Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-01
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

dissolved the marriage OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Gerhard and awarded Mrs. Geb-
hard $1,000 for counsel fees and court
expenses. Mrs. Gerhard and her moth
er arrived in Sioux Falls just in time
for the wife to file cross bill charging
desertion, and the court held that Geb-
hard wilfully deserted his wife in 1899.
Arrangements were completed III
Philadelphia for the transfer OF 23S,o24
acres OF land in West Virginia, owned
by the Flat Top Land Association, to
syndicate representing the Pocahon;as
Coal and Coke Company for $40, ooo, 900.
The falling OF nest Of wasps in
Methodist church near Greenbackville,
in Accomac county, Virginia, broke up
a revival service, and many Of those in
the congregation were stung by the in
sects.
Five men were killed and nine in
jured by an explosion OF gas in the But
tonwood Mine Of the Parrish Coal Co.,
near Wilkes Barre, Pa.
The white girl students OF the North
western University, at Evanston, ILL.,,
have drawn the color line against col
ored girl from Texas.
Horace Morrison Hale, former presi-
dent of the University OF Colorado, and
father OF Gen. Irving Hale, died at his
home in Denver.
The Manufacturers Association at
Fall River refused to advance wages 10
per cent, and it is likely tn, operatives
will strike.
Four men were injured by an explo..
sion in the dust catcher CT furnace OF
the Carnegie Company at Rankin, Pa.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
100000 for a public library at San
Juan, P R., under the usual conditions.
In Chicago, David Bernstine, 10 years
old, stabbed Harry Himmelfarb to the
heart with basting needle.
Mrs. David GreSsley, wife OF a. letter
carrier, in York, Pa, shot herself, with
fatal effect.
The Supreme Court OF Illinois affirm
ed the decision of the lower court in the
Chicago teachers lax case, in which
they insisted that the capital stock OF
corporations should be assessed. This
ruling will add over 100000, ooo to the
taxable property in Chicago.
The coronef's jury at New Haven has
found that Edward F. Corrigan came
to his death by the careless act OF Hen
nv Macdonald Sedley and that there
had been no quarrel between them.
Both young men were students at Yale
The National Union Veterans Union
at the sixteenth annual encampment, at
Chicago, elected Gen. Robert S. Dy-
reniorth, OF Washington, commander
in-chicf
The Anti-Imperialist League has is
sued statement expressing a hope that
President Roosevelt will consider
colonial policy impossible for this gov
eminent.
A monument was dedicated in the
National Cemetery in Knoxville that
Rad been erected in memory Of $4,000
Tennesseans who enlisted in the Union
Army.
In a railroad wreck on the Chicago,
Burlington and Kansas City road, near
Exline. Iowa, two persons were fatally
injured and number OF others hurt
The Altoona Car Company was oblig
cd to shut down, owing to inability to
secure coal, railroad traffic being SO
large that there is a famine in cars.
By a cave-in near Shenandoh, Pa.
locomotive and several cars plunged
into the chasm. and James O'Conno:,
the fireman, went down with the wreck.
Sidney Rosenbaum Of the firm OF
Block & Rosenbaum, Richmond, Va.
was killed by falling from a railroad
train near Fredericksburg, Va.
Lunda Lilly. an officer was fatally
wounded and several other persons in
iured in fight to release prisoners at
Flat Top, W. Va.
The Pennsylvania Telephone Com
pany has declared quarterly dividend
of TX per cent.