Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-29
SUMMARY OF TIE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

liam K. lrlgg SnlpDulldlllg Company,
of Richmond. Va, with the Standard
Oil Company for the construction of a
tank steamer TO carry 1900, 700 gallons
of oil and to cost $4,000.
The United States Court to Spring
field, ILL.,, refused an injunction restrain
ing the Chicago State Board of Equaliz-
alton from assessing the stock of the
traction companies.
Caballos, the insurgent leader in the
Philippines, has 500 fully armed men in
his command, and it is reported contem-
plates an attack upon Mauban, Laguna
Province.
Isaiah Bollin, principal of the colored
school in Lexington, Va, resigned his
position because of recent attempts to
assassinate him and left for parts TN
known.
BY the dropping of an elevator cage
in the retail dry goods house of Town.
send & Wyatt St Joseph, Mo-, two per-
sons were fatally hurt.
Smallpox is raging in the southern
islands of the Philippines, The United
States Commission is preparing an act
to compel vaccination.
The grand jury in Jeffersonville, Ind,
indicted Newell c. Rathbone, the con-
fessed insurance swindler, for murder
in the first degree.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will spend $4,000 900 next year for roll
ing stock-$Iooooooo for cars and So
100000 for locomotives.
Fire Commissioner John ]. Scannell,
of New York, and William Marks, a
broker, were accused of conspiracy.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
advanced the wages of all its shopmen
in Louisville 10 per cent.
Charles Larken, aged 81 years died
in a Boston hospital from the effects OF
biting off his tongue.
Geeza Granzer, who shot Mrs. Susan
ma Miller in Philadelphia, committed
suicide.
Lawyer John L. Semple, of Camden
N. J., on trial in Philadelphia for being
concerned in counterfeiting, testified in
his own behalf, denying the charges and
producing judges and lawyers to testify
to his good character.
Santiago lgleSias, agent in Porto Rlcc
of the American Federation OF Labor
who was arrested on charge Of conspir-
acy, has been released on $500 bail, fur
nished by President Gompers.
John B. Berthof, Western Union
manager at Jersey City, and Isaac Ker-
shaw an operator, were arrested on the
charge of carrying on green-good!
game. -
Elmer Frey, of York, Pa, identified
John Kottcamp and Harry Ream, who
he says, robbed him and put him, bounc
and gagged, on an electric car track.
Walter Strattan, alias Ben Starne
pleaded guilty of holding up Missouri
Kansas and Texas train and robbing the
United States mail at Caney, |. /.
The American Tobacco Company ABB
sorbed the firm of D. H. McAlpln &
Co., of New York, paying $2,5oo,ooo toi
the property.
Mrs Elizabeth Dale, of Chicago, wa:
arraigned in Hoboken on the charge O.
numbering her fve-year-old daughter
Emeine. :,
c. D. Upchurch and Leslie Lynch
two farmers, had a pistol duel at Flynn
Creek, Tenn, Lynch receiving a tata
wound
Joseph w. Jones died on his farm
near Winchester, Va, where he hat
lived ever since he was born, 81 years
ago.
A great deal of mail matter was burn
ed in the disastrous wreck on the SAINT;
Fe near the Needles, in California.
An unknown man threw himself head
long into one of the furnaces at Schoen
berger's mills, in Pittsburg.
L. Z. Cook, a railway mail clerk, wa:
arrested in Pittsburg on the charge o.
cmbezzlement.
Robert Coburn, of Chicago, sho
Charles and John Miller, whom he
found near his hen roost.
Robbers got into the postofhce at Dun
cansvile, Pa, and got $1,000 in stamps
and cash.
Capt. John Lawson, pioneer loco
motive builder, died at his home, in st
Louis.
J. Z. Davidson committed suicide If
Union City, Tenn.