Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-02-07
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

Ten thousand people cheered Admra,
Schley at the State House at Nashville
Tenn. Governor Mcmillan welcomed
the Admiral to the State and the Admi-
raj fittingly responded.
Judge White, in the Norfolk County
Court, granted a new trial to Willie
Brown, colored, who was convicted OF
the murder of Jake Gullembeek, store
keeper, in Brighton.
James d. Corr was arraigncd in New
| York on the charge of embezzling $1,000
from lie Boutelier Brothers, who en-
ployed him as bookkeeper.
M. A. OSburn, a travelling salesman
for the Carriage Manufacturing Com
pany of Decatur, ILL.,, committed suicide
in Alexandria.
Eight officers in sleighs overlook the
Biddle brothers, the escaped prisoners
from the jail at Allegheny, Pa and Mrs.
Softel, the wife OF the warden, who &C
companed them, at a point near Mount
Chestnut, Butler county, Pa. A fight
with revolvers and rifles resulted in both
the Biddle brothers being wounded.
Mrs. Soffel, upon seeing them fail, shot
herself in the breast, but her corset de-
fiected the bullet and she was only
slightly wounded.
Prisoners in the New Castle County
(Del.) workhouse mutinied on account
of the food served to them and were
subdued by their guards only after a
desperate struggle.
The Supreme Court of Porto Rico has
sustained the sentences of five murderers
to be garroted this month. Many citi-
zens are petitioning Governor Hunt for
clemency.
Judge Tuley ordered a receivership
for the lace industries of Dowie at his
Zion, in Chicago, in order to protect
Samuel Stevenson'S interest in the plant.
An agreement was signed in New
York by Representatives of various
transatlantic companies advancing rates
on grain and provisions.
To prevent the spread of smallpox the
Board of Education of Fremont, O.,
closed all the public schools for 10 days.
Sam G. Mullins, young farmer, liv
ing near Rarton, KY, shot his aunt, Mrs.
Lucy Snlallwood, and escaped.
The D. 0. Cunningham Glass Com
pany, of Pittsburg, raised the wages of
all unskilled labor 10 per cent.
Joseph Wade and B. H. Dalton were
hanged in Portland, Ore, for the murder
of James B. Morrow.
Daniel Tucker colored, was indicted
in Newport News, Va, on the charge Of
numbering his wife.
The Somerset Coal Company, with
capital of 100000, was organized in
New York.
The Virginia Pocahontas Coal Com
pany was chartered in Bristol, Tenn.
General Chafe expects, through the
vigorous campaign he is now pursuing
against the Filipino insurgents, to speed
lily complete the pacihcation of the ISL
ands, with the exception Of Samar.
J. c. Johnson, druggist, of Roanoke,
Va, received a postal card warning him
that if he did not deposit ST 900 in green
backs at a certain place he would be
killed.
Jim Howard was sentenced to life
imprisonment, the jury having declared
him guilty of completely in the assassi-
nation of Governor Goebel, of Ken
lucky.
There was a collision between a
crowded ferry boat and a railroad tug
in New York harbor. A number of
women tainted, but no one was hurt.
The sleet storm in Kentucky, Arkan-
sas and Tennessee did immense dam
age, the great masses of ice causing the
roofs of buildings to break in