Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-08-07
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

The trustees of the Newport Hospita
have received from Mrs. Vanderbilt til,
formal transfer of the $4,000 ware
which she has caused to be erected as ;
memorial to her husband, the late Cor
nelius Vanderbilt
Judge Lochren, of the United State!
Circuit Court, in the case of the State o.
Minnesota against the Northern Securi
ties Company, decided in favor of the
defendants and dismissed the bill of com
plant.
Ida NJ Tritt, the first woman to hold
all executive position in any railroad ir
the United States, has been elected
treasurer of the New York and Queen;
County Street Railway.
1t is expected in Boston cotton-manu-
featuring circles that more than 2,oooooc
spindles will be idle throughout the
North during the month of August
Eighteen British subjects were refused
landing by the United States immigrant
commissioner at San Francisco because
they were contract laborers.
Further evidence was given in the
trial at Cynthiana, KY, of Curtis Jett
and Thomas White for killing J. B.
Marcum that Jett admitted the killing
A freight train ran into half-open
drawbridge on the Delaware and Hud-
son, killing the fireman and seriously in
juring the engineer.
The mobilization of the greatest fleet
of warships in American waters has been
successfully accomplished at Frenchmans
Bay
Three men were found crushed to
death on a gondola car, loaded with lum-
Der, from Williamsport, Pa, for Phila-
delphia.
Lawrence Murphy. former treasurer
of the Journeymen Stonecutters Union,
who was arrested last December,
charged with embezzling $4,000 from
the labor organization, and who was
convicted in New York on Monday Of
grand larceny, was sentenced by Judge
Newburger, in Part II. of General SEES
sions, to FIVE years and six months
in states prison.
The French steamer lie Lion arrived
in Philadelphia, having on board the
crew of the Italian bark Vermont,
which capsized in the Atlantic during
a storm.
A fisherman in the Mississippi river
near Lacrosse, Wis, was pulled over
board by an enormous catfish and was
drowned.
Ben w. Stearnes, the one-armed life
prisoner who escaped from the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, was
captured.
Robert Lee, the negro who shot Po-
liceman Massey in Evansville, Ind,
died from effect Of wounds inflicted by
Massey.
James Mccormick, of New York,
we'll known as a broker for Jay Gould
and as an art collector. is dead.
Major John Wyatt Jones, of the last
Confederate staff officers, died in St.
Louis, aged So years.
A murder, believed to have been the
outcome OF a duel, occurred at Revere,
Mass, Joseph Corse being the victim
and Anthony Montanino being the al
legged murderer.
The Doylestown (Pa.) National
Bank suspended, and was placed in the
hands Of comptroller. Speculation in
stock by the banks officers is charged.
Hospital doctors in San Francisco re-
port the cure OF case of lockjaw by
the use OF antitoxin, which was injected
into the patients brain.
Walter w. Condor, formerly of Cold
Water, Mich, said to be an heir to an
estate valued at $35o,ooo, has been
found in Chicago.
A. B. Youngson, first assistant grand
chief of the Brotherhood OF Locomo-
tive Engineers, died in Meadyille, Pa,
his home.
Edmund J. Smith, former discount
clerk in a Newark On. j. bank, is
short $4,000 in his accounts.
The Seaview House on the camp
ground at Old Orchard, Me, was burn
ed. Two guests are missing.
During July 10000 immigrants pass
I'd through St. Paul en- route to the
Northwest.
Il The graves OF five Indians, with their
weapons, were uncovered in Chicago.
Z Five sanitary inspectors OF Chicago
ere indicted for accepting brides.