Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-01-26
THE NEWS.

Je.abandoned In Baltimore, Philadeipnia
and other cities, and joint Offices VIII De
substituted.
The tobacco growers Of North CORONA
have agreed to sell none OF their product 70
the American Tobacco Company for live
years.
A. S. Van Wickle 4 Co.. coal miners az
Coierainc. Pa, have advanced the wages OF
their men two per cent.
It is reported that foi ty thousand miners
in the anthracite region OF Pennsyvahi"
have decided to strike.
Thomas Mcdowell, the first mayor Of sac
ramento. Cal. died at nth River, n. J'i
aged eigbty-three.
Henry Smith died in Rockbridge county
Va, aged eighty-nlne. He had 1852 descen-
dan;s.
CAPTAIN Charles L. Steele. OF the Eigh-
teenth Infantry, died at Fort Bayard, New
Mexico.
Some Egyptian cotton was received In
South Carolina, the first ever sent to that
state.
Mr.. RYAN made another move at Norfolk
In the Seaboard Air Line matter.
Major J. G. Bryant died at Newport News,
Va, of pneumonia.
Francis P. Owings, of Chicago, presented
an Indebtedness of over five and a-haif mill
lions OF dollars in Chicago the largest sched-
ule for liabilities for discharge ever known
under the national bankruptcy act.
Deputy Sheriff Alfred Henry, while feed
ing the prisoners in the Howell county (Mo.)
jail was dragged into cell and killed. All
the prisoners in the jail escaped.
At Spruce Creek Pa, Charles Robinson
found John O'Nei In his house with his wife,
and killed him instantly.
Tho American Steel and Wire Company
has advanced the wages OF Its men At crown
Point, N. Y, ten per cent.
Three men were fatally scalded by the ex-
plosion OF boiler on the yacht Caperon az
Delaware City.
Professor Enoch Howard Yickers, OF West
Virginia. was married at Toxic, Japan, De-
cember 20.
Miss Maud A. Cleary and Mr.. Edward j.
Brady, of Garrett Park, Nd, were married
1t Norfolk.
The arm OF Jacob Crumbling, farmer
living near Wrightsville, Pa, was blown OH
by dynamite.
The Tygart Valley Bank, at Philippi, W.
Va, was robbed of large sum by burglars
Five men of a section gang OF nine were
killed by train near Oxford, NJ.
Negotiations have been closed in Detroit
which. it is commended, will be the beginning
of the end of the independent telephone
movement.
The annual convention OF the virginia
State Horticultural Convention was held In
Staunton.
Captain j. W. Murphy, cashier OF the
Third National Bank of Columbus Ca, shot
and killed the teller, P. T. Shuttle, and then
killed himself, soon after the bank opened.
William Gurley. proprietor of the Indiana
House in Phoebus, Va, was arrested, charged
with killing Joseph New, soldier at Fort
Monroe.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, has written
letter to the Democratic committee OF
Mecklenburg county, N. c., On the race
question.
Fred Shelley, of Taylorville, H., was sem
fenced to prison for life for completely In the
murder Of Mis-. Jane Brunot.
The old frigate Saratoga started out from
Philadelphia with boys of the Pennsylvania
Nautical School.
The marine department OF the Boston
Chamber of Commerce Identifies the stea-
mer wrecked at st. Marys Bay. Newfound-
land, as the Norwegian steamer Parran,
which sailed from Baltimore January for
Sydney, G. b.
Jddge Waddill. OF the United States Court
In Norfolk, Va, denied the Injunction asked
for Ivy Mr.. Thomas T. Ryan to prevent the
consolidation of the various lines OF the Sea-
board Railroad system.
Two bids were made for constructing the
rapid transit road in New York, Mr.. John L.
MeDonald's being for thirty-Ave millions.
Nearly hundred people at wedding
dinner in Chicago were made violently Ill by
eating chicken cooked in copper kettle.
James Welch made an attempt to assassin
ate Judge William Lochren, OF the United
States Court at st. Paul, MINI.
Negotiations are In progress for the con-
solidation OF Chicago tailors who work Tor
the Wholesale trade.
Louis August, the Fort Monroe soldier,
convicted of murder, committed suicide at
Newport News, Va.
Nick Giligan, accused in Norfolk, Va, OF
numbering his sYeethearts father, surren-
dered.
The rod employees at the American Steel
and Wire Works at Cleveland went on q
strike.
The National Convention Of the United
ny npapad in rndiananOljg
Rates on all transatlantic lines have been
raised ten per cent. or more.
Boiler makers In Buffalo, n Y. went on
strike.
Joseph Leach, OF Baltimore, private In
Company B. Fourth Artillery, was found
guilty. at Topeka, Kans., of killing Corporal
Thomas Finnell, the verdict being "Guilty,
without capital punishment.
The formal presentation by the women OF
South Carolina Of gold medal to Lieuten-
ant Victor Blue was made on board the battle
ship Massachusetts.
The remains OF General Dabney II. Maury,
after lying in state in Richmond, Va, were
taken to Fredericksburg and there buried.
N. X. Goss, a merchant OF Edenburg, u,
was killed In his store by burglars. Three
tramps were subsequently captured by
posse.
H.H. TANNER and Frederick O. Bonflls,
editors OF the Denver Evening Post, were
shot by w. W. Anderson, an attorney.
James House, a lunatic, leaped from the
second story window OF sanitarium at st.
Louis and killed himself.
The authorities OF Mount Vernon, u.
think they have found powder stains on the
night gown OF Mrs. Alfred Morrison, who
was shot by her husband.
r.ar.Iz na.in ua q aantanced To the neDitan.