Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-03-02
THE NEWS.

Street Bridge into the river. He was nSheo
out
The two-masted schooner Jane c. Hlrrl:
was wrecked off iCape Henry. The crew o.
three was saved by the Oregon Inlet life
savers.
Mrs. Jessie Scully entered suit in Fal
River, Mass, for divorce from her husband
who had been her grandmother's coachman
Notwithstanding rain and snow storm
Dewey Day was enthusiastically celebrated
at Wheeling, and thirty thousand people
crowded the streets to catch glimpse Of
the Admiral.
William H. Jackson and James Cary, both
solored, were sentenced to thirty days in
Jail In Winchester, Va, for passing counter
felt money.
There we're simple but interesting cere-
monies at the driving of the first spike in
the Delaware General Electric Railway in
Dover, Del.
Wash-a-kie. aged chief OF the Eastern Sho-
,hone Indians, died in his tepee, on the
Wind River reservation, in Central Wye
ming.
Organizer George W. Purcell. Of the Mine
Workers Union, accused in Williamsburg,
Ky, oil leading riot, was acquitted.
Mr.. Wa Ting Fang, the Chinese minister,
delivered the Grafton at the celebration OF
The University Of Pennsylvania.
The constitutional amendment designed
20 disfranchise the colored voter was adopted
by tho Virginia Senate.
Charles H. Carleton, wanted In Phiadel-
phia to answer charge of conspiracy. was
arrested in Centredale, r. /.
Henry NJ. Alden, editor-in-chief Of Har-
pers' Weekly, was married to Mrs. Ada F.
Murray, of Norfolk, Va.
\ Mrs. Waltons Wilson was gagged and
robbed by couple of Italians in New York.
The men were arrested.
The Virginia House Committee on Finance
exported a bill to pension widows OF Confed-
crate soldiers.
A. T. bennett, the New York reformer, was
taken to an insane asylum in Concord, n H.
A man and woman were asphyxiated at
The Klondike Hotel, Blocker street, New
Work.
DR.. James II. Smart, president OF Perdue
University, died at his homo in Lafayette
Ind.
father of the House Currency bill, was re-
nominated.
Hezekiah Thomas died in Morgantown,
W. Va, at the age OF 3years.
/ Ieander J. Mccormick, manufacturer OF
nhe famous harvesters and binders, died in
Aieago OF pneumonia.
4 Samuel Gompefs, president OF the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, has returned from
a trip to Havana.
The national convention Of the Populist
party will be held in Sioux Falls, South Da-
kota, on May lst.
The British steamer Restormel sank in the
Delaware River. She was loaded with
Acargo of wheat.
A fifteen year-old boy has been banished
rom Massachusetts by order OF the court for
prging check.
William H. Beard, the artist, died in New
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has bought all the lines of tho Deseret Tele-
graph Company, heretofore owned and oper-
ated by the Mormon Church.
Owners Of oyster beds In New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut arc making efforts to
combine. The proposed company is to have
capital of SIS, 100000.
Governor Tyler, OF Virginia. co planned
to the Senate that bills were changed after
they had passed the Senate and before COM
ing into bis hands.
6CThe steamer Taormina, from Santos, ar
rived at New York with ono yellow-fever
patient on beard. 4 fireman had died and
was buried at sea.
The Alta Hotel, at Southern Pines.
winter resort in North Carolina, was burned.
Loss $50 900. All the guests escaped.
The Rapid Transit Subway Construction
Company was incorporated at Albany, with
a capital of one million dollars.
\ Dan Il. Hanna, son OF the senator, was
married In Chenille, o., to Mrs. Daisy Cor
don Maud.
P. L. Mccarthy, a farmer, was frozen 10
death near New Brunswick, n. J.
Frosts in Florida damaged the strawberry
crop and the early vegetables.
The large Ingrahamville Mill, at Paw.
tucket, r. l., was destroyed by FIRE.
Daniel Getzendanner died at his home in
CharlestowD. w. Va.
SPDdLOI LOuSc NiOh Nv
her home in Boston.
Tom Gould, the notorious New York dive
Keeper died.
From the mainmast OF the ship Shonan-
Igdoah, lying at San Francisco, tho ashes OF
Walter s Blanchard were scattered to the
four winds.
Howard S. Gardner, of Stroudsburg. Pa,
a held In : 900 bail In Philadelphia on
charge Of using the mails for fraudulent
Fposes.
en-. E. G. Williams, veteran OF the
kican and Civil Wars died at his home
hapman, Pa.
even hundred journeymen tailors of Chi
have been locked out by the merchant
prs.
Fed was recorded in Norfolk conveying
he vanderbilts railroad properties in
mia.
% upholstery manufacturers in Phila'
ia rejected the scale offered by the
ers.
quad Of negro soldiers from Fort Bliss
the police station In Ell Pasor, Texas
ease comrade. A fight epsued. in
Sne policeman and one soldier were
rles F. Stel brought suit in Carlisle
{ persons who demonstrated against
outing OF liquor license to him,
bg that they made libelous state
les Gregory was committed for the
ury of the Princess Anne (Va.) Court
charge 81 committing felonlous as.
Fannie Hale fourteen years old.
nor TYLER. OF Virginia. signed the