Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-20
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic

A memorial arch was dedicated at
Camp Chase, near Columbus, erected IN
honor of $500 Confederate dead buried
there The speakers were Governor
Nash and General Gordon.
Oliver Williams, the gypsy who
eloped from Nansemond, Va, with Fan
ny Smith, was arrested in Emporia, Va
A conversation between two colored
fagmen was the cause of the wreck
on the Seaboard at Macon, n. {.
William Collins, colored, aged SC
years, was nearly cut to pieces with ar
AK by William Dixon, aged 70 years.
Joseph A. Swain, president of Indiana
State University, has accepted the pres
idency 'of Swarthmore.
BlenheiIn, the home of DIR. 3. l.. WIN
ston, in Hanover county, Virginia, wa:
destroyed by fire.
The combine plate glass works of the
country have agreed to shut down Tor q
month.
The city of New York will prosecute
corporations to force them to stop using
soft coal. ,
Counsel for Charles L. Raymond, OF
Boston, asked permission of Vlce-Chan'
cellor Emery at Newark, N. J., to file
a bill for a preliminary injunction tc
restrain the United States Steel Corpora
ton from retiring $2oo,ooo,ooo of pre-
ferred stock and issuing bonds instead.
The Imperial Glucose and Starch Com
pany, recently formed to compete witt
the Glucose Trust, or the Corn Product;
Company, will construct a 100000
plant near Chicago with daily capacity
of $4,000 bushels of corn.
John Wanamaker is reported to be
back of deal in progress in Chicago
for the purchase of the Palmer House
block for the erection of a gigantic de-
partment store.
The wholesale milliners of Chicago
upon notice of the Audubon Society
agreed to stop the importation as wei
as the sale of the plumage OF singing
birds.
Lieut. R. c. Croxton, Twenty-third
United States Infantry, attempted to XII!
himself by shooting in Richmond, Va,
where he had gone on sick leave.
Thosvald Hansen, who murdered q
boy in Montreal to get II cents, wa;
hanged, tickets of admission being sold
to see the hanging. -.
Charles w. Reynolds, pioneer citl-
zen of Newport News, Va, died there
of complication of diseases.
Ed Franks, a moonshner, living in the
mountains of Virginia, shot and killed
Samuel Engle.
John Fox, farmer, of Elbow Lane
Mimi, killed his brother, his mother
and himself. ,.
The centennial celebration of the Mill.
tary Academy at West Point closed with
the presentation of diplomas to the one
hundredth graduating class. The pro-
gram included the presentation OF dl'
plomas by President Roosevelt and re-
marks by General Miles.
Capt. R. F. Kolb, Henry B. Gray
George A. Blinn, Jr., and w. L. Dodd
prominent citizens of Alabama, were in
dicted by the grand jury of Birming-
ham on charges of embezzlement.
Former Governor General Wood, OF
Cuba. in an interview in New York, justl-
fled his course in contributing to fund
for the distribution of literature favoring
Cuban reciprocity.
Judge Robinson, in the Superior Court
of Waterbury, Ct, decided that the ex-
ecutors of the Plant will might remove
the $4,000 trust fund to New York
for distribution.
The United States transport Warren
arrived at San Francisco with a detach-
ment of soldiers, including some OF the
fighting Ninth.
Rhode Island State troops were of
dered to Pawtucket to check the riotous
demonstration growing out of the street
car mems strike.
The Steel Trust filed its answer to the
suit brought to prevent the conversion OF
the $500, 600, 900 of preferred stock into
bonds.