Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-07-06

Latest estimates of the loss of life In
ne Hoboken fire place the number of
ictims at nearly two hundred. About
ne same number of persons were in
lred. The aggregate losses on prop
rty, steamships, piers and warehouses
about S10,000,000 The losses to the
orth German Lloyd Company on their
- 1nsfiips follow: The Main,
on vessel and 100000 on
cargo; the Bremen, on YES
600; the Saale, on vessel,
cargo and stores, 100000.
indications are that Mr..
Ill pull the strings controlling
gention from Nebraska. He
telegram to Senator Hill to
once to Nebraska, and the New
promptly complied. 1t is now
that Mr.. Bryan will insist on
16-to-1 plank. The Hill vice
Initial boom is expanding.
rnor Atkinson, of West Vir-
appointed ex-Commissioner of
hal Revenue Mason judge, to
vacancy caused by the death OF
Eagans.
general meeting of the American
ttion for the Advancement OF
at it's closing session in New
selected officers for the next
convention in Colorado.
anti-imperialists in the Seventh
District want Henry Wade
RS, late president of the North
ern University, to become their
date for Congress.
motion for writ of eXtradition
;harlcs F. w. Nicely was made be-
Judge Lacombe in the United
Is Circuit Court in New York.
lie Virginia delegation to the Kan
City Convention expect to put
ator Daniel in the field for the Vice
Fsidential nomination.
determined effort is being made
Virginia to secure n conditional par
N for Searcey, one of the Aqua
eek train robbers.
I'm the Corporation Court in AleXan-
ia. Va. David T. Demarest asked for
Yreceiver for the Mount Vernon Spoke
company.
Burglars dynamited the safe in the
RAINING factory of the ID. r. VINE
brenner Company in Hanover and got
only $50.
The Red d Line steamer Caracas,
which went ashore at San Juan, was
Hoated again. The pilot was sus-
pended.
One fireman was killed and eight in
iured in a fire in Pittsburg which de-
stroyed $500, 900 worth of property.
Samuel Whitcom and his son were
struck by lightning at Spry, Pa the
son being seriously injured.
The annual session of the order OF
United Commercial Travellers was be-
gun in Columbus, o.
Work is being actively expedited on
3 number of warships in the Norfolk
Navy Yard.
John G.. Woolley, of Illinois, was
for President and Henry b
Metcalf. of Rhode Island, was nomi
mated for Vice President by the Pro
hibition National Convention IN chi.
cago. The convention then adjourned
sine die. -,
The military prisoners at Fort Smell.
ing. Mimi. made desperate attempt
to escape. All but one were recap
tured.
The Republicans of the Eighth Con
district of New Jersey con
vention at Elizabeth renominated Con
Charles N. Fowler by ac'
clamation.
The knights of st. John, in cOnven'
ton in Philadelphia, reelected by ac'
clamation the present Supreme Presi-
dent, Henry j. Fries, of Erie, Pa.
The attack of the Mexican troops on
Chan Santa Cruz, the stronghold of
The Maya Indians, is still delayed, ow-
ing to the vigorous opposition offered
by the rebels against the advance OF
The troops.
Yale won the Varsity race at New
london after a magnificent struggle.
Harvard won the four-oared and
freshman races with ease.
Hamilton College conferred the hon
orary degree of LID. on Henry Smith
Pritchard, of Washington, D. c.
The last two companies of the st
Louis posse comitatus were dismissed
Mayor James H. Merrill, of Oshkosh
Mich. died suddenly in New York.
The Methodist missionary headquar
ters in New York received news that
their Tien.Tsin mission had beer
burned and that about 100 lives ha(
been lost. 1t was inferred, however
that the killed were all rioters.
The Michigan Republican State
Convention nominated Bliss for Gov
ernor