Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-10-12
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

nOuey. l. he Wuo PooiiSN
and killed and Burke was badly
wounded.
Charles Wood, convicted. in White
Plains. N. Y, of robblng Charles
Smith. a Fort Slocum soldier, was SEN
fenced to nineteen years in the penl-
tertiary.
The schooner Onward was driven
ashore by the gale at Rye Beach and
wrecked. the crew being rescued by
the life-savers of Wallis Scuds Station.
The Morgan Line steamer Ell Monte
arrived at New York and reported hav-
ing been in collision at sea With the
British steamer Rappahannock :.
M. B. Curtis ("Saml.of Posen) He'd
q petition in bankruptcy in Milwaukee,
confessing liabilities of $4,000.
The Exchange Telegraph Company
was incorporated in Hudson county,
N. j.. with capital of $5,00O,00o.
Alexander Cochrane was elected
president pro tempore of the Bell
| Telephone Company.
Eddie Mcbride was burned to death
| while playing Indian with a number
of boys.
| At conference of the officials of the
United MinewOrkers' Union In Hazle-
| ton it was decided to hold the conven-
| ton in Scranton. President Mltcneli
said the miners would decide for
themselves whether to accept the In
crease offered and none OF the OIL
Gals would interfere.
In an interview in New York Lord
| Strathcona the Lord High Commls-
sioner of the Dominion of Canada, sad
| he noticed a wave Of Imperialism ire
sistibly sweeping over Europe.
| During heavy fog in New York
harbor the Old Dominion Line steamer
Hamilton ran down and sunk the Phil
adelphia schooner A. A. Shaw. The
| crew was saved.
| The annual report of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad and Coal
and Iron Companies shows surplus
of nearly two million dollars over ex-
penditures.
A number of people were killed and
| injured by a tornado In Minnesota
| The damage to property was also
great. :,
| Striking miners who had marched
| with the intention of closing down the
| North Franklin colliery were persuad-
ed to return home by the district sec
rotary without accomplishing their
purpose.
A Burlington passenger train was
held up three miles south OF Council
Bluffs by two men, one Of whom was
killed by the express messenger. Inc
other fed without booty.
It was announced in Boston that the
ambassadorship to Italy has been OF
fered to George Won L. Meyer, former
speaker of the Massachusetts, House.
| Clothier, of Swarthmore, beat Alex
ander, of Princeton, and Plummer, OF
Yale, defeated Ware, OF Harvard, IN
the intercollegiate tennis tournament
Klondike gold to the amount OF ST.
100000 arrived at Seattle
The efforts of the Lackawanna Com
pany to start proved futile. Strikers
paid no attention to the offer OF in
creased wages.
The Republicans of Massachusetts
held their State convention in Boston
and nominated w. Murray Crane, OF
Dalton, for Governor.
An investigation was begun in Pat
erson. N. j., to find out whether the
plot to murder King Humbert OF Italy
was Matched out there.
Mrs. Lillian Smith, Of Inwood, N. Y:
shot her daughters, Ethel and MaDel
and killed her six-year-old son Andrew
and herself.
George Salando, once a baritone II
an opera company, died in a New YorF
hospital from want OF food.
Some one threw chunk of Ice a
Mark Hanna during the progress or
political meeting in Chicago.
Charles Broadway Rouss has with
drawn his offer of s1,000,000 for th'
restoration of his eyesight.
The managers of the Delaware Stat
Fair have practically decided not t
hold any more exhibitions.
M. F. Dryden was killed in Wheel
ing. w. Va, by his father-in-law
Thomas Workman.
The National Funeral Directors AS
ISOLATION held a convention IN Den
yer, Col.
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, ap
pointed Gen. Frank Reeder banking
commissioner. The salary Is $4,000
year.
Mace & Swartley, wholesale produc
commission merchants, of Phlladelphls
failed. The failure Is a large one.
All the Swedish bonds consigned TO
> sale in America have been disposed OF
+ At Camden, N. j., Robert F. Hill wa
found guilty of numbering his wife.
Adam Cooling was shot and kille
by an assassin at Miffiintown, Pa.
Gen. Olney Arnold, prominen
manufacturer, died at Pawtucket, Il.
7, The Glass Chimney Association wa
formed in Pittsburg.
Fire at Williamsport, Pa, caused
: loss of 100000.
B. H. Engle, builder at Harrisburg
1 Pa, has failed.
The British steamer Eagle Point co
lided off Nantucket Shoal in fog earl
Monday morning with the steamt
: Biela. also British, and sunk her
30 minutes. All the crew were save
Second Lieutenant Max Wagner,
t the Twenty-sixth Infantry, was Kiiie
e In the Philippines October L.
!, Robert Treat Paine, Jr., was nom
S mated in Boston by the Democrats II
d Governor of Massachusetts.
e Robert McCurdy Lord, retire
n banker and broker, killed hlmselt
n Mount Vernon, N. Y.
n Rodney Lowry and w. H. VIII
d | fought duel, with fatal results, ne'
4 Tuscaloosa, Ala.
o A plan is under discussion to co.
= troll all the rice grown in this countr
q Thieves robbed the B. & o. static
;, at North Mountain, w. Va.
:. Fire caused loss of $1,000 at Ne'
= vile, Pa.
The United States District Court
II Milwaukee, Wis, denied the petite
IS | of the Chicago Board of Trade for