Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-04-05
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic,

York, who had horsewhippcd Samuel
Walters because the latter had malgneo
him.
Col. John S. Mosby says the South
will become ri cher and more powerful
than the North, and that the negroes
status is bound to improve.
Fire broke out in the fine Com
monwcalth clubhouse, in Richmond.
Va, and the handsome furnishings were
delrged with water.
Prince Krapotkin, the Russian exile,
delivered lecture in New York on
"Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal.
Frederick Young, of Atlantic City,
shot at his wife in Philadelphia, and
then shot and wounded his sisterin-law.
Benjamin F. Fiery. treasurer of the
Martinsburg (W.. va Gas Company,
died at his home in that city
Mrs. Mary Welch. of Canastota, N.
Y. saturated her clothes with kerosene
and set herself on fire.
The Victoria Furnace, at Goshen, Va
was closed down, throwing 100 men out
of employment.
Charles Hastings, dangerous coun-
terfeiter, was caught near WEIGH, w.
Va, after a long chase.
President Warfeld, OF the Fidelity
and Deposit Company. OF Maryland, ar
rived in New York on the Lucania,
having been successful in establishing a
London branch. m
Joseph S. Harris, it is reported, will
retire from the presidency OF the Read
ing Railroad Company, and George +.
Baer, a director. will succeed him.
Wa.chman Frank Kelly shot and
killed Cornelius Doherty, whom he
caught with others trying to get into
the Newberry Building in Chicago.
Oscar ]. Reed, ex-Councilman from
Shamokin, Pa. fugitive from justice,
surrendered and began serving his term
of four months.
The people OF Richmond have de-
termined to rebuild the Hotel Jeffer
son, which was destroyed by fire.
H. Goldschlager was arrested in
Scranton, Pa. on tie charge Of setting
fire to a stock OF clothing.
William Writ Lyons a great-grand
child OF Patrick Henry, died at Lehigh
University.
The banking firm Of w. J. Brewster
& Co., OF Hannibal, n. Y, failed.
Roland Reed, the actor. died at the
home of his mother-inlaw in New
York
J. F. Rawles committed suicide in
Newport News, Va.
Three lives were lost in fire in
New York tenement.
The general committee OF the arthra-
CT e miners has decided against a strike,
and in an address to the miners recon-
mends that as partial recognition OF
the organization has been secured, and
with the hope that a greater degree OF
Justice will be obtained in the. not
distant future" work be continued.
David L. Short and Morris Myers
were arrested in New York on the
charge OF being concerned in the al
legged forgery of Millionaire Rice's name
TO the Patrick will
Samuel B. Wood, clerk of the Circuit
Court, in Hampton. Va, was discovered
to be $500 short in his accounts, which,
he says. is due to an error on his part.
Mrs. Mary Callahan, OF Martinsburg,
w. Va, was the fourth member OF her
amily to be carried off by consumption
within five years.
There was a panic on the ferryboat
OF the Central Railroad OF
New Jersey, which collided with steam
lighter.
Maurice Barrymore, the well-known
.cior, was sent to the Bellevue Hospital
insane Pavilion. in New York.
A fire destroyed the Augusta, the
principal hotel in Hampton, Va. and
everal stores in the neighborhood.
Foreign.
The French Government has be-
flowed upon Captain William F. Hor
on. u. S. A., colonial decoration for
hiding the remains of Baron Dumarais, !
French nobleman murdered by Fill |
,inos.
Herbert Gladstone, in an address to
lis constituents, sharply arraigns the |
British Government for the war in |
south Africa and the absence of a
learly defined policy in the East.
Queen Alexandra OF Great Britain
1ade speech in Copenhagen, in reply
0 an address presented by 500 Danish
ssociations.
The steamer Kron Prinz Wilhelm, OF
he North German Lloyd Line, was
lunched at the Vulcan Works, at
tettin.
Chancellor Won Buelow proposes
lethod to check the continued growt tn
Polish influences in Germany.
The diary OF Major Andre was found
v Lord Grey in London among lot
old family papers.
A despatch from St. Petersburg at
butes the delay in the signing Of the
usso- Chinese Manchurian treaty to
lie dilatoriness OF the Chinese Govern
lent
Forty Russian students were kept in
,litary confinement for week for par
cipating in a demonstration. Three
udents have committed suicide.
The Turkish Sultan, fearful OF assas-
nation, ordered the exclusion Of all
,urists from the Yildiz Palace.
John G.. A. Leishman, the new
-nited States Minister at Turkey,
resented his credentials to the Sultan.
The law OF associations bill finally
assed the French Chamber Of Deputies
y a vote OF 300 to 22o.
The Japanese troops in the Pc Chi Ii
rovince are to be relieved by force
} per cent. stronger.
Mr.. Chamberlain stated in the House
Commons that to offer better terms
, the Beers would not be magnanim-
v. but folly. The Cape rebels, as a
lie. had been worse than the Beers.
The French attacked the camp OF Fodi
abbas the old slave trader, at Man
ma. in Cambria. West Africa.
Count Boni de Castellane withdrew