Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-04-11
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

ANDY Minor, colored, was arrested in
Newport News Va, on the charge OF
causing the death of his uncle.
Gen. Fitziugh Lee announced that he
is not a candidate to become minister to
Cuba or consul general.
John B. Scott, OF Richmond, W,
drank wineglassful of carbolic ACID
and died from the effects.
The remains of Major General VIM.
B. Whipple were buried in Arlington
Cemetery.
The officials of the Atlantic City Fire
and Police Departments have not yet eX-
actly determined the origin OF the great
| fire. They are of the opinion that it
started in the rear of the larton Hotel,
but whether from the explosion OF
gasoline stove or an overheated Kitchen
range is not definite There is also
theory that crossed electric wires may
have started the blaze.
Eloise. the seven-year- daughter OF
Mrs. Ella J. Furbusll, of Philadelphia,
who was shot by William H. Lane, COL
ored, when the latter killed Mrs. Fur
bush and another daughter, is dead.
Lane was convicted Of murder IN the
first degree after quick trial.
The bill of complaint in the suit OF
the State of Minnesota against J. J. Hill,
individually and as president of the
Northern Securities Company, was
served upon him at ST. Paul.
Former premier Of British Colombia
declares that at meeting OF Gamma
Gael in San Francisco plot was Matched
to blow I'D the naval docks and fortress
at Esquimault. :,
There was a celebration at Manila
over the arrival of the steamer Peru
from San Francisco, the first direct
American mail steamer to reach Ma
Mia
! Senator Hanna and others of promi-
nence made addresses at the closing
days session of the Good Roads Con-
vention, in Charlottesville, Va.
James H. Barr, of Winchester, Va,
victim of cancer, cut his throat with
razor to end his suferings by death.
A landslide caused freight wreck
at Cragdell Pa, in which two men were
killed and one seriously wounded.
C. T. Coke. a promoter of zinc prop
critics. committed suicide in hotel IN
Knoxville, Tenn
There have been 40 cases OF cholera
and us deaths from the disease at Ma
Mia to date. W.
The Wilson memorial fund for Wash
ington and Lee University has been en-
tirely raised
Thomas Early, the negro who crim-
nally assaulted Miss Perry at Ryland, N.
/ c.. was convicted and sentenced to IS
years in the penitentiary. While on
train to be taken away for safe-keeping
a passenger shot him with probably ia
tai effect.
Justice Gaynor, in the Supreme Court
of New York, refused to grant an IN
junction restraining strikers from pick.
citing the streets in the neighborhood of
the place of their former employment .
President-eect T. Estrada Palma, OF
Cuba. delivered an address before the
New York Chamber of Commerce, ask
ing for support in urging better tariff
concessions to Cuba.
Financial troubles led Charles H.
Worthen. a promoter in New York, to
kill his wife and then commit suicide.
Foreign.
1t is now reported that the Right party
in the upper house Of the Danish Par
Lament is in favor of the ceSslon of the
Danish West Indies to the United
States.
Representatives of an American agri-
cultural syndicate have requested per-
mission to establish warehouses in Rus
STA and to sell direct to the peasants.
Numbers of Russian students of St.
Petersburg have been sentenced to exile
in Siberia for participating in recent dis
turbances.
King Menelik has appointed Ras Ma
konnen, the famous Abyssinian general,
to represent him at the coronation Of
King Edward.
Natural gas was discovered in Heath
field, England by an American engineer
representing American interests.
The executors of Cecil Rhodes will,
all of them wealthy men, will divide
about 100000 among themselves.
Swedish friends of America have sent
a $500 subscription to the Mckinley ma
tional memorial.
Cecil Rhodes will provides for a
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scholarships at Oxford University for
students from every British colony, and
from every State and Territory in the
United States, there being two Ameri
can scholarships to each State and Ter
ritory, tenable at Oxford. for three
years. Similar scholarships are pro-
yidcd for German students.
The British War Office issues state
ment concerning the punishment of Off
GERS of the Australian commands for the
murder and brutal treatment of Boer
prisoners in South Africa. Two lieu-
tenants were sentenced to death and
promptly executed. Another officer was
sentenced to life imprisonment.
After IS months of study of the Ger
man administrative system. three Jap
anese, named Mori, Nakamira and Asa
hina, have returned home with the pur
pose of introducing German methods
in the administration of the island of
FormoSa.
The negotiations concerning the Man
churian treaty between China and Rus
STA have been concluded, and the terms
of the treaty are said to be satisfactory
to the United States, Great Britain and
Japan
The Colombian government forces I'm
der General Valencia defeated the insur-
gent forces in several places, and it Is
claimed the backbone of the rebellion
has been broken.
The German postal department has &C
cepted the octuple transmitter invented
by the late Professor Rowland, of Johns
Hopkins University.
financial.
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