Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-05-03
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.

delphia traction magnate, was fatally In
jured by the overturning OF coach or
which he and other wealthy young men
were riding.
The scalng schooner Enterprise ar
rived at Victoria, B. G., with the flag a
half-mast. two of her hunters having
been drowned while third died on tht
voyage.
Rev. Frank H. Gunsaulus delivered
the Grafton at the Grant anniversary
celebration in Galena, ILL.,, ard severely
denounced the disfranchisement OF the
negro.
The members of Harvard Alumni who
object to the university granting dc
gree OF LID. to President Mckinley
mailed 7oco copies of the protest to
graduates.
Miss Bessie Smith, daughter OF Eman
uel Smith, who lives near Gettysburg,
Pa. committed suicide by drowning her
self in Rock Creek.
Minister Conger said in San Francisco
that lie had been assured his course in
China had been entirely satisfactory to
the President.
John Broderick, a Baltimore crook.
was sentenced in Hanover, Pa, to the
penitentiary for receiving stolen goods
Rev. Robert Julien, a well known
Presbyterian minister, died at lis home
in Bordentown, n J. =,
w. A. Thompson, colored, was hned
SIoo for selling liquor at Downing, va,
without license.
FL. Conger, United States Minister
to China, accompanied by his wife.
daughter and Miss Pierce, arrived at
San Francisco from China. He de-
clned to discuss his reported candidacy
for governor OF Iowa.
AT the trial OF James Callahan TOR
kidnapping Edward Cudahy, Jr., in
Omaha, young Cudahy identified Gala
han as one OF his abductors. ,
F. G.. Kell, student at the Medical
College OF Virginia, was arrested IN
Richmond for assault on II. b. San
ford, feHow-student.
The contract for building the new
East River bridge will be awarded to
the Pennsylvania Steel Company, the
lowest bidder.
William Peters. colored, was arrested
in Basic City, Va. on the charge OF
killing Lottie Fields, his sweetheart,
Assistant Postmaster Charles IL,
Drexel, at Tarpon Springs, Fla, was
arrested for a shortage in his accounts.
Only one OF party OF six gold-seek<-
ers in the Klondike survived the perils
TO which the party was subjected.
Eb H. Wittar was shot and killed at
Grundy, w. Va, by Thomas Beaves,
son of Judge Alexander Beaves.
Mark Thomas Hayes was hanged in
Uniontown, Pa, for the murder OF VIII
liam Lowdon.
]. Frank Condor, official court re-
porter, committed suicide at his home
in Altoona, Pa.
Mrs. Maria G. Saxton, aunt OF Mrs.
Mckinley, died at her home in Canton
Joseph H. Shepherd, for many years
clerk in the Office of the Auditor OF
Public Accounts in Virginia was arrest
ed in Richmond on a warrant sworn out
by the Auditor, charging him with the
misappropriation of public funds. -.
Encouraging reports come from In
cinnati and the flooded district. lhe
rivers are beginning to recede at many
places. and at Cincinnati the highest
stage has almost been reached.
Miss Isabel Goodrich Stillman. daugll-
ter of Mr.. James Stillman, millionaire:
and Mr.. Percy A. Rockefeller, son OF
Mr.. William Rockefeller, were married
in New York.
One hundred negroes left Greensboro,
NJ. c., for the coal mines of West VIZ
ginia.
John Costello, an old-time circus
clown. died suddenly in New York.
A representative of the American
Missionary Association made an inves-
tigation which developed that the death
rate among the negroes in the South is
greater than among the whites.