davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
Beers DYING BY HUNDREDS.
English Newspaper Shows Up the Horrible
Work of the Government In Africa.

London, (By Cable). The Daily
News exhaustively surveys the concen-
tration camps in South Africa, with the
following conclusion:
The truth is that the death rate in the
camps is comparatively worse than any
thing Africa or Asia can show. There
is nothing to match it even in the NOR
tally figures of the Indian tamlnes,
where cholera and other epideraicS have
to be contended with.
Statistics are produced in proof of this
assertion.
The governments advertisement for
teachers for the camp children, setting
forth that "the term of employment will
be one year certain is prominently dis
played as evidence that the authorities
have no intention of ending the whole
sale destruction of human life"
The Daily News urges all humane
men not to wait for official reports, but
to insist ION the camps being broken up
and the people distributed among their
friends"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
EARL Ii ANGERED BY RUSSIA.
A Violent Dispute Caused the Aged Vice.
roy's Death.

Pekin, (By Cable).-A violent dis
pute with M. Paul Lesar, Russian min
lister to China, over the Manchurian
Treaty appears to have been the immedi-
ate cause of the death of Ii Hung
Chang.
The diplomatic events preceding this
tragic climax have enabled Japan for a
moment to Illustrate the designs of Rus
STA. A fortnight ago the Japanese Lega
ton secured a reliable outline of the
terms of the treaty, and thereupon de-
manded that the Chinese plenipotentia-
ries officially lay before them the text
basinQ the demand upon the allegation
that Japanese interests were involved in
any change of the status of Manchuria.
The Chinese plenipotentiaries refused
to comply with this demand. Thereupon
the Japanese government from Toxic
communicated with the Southern viceroys
and induced them to use their influence
with the Empress Dowager against the
treaty. In the meantime the Empress
Dowager instructed Ii Hung Chang to
Communicate the treaty, after certain mod
i6cations, to the ministers of the pow
ers. and if they did not object to sign
the same.
Ii Hung Chang visited M. Lassar and
explained to him the instructions. The
Russian Minister strongly objected to
revealing the text of the treaty to the
ministers of the other powers, and a
stormy interview ensued. Ii Hung
Chang went home in violent passion
and had hemorrhage, which the doc
tors attribute to the overexertion OF a
weakened system.
While these things were happening in
Pekin the Southern viceroys sent to
the Empress Dowager a memorial
against the treaty. On receiving it she
telegraphed to Ii Hung Chang counter
handing the order to sign.
This instruction came after Ii Hung
Chang had become unconscious. When
M. Lassar endeayored to have Ii Hung
Changes seal affixed to the treaty, Chou
Flu, provincial treasurer, had arrived
from Pao Ting Flu, and had taken
charge of the seals as the temporary sue
cessor of Earl Ii.
Pekin, (by Cable) IAN imperial edict
has arrived here appointing Yuan Sh
Kali governor of Shan Tung province
to be governor of the Province of Chi
Ii, and appointing Wang Wen Shao
who is vice-president of the Foreign Of
flee and member of the Cabinet, to
succeed Ii Hung Chang as plenipoten-
tiary. They are both ordered to come to
Pekin forthwith.
Another edct creates Ii Hung Chang
a marquis. and bestows on him the new
name of Ii Wen Chung, by which he
will be known in history
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
New German Tariff.

Consul John F. Kehl at Stettin, Ger
many, in a report discussing the effect
of the proposed new German tariff, says
the first effect of increase over the pres
cnt import duty on foodstuffs coming
into the Empire will be an advance in
the price of these articles.
The cost of living in Germany, Mr..
Kehl says. at present is from 10 to so
per cent. higher than in the United
States, while wages are about one-thlrd
those paid in America. To balance the
increased cost Of living, wages must be
increased, which again will enhance the
cost of production and the selling price,
thus placing the burden of a higher i'm
port duty on the people in general.
Germany, the consul says, has not the
natural resources to supply her peoples
demand for meats and agricultural prod
ucts, and with the constant increase IN
population and the evolution from an
agricultural to an industrial company it
is quite natural, he says, that the demand
for food would advance and the produc-
tior decrease.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
The Maccabees DefalcatiOn.

