Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-02
The LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

The American Historical Society and
the American Economic Association
onened their annual sessions in Phlladel,,
phia. E..R. A. Seligman, professor OF
economics in Columbia University ano
president of the Economic Association,
delivered an address on Economic ana
Social Progress.
Judge Samuel J. Clarke, who led an
overland expedition to Colorado IN i149
and said to be the last surviving menlDei
of the first legislature OF that state, dleu
in Geneva, n Y, at the age OF Is years.
Evidence was given against Kooer,
Giles. government contractor, ana
Lieutenant Commander George W.
Mentz, accused of smuggling, at 81
Thomas, Porto Rico.
Suit was instituted in Trenton, N. j.;
by the Equitable Trust Company OF
Philadelphia against the asphalt com,
bine to enforce sale of stock deposited
as collateral
A dispatch was received at San Fran
cisco from the cable ship Silverton, say
ing they were about to complete the
cable connections at the Island OF Oanu'
Zelie de Lussan, the opera singer an
nounced her engagement to olgnor no
beldo, a Brazilian and her purpose &c
retire from the stage: .,.
Letitis Drake, suffering from tuber-
culosis. was made melancholy by inc
Christmas festivities and killed hersell
after the party.
Four men were struck by all express
train near Ridgewood, n. J.. One was
killed and three very seriously injured
Mrs. Langtry, the actress, was pas
senger on the steamer Celtic, which ar
rived at New York from Liverpool.
Carl Theodore Bitter. the sculptor. has
been appointed chief of sculpture OF the
St. Louis Exposition.
Second Lieutenant William NJ. klstler,
of the Eighteenth Infantry, is missing
from Fort Logan.
Mrs Mary Hartwell Catherwood. the
authoress, died at her home, i'll Chicago,
of cancer
An unknown man robbed and muir
dered Ed Gay in his store, at Matthews
Ga.
Mary A. Darby was found choked to
) death at her home, near Tuckerton, n. j.
Francis Meeker, superintendent OF the
Salvage Corps of Newark, N. j.. and
, for nearly p years treasurer of the New
a, ark branch Of the New Jersey Firemen
E Relief Association, was arrested on
charge of embezzlement.
E William p. Hallenback shot and serl
ously wounded his wife on sick bed
drove his I7-year-old daughter into the
: street at the point of revolver and ther
. killed himself at their home, in Kansas
City.
:, William B. Ewing. arrested in Chicago
for fraudulent Use Of the mails, u
wanted in San Francisco, where he con
d Quoted the Standard Oil Promotion ant
: Investment Company. g
: Mr.. H. c. Prick stated emphaticali
that he would not, under any clrcum
h stances. become an executive ofilcer 0
/ the United States Steel Corporation.
3 William L. Elkins, of Philadelphia,
l. to erect home for orphan girls, tn
: daughters of Free Masons, in that city
l. at cost of half million dollars
In a fight following the discovery b
IS Joseph Terry, of Newark, N. j., OF HI
e wife in Frank Brady's company Mr.
Terry was shot dead.
l. Chief of Detectives John Donahuc., c
lie Hot Springs, Ark, was shot and kille
st on the street by Frank Dougherty,
o race-track follower. :. A.
IS Anton Anderson struck a man IN u
l. month in New York and blood-poisol
N ing followed the wound, caused by III
/ mans teeth.