Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-12-12
SUMMARY OP THE LATEST NEWS
Domestic.

The Canadian Pacific fast express.
which left Halifax for st. John and
Montreal. was wrecked on the Inter
colonial Railway near Belmont Station
Four persons were killed and seven
passengers and one brakeman injured
Swift & Armour have acquired the
stock OF the Union Depot, Bridge and
Terminal Company, which owns valu-
able terminals and hundreds OF acres
of land on the Missouri River at Kan
sas City, Mo.
The reckless running OF a racing au-
tomobile is responsible for probably
fatal injuries to park policeman in
Chicago and the death OF two horses.
The Fort Payne Bank, OF Fort
Payne, the oldest bank in DeKalb
county Ala, capitalized at $4,000, has
been placed in the hands OF a receiver
AT the Delaware Breakwater the
schooner Virginia Rulon was blown on
the rocks and sunk. The crew of SIX
men was taken off and landed by the
Lewes (Del0 life-savers.
Fred A. Smith, proprietor OF the
burned Lincoln Hotel, in Chicago, in
which ID lost their lives, and Night Clerk
Weber were arraigned on a charge Of
manslaughter.
Investigation has shown that the ex-
plosion on the steamer Progreso at San
Francisco, which cost ID lives. was due
to the poor quality of oil furnished.
George Sherverton, driver of an eX-
press wagon in Philadelphia becoming
confused by the snow, drove his team
into a trolley car and was killed.
The schooner Wesley NJ. Oler went
ashore at Ocracoke, N. C., during the
storm and went to pieces. Her crew is
believed to have been lost.
DR.. Henry S. Cutler, composer and
musical conductor. who introduced yes
ted male choirs in this country, died at
Swampscott, Mass.
The two-master Flo F. Nader was
wrecked off Gloucester, Mass, and the
captain and crew were saved by the life
saving crew.
President Hartman, of the Southern
Pacific Railroad has established sys-
tenn for pensioning old employees of the
company.
George Bear, the Indian convicted OF
numbering his souaw, was hanged IN
Sioux Falls. S. d. He behaved with
great stoicism.
James Sullivan and a man named De
Kibbis were killed in a snowslide near
Baker City, Ore
George Dickinson, the Philadelphia
robber, was sentenced to IS years in the
penitentiary.
Three men robbed about IS who were
gambling at the Eagle Club, in Pocatello,
Idaho.
Dickinson Hall, at Princeton Univer-
sity. caught fire and was saved by a
bucket brigade.
The gale blew down wall i'll Allen
town, Pa, and two men received fatal
injuries.
The prices of California nuts have been
advanced.
Jacob Ansbach, fireman. employed
in the Hazleton region, testified before
the strike commission that on every
other Sunday he was required to work
Cd hours without relief The Rev. Jas.
V. Hussie, Catholic priest, told the
commission that the conditions among
the miners in that region were deplor-
able. =.
Zero weather prevails in Northern
Kansas. Rain and snow fell in the
South. The Red river, in Louisiana,
is rising. and a number OF families on
the bottomlands have been forced to
leave their homes.
Grand Master Morrissey, OF the
Brotherhood OF Railway Trainmen, is
sued a statement that there is move
ment afoot for the federation OF :a;l,
way labor organization, with view OF
making a combined demand for higher
wages.