Port Huron, Mich, (SpeciaD.-It de-
velops that if Charles D. Thompson, ex-
supreme finance keeper of the Supreme
Tent, Knights of the Maccabees, who
embezzled $4,000 from the order, is
prosecuted, the Maccabee officials will
have to take the initiative. By the
terms of Thompsons bond with the Fl
deity and Deposit Company, of Bal
timore, which was in force when most
of the money was stolen, the organiza-
ton must apply for the warrant in the
event of a defalcation and prosecute,
with the assistance of the bonding COM
pany. Supreme Counsellor D. D: Ait
kin has all the necessary papers in his
hands, and Thompson's arrest is expect
ed soon.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
Great Change at West Point.

Secretary Root has just issued an or
der changing the regulations relative to
admission to West Point so that the
Academic Board may accept candidates
who are graduates of high schools or
students of colleges and universities
without requiring them to pass the men
tai examination prescribed by the De
partment.
The important paragraph added is:
The Academic Board will consider,
and may accept, in lieu Of the regular
mental entrance examination the proper
ly attested examination papers of an APP
oointee who receives his appointment to
public competitive examination, or the
properly attested certificate Of gradua-
ton from a public high school III which
the course of study covers the range OF
subjects heretofore prescribed tor candl-
dates, or a properly attested certificate
that the candidate is a regular student OF
any Incorporated college or university.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
M. Roo. Has His Troubles.

Secretary Root is 'eiy much perplexed
in preparing his annual report or account
of the delay in receiving the report Gl
the Philippine Commission.
The commissions report, together with
a special envoy sent to the Philippines to
report on the banking and currency con-
ditons of the island left Manila on the
transport Sheridan Two weeks ago the
Sheridan broke down in Japan and the
Warren was ordered to bring her passen-
gers and important mail. A few days
ago the Warren broke down, and the
Hancock has just sailed from Manila to
take her place.
These accidents will prevent the report
of the Philippine Commission, as well as
the report of the special representative on
currency, from reaching Secretary Root
in time to be used in his annual report
Meanwhile he is using such information
as has already been prepared in the Blu
reau of Insular Affairs, but it is likely
that supplemental report will be made
by the Secretary, covering the Philip
pines and based upon the commissions
report
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
] oreign.

United States Consul General Dickin-
son, in reply to Miss Stones letter, has
urged the brigands to still further re-
ducc their demands and accept the
amount subscribed, as the United States
government will not contribute to the
ransom
The French government announces
that the Sultan of Turkey has yielded
to all demans, and it is expected that in
two or three days Admiral Caillard will
cease to occupy the ports OF the island
of Mitylene.
The Liberal forces have captured
the town of Tumaco, about 500 miles
south of Panama. They took 400 SOL
diers prisoners and captured five or SIX
cannon.
Yuan Shi Kai, the present viceroy OF
Shan Tung, has been appointed to sue.
coed Ii Hung Chang as viceroy OF Chi
Ii.
The Duke of Cornwall and York has
been created Prince of Wales and Earl
of Chester. :, g,
Sir Joseph c. Dimsdale was installed
as the new lord mayor Of London.
ne BTlIlSIl SOFCl HillNii' MOO
to dispatch 1000 cavalry to South
Africa. A Nottingham, where Lord
Roberts went to distribute war medals,
there was popular demonstration
against the British Commander in Chief
Lord Kitchener reports that in the bat
tie of Brakenlaagie the Boer loss was a.
killed, including Genral Opperman, and
100 wounded.
The Turkish government has further
Welded to the French demands, and has
granted authority to them to rebuild or
repair a number of churches and con-
vents. No international complications
arc anticipated by the French govern
mcnt. Admiral Cailard has landed ma
rines on the Island of Mitylens.
1t is reported from Sofia that an agree
ment as to the amount of the ransom tor
Miss Stone has been virtually establish
ed, although advices from Constantine
pie state that negotiations have been
temporarily suspended from the Bulgar-
ian side
President Castro accepts the offer OF
the Gillian government to arrange the
differences between VENEZUELA and Co
lombia, stipulating however, that Co.
lombia pay damages for losses by inva-
sion.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
CAPITAL News In General

