanced from five to ten per cent.
Charles J. Harrington, register OF wills OF
Kent county, DEL, is dead.
George V. Metzel, founder of the Order of
Heptasophs, died suddenly at his home In
Stewartstown, Pa, aged seventy-hye years.
On December 10 he celebrated his golden
wedding. He was native Of Baltimore.
The system OF pensioning old employees OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on the
lines east Of Pittsburg was started. Nine
hundred and fifty men were retired.
The executive committee OF the National
Antitrust Conference issued an address de-
claring that the special privileges OF the
trusts should be taken from them.
An explosion of acetylene gas set fire to
the Eden Baptist Church in Stromsberg,
Mob. while a watch meeting was in pro-
gress.
Captain W. W. Marshall, formerly deputy
postmaster at Des Moines, Iowa, tried to
commit suicide. His death is expected.
During the week eight men of the Central
Phosphate Works at Lady's Island, s. C.,
died under mysterious circumstances.
Ellen Labash was accidentally killed at
passaic, n j., by the discharge OF pistol
in the hands OF Michael Schwartz.
The stores OF the McCorkle Dry Goods
Company, and w. j. Clary, in Greensboro,
N. c., were destroyed by fire.
Andrew Carnegie has given $780, to
Cooper Union to found day school similar
in scope to the night school.
The one hundred anniversary OF the birth
of DR.. Constantin Herring was celebrated in
Philadelphia.
E. r. Hershey, treasurer of Lancaster
county, Pa, is deiaulter. He is supposed
to be in Canada.
Eugene l.. Packard. OF the Robinson In
vestment and Security Company, OF New
York. was sentenced to eighteen months i'm
prisonment in Sing Sing for unlawfully using
the mails. -.
Judge Sanborn, Of the United States Cir.
cult Court in st. Paul, Mimi, discharged the
receivers of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company.
The stock and plant of the Charles Heisel
Shoe Company, at Hanover, Pa, was de-