Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-06-15
THE NEWS.

indian children at the Oneida reservation
In Wisconsin chopped of the head Of a play
mate. Eight Indians on derrick, startled
at the children's horrible act, lost their bal
ance fell, and were all killed.
II Is suspected that David Brown, Of Al
toona, Pa, was poisoned, possibly by his
sweetheart, who has since twice attempted
to commit suicide.
Three eolored men were killed by light
ming while they were at work under the
steamer Commodore Barney at Jacksonville,
Fla.
Thomas d. Cottrell, an old Spectator on
the Chicago Board Of Trade, shot himself.
He had been Respondent over financial re-
verses.
Miss Mary Croker, the California heiress,
was married at Tuxedo Park to Francis
Burton Harrison.
Daniel r. Hayes confessed in Philadel-
phia having circulated counterfeit f1fty-dol-
lar notes.
w. s. Taylor, OF Kentucky, has declined
to again be candinate for governor.
At the club women's convention In Mil
waukee officers were elected, Mrs. Rebecca
Low, OF Georgia, again becoming the presi
deaf. Papers on various pertinent subjects
were read.
General Otis and his wife met in Chicago
for the first time since the general left to
take command of the troops in the Philip
pines.
John Garrabrand, nineteen years old, and
Caspar Zereswick, eighteen years old, were
arraigned in Jersey City for murder.
Near Charlestown. W. Va, William Red
man, colored, was killed by lightning and
William H. Whitmore severely shocked.
The runners and drivers In the Delaware
and Hudson Company's mines struck against
a cut in wages.
Senator Chandler, as chairman Of the
Committee on Privileges and Elections, sub
mitted report resenting criticisms of the
committee by Senator Clark.
The Senate adopted the conference report
on the Sundry Civil bill and 1t was sent to
the President.
The Penrose armor-plate amendment was
carried In the Senate-39 to 80.
The total appropriations by the present
Congress foot up sos, 729, 476.
UONtTuOr hOOStNciV iSSuou OIuCl uio-
missing Major Clinton H. Smith, of the
Seventy-frst Regiment, for his conduct at
the battle Of San Juan.
John H. Holt, of Huntington, was nomi-
mated by Democratic State Convention for
governor Of West Virginia.
Captain B. B. Dovener was nomin ated for
Congress by the Republicans Of the First
Waot VirOinio dfetrfot
Former Congressman Dockery was nomi-
mated by Democrats for governor of Missouri
by reclamation.
Indiana Democrats nominated John W.
Kern for governor and reafflrmed the Chi
cago platform.
The President nominated General Joseph
Wheeler to be brigadier general of the army
The President nominated certain officers
for Porto Rico and Hawaii and others for
promotion in the army.
In the Senate Messrs. Hanna Garter and
Pettigrew had sharp words about charges
made by Mr.. Pettigrew.
The Senate by tie vote, refused 20 con-
firm W. D. Bynum as general appraiser at
New York.
Major johnson, with two companies OF the
Twenty-ninth Infantry, and twenty-five men
of the Eighteenth, captured forty Filipino
insurgents and ten thousand rounds of am
munition on an expedition TO the Island Of
Tablas.
committee of fifty prominent business
men of st. Louis city have sent communi- |
cation to Governor Stephens asking him to
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The strike situation is more serious and at
tacks on the cars continue.
Four men concerned In the Lancaster, Pa, !
revenue cigar stamp conspiracy confessed |
their guilt at Lancaster and were sent to |
prison.
DR.. Richard Salter Storrs, pastor emeritus |
Of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn,
died at his home, after an illness OF two |
weeks.
William II. Hummel was hanged at Will
Transport, Pa, for the murder OF his wife
and three children on November 16, 1899.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
bought the property of the Wheeling Bridge
and Terminal Company.
DR.. Giles r. Chambers died at vineland.
n. j.. OF apoplexy. 1t was thought at first
be had been murdered
Risley Record vas killed near Shrewsbury,
Pa, by swiftly revolving saw at a sawmill.
A collision occurred on the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad near Weldon, In which two
men were instantly killed and three seriously
injured. No. so, known as the Atlantic Coast
Line fast mail train, ran into an open switch
It Garysburg, resulting in a collision with
ome freight cars.
Sheriff Noel Roberts and two other men
we're shot to death at st. Augustin, Texas, rs
he result Of feud which also involved the
filling Of former sheriff and his son within
week.