Chairman Payne, of the Home Ways
and Means Committee, has decided, after
a conference with the President and
Secretary Gage, to introduce into Con-
gress bill for the repeal of the war
taxes.
C. E, Sapp, internal revenue collector
for the district of Kentucky, has yielded
to the pressure of the reform element
and resigned.
President Roosevelt appointed VIM. F.
Willoughby, Johns Hopkins graduate,
treasurer of the Island of Porto Rico.
The report of the United States Com
missioner of Navigation shows a great
increase in American shipping in the
last fiscal year.
Baron Ludovic Moncheur, the new
Belgian minister, was presented to the
President and the usual exchange of
fluctuations followed.
Captain Sigsbee reported that all the
money collected by the Battleship Maine
Relief ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS been
distributed,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
BULGARIA WARNED.
Her Troops Must Stop Hampering the
Negotiations.

Sofia Bulgaria (By Cable) .-Informa
ton has been received here from Doub
ntza that the band of brigands holding
captive Miss Ellen M. Stone, the Amer
lean missionary, called about fortnight
ago at the village of Smetchevo and sub
scqucntly went to the monastery of Rio.
but the movements of the troops COM
PEELED the brigands TO flee toward the
frontier, where they are now in hiding.
1t is also said that the brigands have
recently been treating Miss Stone with
more severity, in order to exercise press
ure and compel a more ready acceptance
of their conditions.
Consul General Dickinson is inhexible.
He insists that the surrender of Miss
Stone must precede or be simultaneous
with the payment of the ransom. His
attitude is justified by the known deter
mination of some members of the band,
particularly the captain, Yanne Sandan-
sky, to kill Miss Stone and her compan-
ions as soon as the ransom is received,
owing to the fact that the captives have
now acquired information concerning
the secret committees. Competent per-
sons, however, express the opinion that
the cupidity of the brigands will over
come their fear of revelations.
Mr.. Dickinson has made energetic rep
reservations to the Bulgarian Govern
ment against the movements of the Bull
garian troops, approaching the officials
with the fact that, Notwithstanding their
solemn promises to give him all the as
sistance in their power, their action was
embarrassing the negotiations, retarding
a settlement and putting in jeopardy the
life of Miss Stone. He made definite
declaration that the Bulgarian Govern
ment would be held responsible for the
death of Miss Stone and of all the con-
sequences of her death, should it be
proved that the attitude of the Govern
ment forced the brigands to kill the cap
-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
INDIAN RELICS TO ORDER.
Missouri Farmer Indicted, Charged With
Misusing the Mails.

St. Louis, Mo-, (SpeciaD The Fed
eral grand jury indicted Daniel Lever
ng, a Green county farmmer, on charge
of using the mails to defraud.
Levering's scheme was novel one
and his alleged victims were mostly pro-
fessors of colleges throughout the coun-
try, and collectors. Bogus Indian relics
of every description-axes, pipes, images
and various other curioSitieS-were pro-
duced before the jury by witnesses, who
said lowering had told them that he dug
them out of mounds thousands of years
old, where they had been placed by In
dams. Leverings alleged victims pur-
chased large numbers of these "relics,"
paying large prices for them.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
Sword to Go Next

Army officers consider it as probable
that the ornate swords worn in the serv-
ice at no distant day will be discarded
as a part of soldiers equipment
The sword is believed to be OF little
use in these days of long distance fight
ing and serves now little other purpose
than as an emblem of authority. Brit
ish officers in the South African cam
paign have found the sword often ham
pered them in battle, and there have
been few, if any, occasions where 1t
was used as weapon of attack or de-
tense. Hand-to-hand encounters are
thought to have passed away with the
advent of smokeless powder and modern
small arms. The cavalry may continue
to use the sword, but there are so few
reasons for retaining it as an implement
of warfare that it is regarded as Ii kelly
20 be the next arm rejected as obsolete.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
GREAT YARDS FOR PITTSBURG.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1t Is Said,
Will Spend Millions.

Pittsburg, (SpeciaD The Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company has in contempla-
ton new yards for freight handling,
which will be the largest in the country.
Agents of the company have been tax
ing options on property from Thirteenth
to Twenty third streets, between Liber
ty and Penn avenues, for the purpose,
and it is now almost certain that the
10 blocks will soon be acquired and the
yards established. For real estate alone
the cost of this improvement will be be-
tween $4,000 900 and 100000. This
amount, added to the cost of the other
Improvements new union station, ele-
waited tracks, etc-made by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company in this city re-
Gently, will make the total $Io,oooooo.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
An Aggressive Campaign.

