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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
NATIONS THANKSGIVING
The Presidents Proclamation Designates
November II as the Day.
NO REFERENCE TO RECENT STRIKE.
President Roosevelt Says the Year that Has
Just Closed Has Been One of Peace and OF
Overlooking PIenty-Rarely Has any Peo'
pie Enjoyed Greater Prosperity than We
are Now Enjoying.

Washington, D. c. (Special.)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt issued his proclamation
designating Thursday, November 81, as
a da" of thanksgiving.
The proclamation is as follows:
According to the yearly custom OF
our people, it falls Jpn the President
at this season to appoint day OF tes-
tival and thanksgiving to God.
"Over a century and quarter mas
passed since this country took its place
among the nations of the earth,. ana
during that time we have had on the
whole more to be thankful for than mas
fallen to the lot of any other people.
Generation after generation has grown
to manhood and passed away. Each has
had to bear its peculiar burdens, each TO
face its special crisis, and each mas
known years of grim trial, when the
country was menaced by malice domestic
or foreign levy, when the hand OF the
Lord was heavy upon it in drought or
food or pestilence, when in bodily. DIS
tress and anguish of soul it paid the
penalty OF folly and a froward heart.
Nevertheless, decade by decade, we
have struggled onward and upward; we
now abundantly enjoy material we'll
being, and under the favor OF the Most
High we are striving earnestly 10
achieve moral and spiritual uplifting
The year that has just closed has been
one OF peace and OF OVERLOOKING plenty.
Rarely has any people enjoyed greater
prosperity than we are now enjoying
For this we render heartfelt and solemn
thanks to the Giver OF good, and we
seek to praise Him not by words only,
but by deeds, by the way in which we
do our duty to ourselves and to our
fellow-men.
"Now, therefore, |, Theodore Roose-
welt, President OF the United States, DO
hereby designate as day OF general
thanksgiving Thursday, the twenty.
seventh OF the coming November, and
do recommend that throughout the
land the people cease from their ordln,,
airy occupations, and in their several
homes and places Of worship render
thanks unto Almighty God for the man
ifold blessings of the past year.
I'm witness whereof L have hercunto
set my hand and caused the seal OF the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
twenty-ninth day OF October, in the
year OF Our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and two and OF the indepen-
dence OF the United States the one
hundred and twenty
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
"By the President:
JOHN HAY.
"Secretary of State"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
10000 HAVE EYE DISEASE.
Trachoma Causing Serious Trouble In New
York Schools.

Washington, D. C. (SpeciaD Eighty
thousand cases of trachoma, highly in
fictitious eye disease. exist among the
school children of New York City, &C
cording to report by DR.. Ederle to
Commissioner of immigration Sargent.
The introduction of the disease, which
frequently produces blindness, has been
traced to immigrants.
These facts lend interest to tie case
of the family Of Belle Goldberg, Rus
sian Jew, which has enlisted the SYM
pathy of Senator Hoar and President
Roosevelt. Belle Goldberg sent for his
wife and four children to join him in
this country, and they we're landed IN
Boston. There the immigration officials
found that each of the four children were
affected with trachoma, and proposed to
send them back. The case was brought
to the attention of Senator Hoar, who
thought injustice was being done. He
interested the President in it. and, at the
latter's instigation, the children were
taken to New York to be examined by
surgeons there. The surgeons reported
that the children would have to remain
under treatment for year, and that
even then there was doubt whether they
could be cured.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
GEN. MILESIN PHILIPPINES
Warm Reception by Military and Civic
Officials.
GARRISON AT MANILA IS REVIEWED.
General Sumner Will Give the BacOlod Moros
More Time In Which to Make Peace-A
Fight With the Ladrones 10 Which Six Are
K1Ied-Newly Organized Catholic Church
TO CanOnize Jose Rial.

