Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-05-30
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.


The independent electrical supply deal
ers will File complaints with Attorney,
General Knox alleging that the Electrical
Supply Dealers Association OF the
United States is trust, and will ask the
Attorney General to proceed against the
association under the Sherman Law. :,
The Countess of Buena Vista sued
General Brooke in New York because he
abrogated certain alleged slaughterhouSseS
she claimed in Havana by virture OF a
royal decree from the King OF Spain IN
1904.
arrived at San Francisco from Manila
with some soldiers and Felipe Buen-
canine, secretary of war under Agui-
naldo, who will call on President Rose
Yelt.
1t is now estimated that between $50
and I75 men met instant death by the
disaster at Coal Creek Mines, near Fer
ME, B. c.
Mamie Grubbs, 10 years old, was alb
Quoted from Winchester, Va, and 1t is
feared she was kidnapped by circus men,
The John A. Roebling Sons Company,
of Trenton, N. J., increased the wages
of their employees 10 per cent.
Decoration Day was observed at Lees
burg, Va, S. w. T. Lanham, OF Texas,
being the orator of the day.
Volcanic dust from Mont Pelee was
the means of furnishing beautiful sum
set at San Juan, P. R.
The United States Commission has
made English the official language of the
courts, customs service and the Court OF
Appeals in the Philippine Islands.
Cholera is reported to be leSsening IN
Manila.
In accordance with a plan to die side
by side, John Curry shot and killed his
sweetheart, Susanna Keeskemeti, and
then killed himself, in South Bend, Ind.
The proposition made to the General
Conference of the Southern Methodist
Church in Dallas. Tex, to give presiding
elders a term of four years was tabled
Alfred Hamilton, who was hanged in
Whatcom, Wash, for the murder OF
D. M. Woodbury., cursed the sheriff
when he read the death warrant to him.
Senator Daniel and Judge Harrison
spoke at the Virginia Constitutional Con-
vention in favor of submitting the Con-
stitution to a popular vote.
H. H. Mateson, former cashier OF the
First National Bank of Great Falls,
Mont, was indicted on the charge of EN-
bezzling $Io8,ooo.
Frank Berkeley, fisherman, found a
mans body in his net when he pulled 1t
I'D in the river near Richmond, Va.
The town of Clover, on the Southern
Railway, in Halifax county, Virginia,
was almost completely destroyed by fire.
Tommy Noonan died in Boston hos,
pital from the effects of blow received
in a prize-fght.
The annual services were held in Fred
ericksburg by the Assembly of the King S
Daughters.
The forty-ninth annual conference OF
the Reformed Presbyterian Church was
held in Philadelphia Rev. ]. B. Craw-
ford, of Waynesburg, N. Y, was the
moderator.
The motion for a subcommittee OF
three to practically rule Tammany was
adopted, the result being victory for
the Croker element and defeat for the
Carroll-Van Wyck crowd
Dudley Morgan, negro, was burned
at the stake at Lansing, Tex, for a GRIM
inal assault upon a woman, whose hus-
band applied the match to the pyre,
The Ward Line steamer Vigllancla
steamed out of New York harbor under
the Cuban flag, being the first to have
that distinction.
Miss Josephine Holman, who broke off
her engagement to Signor Marconi. was
married in London to Eugen BorrSt, of
Budapest, Hungary.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Gould interests
denied that they had bought the Column
bus, Sandusly and Hooking Railroad or
had any use for it.
The steamer John K. Speed, with a
valuable cargo, was burned. to the waters
edge while lying at her wharf at New
Orleans.
The Baptist American Missionary
Union in St. Paul, Mimi, was addressed
by number of returned missionaries.