Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-04-17
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

cause the founders OF the republic did
not give women the right to vote.
The attorney general OF Illinois GER
tilted to the states attorney OF Cook
county (Chicago) the names OF 5000
CORPORATIONS which have failed to COM
DIV with the Antitrust Law, and di-
rected that official to proceed against
them.
Charles w. Sell, Jr., shot and serl,,
ously wounded Miss Mabel French, and
also wounded Grover Davis and JOS
eph Clough, who were escortlng her
home from grange meeting, near
Manchester, N. H.
The United States marshal at st,
Louis began. the payment OF 1900
creditors OF John J. Ryan & Co.,. the
race investment concern. They will re-
ceive IS cents on every dollar they in
vested. -,
Gen. John S. Jones, president OF the
board OF trustees OF the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors Orphan Asylum, at Henla,
died at his home, in Delaware, 0.
Justice Murphy held an inquest in
Buffalo in the matter OF the death OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Pennell. and decided that
he could not determine from the evil
dcnce whether the tragedy was acct
dental or designed. :.
The gun explosion on the battieship
Iowa is reported, upon investigation,
to have been due to a detective fuse:
The three who were killed were buried
in the National Cemetery in Pensacola
Spreading rails caused drill engine
on the Jersey Central Railroad to
plume down an embankment into a
pond near Elizabeth, N. J., and the EN-
gineer, fireman and brakeman we're
killed.
Daniel Lamont says the decision in
he railroad merger case will make little
difference in the management OF those
roads, even il the decision is attrmed
by the Supreme Court.
Congressman J. H. Southland. OF
Ohio, is investigating complaints OF eX-
orbitant charges being made tor the
disinterment and shipment OF the bodies
Of dead soldiers from Cuba.
P. Ogden Armour and the other
wheat bulls associated with him III the
big corner now being formed are count
| ing upon a war in the East to be OF as
siStance to them.
Lewis Good, the only formidable
candidate against President ]. J. Shat
fer. of the Amalgamated Association
OF Iron and Steel Workers, has with
drawn.
The rear end OF freight train on the
Susquehanna Railroad broke loose and
II cars plunged into the Poquannock
river, in New Jersey.
The Rev. William Henry Miburn, the
blind chaplain OF the United States
Senate. died in Santa Barbara, Cal.
Captain Pcrshing captured Bacolod;
island of Mindanao, killed a hundred
Moros and wounded many others.
The wife and fve-year-old daughter
OF Capt. George Merritt, OF the steamer
F. B. Thurber, were drowned in the
cabin OF the vessel as she sank at her
dock, at Perth Amboy, despite the cap
tain's efforts to rescue them.
The firm OF Tiffany & Co., OF New
York, has bought a large plat OF
ground at Fifth avenue and Thirty-sev-
cnth street, where the house will re-
move from Union Square. The trans
action involves more than S2,ooo,ooo.
In a riot between union and non
union ironworkers at the Walkerville
Bridge Company's plant, IN Walker
vile, near Detroit, one man was shot
I dead and several seriously injured.
lcreign.
The death OF NJ. Stcherbina, the Rus
sian consul at Mitrovitza, European
Turkey, who was shot by an ALBANIAN
sentinel, has greatly alarmed the Turk
ish authorities, who fear complications
with Russia.
Moses Fowler Chase, a wealthy young
man of Lafayette, Ind, whom United
States Consul General Cloudy found IN
sanitarium in Paris, is now on his
way to the. United States.
An official cable message from Mica
ragua states that President Zelaya
forces have recaptured Fort San Car
los, at the Lake Nicaragua entrance Of
the San Juan river.
Notifications have been received here
from the governments OF Salvador
Uruguay. Guatemala and Korea o.
their adherence to The Hague conven-
ton OF 1890.
Queen Wihemina has sanctioned the
Anti-strike Bill in Holland, and 1t has
become effective. The troops continue
20 guard the railroads.
NJ. Revolt, the governor general o
Algeria. resigned under circumstance
that caused something Of sensation II
Paris.
The Workmen's Defense Committee
of Amsterdam decided to proclaim al
end OF the general strike, but the ieder
ated trades unions repudlated its &C
ton and determined to continue TIT
strike. The diamond-cutters returned
to work. An agent OF the Dutch strlk
ers has been in Berlin arranging 10
,, German socialist support. The strik
ers in Rome, Italy, have resumed work
The foreign consuls at San Doming'
having failed to bring about peaceful
settlement OF the troubles. Presiden
Vasoucz resumed his attack upon tn
capital city and after hard battle wa
REFUSED. Italian and German warship
have landed marines to guard their con
suates.
Arthur Randolph Douglas, Liberal
Unionist member OF Parliament an
second son of the Earl OF Mintos WI
succeed William Hayes Fisher as fnan
cial secretary Of the British Treasury
Mascagni, in an interview. IN Pari.:
= attributes much of his misfortune 1
America to his refusal to give prlvat,
concerts at clubs and residences, al
though offered large sums.
I, The inhabitants of the district
Petrich, in European Turkey, have re
r yoltcd and Turkish troops are engage
in trying to suppress the uprising
financial
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