Manila (By able).-General Miles
has arrived here on the United States
transport Thomas from San Francisco
A salute in his honor was fired from
Fort Santiago. General Davis and a
squadron OF cavalry met General Miles
at the landing place in Manila and eS-
corted him to the Malacanan Palace
where Governor TAFT and the other
members of the civil commission
awaited the visitor. General Miles has
accepted Governor Taft's invitation to
live at the palace while here.
The garrison in Manila will be re-
viewed by General Miles. The Gen-
eral will then proceed to Dagupan
where he will visit Col. Charles l.. Da.,
Wis, OF the Fifth Infantry, Genera
Miles old regiment.
The Generals plan for tour OF The
archipelago has not yet been com
pleted.
A telegram has been received her,
from General Sumner, at Zamboanga
Mindanao, saying he is disposed tc
give the Bacolod Moros more time ii
which to make peace before capturing
and destroying their strongholds.
Captain Pershing reports to Genera
Sumner that many additional Moro
leaders have come in and pledged
friendship and support to the Ameri'
cans These visits have been return
ed by the Americans, who were cor
daily received by the MoroS. Captain
Pershing is urging the MoroS to re-
turn to their abandoned fields and plant
crops.
The situation at Lake Lanao, Min
danao, now appears to be more salts
factory.
Twenty members OF the native con
stabuIary OF the Island Of Negroes de-
feated 70 ladroneS near Turica, Negroes.
The ladrones were intrenched, and it
took an hours fierce fighting to dis
lodge them. Six OF the bandits were
killed and several OF them we're wound
ed. Their leader. a man named Dal-
MAGIC, was wounded and captured
Two guides in the employ of the con-
stabulary we're killed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
FOUR KILLED BY SEWER GAS.
Threee Others Seriously Affected by the Gas
In Peculiar Manner.

Niagara Falls, N. Y. (SpeciaD.-By q
sudden rush of gas supposed to have
been sulphurettcd hydrogen, four men
were killed and three seriously affected
near the Twenty-fourth street heading
of the big tunnel trunk sewer. z,.
The accident was peculiar one. lhir,,
teen men, comprising the entire second
shift were working on the sewer. They
had started heading at a new level and
had loaded tip blast which was to be
discharged. After loading they walked
back about 225 feet between the head
ing and the shaft, at Twenty-tour1th
street but before they could reach the
shaft four of the men fell to the floor OF
the tunnel, over which a considerable
stream of water was flowing. The others
becoming alarmed. pushed ahead to the
shaft Foreman Mulroy was the first to
reach the surface, distance of so feet
and gave the alarm. George Rhodes was
ascending in the bucket when he was
overcome by the gas and fell from the
bucket to the bottom of the shaft. he
died from the result of his lnJurieS.
Seven others succeeded in getting out.
Four men lay in the tunnel. All were
dead
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
EXPRESS CRASHED INTO FREIGHT.
Narrow Escape From Horrible Catastrophe
Near Lancaster.

Lancaster, Pa. Especially Passengers
on the Harrisburg express leaving this
city at us p. m. had almost a miracu-
lous escape from death. The express was
running at the rate OF 40 miles All hour
when it crashed into the rear Of freight
train which was standing on the track
at Dilervile, one mile north of this city.
7 he engine of the express ploughed into
the last car of the freight train. From
some inexplicable cause none of the cars
were derailed.
The violence of the compact shattered
the windows of the passenger coaches
and hurled the passengers from their
seats. but aside from the jar no one was
hurt The escape of Engineer Thomas
and Fireman Downes, of the express
train. was remarkable. They were
knocked against their firebox. but man
aged to crawl out of the wreck, slightly
scalded and bruised The express en-
CINE and three freight cars caught fire
and were consumed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
BANK ROBBERS INGENIOUS.
Tied Town Marshal so that If He Struggled to
Get Free He Would Hang Himself.

Gardner, Ill. SPECIALISTS men
blew open the vault OF bank here and
secured large sum. They seized
Town Marshal Edmondson at the en-
gine-house, tied him with ropes, took
him to the bank and placed him in a
chair. The vault was blown open with
dynamite and the interior OF the bank
wrecked.
The robbers are supposed to have Sc
cured between $4,000 and $4,000, al
though the exact amount is not known.
After leaving the bank they took the
Marshal to the schoolhouSe, placed a
rope around his neck and tied him to
a chair. The chair was placed at the
head OF a stairway. so that ii he strug-
gled to release himself he would fall
downstairs and hang himself. The rob-
bers took a train which left at 40
o'clock for Chicago.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
Iron Bar to Increase Weight.

