Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-08-16
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.

The executive board OF the Unitet
MinewOrkers, in session in lndlanapO-
lis, adopted a resolution recognizing the
steel strike and pledging support to the
Amalgamated Association.
Mrs. Charles Gallagher, OF New
York, was frightened by high win
on the York river, and became para
lyzed and died
Josiah Johnson Halves, Of Boston
said to be the oldest photographer in
the world, died in New Hampshire
aged % years,
Peter Short. Of Sussex county, Dtl.
was seriously scalded while threshing
wheat near Laurel, Del.
1t is believed in Philadelphia that
fatal defects have been found in The
Ripper" bill for that city.
James H. Jones, OF Caroline county
Va, was dangerously stabbed by camp
bell Madison
Mrs. Harriet Vinson, mother Of
Colonel Capron, died in Clarke county,
Va. aged 81 years.
Miss Fife Richey, aged 80 years, a
bookkeeper, killed herself at Fort
Wayne, Ind.
Frank Howell tried to kill his parents
near Linden, N. J.
General Rufus Nicely died at Bolivar,
Tenn, aged 90 years.
Andrew Hamilton was drowned at
Grand View. Va.
The steamer Norfolk, in the Roads,
was burned to the waters edge, involv-
ing a loss of $4,000. She was the
handsomcst steamer used as transfer
boat between Sewells Point and Old
Point Comfort.
A report received at Washington
from Admiral Kempff tells Of the bit:
ing off OF leg Of quartermaster OF
the Annapolis by shark while BATH
ing at Iloilo.
In New York John Seager has sued
c. c. Worthington, a millionaire pump
manufacturer, for 100000 for alleged
alienation of the affections of his wife.
The bituminous coal combine has
bought a controlling interest in the
business of the Northwest by securing
two important mines in Minnesota.
Macmillan Monasse, nephew OF a
former wealthy banker Of Berlin, COM
mitted suicide in Philadelphia because
he had been dsinherited.
The United States Steel Corporation
secured control Of the Shelby Tube
Works, corporation having IS mills
in different parts 81 the country.
The National Dental Association, in
session at Milwaukee, determined to
wage war against the so-called bogus
diploma mills
Two followers of Dowie were pelted
with decayed eggs in Chicago.
Ex-Governor Newell of New Jersey,
is dead. aged 81 years.
Attorneys for Ellis Glenn, who re-
Gently achieved notoriety in her sensa-
tional trial, in which attorneys and wit
nesses battled for weeks to establish,
her identity and to prove her sex filed
their declaration in the United States
Court at Parkersburg, w. va, IN a
$4,000 damage suit against VIM Rich-
ardson. The petition alleges that the
plaintiff was Kidnapped in Illinois. and
illegally and against her will brought to
West Virginia. -,
The storm and food situation in Wiz
gnia is relieved and indications are that
danger and damage are past. Evidences
OF the downpour are plenti' J. but the
water has all passed away. The wind
has changed and normal conditions are
expected to continue.
Lieutenant Commander James I.
Cresap, u. S. N. Of the inspection
board at the Norfolk Navy Yard, died
at the naval hospital at Norfolk.
The San Francisco police are ascer-
tanning the movements OF a paroled1
convict, believing that he was concerned
in the great gold bar robbery.
The marble statue of Charles Broad
way Rouss. the New York merchant,
was unveiled in Winchester, Va.
Non-union longshoremen were at
tackled and stoned on going to work at
Ogdensburg, n. Y.