Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-08-15
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

The formal announcement OF the
granting Of the application OF the Com
mercial Pacific Cable Company has been
made, together with the conditions gov
erning the same.
Walker A. Scott, president OF the Hi
nois Wire Company, was stabbed to
leath in a Chicago office building by
Walter L. Seedlings, a civil and con-
Mlting engineer.
The convention Of the National
Transfers Union OF America, which
has been in session at Joliet, ILL.,, has
adjourned.
Arrangements have been completed
At the War Department for the exami
nation OF civilians for. appointment as
second lieutenantS in the army.
Corporal O'Brien, charged with per-
Siry before the United States Senate
committee, was committed to jail at
Boston in default OF $1,000 bail.
A mortgage for $I,5oo,ooo was filed
with the Franklin county recorder,
Ohio, by the United States Cigar Com
pany, known as the Stogie Trust.
Vice-Presdent Looms, of the D., L.
& w., has made a tour OF the strike re-
sion and says he finds conditions prac-
'ically unchanged.
The annual statistical summary Of the
mineral products Of the United States
has been issued by the Geological Sur
yey.
One man was instantly killed and five
persons were injured by the explosion
OF boiler in a laundry at Adrian, Mich.
Nine. Janauschek, the actress, who
was stricken with paralysis several
weeks ago, is in a critical condition.
Prince Chen, the special Chinese am
bassador at the coronation OF King Ed
ward, arrived in New York.
Baxter Potter, an outlaw in Dickin-
son county, Va, was killed by the acct
dental discharge Of his own gun.
Harry Jennings, of Wheeling, w. Va,
was kidnapped and compelled to marry
the girl he loved.
The survivors OF the Twenty eighth
New York Volunteer Infantry held
their annual reunion at Culpeper, Va,
and erected granite monument to the
members OF the regiment who fell in
battle.
A traffic agreement has been made
between the Missouri Pacific system
and the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul, by which the former gains di-
rect entrance into Chicago from Kansas
City.
Chicago drivers may go on a strike
because OF the refusal OF express COM
panies and managers OF department
stores to meet their demands.
Fifteen Of the 2S plants of the Ameri-
can Tinplate Company have been clos
ed because of refusal OF workers to &C
cept reduction in wages.
The opening session Of the Friends
International Christian Endeavor So
ciety was held in Richmond, Ind.
Frederick A. Warren, formerly
well-known club man Of Chicago, was
adjudged insane by Judge Wheatley anc
committed to the asylum for the insane
at Elgin. He was at one time an officer
of the Chicago Club and member OF
the Calumet and Union League Clubs
Domestic troubles are said to be the
cause of his breakdown.
AT New Haven, CT, the strike of the
100 conductors and motormen of the
Fair Haven and Westville Railroad
Company continues unchanged and the
,o-mile system is paralyzed
Resolutions were passed expressing
confidence in the national administra.
ion by the convention of the American
Federation of Catholic Societies in Chi
ago.
The coroner's jury in Shenandoah.
Pa, held Joseph Paluwicz, Matthew
oaularkas and other unknown rioters
esponsible for the death OF Joseph Bid
ell.
Mrs. Elizabeth w. Shelter, a refined
,dy of Savannah, Ga, was adjudged to
insane by the jury, the evidence
howing her to be a paranoiac.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company, al
'ittston, Pa, had number of miners
rrested on the charge Of stealing coal
working abandoned workings