The aspirations of young man OF
New York to serve his country IN the
railway mail service at $500 per annum
have been rudely shattered by an ex-
aminer of the Civil Service Commits
sion.
The downfall OF the youth was caus-
ed, primarily. by neglectful nature de-
nying him the standard of weight re-
CURED by the postal service for its
railway mail clerks, and, secondarlly.
by the failure OF an ingenious plan OF
the young mans to make up this de-
fcit. After the mental examination, at
which he did well, his physical proper
tons were taken. Stepping confidently
upon the official scales, he smiled as he
tipped the beam at two pounds IN ex-
cess OF the requirements. His features
beamed with JOY, but the look was sud
denly frozen by the dull, sickening thud
OF a window weight, which, slipping
from beneath his coat crashed to the
floor.
With grim smile, the examiner laid
the iron bar Upon the scales. 1t weigh
ed four pounds. The enterprlSing
youth was summarly rejected.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07

Shenandoah Valley. The local man
agement will remain i'll charge OF John
G.. Yancey, a member OF the old hrm.
Henry Hubbard, coiored, was shot
and killed near Wiles Postottlce. Ill
Pittsylvania county, by John Dozel,
also colored The tragedy grew ou.
Of reports made by Dozel by his wife,
Who represented that Hubbard had IN
suited her. Hubbard was almost i'll
SANITY killed. Dozel being so near
when he fired that his victims clothes
nTTf Mr. Il" H. rs teaaerths a steward OF
he Piedmont club. Lynchburg, was
stabbed by Walter Sherman, coioreu
BOY. 1t is stated that Steuernagel gaVs
The negro an order which incenseo
him. Mr.. Steuernagel was cut III inc
abdomen on the left side. The negro.
escaped and has not yet been arrested
The doctors state that it will be Gay
IF two before they can tell whe.her
Mr.. Steuernagers wound is dangerous
Arthur Browning, a young mar! VINO
recently left Newport News, leaving.
bride OF a few months, will, it is SAID
have 10 face charge OF blgamy
should he return. The police say his
real anne is Herman Brown and tIlat
he deserted wife in Seabrook, n. H.;
sight wears ago. The girl he married
at Newport News was Miss Bertha
Harris. who was only about 10 years
# age. She is connected with some
Of the most prominent people Ill that
section.
At Roanoke the attorneys for the re,
ceivers OF the Virginia. Iron, Coal ana
Coke Company have offered. ii agree
able to the United States District At
,ornev. to have the eight months sen.
.ence recently imposed on EDWARD
Guerrant. a union labor organizer, Tor
contempt OF the Federal Court, sus'
pended, provided he will promise not
! % engage in organizing labor again III
this State.
Mrs. Matilda Dugan died at the
home OF her son-in-iaw, Mr.. ID. W
Noodson in Danville. She was 80
years old.
The City Council OF Fredericksburg
adopted the report OF the joint COM
nittce OF the Council and citizens rec
ommendng the paving Of three blocks
III Main street and three on Commerce
With granite at a cost of $23,466, The
contract was awarded to J. A. Guide.
Mr.. David Williams. an eX-Conled'
rate soldier, dide at his home, in 10
.noke county, aged 50 years. He was
>ne of the best known citizens o.
Southwest Virginia.
The Presbyterian Synod OF Virginia,
which was in session at Norfolk: COM
,leted its business and adjourned. Abb
ngdon was selected as the neat place
II meeting for the synod.
While operating machine at the
.,ynchburg Plow Works Mr.. Henry
Robertson had his left arm badly crush
d. The injured member was ampu'
ated
One thousand hogsheads-I, 200, 900
,ounds-of Virginia tobacco are be-
ng shipped from Richmond to the
spanish Government under the Reggie
contract. Most OF the tobacco was
iouol1t ar Tynchburp.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
ENTERTAINED THE BURGLAR.
Mrs. Spears Gave Him Supper and Then Sent
for Police.

Chicago Especially. - Mrs. Jessie
Spears has introduced something new
in the thief-trapping line. When con-
fronted in her rooms by burglar with
a revolver she extended him a hearty
welcome.
"Take a seat. my friend said she.
81 haven't much money, but it You
want anything to cat or drink l have
plenty" :,
Il am hungry and thirsty, too said
the burglar, as he PIT away his weapon
and took a seat. Mrs. Spears spread
before him cold turkey and angei! cake;
She kept up fire OF conversation OF
the "glad-you- called" order until the
man forgot the object OF his visit.
81 will have to go out for some
beer" she said. She went to drug
store, telephoned the police and re-
turned with the beer. Larry Keenan,,
for that was the burglars name, was
captured as he was slowing away the
last OF the turkey and blowing the foam
off the beer
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
FIRST POINT IS DECIDED
Strike Arbitrators Make Important Rul'
ing at Outset.
DISPUTE AVOIDED BY DECISION.
IfAuy Award Affecting The Existing Rate OF
Wages Is Made 1t Will Be Effective From
November Preliminary Report May Be
Made as to the Increase of Wages and
Shorter Work Day.

