Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-03
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

NlCtCiy DIT TIC DChONi oSiS pa
maries in York county, Pa.
Jay A. Hubbell, formerly well known
as a Republican leader in Congress, Is
reported as having suffered stroke
of paralysis at his home in Michigan.
In his speech accepting the nomina-
ton at the notification meeting Mr.
Bryan will make plea for the income
tax, omitted from the national plat
form.
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show was
badly shaken up in a railroad collision
in Michigan. One employee was killed
and several were injured.
Aaron T. King, of Gettysburg, heir
to portion of his mothers estate, and
who disappeared nineteen years ago
has been located in Chicago.
Governor Wolcott, of Massachusetts,
is said to be slated for Italian minis
ter, to succeed General Draper, re-
signed.
Ex-Mayor Quincy, of Boston, Demo
cratic leader of New England, will live
in London for several years.
The Supreme Lodge, knights of Py-
thias, will meet in Deroit, Mich, Au-
gust 25 to September l.
Maine ice dealers report heavy de-
mand for ice, all of which has been
bought up by the Ice Trust.
Statistics Of New Yorks population
indicate movement of tenements in
that city northward.
Thomas Good, of Doylestown, Pa,
tasted forty-two days to cure a stom-
ach trouble.
Mr.. Bryan will devote all his atten-
ton to imperialism" in his notifica-
ton reply.
Many recruits have been received
for the Marine Corps, and they are
above the average in intelligence.
There is an increased demand at
rying vessels.
A speaker at a Prohibition meeting
in Hartford charged the President
with being responsible for the canteen
at army posts.
Patrick Logan killed his father in Il
drunken fight In Brooklyn.
The race riots in New Orleans were
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killed by the negro desperate Charles,
who was eventually shot.
Freight trains on the Pennsylvania
Railroad collided near Milestone juno
ton, N. j.. blocking the road for some
hours and causing $4,000 of damage.
The steamer Florence S. was report
ed lost on Lake Lebarge, Alaska, and
40 people were drowned.
Miss Macdonald, IL years old, by in
terceding with ex-senator Clark, of
Montana, has gained the pardon of her
father, life convict.
General Shafter has appointed an
Army Pardoning Board.
Indians have started numerous for
est fires in Northwest Montana.
Testimony in the Goebel case shows
that Caleb Powers had Governor Tay-
lor's pardon in his pocket when ar
rested.
The papers in the appeal of Roland
B. Molineaux, of New York, convicted
of murder, number 1926 typewriter
pages.
Peary's relief steamer Windward has
sailed again for the Arctic Ocean.
plot to release Berkman from the
Western Pennsylvania penitentiary by
tunneling was discovered. He is the
Anarchist who tried to kill H. G. Frick
in Pittsburg.
At Hartford, Conn.,, Charles HOyt,
the playwright, opposed in vain an APP
plication committing him to retreat
for the insane.
1t is believed in Washington that
General Rathbone, former director of
posts in Cuba, has been placed under
arrest in Havana.
A new avenue will be laid out on
Gettysburg battlefield to follow the
line Confederate artillery during the
battle.
A railroad will be constructed from
Beaus Mill, Upshur county, to Hut
louisville, Randolph county, w. Va.
Herbert B. Simpson, a criminolOglst,
who was decorated with the cross OF
the Legion of Honor by King Humbert
of Italy, committed suicide at Wichita,
Kansas.
The Somerset County (Pa.) Legisla-
tive contest was decided by a judicial
opinion in favor of the ANTICIPATES.
Fire in Buffalo destroyed grain ele-
vator laden with grain. The loss is al
most 100000.
In the trial of Alexander Jester, ac-
cused of the murder of Gilbert Gates
in 1871, witnesses for the defense, at
New London, Mo-, rebutted testimony
for the prosecution.
A binocular glass is to be presented
by President Mckinley to Captain
Baillie for saving lives.
An extended conference in the mat
ter of the glass cutters strike was
held in Pittsburg, but no conclusion
was reached
After three months idleness the
striking coal miners near Scranton,
Pa, succeeded in gaining their de-
mands.
1t is announced in Sterling, COL, that
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy is
to build a railroad in Alaska.
The Kansas Midland Railway has
been sold, and will become part of the
Frisco system.
The German Government has i'm
pressed into service as transport the
Hamburg-American steamship Adrla,
now at Philadelphia.
A fire. in Chicago resulted in the
death of four women and injuries to
four persons.
Mrs. John Evans, of Scranton, Pa,
bride of week, was given oxalic acid
in mistake for EPSON salts by her
father She will probably die.