Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-27

Domestic.


The torpedo boat destroyer Hull wa:
launched at the yards OF the Harlan &,
Hollingsworth Company The vessel
was christened by Miss Mabel Hull, Of
Newton, Mass, a grandniece OF Ad-
milral Hull, after whom the vessel i:
named.
The anthracite coal miners have now
been on strike six weeks. The strike Of
1900. in which the men won a 10 pet
cent increase, lasted just that long. The
end of the present struggle is not If
sight.
George Williams, Danish negro, was
picked up adrift by the schooner Baker
and brought to Norfolk. He had been
for 10 days without food and drink and
was almost insane.
A mortgage for SIS .oooo 900 from the
Virginia Passenger and Power Company
to the Merchants Trust Company CT
New York, trustee, was filed in Peters
burg, Va.
Three Italians who brutally assaulted
David James, OF New Kenslngton, Pa.
and fatally wounded his son, had mar
row escape from lynching.
The Southern Railway. the Seaboard
Air Line and other railroads have beer
indicted by the United States Grand
Jury at Atlanta on charges OF violating
the Interstate Commerce Law relating
to pooling of cotton rates.
Indictments were returned by the
Philadelphia Grand Jury charging mem,
bers OF school board with conspiracy
to extort money in connection with the
appointment OF school teachers.
The international Association OF Boot
and Shoe Workers, in convention at De,
troit, decided to hold the defense fund
Of the organization down to $4,000.
Johann Most was sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary for the incendi-
airy article he wrote when President
Mckinley was asSassnated.
Annie Reno. aged 10 years was ia.
tally burned at Braddock, Pa, and four
others who went to her assistance were
seriously injured.
Judge Hancey. OF Illinois, gave a dc
cision that the Illinois Antitrust Law
Of 1901 is unconstitutional and void i'll
all its parts.
The body OF Miss Bartield was
found in Choctaw county, Ala, with her
throat cut. A search is being made for
the murderer.
Walter Gordon, who killed Charles
Daw, farmer OF Manitoba. and Jacob
Smith, DAVIS hired man, was hanged
Tor his crime.
Pedro Feleise, a leader OF the lad
rones, who is accused OF many atroci-
ties, was captured with number OF his
men.
Anthony o. Sherman, cashier OF the
Merchants Bank, OF Newport, R. l.,
shot himself and the bank was closed.
DR.. Joseph p. Cobb, OF Chicago, was
elected president OF the American Insti-
tute OF Homeopathy.
Forest fires are causing loss OF life
and immense destruction OF property in
the State OF Washington.
New York dealers are negotiating
with view OF importing Cardiff coal
unless the strike soon ends.
The third trial OF Jessie Morrison for
the murder OF Mrs. DIN Castle was be.
gun at Eldorado, Kan.
No trace has yet been found Of The
missing American teachers in the Phil
ippines.
The Supreme Court of Virginia decid-
ed against the father in the petition of
DR.. Otto Meyer for the custody of the
child because the father declared him
self all unbelicver.
United States Judge Wing, at Cleve-
land Ohio, gave decision which will
enable the Great Lakes Towing Company
to demand that the striking tugmens
licenses be revoked.
Colgate University conferred the de-
gree of Ii. D. on Serene Z. Payne.
chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mittce of the House of Representatives.
Prof. R. L. Blackwell was elected pres
ident of Randolph Macon College, in
Virginia, to succeed Rev. DR.. W. q.
Starr, resigned
Bishop Nicholson, of the Milwaukee
Diocese, created a sensation in his do
cese by declaring against the use of to-
bacco.
President Harper, of the University Of
Chicago, announced plans to expend ST.
100000 on a secondary school quad
angle
Mel Anderson, Jr.. II years of age,
son of prominent merchant of Brig
iam Utah, was kidnapped.