Scranton, Pa. Especially The anthra-
cite Strike Commission has officially de-
cided that if any change is made in the
rate of wages of the men it shall date
from November I. This announcement
was made y the Commission, through Re
corder Wright. in the following bret
statement given ont by them
Voted unanimously that il the Com
mission, at the conclusion of its hear
ings and deliberations, makes any award
affecting existing rates of wages, such
award shall take effect from Novem-
Der I, 1902.
The Recorder of the Commission stated
that this resolution was adopted by the
Commission because it felt that 1t was
important to make its Investigations
deliberately, and that it might be well
in order to relieve itself from pressure
from any source which might cause I'M
due haste, to inform the operators and
the miners that, should the investigation
and the deliberations following it war
rant any change whatever, either IN the
way of increase or reduction OF wages,
such change should be from certain
date, thus enabling all parties to facilitate
their calculations.
The action of the Commission in TAX
ing this step at this time will save the
Commissioners considerable time. 1t is
known that each side to the controversy
would take determined stand on the
question of when the new rate of wages,
If one is made, shall go into effect. The
operators, in their original proposition
to President Roosevelt wanted the Com
mission to fix the date. The miners
wanted the prospective new rate to be
retroactive and go into effect on the
dav when the miners returned to work.
President Mitchell. who was here over
night, left for Wilkesbarre before the an
nouncement was made 1t is not known
here what he thinks of the Commission S
action.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
Fun In a Clocks Face.

Sonic amusement may be had In .
company Of boys and girls by asking
them to draw a picture of the face OF
a clock. Most of them would be likely
TO draw the letters Nv. instead OF iii.
for four. and would forget, perhaps.
that all the letters Of the dial should
stand with their base toward the CEN
ter.
It is probable that most people read
a clock dial by the position OF the fig
ures or letters and disregard the fig.
ures themselves. Some Of the larger
clocks now made for steeples have
only a straight line at each hour place
and they serve their purpose admir-
ably.
It has been found, however, that
while most persons have no accurate
knowledge of dials, any marked de-
parture from the usual method Of
marking them is at once detected. A
dial bearing w. instead Of the four
straight lines attracts everybody's at.
tention.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
Santa Maria Still Violent.

Guatemala City (By Cable).-The
volcano OF Santa Maria is still in erup-
ton. In addition, there are serious
earthquake shocks throughout Guate-
mala. There were detonations, like
heavy cannonading, on Tuesday morn
ing. All towns, villages and planta-
tons near the volcano have been aban-
doncd, and the residents are fleeing to
places of safety. Details Of the erup-
tons are not obtainable, owing to the
Guatemalian Government taking pos
session OF all telegraph lines in the in
terror and preventing the news from
snreadinP.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
France May Buy American Coal.

According to a report made from
Rouen to the State Department by
Consul Haynes, the present labor trout
bles in the coal mines in France may
be utilized by the coal mine-owners OF
this country for the extension OF the
American coal trade in France.
He says that the troubles there are
practically unceasing, and he suggests
that if return cargoes can be found for
the coal-carrying vessels the business
may be found to be very profitable. In
this connection he says that there are
vast deposits Of gypsum in France, and
he urges its purchase by American
dealers for the purpose OF supplying the
return cargo.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
$4,000 Stricken With Cholera.

The fearful ravages OF plague and
cholera in the Old World are set forth
in mail advices received by the. Marine
Hospital Service. From Manila Chief
Quarantine Officer Perry makes con-
sentative estimate that the cases OF
cholera in the Philippine islands since
March 20 last aggregate $4,000, with a
mortality of Is per cent.
He says. under date OF September 10
that the disease has practically dlsap-
peared from those provinces first IN
fected, but those most recently inject
cd are suffering severely.
The Province OF Iloilo and the ada
cent Island OF Negros are badly infected
and the situation is alarming. Some
OF the towns in those provinces have
lost 10 per cent. OF their population,
and the epidemic continues severe.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
Russian Beef For London.

