Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic

Loretta Scudder, IS years old, Will
under the excitement of a religious re
vival in Methodist church at Brooklyn
N. Y, died suddenly Of heart failure il
the parsonage of the church just afte
one of the meetings.
The question of changes proposed ii
the covenant membership of the United
Presbyterian Church was referred to {;
committee by the General Assembly, il
session at Pittsburg, to be reported
the next assembly.
President Jacob G.. Schurman, of Cor
neil, delivered an address before the Ere
Religious Association in Boston, il
which he urged the granting of indie
pendence to the FilipinoS.
New York University will confer tn
degree of master of letters on Miss Helel
M. Gould, Miss Emily Ogden Butler AM
Mrs. Henry Draper.
The members of the Rochambeau mis-
sion placed a wreath on the grave II
Newport, R. l., of Chevalier de Tarney
the commander of the fleet of war yes
sells that conveyed Rochambeau'S arm,
to Newport, their landing place.
The grand stand and paddock at thu
Hawthorne race track, Chicago, was de
stroyed by fire, which broke out half al
hour after the last race OF the day. Al
the horses were saved. The loss IL
100000
Capt. K. G.. Martens, of the transport
Buford, was found guilty of cruelty
profanity and neglect, and suspended
Third Officer K. Grammar was dis
missed from the service.
By a rear-end collision on the New
Paltz trolley road, about three miles
west of Poughkeepsie, seven person:
were injured, none very seriously.
The Yaqui Indians are reported to be
again OH the warpath. A number of ha'
ciendas have been raided and the occu'
pants fled to avoid massacre.
Five representatives of the railroad;
indicted in Memphis, Tenn, for violat-
ing the Interstate Commerce law, gave
bond to answer in court.
The remains of the late Gen. Henry
Leavenworth were renterred with I'M
posing military honors in the National
Cemetery at Fort Leavenworth.
Reflections of the volcanic eruptlons
in the West Indies were seen at Homo
LULU Hawaiian Islands, in a red glare
OH the horizon.
A bronze bust of Mckinley erected
by the letter-carriers and postal EN-
ployes in the Philadelphia poStottce wa:
unveiled.
A monument erected by the Daughter:
of the Confederacy to Confederate sol
ders was dedicated in Kansas City, Mo
Mrs. Rose Fieginow, while insane
killed her six-year-old daughter and her
self in New York.
The safe of the treasurer OF Hardir
county, Texas, was looted by burglars.
Sylvester Pennoyer, Ex-Governor o.
Oregon, died suddenly.
1t was reported in New York that W
K. Vanderbilt would intervene in thu
miners strike and not only seek to pre-
vent strike of the bitumlnouS miners
but also to end the anthracite miners
strike. There was a conference between
George w. Perkins, representing thu
Morgans, and Senator Hanna, but TIM
latter declined to talk about it.
Arthur Taylor and Baldwin S. Bredel
pleaded guilty in the United States Cour
at Philadelphia to indictments charging
them with completely in the counterfeit
ing conspiracy at Lancaster, Pa, ant
were each sentenced to seven years If
prison. =. ,,
The president Of the Wheeling CIV
Va.) City Council and number O.
Councilmen were acquitted, after trial
of the charge of conspirng to extort
bride Of $4,000 from the City RAILWAY
Company.
Col. Frank Baldwin has informed Gen
eral Davis, in command Of the troops OF
the Island of Mindanao, that he does no
expect to establish peace conditions unit
the defiant element is wiped out.