Washington, (SpeciaD On the rec
ommendation of General Chaffee, COM
handing the division of the Philippine
Islands, the Secretary of War has issued
orders for a reorganization of that dlvi-
sion. Up to this time the division has
comprised four military departments, as
follows: Department of Northern Lit
zon, commanded by Major General
Lloyd Wheaton; department of South
ern Luzan, commanded by Brigadier
General J. F. Wade; department of the
Visayas, commanded by Bridadier Gen
eral R. P. Hughes; department of Min
danao and Jolo, commanded by Briga'
der General G. w. Davis.
In accordance with the action of the
War Department Saturday the division
will be divided into only two military
departments, to include within their lin
its the entire Philippine Archipelago.
They will be known as the departments
of North and South Philippine, The
department will be commanded by Ma
jor General Wheaton and will include
the islands of Luzon Mindora and Mas
bate and all the intervening territory.
The Southern department, which will
be commanded by Brigadier General
Wade, will embrace the remainder OF
the archipelago, and include the large
islands of Samar, Panay, Mindanao, the
Visayas and Jolo.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
BANK ROBBERS IN THE WEST.
In One Place They Miss $4,000, In Another
They Take $4,000

Darien, Wis, (SpeciaD. Robbers
made an attempt to loot the Farmers
State Bank here, but were foiled by an
overcharge of nitoglycerin.
The vault was wrecked and the front
of the building blown out. In the vault
was $4,000 in cash and $4,000 in nego-
table securities, but the robbers were
frightened off without securing any
plumber and drove away in buggy.
Scotland, s. D., Especial The Bank
of Scotland was robbed Of $1,000. The
safe was blown and its contents carried
away The explosion aroused residents
who hurried to the building, Just IN time
to see the robbers making their escape
on horses.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
Fatally Hurt In Football

Cincinnati, Ohio, Especially. = Two
football players were probably fatally
hurt in games here. In The game be-
tween the University of Cincinnati and
the Hanover (Ind) College, James Kirk
patrick, left halfback of the University
of Cincinnati, while making tackle, had
his spine injured and is reported to be
in a very serious condition. Louis
Runck was also carried off the field dur
in the game between the Newport Xav-
Ter College and the Newport High
School. Runck was left tackle of the
Xavier team and was seriouslv injured
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
Wonderful Leap by a Horse.

Chicago, (Special)-A. the Horse
Show here in the Coliseum the high
Jumper Hetherbloom, bay gelding, E
years old and 16 hands high, owned by
Howard Willetts, Of White Plains, N.
Y, broke the worlds indoor record for
jumping horses. Hetherbloom cleared
the bar at 7 feet AZ inches. The pre-
yious record was made by Rosebery,
who made a jump pf 7 feet 3H inches
in competition will Filemaker in this
CITY several years ago.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