United States Consul Halstead, at
Birmingham, England, reports to the
State Department that Agricultural De
partment of Russia is taking steps which
will prepare the way for that country to
play an important part in supplying the
London markets with beef in opposition
to the American meat exporters.
The report says that special steamers
have been built with freezing chambers,
the Russian Government assisting by
subsidies, and that it is intended they
shall ply between a Russian port, via the
Kiel canal, and London with huge car,
goes of fresh meat. Libau is considered
a suitable port, as from that point the
beef can reach London in three days or
less after slaughtering.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
Crossed Pacific In Ten Days.

San Francisco (SpeciaD.-The Pa
ci6c Mail Company's new steamer Ko-
rea arrived at noon from Yokohama.
breaking the record across the Pacific
The steamer made no stop between the
coast OF Japan and her home port and
came flying through water at the av-
erage rate OF nearly 500 miles day.
From Yokohama by direct line to San
Francisco is 1000 miles. The Korea
sailed from the Japanese port on Octo-
Der IS and made the passage in 10 days
averaging 40 miles day.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
Tar and Gather SEQUEL.

Plymouth, Mass. (Special). The
Barnstable grand jury returned indict-
ments in the Marion tarring and feath-
ering incident OF August last, the men
named in the findings being W. H. Potter
Odber Andrews, Noble L. Bates, Owen
s. Bumpus. A. N. Clifford, Hector e.:
McCloud and Joseph Silva, all OF
Marion. The charges are OF riotous
disturbance of the peace and of assault
ing beating and i'll treating Mrs. Clara
F. Potter and Jas. Mcdonald. On the
night mentioned crowd Of men gave
Mcdonald a coat of tar and feathers
and rode him on a rail out OF town
Mrs. Potter was subjected to indlg-
mites. but was not bodily harmed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
Foreign.

The visit OF the Gillian naval squad
ron TO Brazilian waters is reported to
have assumed the character OF DEM.
onstration in favor OF coalition OF
the South American States against any
desire OF the United States to inter
iere in their affairs
Pressuc is being brought upon the
British government for relaxation OF
the regulations created to exclude meat
exports or something which will afford
relief from the excessive prices OF
meat
A list OF honors and promotions OF
British officers who served in South
Africa was announced, the recipients
including Lord Methuen, Generals
Kitchener, French and Ian Hamilton;
The Emperor OF China received
the first Korean minister, who, with
the members OF his suite, wore Euro
pean military uniforms to show. that
they are no longer subjects OF China
Premier Combes, OF the French
government, announced that reports,
received from the mineowners showed
a disposition to open negotiations with
the strikers.
Mr.. Wyndham, chief secretary tor
Ireland, in a speech expressed the pc
lief that the end of the Irish question
was coming soon.
Charles NJ. Schwab, now at Como,
Italy, will cruise in the Mediterranean
for several months.
A report from St. Petersburg states
that Finance Minister White has dis
missed 200 officials employed under the
finance ministry for irregularities.
Flames and smoke from the volcano
OF Santa Maria have destroyed the cot
fee plantations OF Guatemala and the
losses are enormous.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
Dissatisfied With Changes.

Great is the Presidents dissatisfac-
ton with the new executive office build
ing erected as the west wing OF the
White House, and with the alteration
and refurnishing OF the old building,
that he will endeavor to have other
changes made next spring to conform
TO his original intentions. The Office
building, costing $4,000, is a plain:
barn-like structure of brick, painted
white, entirely out OF harmony with the
Executive Mansion.
The accommodations for popular re-
ceptions in the remodeled White House
are reported to be totally inadequate,
there being only one stairway leading
TO the dreSSing-roomS.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-07
Bear Crushed Boys Head.

Hot Springs, Ark. (SpeciaD.-At
Happy Hollow, a resort near here
which. among other attractions, in
cludes ZOO, black bear fatally inJur-
ed Robert Tatum, all 8-year-old boy.
The lad was passing near the animal
which was chained, but came too close,
and before the Mortified spectators
could interfere the brute had the boy
Rugged to his breast. Then the ami
NAL closed its great jaws on his pris-
oner's head. A keeper pried the bears
mouth open and released the boy, but
he was unconscious and died from sew
eral fractures OF the skull.