Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-05-10
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.

AT Rhodesia, La, FELTON, brlginer,
colored, was lynched for assaulting a lit
tie negro girl, and at Brenton, La, Grant
Johnson. who ran a disreputable negro
gambling place, suffered the same fate.
After contest among representatives
of the various colleges in Virginia, Mr..
E. B. Settler, of the University Of Vir-
ginia, was selected 10 represent Virginia
in the interstate contest
A verdict for $1,000 was given to Miss
Ella Lemon against the Wheeling Trac-
ton Company, in Wheeling, w. Va,
for injuries received during the strike.
Minister Congcr again announces that,
while not a candidate for Governor Of
Iowa, he will accept the Republican
nomination if offered him.
w. J. Footner, vice-president and gen
era manager of the Great Northern Ex-
press Company, died suddenly of apo
plexy in ST. Paul.
The State Department received the an
swcr Of the British Go eminent justify
ing the seizure of the wrecking vessel
Ajax in Union Bay.
Rev. c. ]. Fowler, of Massachusetts,
was chosen permanent president of the
National Holiness Assembly, in session
in Chicago.
John W. Sans, Union veteran, who
killed General A. P. Hill in battle, died
at his home in Everett, Pa.
Judge Lcathers in Indianapolis, Ind.
enjoined the Supreme Council, Order OF
Chosen Friends, from doing business.
B. NJ. Dawes and his family had diff
Guilty in escaping from their burning
home at Bartonsville, Va.
DR.. Harold Snowden, editor OF the
Alexandra (Va.) Gazette, died at his
home in that city.
The naval board made favorable re-
port on the torpedo=boat Shubrlck
Notices have been sent out of an in
crease in the price of window glass.
Governor Odell, of New York, signed
the Anti-scalping Bill,
John Doweiler, of York, Pa, who has
wasted six fortunes, was just informed
that he was legatee to $1,000, bequeath-
ed 10 him by his father, in Coblenz, Ger
many, .,
Twenty thousand or more miners will
march from the Schuylkill and other
mining sections to Harrisonburg to urge
the State Senate to pass the Mining Bills:
President John j. Herner, president OF
the Arkansas Midland Railroad, ad-
mitted that the road would pass under
the control of the Gould system.
The Illinois Association Opposed to the
Extension of Suffrage to Women adopt
ed an interesting report on the subject.
New York customs officials returned
to Prince Henri Of Croy some OF his
jcwelry they had held up. He gave sat
isfactory explanations, and denies that
he has been subjected to any lndigni-
ties.
All the saloonkeepers OF Logan coun-
ty, w. Va, seven in number, are IN JAIL
serving out fines. One man has o8 IN
dictments against him, and his hne
amounts to $4,000.
Mrs. Jules Reynal died OF cancer.
Her death was expected, and before she
died her son, N. c. Reynal, was mar
ried to Mrs. Sara Caldwell Rutter at her
bedside.
There were strikes at the Lackawanna
and Lehigh shops in Buffalo, N. Y,
and at the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western shops in Dover, N. ].
Evidence accumulates that William,
Rosenfeld, OF ST. Paul, Mimi, drowned
himself and his four little children IN
the Mississippi river. :,
The New Century Club, of St. Paul
Mimi, has passed resolution against
the color line in the Minnesota Fedora
ton OF Women's Clubs.
Lightning struck an apartment house
in Chicago and shocked dozen people
Two were severely injured by falling
glass.