Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-06-19
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

the United States Shlpbulldlng COM
pany. D
Thomas Marcum, bother Of J. b.
Marcum, for whose murder Curtis Jett
and Thomas White are being tried at
Jackson, KY, made dramatic address
for the prosecution.
The Equitable Assurance Company
has refused to pay $3.50 insurance on
the life of Arthur R. Pencil, who hg-
ured in the noted Burdick case in Bull
falo, on the ground that Pencil was a
suicide.
The hotel employees strike has caused
rich women to help do the hotel cook
ing. the guests to wait upon each other
and to cat under police protection.
In the Textile Workers strike the
eighty-ninth firm granted the demands.
1t is rumored that Col. Robert I.
Clowry is to retire from the presidency
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, and Charles A. Tinker take his
place.
The one hundred and twenty-sixth
anniversary of the American flag was
observed at the Betsy Ross House in
Philadelphia.
Judge Gray, chairman OF the Anthra.
cite Strike Commission, appointed
Prof. Charles P. Neil, Of Washington,
commissioner to compute the increase
OF miners wages under the sliding
scale
Mrs. Isaac Poorc the wife Of far
mer of Washington county, Tenn, who
was criminally assaulted by a negro,
is expected to die. A mob was dis
suaded from lynching the negro.
The doors OF the Bessemer (Ala.)
Savings Bank and the Bank OF Com
merce were closed, the president OF the
former who is confessed detaulter'
being fugitive.
James Dumas, proprietor OF trans
fer company, in Indianapolis, Ind,
killed Sarah F. King, wife OF Wesley
R. King a workman, and then COM
mitted suicide.
Mrs. Mary Mcknight, who confess
ed having poisoned her brother and
his wife and child in Kalllaska, Mich,
was arraigncd and pleaded not guilty.
The hearing III the case OF the
charges against the coai-carrying rail
roads was continued before The Inter
state Commerce Commission, sitting
in New York
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals refused to modify its recent
decree allowing the Pennsylvania Rail
road to remove Western Union wires.
A number Of New York merchants
brought charges OF eXtortion and con-
spiracy against various steamship lines
running to South Africa.
President Ramsey, OF the Wabash
Railroad denied that there was any
truth in the various sensational rail-
road rumors.
Three robbers looted an express train
on the Erie Road, gear Englewood, Ind,
and two were captured with their pockets
full of loot.
A meeting was held in New York OF
the Cotton Duck Corporation, but
nothing was done toward the proposed
combination of plants.
In the trial of Robert A. Ammon. IN
New York, William F. Miller testified
that he gave Ammon $255,ooo and got
back c0ly 5000.
Governor Heard, of Louisiana, signed
the death warrant of A. f. Baton, con-
victed of killing seven members OF the
Early family.
Judge Horton, i'll Chicago, fined the
members of the Northern Illinois Goa
Dealers Association $500 each for con-
spiracy.
Gen. Alexander Mcdowell McCook
JI,ited States Army retired, died at the
home of his daughter, in Dayton, y:
Seven persons were drowned at Aber-
deem. Ark. on White River by the
capsizing of a houseboat. -,
Robert Neill was robbed while Ell
route from Liverpool to New York on
the steamer Germanic of $4,000.
Justice Lacombe, in the United States
Circuit Court in New York, decided
that the presidents OF coal roads mus,
answer certain questions propoundeo
by Interstate Commerce Commission.
Foreign.
The army is controlling Servia anC
the people remain calm i'll advance O.
the election OF the new king.
Ex-Congressman w. Bourke Coch
ran was given a dinner by members o
the Irish party in the House of Com
mons restaurant in London.
Premier Giuseppe Zanardelli formally
announced the resignation OF the Italian
Cabinet. =.
The Allan Line steamer Norwegian l.
ashore at Cod Roy, N. f., and is likely
to be a total wreck.
Monsignor Kelly, rector OF the
American College in Rome, gave din
ncr in honor of Mgr. F. L. Rocker an(
Bishop Dougherty.
Lady Henry Somerset was reelected
president of the Worlds w. {. l. Y,
in session in Geneva, Switzerland.
Prince Peter Karageorgevitch, declared
ki1g of Servia by the conSpirators ant
military officers who murdered King
Alexander and Queen Draga, who is still
at Geneva, says he has not yet received
the tender of the crown. The provls
ional premier of Servia says the Parlla
ment must first elect the king. Kara
georgevitch will be chosen because Rus
| STA and Austria will favor his selection
! The European powers are awaiting de
| vclopments. There is a feeling amont
the intelligent classes in favor. of tn
abolition of the monarchy and the crea
| ton of republic, but Russia and Aus
III go .,,+ chic &c NOT done