Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-08-09
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Ccmestic.

is much suffering at Reno among those
who failed rs draw claims.
Al Newport News the new Morgan
Line steamship FL Siglo was Successful
ly launched Miss Susan S. Usher sis
ter of Lieutenant Commander Usher,
L. S. N, christencd the vessel.
An amicable settlement was made in
Atlantic City. by the representatives OF
the Green Glass Bottle Manufacturers
and conlmitee oi the Blowers Union.
Judge Halsey. in Wikesbarrc, Pa.
made final the preliminary Injunction
restraining the striking machinis:s from
interfering with the non-unionists.
William Mallory and Zig Jones,
farmers OF Tazewell county, Va. quar-
relied after leaving dislilery. and in a
fight Mallory was shot to death.
Miss Albertine Struggled, a school
teacher OF Philadelphia, attempted to
commit suicide by leaping into the
dock.
Private Louis Haggerty. Tenth Ar,
tillery. killed lis wife and then himself
at Sullivans Island. S. {.
General Marderson, who was to have
been Schley's counsel, found that he
was not able to serve.
A company has been formed to erect
a new hotel at Berkeley Springs, w.
Va.
Dairy Golden. aged u, OF Bridge
port. w. Va. was killed by train.
Half million dollars in gold arrived
at Seattle from the Klondike.
Rain has fallen in some Of the dry
sections in Iowa and Nebraska.
VIM II. Pratt. Of West Chester, Pa,
is accused OF killing his wife as the re-
suit Of quarrel over his sale OF two
cows to raise money to buy diamonds
for a widow.
The Municipal League in San Fran
cisco is intervening in the dock strike
there with good prospects OF bringing
about peace
r. l.. Leverton. private in Company
D. Twenty seventh Regiment. at Fort
Mcpherson, Ga, has been charged with
arson. :;
All the coke concerns OF the United
States Steel Company were consoli-
dated, the Fl. {. Friek Company be-
coming paramount.
James Ferguson, son OF Charles Fer
guson. Of Baltimore. was instantly Killed
at Atlantic City by charged telephone
wire.
Twelve hundred industrial insurance
agents in Philadelphia formed union
ior mutual protection.
David Maclay, the oldest man in Fon-
tain county, Pa, is dead He was born
in 1868
A company has been formed at York
to make waterproof and acidproof COT
fins.
George Slade has been made general
manager OF the Erie Railroad system.
John Shanabrook was killed at Han
over, Pa, by falling from a girdef.. :,
No national banks will be established
at present in Porto Rico.
E. S. Dean was fatally shot at Col
burn. Va. by Sam Mullins.
While playing at hanging in Arkansas
boy hanged himself. He IS hncon-
scious. The Governor vi the State may
recommend the repeal Of the public exc
cution law.
The drouth in the southern parts OF
Virginia was broken by heavy rains.
Philip Woods, colored, was killed by
lightning near Richmond.
Mrs Felix Matthias and two OF her
children, living near Towards LICK
Mountain. ate toadstools by mistake tor
mushrooms, and died
The secretary of the international
Longshoreman's Union ordered strike
to affect the boats OF the Anchor Line
at all ports.
More than twenty Princeton students
who failed to pass examinations IN June
have been dropped to lower classes.
Tertlrn.
Governor Tuan, of the Shantung
Province in China, issued proclama-
ton urging the magistrates not to all
low the missionaries to exert any int1u-
ence in the decision OF cases.
The National Miners Federation OF
France proposes general strike in that
country unless its demands are COM
piled with.
Owing to the illness OF his mother
Emperor William has changed his
plans and will not attend certain fes-
tivities.
Arctic fishermen brought to VardOe,
Norway, eight survivors OF the explor-
ing ships Stroemmare and Famalien.
The British transport Manila landed
600 Boer prisoners on fuckers Island,
one OF the Bermuda Islands.
Ccmmandant Hermanus Steyn, a
cousin Of President Steyn, was killed
while fighting at Ficksburg.
The yield OF wheat and oats in Eng
and is somewhat below the average.
The governor OF Shantung. China, is
making smokeless powder and arms,
NJ. Cambon, the French ambassador
to the United States, in an interview in
Paris. eulogized President Mckinley
and praised American institutions.
Senior Pulido, Venezuelan minister Of
war; has resigned. An official report
says the revolutionists were again de-
eated by the government forces.
The War Office was compelled to call
off its boycott on the London Daily |
Mail, which it tried to cut off from news |
IF the South African War.
Lord Stanley reported in the House
IF Commons that the cost OF the war in
South Africa from April to August
vas t35.75o,ooO.
Dr. Suering Berson, a German, has
cached a height Of $500 feet in bal
DON, The temperature was 30 degrees
below zero.
Martial law has been proclaimed on
he Bermuda islands, where Boer pris
,ners Of war are confined.
Lord Kitchener reported that the
3oers were shooting British yeomen az
er their surrender. f.
A Boer commando, with two guns, has
inferred Portuguese territory, encamp-
ng at Guanetz.
Tioaurjal