Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-04-20
THE NEWS.

deputies are guarding VIC Ounoi' " "
Jroton Landing, N. Y. The strikers
;breaten to fight If an attempt is made to
bring other laborers to take their places.
they IRE well armed.
Two tramps attacked two sisters in their
home, near Toledo, o., with clubs, kiillnR
one and seriously wounding the other. Inc
ramps then robbed the house and escaped.
Rev. H. Z. Allen, OF West Derry, n. H..
who was accused of immoral conduct WIN
Miss Grace Brown, was fully vindicated ny
The Methodist Conference.
William H. Bagnall was arrested on sus-
picion of havingetolen 500 In Poughkeep-
sic, n. Y. from the bed Of Samuel r. Raney,
whom he was nursing.
Wellesley College girls raised SlCo.ooo 10
.nable their college to save gift OF slOO, ooV
70 the college made on this condition ny
John d. Rockefeller.
lilly Mahon, eleven years old. died In New
York from spinal meningitis, brought on py
excessive rope jumping.
James Lee, colored, fell from Baltimore
and Ohio train at Piedmont, W. va, ana
was killed.
A. Antonella In fight at Lexington, ny.
Officials OF the Southern Railway Conn pa
~ state that only about $50 out Of 400 tel
.gfaphers employed on the system are on
STRIKE. Officers OF the Telegraphers Union,
On the other hand, state that all the mem
oers OF the organization are out, and trafnc
Is demoralized.
Francis Alberto. who murdered Gerano
lie Fec at B'ue Anchor, y. j., to secure hls
,ic,im's wife and insurance money, was
sentenced to be hanged.
Sixty-nve girl weavers employed ats. N
Wilson's wooden mill, in Trenton. n. D., went
On a strike, demanding the discharge OF the
foreman.
The court in Frankford, KY, decided
against the demurrer filed for 'Tsllow DICK
Coombs, and ordered hi. attorney to file an
answer.
The Democrats and Populists OF Oregon
agreed upon fusion tickets for presidential
electors. congressman and State officers.
There was a destructive boiler explosion
at the Riverside plant OF the National Tube
Company in Wheeling, W. Va.
j. s. Hanly. executive agent OF the Farm
ers' Alliance. has scheme on hand for
farmers trust.
Joseph Stripger choked his wife to deatt
and then committed suicide at Baskerville
Tenn.
The operators and miners In the bitumin
Gus coal fields of Indiana, came to an agree
ment.
Judge Johnsons departure for Nome lei
the Alaska Territory without Judge OF
judicial Office.
The United States Government awarded
to the Oceanic Steamship Company 1O-yeall
contract at 50 mile for carrying tn.
Australian and English closed mails across
the Pacific.
Two Italian strikers were shot by deputy
sheriffs In New York during riot.
Charges were made at the meeting OF the
Chicago Presbytery that the General Assem-. |
bly, was dominated by a system OF bossism
and one-man power worse than any political
machine.
The rumors looking to the combination OF
the Carnegie Prick interests and the CramE
ship5uilding concern has been denied by the
latter company.
Owing to the strike of the miners, the con
dition of the coal trade has assumed alarm.
ing proportions in Pittsburg, Pa.
complete steel house was shipped from
Philadelphia to Prince Yoshibito, at Toxic,
and 81 locomotives and tenders we're shipped |
to Russia.
Captain Louis 0stheim, First United States
Artillery. was found dead in his room in
Chicago hotel, with bullet-hole in his
temple.
II. Ii. Pitcher. banker. in charge OF the
Livermore Bank, at Oakland, CAL, COM
mitted suicide. his trusteeship Of an estate
valued at 5000 900 being under investigation.
Foster Grub and C. Fl. Sheaffer were
killed. and Samuel X, Clouser fatally Injured,
while working under cars In the railroad
yards at Harrisburg, Pa.
The case OF the Baltimore coffee merchants
against the New York imports was begun
again before the Supreme Court in New }
York.
Chaplain Charles d. Pierce, in his report.
defends the canteen at Manila and says il
replaces IA number of disreputable gin
shanties.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob
the First National Bank of Charlestown, W
Va. The robbers were discovered and driven
off,
Vast sections of farming land in Texas is
and it Is reported that number
OF lives have been lost.
Rev. DR.. William +. JunkiD, of Montclair,
n j.. brotber-in-law Of Stonewall jack
son died from pneumonia.
A fire in Greenpoint, n. Y, destroyed sew
eral factories and threw fifteen hundred men
out OF employment.
William Mohole was arrested at Paterson.
n. j., while manufacturing counterfeit silver
money.
Charges were made that Brigadier General
Funston put two Filipinos to death without
rial
Joseph thinner. OF Paterson, n. j., killed
George Marion In a hotel at Wellington.
The plans for the new convention hall at
Kansas City have been completed.
John NJ. Egan was elected president of the
CENTRAL Railroad OF Georgia.
Tho losses to crops by the floods in the
Texas lowlands will be enormous. The
,owerhouse at Austin, In which eight work
nen were drowned. was undermined by the
lood and machinery valued at $780, GOO de-
troyed.
From National Democratic headquarters
ONES report that preparations are being
made to boom Ex-Governor Robert E. Patti
on, OF Pennsylvania, for vice president.
Webster Davis, former assistant secretary
I the interior, made speech at the pro-
Ioer meeting strongly condemning the Brit
III diplomacy and military methods.
The large department store OF Joseph
Iorne & Co.. In Pittsburg, was destroyed by
re- Tho loss will be nearly two million
ollars.
There was very large audience at Wal