Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-11-21
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

Receivers Tor the National Asphalt
Company and the Asphalt Company OF
America filed i'll court at Trenton, n
J.. reports stating that they have made
progress i'll reducing expenses by con-
solidating the underlying companies.
During controversy over board
bill James Masterson fatally shot NJ. P:
Birmingham. proprietor OF the Hotel
Bratt, in Manchester, o., and then kill
ed himself. Birmingham was shot
three times.
1t was reported in Philadelphia that
the Reading. the Baltimore and Ohio,
and other Eastern railroads will fol-
low the example OF the Pennsylvania
and increase the salaries OF employees.
The Anthracite Strike Commission
began the hearing OF evidence in Scran-
ton, Pa, President Mitchell reading a
long statement and then taking the wit
ness stand.
!, Col. Edward Butler, the millionaire
politician OF St. Louis, was convicted
sof bribery in Columbia, Mo-, and SEN
fenced to three years i'll the peniten-
tiary.
In the American Federation OF Labor
Convention yesterday at New Orleans
a number OF resolutions bearing upon
labor conditions were introduced.
The Methodist General Missionary
Conference. in session in Albany N.
Y, made appropriations for the vari-
Gus missions in China and Korea.
The Central National Bank of Bos-
ton closed its doors as a result OF in-
,paired assets. The failure had no ef-
feet in financial circles.
William Becker, who sent threaten
ing letters to number Of wealthy men
in New York. was arrested on the
charge OF blackmail
One hundred and ten PreSbytcries
have thus far voted for revision OF the
creed, none having voted the other
way.
Superintendent Pratt, of the Carlisle
| Indian School. submitted his report to
Indian Commissioner Jones.
|, The twenty-second annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor
opened in New Orleans, and President
Gompers. in his annual address, warned
the members of the dangers of the con-
f'icting claims of jurisdiction made by
different bodies.
b Four men were killed and 40 more or
less Injured by the explosion of large
| boiler in a scrap puddle furnace at the
plant at Lebanon, Pa.
i Frank G. Andrews. the convicted vice
Y president of the wrecked City Savings
Bank of Detroit, Mich, was taken to the
!. Jackson State Prison to begin serving his
1 Is years sentence.
Mrs. Tinglcy has appealed from the
decision of the board of inquiry i'll New
! York to deport the Cuban children de-
signed for the Buddhist home at Califor-
/ MIA.
J. w. Midnight. former president OF
| the defunct German National Bank OF
| Louisville, KY. was sentenced to SIX
years in the pcnitentiary for embezzle-
! ment
The grand jury of Freehold, N. J., has
not yet indicted Laura Biggar on account
of any charge growing out of her alleged
marriage to Millionaire Bennett.
A young woman in whose possession
was found watch chain stolen from one
! of the murdered Boston women, is likclv
to prove an important witness i'll the case,
I The General Missionary Conference OF
1 the Methodist Episcopa Church at
Albany, N. Y, decided not to admit the
Secretaries of conferences as members.
4 The coroners Jury held Charles Cav
lc of Homestead. Pa, responsible for
the murder of his mother and four
brothers and sisters.
Rev. James Hill, Marylandcr by birth,
and senior member of the Indiana Con
ference OF the NJ. Z. Church, died at the
age OF So.