Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-05-02
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

A deal has been arranged by which,
the Heinze copper properties in Montana
have been taken over by the United Cop
per Company. The stock is capitalized
at $4,000, 900.
Claiborne Widener, 10 years old, who
frightfully assaulted the fve-year-old
daughter of Rice Ford, at Damascus, Va,
was captured and jailed at Abingdon.
Virginia.
Mrs. Kate Edwards and Samuel Grca-
son, convicted of the murder of the wo-
mans husband near Stouchsburg, Pa,
were sentenced to death.
Storms throughout the West did much
damage. Telegraph and telephone wires
were Frustrated. Several persons were
injured at Cleveland.
The board of church extension Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South loan
ed $4,000 to assist missions in Cuba:
Colonel Woodruff, counsel for Gen.
Jacob H. Smith, in the opening OF the
latter's trial by court-martial Manila.
said he would admit that General Smith
instructed Major Waller to kill and
burn and make Samar bowling will
derness. Major Waller and Lieutenant
Day, who were tried on the charge OF
executing natives without trial, have
been acquitted.
Stockholders of the United States
Steel Corporation received a circular CIV
ing the scheme OF the company to take
up the 7 per cent. preferred stock, and
issue instead 5 per cent. bonds.
Gov. c. B. Aycock, of North Carolina,
made the feature address at the South
ern Educational Conference in Athens.
Ga. Robert c. Ogden was reelected
president
Montgomery Presbytery re-instated
Rev. James Arthur, pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, of Roanoke, Va,
who had been suspended for drunken
ness.
Two thousand structural ironworkers
of the Pittsburg district will strike May
I unless their demands for an advance
of 10 cents an hour are granted.
Joseph Altolio, youth of seven years,
sustained fa,al burns while saving his
father from being burned to death in
New York.
The annual meeting of the Board OF
Church Extension of the Methodist Epls-
copal Church South was held in Louis
vile, Ky.
Henry Schaub, who was convicted OF
numbering his wife and child, was
hanged in Newark, n. J.
The cholera record of Manila to date
shows sos cases and 1913 deaths.
The Moro chiefs on the island of Min
danao are said to be submitting, and
Lieut. Col. Baldwin, who has received
orders to suspend operations, states that
the capture of Sultan Piralo's fort has
had salutary effect.
Two thousand employees of the Chi
cago and Alton Railroad shops have
agreed to eat no meat for 30 days as
an example to other workmen through
out the country TO adopt this means OF
fighting the Beef Trust.
The detectives arrested a negro
preacher Oh suspicion of having muir
dered Mrs Collins, near Laurel, Del,
but released him when it was found that
he had never been in the State.
Brigadier- General Funston dictated
a statement declaring that in his speech
about the Philippines he had no purpose
of making any reflections upon Senator
! HOar.
Ameer Ben Ali ("Frenchy"), who was
pardoned by the Governor of New York
on condition that he leave the country,
sailed from New York for France.
The boilers OH the tugboat John Arson
blew up while the tug lay in Newtown
Creek, Long Island. Orc man was killed
and three were badly hurt