III ee out OF TVc OF the COTVlCtS WHO
escaped from the stockade near Leavcn-
worth, Kan were killed and the other
two wounded in fight with posse
The five men had taken refuge in a
barn.
A secret inquest into the deaths af
Mrs. Mary E. Glib and Mrs. Annie
Gordon, alleged to have died of poison
administered by Jane Toppan, was be-
gun by the coroner at Buzzards Bay,
Mass
Governor Hunt, of Porto Rico, re-
ports that the sugar and coffee crops
will be heavy Fifty thousand children
are now attending the schools, and 2oo,-
600 are unable to obtain tuition.
James Callahan was found not guilty
of perjury, thus being acquitted practi
cally the second time of completely in
the Cudahy kidnapping.
Mrs. Archibald S. White, wife of the
president of the National Salt Compa-
ny, slipped on her bathroom floor and
fractured her skull.
Viola Bender, aged IS years, while in
rage, took strychnine, near Martins
burg. w. Va, and died from its effects.
The Ellis Glenn case has been carried
to the Supreme Court of the United
States.
John d. Sarninghausen, a German ed
itor, died at Fort Wayne, Ind, aged 81
years.
Adolph F. Kraus, the sculptor, died at
the Danvers (Mass) Insane Hospital.
The battle ship Illinois will be sent to
Algicrs to test the new steel drydock.
Admiral Schley has accepted an invi-
tation to so to Nashville in January.
Ambark Benhady, an acrobat, was
killed by train at Chester, Pa.
Oil has been found in Smyth county,
Virginia.
Fire in Bradford, Pa, caused loss Of
$4,000.
The police arrested in St. Louis Laura
Bullion and man named Longbaugh,
who are believed to have participated in
the express robbery on the Great North
ern Railroad near Wagner, Mont.
Fifteen thousand acres of coal lands
in Hancock county, West Virginia, and
in Green township, Beaver county, Penn
sylvania, were sold to the United States
Steel Corporation at SIS an acre.
Melvin Weisentale, IS years old, was
shot and fatally wounded in Hanover,
Pa, by his cousin. Harry Miller, who
did not know the gun was loaded
Telephone companies of Southern
Pennsylvania have been united into
corporation, to be known as the Cunlber-
land Valley Telephone Company.
Rev. P. H. Nugent Episcopal city
missionary of Richmond, Va, was de-
posed from the Episcopal ministry by
Bishop White for doctrinal reasons.
The convicts in the United States
prison at Leavensworth, Kan, mutlned:
Twenty-six escaped, one man was killed
and three seriously wounded.
The Chicago police have located the
house in Chicago in which Natal was
murdered Four arrests have been made
in the case
Charles Dunn, who killed Alice Cot
terrell, a Io-year-old girl, in Fort Wayne,
Ind, was convicted of murder in the
first degree.
Gen. James Hagan, who commanded
a brigade under General Wheeler during
the Civil War, died at his home, in Mo
bile, Ala.
The British schooner John S. Parker
was wrecked off Orleans, Mass, and the
crew was saved by means of life-lines
Grant Householder, hackman, was
caught smuggling Cinnamon from Can
ada into Buffalo.
Mrs. Julius Yankee was burned to
death in Chicago and her husband SER
iously injured.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
Christmas Gifts to Soldiers Free.

Secretary Root has issued the custom.
airy order suspending the operations OF
the local tariff laws in the Philippines
and Cuba so as to permit, under reason
able conditions, the free importation into
the islands of packages and articles
clearly intended as Christmas presents
for soldiers and sailors and other
United States employees. The order
which takes effect Immediately, will run
until January IS next.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
Investigating DIR. Mary Walker.

The Pension Burea is investigating ut
terances attributed to DR.. Mary Walker,
an ex-army nurse who has worn maScu-
line attire for many years, and who is
alleged to have spoken of the execution
of Leon +. CzolgoSz as murder, and
the late President himself murderer on
account of his policy in the Philippines.
Special Examiner F. c. Mclaughlin,
of the Pension Bureau, is at Oswego, N.
Y, investigating the case, and his report
will be kept on file at the bureau here in
readiness for submission to Congress In
case that body should call for it. Com
missioner Evans says he has no authority
to revoke the pension, but that Congress
could do so if it desired.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
Robbers Dynamite q Bank.

Campbelsburg, Ind, Especially "A
gang of robbers wrecked the Bank of
Campbellsburg with nitroglycerine. The
noise aroused the citizens, and before
the robbers could reach the money in
the safe armed citizens drove them from
the building. Fifty shots were fired by
the citizens, but apparently without eff
feet. The fire was not returned The
robbers escaped.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
Financial.

The Burlington has hauled 100000
pounds of wool out of South Dakota
this season.
Bullion amounting to fII3,ooo was
withdrawn from the Bank of England
for shipment to South America.
The Commercial Pacific Cable Com
pany has increased its capital stock from
100000 to 100000
The Argentine wheat exports tor sea-
son are 2o,2o6,ooo bushels, as against
7o.7o5 900 bushels last year; corn, 81
Cyl COO bushels, as against 22,3o5,ooo
bushels.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
IhieYing Postal Empl0Ye.

St. Louis, Mo-, Especially Samuel
Selig, foreman of the city distributing
department of the St. Louis postofice,
was arrested, charged with stealing let
tiers. 1t is stated that so letters, some
containing money orders, were found on
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
Conflict at an End.

Constantinople, (By Cable M.
Bapst, councillor of the French Embas-
sy, has received a satisfactory commit
nication from the Porte regarding the
remainder of the French demands. The
conflict between France and Turkey
NAV. therefore, be regarded as ended.