Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-03-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Domestic.

Domestic.
By an explosion in nesof the build
ings at the City Gas Works. in Rich
mond, Va. Mortimer Hogan was killed,
one end of the building was blown out
and six men were injured, but none Sc
riously.
Three more women wereeattacked and
nearly killed in Denver by some, n1ys-
terious person, who has been waylaying
lone women on the streets OF that city.
Three professors of political economy
published a report strongly criticizing
the dismissal of Professor Ross from
Stanford University.
The North American Trust Company
has absorbed a number Of other trust
companies and will CONDUCT business on
an extensive scale.
Rev. Henry Blatchford, for 6o years. a
missionary among the Chippewa Indians,
died at Odanah, at the age Of 90 years.
Carroll E. Foreman, nephew OF ex-
Governor Foreman, died in Parkersburg,
w. Va, of typhoid fever.
Lottie Kane was sentenced in Harrl-
sonville, w. Va, to five years in the
penitentiary for infanticide.
The Universal Steel Company was in
corporated in Jersey City with capital
of $3oo, 900.
Five inches of snow fell in Atlanta and
other parts of Georgia and Texas.
Salvatore Giovanni was found shot
through the heart in Chicago, with Carlo
Battesta, supposed to be his best friend,
standing over him. 1t is supposed to be
a Malta murder.
A letter was received by Edward
Cudahy, Sr., which is believed to have
been written by Pat Grove offering to
surrender if offered protection from
lynching.
The Delaware House of Representa-
tives appointed committee to investi-
gate alleged charges of corruption in
connection with the senatorial election.
The jury was unable to- agree in the
case of DR.. Samuel ]. Kennedy, who was
tried in New York on the charge of muir
dering Dolly Reynolds.
1t was reported in Charleston, S: G.,
that the Fertilizer Trust had bought out
the Charleston Mining and Manufacture
ing Company.
The Northern and Southern Presby-
terians of Missouri agreed to joint con-
troll over several Presbyterian colleges
in that State.
Mrs Charles W. Fairbanks, of lndi-
ana, was elected president of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution.
The University of Pennsylvania cele-
brated Washington's Birthday, Bishop
Potter delivering the Grafton.
Isaac Shaffer died suddenly on the
street in Hanover, Pa, from heart dis
ease.
John Valentine Peterman died at his
home, in Martinsburg, w. Va.
Thirty Touring mills located in Mary
land and Pennsylvania have formed a
combination as the Eastern Milling and
Export Company.
Thomas Vital, colored, accused of as
saulting a thirteen-year old white girl,
was lynched by mob in Lake Charles,
La
Arthur Fuller, II years Of age, was
convicted in Chatham of attempting a
felonious assault on Miss Matte V.
Cook.
Former United States Senator Stephen
NJ. White, of California, died at his
home in Los Angeles.
Fire in the business section of Atlanta
destroy ed property valued at nearly halt
a million dollars.
The jury in the case of Frank Hamil-
ton, charged with killing Leonard r
Day in Minneapolis, Mimi, brought
in a verdict OF manslaughter, with
recommendation for mercy.
John P. Squire & Co., with a capital
stock OF s., 500, 900. was incorporated in
Trenton to do pork-packing bushes:
in Boston and other Eastern points, abb
sorbing about a dozen concerns.
The Italian steamer Jupiter was lost
at sea- The captain and engineer are
supposed to have persisted. The rest o.
the crew were rescued and landed al
Bermuda.