Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-08-02
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS,
Domestic

ny iHdCH<ne shop OF the American
MACHINE ahd Foundry Company, located
at danrJver, Pa, was destroyed BY fire.
ne .'ss Is, estimated at ffani $4,000 to
az 1000. This plant was owned by the
.merfcah Tobacco Company and was
used III ths manufacture of its machn-
cry. Two hundred men are thrown out
Of employment.
Eleven men wefe injured, perhaps ia
tally, in gas explosion in the new wa
ter WEEKS tunnel, now in course of con-
stnttion in Cincinnati. The accident oc-
Cured I4o feet under ground
President Mckinley Sent a message Of
congratIlatioii to the Baptist Young
Peoples Convention, in session in Chi
cago.
In the Alabama Constitutional Con
vention Delegate Spears argued against
disfranchisement of negro voters.
Negro preachers in Birmingham, Ala
advise members of their race not TO go
North to take strikers places.
Over two inches of rain fell in Kansas
and Western Missouri thus bringing re-
lief from the drouth. :.
Lightning struck and set fire to the
barn of Nm. I. Stewart, near Martins
burg, ". va, aid killed Thomas Chap
lnan, who had taken refuge there.
The Reading shopmen refused to &C
cept 5 per cent. increase offered by
the Reading in Philadelphia, and insist
ed on IL per cent increase.
Henry H. .Armistead, OF New York,
tried to kill himself while travelling on
an Oregon Short Line express train at
Butte, Mont
A congressional party, including
some ladies. took the dangerous ride
and shot the White Horse Rapids, in
Alaska
The Federal grand Jury fiji New York
began the. Investigation OF the charges
against officers OF the Seventh National
Bank.
George Young, a. barber, Of lion N.
Y, was shot and killed by Henry
Brown in a quarrel over a debt of $I6.
The Pittsburg Wire and Steel Com
pany. with a capital Of S., 900, 600, is I'd
be incorporated in Pennsylvania.
The Allis-Chamers plant at Scran,,
ton, Pa. started up again, the strike Of
the machinists having failed.
Joseph Bennett was brutally beaten
to death in Scranton, Pa, by Walter
Cosparwicz; a powerful Pole.
President Shaffer, of the Amalgamat-
( ed Association, visited Wellsville in DIS.
guise as a tramp to learn the condition OF
/ the plant that the company is trying to
work with non-union men. He does not
think any injunction will be granted UNI
| less the men resort to violence:
A shell fired from one of the battle
ships lying off Newport struck the City
Hall Of the town. making hole IN a
granite block and bursting after striking
a tree. No one was injured. although &
number of people were hear the flying
missile.
Mr. Doty, health officer of the port of
New York. diagnosed the case of the
stoker of the Hohenfels, from Calcutta,
as a mild case of bubohc plague,
Henry w. Taylor secured in Newport
News, Va, divorce from his wife. who
had returned to her old home in Balti-
more, refusing to live in Newport News
Mrs William H. Hoover, while asleep,
walked through an open window of her
home in Winchester. Va, and sustained
injuries that will result in death. .,
John McFadden, who plannel !a'l
delivery in Camden. n J., to eScap:
ser, d,e in default of $1,000. r'nit 'i"w
serve I,oco days for so doing
The grand jury in Newport News.
Va. indicted Russell Van hrSdale for
the murder of his great uncle, Robert
Kelly.
Se> eral encounters occurred between
striking ice wagon drivers and men who
sought to take their places in Columbus,
Ohio.
Professor Edgar W. Abbott. Of Butler
University VA drowned while bathing
in Broad Ripple Creek, near Indian
apols.