Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-08-08
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

The investigation into the Craven
lynching has brought out the names OF
several men alleged to be implicated.
Negroes testified freely before the cor
oner's jury.
J. c. McCaslin shot and killed Lottie
Russell, seriously wounded F. Max
Peters, and then committed suicide at
the Salt Palace Grounds, at Salt Lake
City.
Mrs. John Edwards, wife of the fore
man in charge OF double-tracking work
on the New York Central near Will
Transport, held gang Of mutinous ltal-
ians at bay.
Congressman Pugsley has gone abroad
to investigate the methods Of European
bankers. He is member of the Bank
ing and Currency Committee OF the
House.
Whitelaw Reid, United States ambas
sador to the coronation Of King Ed
ward, has returned to this country.
George Gould has purchased the ma
jority of the stock of the Union Rail
way Company OF Memphis.
Light earthquake shocks are still be-
ing felt in Los Alamos Valley
All the property Of the Norfolk Heat,
Light and Power Company, together
with all franchises, power and privileges
granted to that company by the Legs.
lature of Virginia and the Councils OF
Norfolk, passed into the hands OF the
Norfolk. Portsmouth and Newport
News Company.
The Imperial Tobacco Company, OF
Great Britain and Ireland, will enlarge
their operations in Richmond, Va, and
Immediately begin the construction OF
a mammoth plant. The company has
recently completed the purchase of a
site upon which the factory will be built.
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard the wife
of Richard Henry Stoddard, the writer
and poet, died at her home, in New
York, at the age of &c. Mrs. Stoddard
was herself writer Of some proml-
nence.
Willard C. Won Derlip, a Boston law
yer has been arrested on the q arge OF
embezzlement. He had charge OF sew
eral estates. He says his shortage is
about 100000.
On Wolfe Creek, w. Va, Joseph
Hardesty was killed and his four sons
were injured by the explosion of the
boiler in his saw mill
Governor Cumnins, OF Iowa, will in
vestigate the right of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railway to reorgan-
ize in that State.
A California geoIogist says that the
recent earthquakes in that State are not
due to volcanic activity, but to local
causes.
Flora Lucier, II years old, eioped
from White Valley, Mass, with Harry
Moore, Barre farmer.
Fifteen hundred boilermakers and
shipbuilders and their helpers in Chi
cago are on strike.
At Decatur, ILL.,, Charles Kerney,
deaf mute, killed himself because OF i'll
health
Postofices at Niles, Ohio, and at
Bloomingsburg, N. Y, were robbed.
A strike Of rug weavers in Phlladel-
phia has been settled.
Charles Craven, the slayer Of VIM. II.
Wilson, farmer, who lived near Hern-
don, Va, and who has been pursued by
over 100 people and by bloodhounds,
was captured on farm near Ashburn,
Va. He was asleep in hayrick and
was seized by three of his pursuers-
Ernest Norman, John Higgins and
Henry Bryant-before he had time to
offer resistance. He was lynched at
Leesburg.
Miss Susie Costerbader, who was re-
Gently assaulted by John Lomax in the
woods near her home at Potomac Mills,
Westmoreland county Va, died from
burns received while kindling fire.
The New York Mail and Express is
authority for the statement that mer-
ger of Southern Railroads is projected.