Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-01-10
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic

$2oo, 900, has voted to go into liquidation.
| The chief cause is a recent supreme
court decision making the trust company
liable for judgment for 100000 in the
estate of c. D. Strong, which had been
in charge of the company
The circuit court of Toledo, Ohio, at
hrmed a decision of lower courts giving
Mrs. Adelaide Smith, of Fremont, Ohio,
judgment of $500 against the estate of
the late President Hayes. Mrs. Smith
was bitten by dog that belonged to
Mr.. Hayes.
Four robbers entered the town of ST.,
Joseph, Mo-, and blew up the vault Of
the Bank of Camden Point with dyna-
mite The explosion aroused the citi-
zens and a pitched battle with the rob-
bers ensued, the robbers getting away.
The Chicago Northwestern University
proposes to abandon the woman's medi-
cal department, and James H. Raymond,
a trustee of the university, declares that
it is impossible to make doctor of a
woman.
The trials of the cases growing out
of the postofice embellishments in Cuba
are scheduled to begin in Havana today.
The attorneys for Rathbone will ask for
4 suspension of trial.
Three men were scalded to death as
the result of an explosion at the South
Penn Oil Company's pumping station in
Doddridge county, West Virginia.
A run was started on the Dime Saw
ings and Banking Company in Cleve-
land, and the bank officials took advan-
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Bernard Michael, aged e years, was
| found in his Office, in St. Paul, Mimi.
with his throat cut. He was in the real
estate business and wealthy.
John G. Thomas, cashier of the Wells
Fargo Express Company in Cincinnati,
has been missing since Monday. His
accounts are all straight.
Experiments are being made at Mem
phis Medical College with an embalming
| fluid said to be better than that used
by the Egyptians.
President Lynn, of the levy court, put
an end to all difficulties by sending his
resignation 10 Governor Hum, OF Della
ware.
Governor Hunt, in his message to the
Porto Rico legislature, suggests the re-
peal of the old law under which lglesias,
the representative of the American Fede-
ration of Labor, was sentenced to I'M
prisonment, as law unworthy the
| American government.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany has given notice that it has re-
deemed all the preferred stock, and that
it would require holders of 4 per cent.
convertible certificates to exchange them
for common stock.
There is some talk in New York as to
whether Captain Mahan will be called to
account for violating the naval regulIa-
tons in making public comment on the
decision of the Schley court of inquiry.
A committee of Cleveland bankers was
appointed to take charge of the proper
ties of the Everett Moore syndicate,
which controls many trolley and tele-
phone lines in Michigan and Ohio.
The body of Robert Lee Johnson, OF
the Twenty third Regiment, United
States Signal Corps, who died in the
Philippines. was brought to Harper
| Ferry for interment.
Charges of perjury and larceny were
brought against William c. Wakefield
. DIOUlOiGl VI TIT lIllCI NOPPNi y
dictate, in South birmingham, Mass:
Mrs. Bullock, the manager OF the
Searchlight Hotel, in Searchllght, Neyv,,
was burned to death, with her two chill
dren, in a fire which broke out in the
hotel
By the explosion of locomotive boiler
in the shops of the Georgia Central Rail,
way, at Macon, Ga, men were killed
and IL injured. =,
Miss Lizzie Miller, Wisconsin girl
has sued Henry J. Huening, of Chicago
for $780, alleging breach of promise OF
marriage.
H. Murray Crane was sworn IN to
serve his third term as Governor OF Mas
sachusettS.
Smallpox broke out in the Hudson
county, N. J., Jail and in the almshouse.