Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-07-26
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.

termer Governor Jones. OF Alabam,,
had an exciting discussion with Chair
man Knox, Of the Constitutional Coz
vention, in which the Governor refused
to be expelled from the hall.
DR.. Michael N Regent received an
indeterminate sentence in Chicago for
substituting corpse for an INSURED man
TO swindle the Knights and Ladies Of
Security,
Judge Trout, Of San Francisco, has
decided that the trust clause in the Fair
will with regard to personal property is
void.
Thirty OF the new cadets ait West
Point were overcome by the heat at the
funeral OF General Butterfeld.
A general strike OF the United Gar
,ment Workers in New York has been
ordered, involving $4,000 men.
Henry Burgess, steep'eeNase Jockey,
was killed in New York while schooling
a horse over the jumps.
Some intendiary has been setting fire
to property in Richmond Va, belong
ing to Joseph Heppert.
Charles z. Parsons was acquitted in
Richmond of the charge OF trying to
beat a Norfolk hotel.
The Salmon combine was incorporat-
ed in Trenton, N. J., with a capital OF
SIS, Geo.
Jacob Stair, dry goods merchant Of
York, Pa. committed suicide.
The executive committee of the Unit
ed Mine Workers Association has Or
dered back to work all firemen who are
members Of the association and who quit
because Of the strike OF the Information
al Association of Stationary Firemen.
Many Ct the men have deserted the
United Mine Workers.
A trust was formed by the flint glass
bottle-ihakers. the. RESULT OF which has
been an advance in prices. The COM
bine Is capitalized at $3o,ooo,ooo with
headquarters in Wheeling, w. Va.
Mrs. Calvin Baker, OF York Haven,
Pa. left an oil can on the stove. and, her
two daughters were burned to death as
a result OF the explosion that followed.
Edward Schroeder, draughtsman in
Brooklyn, was severely injured while
opening a box containing an explosive
machine
The Holland submarine boat Plunger
was launched at the VIM. R. Trigg &
Co.'S shipyard in Richmond.
The Virginia Prohibitionsts held their
convention at Smithdale and nominated
a State ticket.
Judge Thomas, of the United States
District Court, dismissed the. suit
brought BY John D. Ctlmniins. holder
Of preferred stock Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, to restrain the
directors and voting stockholders of the
road from paying a 4 per cent. dividend
on the common stock of the company i'm
I'll a dividend of i per cent. on the pre-
ferred stock has first been paid. The
dismissal was the result of an agreement
between attorneys for the plaintiff and
the defendant
J. Pierpont Morgan announced in New
York the names of those who would be
directors of the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company.
General Daniel Butterheld, the dis
tinguished veteran of the Civil War, died
at his hors, in Cold Springs N. Y.
Lewis Price and Jacob Houck were
burned to death by an electric current
from wire in Winchester.
Luther R. D. Spultz, of Baltimore, and
Miss Helen Carroll, of York, Pa, were
married at York,
August NJ. Chenidin. aged Is, was
killed at St. Paul by the wheels of fire
engine.
: Dr.. Samuel Galley. homeopathic ply
sician, died at Mount Holly, N. J., aged
60.
The wife of Ex-Governor Henry A.
Wise. of Virginia. died at Ashland, Va;
James NJ. Galligar, an old baseball
player, killed himself in New York,
John NJ. Ford, a well-known hotel
proprietor, died at Dover. Del, aged u.