Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-10
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

William ]. Bryan and Col. Theodore
Roosevelt to attend the celebration on
September. IL and IS.
At Waynesboro, Pa, Howard G.
Speck is lying at his home fatally in
jured. While walking over the top
of the Western Maryland Railroad
trestle he made misstep and fell over
the side to the ground, distance OF
80 feet.
The County Canvassing Board Of
Pamlico county, N. c., which has been
barricaded in the courthouse at Bay
boro to protect itself from the angry
mob, was relieved shortly after day
break by the arrival of the militia.
AS the result of a pitched battle with
moonshiners near Johnson, 20 miles
from Paul's Valley l. T., one deputy
marshal was slightly wounded and an.
other, Schrimpsher, of Paul's Valley
Is missing.
At Oil City, Pa. the union machin'
lists, who have been on strike fol-
II weeks, decided to return to WORK
at the old scale.
At Leavenworth, Kan, Judge Hook
has ruled against the claimants to 1OC
! acres of land, comprising the principal
business portion and 200 home sites,
besides valuable railway yards, in the
City of Argentine, Kan, suburb OF
Kansas City.
The Labrador mail steamer Virginia
Lake, which arrived at st. Johns, N.
f., reports that the Peary relief
steamer Windward passed through the
Straits of Belle Isle July 20, bound
north.
A special dispatch stated that Mr..
Towne will withdraw from the Popu-
list ticket in the next two weeks.
Two cases Of yellow fever were re-
ported in Hillsboro county, Florida.
Nathaniel J. Brown, one of the earli-
est business men Of Chicago, and land
speculator of the Middle Western
States. is dead at the age of So years.
The Herring-Hall Marvin Safe Com
pany was incorporated in Trenton, N.
j., with 100000 capital stock, of
which $500 is first preferred, bearing Z
per cent. dividend.
In the first of the series for the Sea-
wanhaka Cup the Canadian boat Red
Coat had no trouble in showing her
superiority over the Minneapolis, the
American challenger.
The North Atlantic Squadron is at
Portland, Me.
The new Japanese Minister present
ed his credentials to President Nc
Kinley.
The passengers of the wrecked
steamer Prins Willem |. arrived at
Cape Haytien.
Forest fires threatened to do i'm
mense damage in the Sierra Madre
Mountains, Cal.
Republicans in the West demanded
speeches from Governor Roosevelt.
-4s,v ucK (Uemocrat) was elected GOV.
ernor of North Carolina by between
10000 and $4,000 majority.
Senator Hoar says he would accept
invitation to take part in the cam
paign, but it is his rule not TO make
political speeches outside his own
State.
Peter Bunhlitz, an electrician, OF
York, Pa, was injured by the breaking
of pole on which he was mounted.
Harry ID. Flood was nominated for
Congress by the Democrats OF the
Tenth District at Buena Vista, Va.
The Government of Nicaragua has
taken possession of the property of the
Maritime Canal Company.
Department stores in important cit
les in Pennsylvania and Wilmington,
Del, will be consolidated
Charles H. Hoyt, the playwright, has
been released from the retreat for the
insane at Hartford, Conn.
Miss Kaufman Chicago artist, will
accompany Bishop Moore on his trip
to China.
A syndicate has secured an option
on the plant of the York, Pa, silk mill.
Iowa Republicans nominated State
ticket at Des Moines.
BY a cloudburst in Arizona two men
arc known to have been drowned.
The population of Cincinnati is 325,-
9o2, a gain of 9.77 per cent, in ten
years.
Dynamite continues to be used to
wreck st. Louis trolley cars.
Police involved in the recent riots
in New Orleans are accused of cow
ardice.
Bennett City, in the Klondike, has
been deserted.
Herbert Davenport, of Western New
York, was murdered on the Yukon
river, July 16.
Michael Byrd prominent North
Carolina politician, was assassinated
by some unknown person.
Police in Chicago raided a number
of alleged bucket shops and arrested
nearly 400 persons.
John Willis Baer, general secretary
of the Society of Christian Endeavor,
arrived in New York
Congressman William D. DAILY, of
New Jersey. died at Far Rockaway
from apoplexy.
Caleb Powers, accused of completely
in the murder of Governor Goebel, was
on the stand at Georgetown, KY, in
his own behalf.
Four young girls lost their lives in
the surf at Ocean City, N. ].
Burglars blew up the safe of bank
in Armstrong, ILL.,, and though caught
in the ruins for time managed to es-
cape.
The War Department has ordered
general election in Cuba in September
at which delegates will be chosen to a
convention to be held in Havana in
November, to frame constitution for
the government of the island
A robber got $40 and escaped from
the Central Railroad of New Jersey
Station at Newark.
Ex-Governor Wolcott was reported
as saying that he would not accept the
Italian mission.
The battleship Wyoming will be
launched September 8 at San Fran