Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-02-27
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

Inc QlStIlCl dltOllCy DIT Jan al
cisco says the fact that the Delaware
legislature is considering the appropria.
ton of funds to defray the cost OF
prosecuting Mrs. Cornelia Botkin tor
the killing OF Mrs. Dunning and her
sister will not interfere with the trial
of the woman in San Francisco.
Nearly 900 pieces OF silverware, stol-
Ell recently from one or more families
in Philadelphia, were found by detec--
tives in the possession Of two colored
burglars under arrest i'll New York.
The Attorney General Of Illinois. is
making inquiries into the plans OF the
Glass Trust, representatives OF which
met in Chicago last week.
Agreements were entered into IN
Chicago by labor unions with the EN-
ployers' union, which will prevent SYM
pathetic strikes in the building trades:
The steamer Brooklyn City arrived
at New York, having required 2S days
to make the trip from Swansea on &C
count of hurricanes and gales.
Beers have bought large tract OF
land from the Southern Pacific Rail
road in the Bear River Valley, Utah,
on which they will settle,
A passenger train ran into freight
on the Illinois Central, near Galena,
ILL.,, killing three trainmen and fatally
injuring fourth.
DR.. Friedrich Muller, Professor
Lorenz's assistant in his bloodless OPP
crations. will come to this country IN
March to attend to the aftertreatment
in the case Of Lolita Armour, and to
accept the chair of orthopedy in the
Chicago Medical College.
More sensational evidence was heard
in the trial Of DR.. Ellis Duncan for the
shooting of Bruce Head in Pittsburg
A love-letter alleged to have been writ
ten by Head to Mrs. Duncan was sub
mitted in evidence.
George Fl. Pell. who some years ago
was we'll known in Wall street circles
in New York and in fashionable cir
Giles, was sentenced to three years and
six months in States prison for grand
larceny. ,
Money sharks at Chicago have raised
a fund to defeat legislation prohibiting
the assignment OF salaries as security
for money loans to employees.
Mr.. Carnegie added $I25,ooo to the
endowment fund of the Carnegie Labo-
ratory of Engineering at the Stevens
Institute Of Technology
A number OF lives we're lost and
many persons injured in an early
morning fire that destroyed the Clifton
Hotel, at Cedar Rapids, la.
The confession OF Insurance Agent
Foster in the New York insurance
frauds made public some startling
methods OF the swindlers: =,
An old resident OF Morris, n. y,
has made the arrangements and paid
his undertaker's bill, and also settled
for his tombstone.
lanes Flynn, former assistant cor
poration counsel in New York, was
stricken with heart disease on an ele-
waited train and died.
Count Won Ouadt, of the German
Embassy, and Countess Won 2uadt'
naid farewellvisitto President Roose-
welt. . G.
A man serving term in the ot
Louis workhouse who, as Lieutenant
Colonel Seymour Darlington, OF the
British nobility" married woman II
Kansas city, has been ident!hed as
George Barton, an English criminal.
Thousands of acres of bottomland II
Indiana. south of Vincennes, last week
under water from the floods, are now
covered with ice and many families, are
destitute and unable to get away from
their ice-bound houses:
The extreme cold has so congeale:o
the natural gas that many residences II
Pittsburg and vicinity are without heal
or light and the people have to go tc
| he'd to keep warm.