Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-05-17
SUMMARY OF 1HE NEWS,
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Reported that the lSeitericn Syndicate
and the American Window Glass Com
pany have formed pool to absorb all
the natural gas companies in Indiana.
Owing to the rush of people to Jack
sonville to secure free rations without
work, and fearing trouble from them,
il has been decided to.continue the city
under marshal law Indefinitely.
The Peary Arctic Club has chartered
the steamer Erik to sad in July Tor the
North, to learn what. has occurred dur
ing the two years since the explorer has
been heard from.
The Jury in the case of Charles II.
Eastman, the Harvard Instructor, who
was accused of numbering his brother
in-law, brought in verdict OF acqui t |.
Plans are being arranged for the cele-
bra;ion in Richmond OF the three hun
dredth anniversary OF the English set
Element of jamestown. Va
The mammoth new drydock OF the
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
was put in use for the first time, tnrce
steamers being put in it.
Four new steamers for the Atlantic
Transport Line were started at the New
York Shipbuilding Companys yards a
Gloucester, N. J.
The American Federation Of Musl-
clans decided that local unions have no
right to bar women from membership.
Immigration Officer Miller captured
IS contraband Cinnamon who had cross
ed the border at Powell Town. Me.
lightning set fire to the Second Bap-
fist Church in Delaware, o., and several
persons were made unconscious.
Mail Carrier Walter Willis was ar
rested in North Carolina for robblng the
mails.
Can't. Henry Matthews and his SIS
ter-in-law were arraigncd IN the Isle
OF Wight county court on the charge OF
poisoning his wife.
Arutro Bernasco, who tried to assassl-
nate Chief of Police Brown, OF Barre,
VT, was sentenced to prison Tor FL
years.
Miss Molle Wark, who for so years
taught in the public schools OF Cham
bersburg, Pa, died there, aged 81
years.
The Association of Surgeons OF the
Southern Railway met in Mobile, Ala,
ard elected officers.
Henry Johnson, colored, was lynched
in Valdosta, Ga, for shooting at a
white man.
Mrs. Cora Lucas smashed speak
easy effectively with an axe at Glendale,
w. Va.
R. Westbrook Meyes, a real estate
broker in New York, committed sui
eide
Peter Shaeffer, So years old, COM
mit,ed suicide near Dillsburg, Pa.
The rumor was confirmed by Vice
President Gross, OF the Brooks Loco
motive works, in Dunkirk, N Y, that
a locomotive trust has been formed
that takes in all the plants except Bald
win, OF Philadelphia, and the Potter
Company, OF Pi,tsburg.
Five thousand dollars damages was
awarded in Norfolk, Va, to Roco Cor
lett. whose hand was crushed by one OF
the cars OF the Norfolk Company.
The annual session OF the lnterr at on
al Textile Workers Union, in session
at Holyoke, Mass, adjourned to meet
next year in Washington.
The Elizabeth City county grand jury
indicted Mrs. Jennie Wood, OF Hamp-
ton, for attempting to burn her resi-
dcnce.
Capt. Alfred P. Capron, who served
in the Civil War, died at his home in
Winnetka, suburb OF Chicago.
R. N. Pollock, the Cleveland Savings
Bank president, who committed sui
eide, carried insurance for $4,000.
President Mckinley reviewed the
floral parade at Los Angeles. Cal, and
was showered with rose leaves.
Three men were burned to death in a
fire in Ottawa, Ont, that destroyed a
ho;el and several boarding houses.
Wallace Etheridge was committed to
Jail in Norfolk, Va. on the charge OF
killing his friend, Carlyle Shipp.
Private Cumberlidge, sentinel at
Fort Sheridan, was killed by Smith
Wheeler, prisoner.
Four railway companies are fighting
in Norfolk, Va. for rights OF way.