Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-05-27
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.


aiding the work of improving roads
The police have recovered some
jcwelry that was STOLEN from the
coffin of Lady Mary" Livingston, on
the family estate, below Hudson, n. Y.
Papers on newspaper topics were
read at the Worlds Press Parliament
in Festival Hall, on the Worlds Fair
Grounds, in S.. Louis.
The Cumberland Presbyterians, at
their session in Dallas, Tex, discussed
the subject of reunion with the Pres
byteran Church.
Knights of Labor lecturers are or
ganizing the teXtileworkers in Phil
adelphia with the object of making a
contest against the American Fed
Grafton of Labor for supremacy.
John Hathaway, a colored jockey,
was sentenced in Winchester, KY, to
be hanged for the murder of Eta
Thomas.
David Rothschild, former president
of the Federal Bank of New York,
was convicted of larceny in the first
degree.
A call has been issued for the for
nation Of an association to comprise
all the trust companies in New York.
President Clowry, of the Western
Union, said that his company had
absolutely abolished the racing de-
partment.
The left leg of Major T. A. Bing-
ham, United States Engineers, was
amputated at a hospital in Buffalo.
The Temple of Fraternity, at the
Worlds Fair, was opened by the
Daughters of Rebekah.
John J. Donahue, an alleged en-
bezzler in Sioux City, Ia, was caught
in Ireland. .
The National and International
Good Roads Association began its.
convention in the Missouri State
Building, in the Exposition grounds
An address was made by Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson.
During heavy electric storm JOS
eph Odle, a private in the One Hun.
dred and Thirteenth Company OF
Coast Artillery, at Fort Hancock, N.
J., was struck by lightning and III
stantly killed.
Frank Betsa, a Hungarian, 70 years
old, was convicted in Morristown, N:
J., of the murder of Mime Root, OF
Hibernia, and was sentenced to be
hanged
Prof. w. L. Stokesbury, of Vir-
ginia Institute, Bristol, was elected
president of Lincoln Memorial Uni
versty, at Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
AT the annual meeting of the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company the
old directors, with one exception,
were reelected.
A commemorative tablet was un-
yelled by the General Federation of
Club Women at the Worlds Fair, in
ST. Louis.
Testimony for the defense was
given at the trial of James Gillespie
for the murder of his sister in Ris-
ing Sun, Ind. :
The tin wage scale was completed
and adopted by the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION in Cleveland, 0.
Louis Oliver, a chronic thief, was
sentenced in Mason, Mich, to prison
for life for stealing.
The lowest bid for the mammoth
government dredge for the Delaware
River was submitted by the Maryland
Steel Company and they will secure
the contract
Exciting debates on fire insurance,
strikes and kindred subjects took
place at the session of the National
Association of Manufacturers in Pitts
burg.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is holding a session in New York
and is investigating freight rates from
the West to seaboard ports.
United States Senator Latimer, OF
South Carolina, addressed the Cool
Roads Convention, in session in St.
Louis.
A British bark was wrecked ard
steamer went ashore in the dense
fog off the Newfoundland coast.
Murphy J. Foster was formally re-
elected United States senator by the
Louisiana legislature.
Burglars robbed the postoffice at
Swarthmore, Pa, of stamps and cash
estimated at 5000.
There was a sharp break in the
New York cotton market.
Indianapolis will entertain Prince
Pu Lun. of China.
Mrs. Herman Leroy Jones, wife of
well-krown New Yorker and
prominent in society of that city, has
mysterously disappeared In note
to her husband she says she will work
out her own destiny.
The Civic Federation has offered
its services with view to bringing
about a settlement of the existing diff
ferences between the Lake Carriers
Association and Pilots Association
In an address in ST. Louis Gen.
Nelson A. Miles suggested that 5000
soldiers during times of peace be en-
ployed in assisting local authorities
in constructing good roads.
The International Navigating Com
PAWS steamer the Conemaugh has
not been beard from since she sailed
from Seattle to New York on Decem-
Der IS.
The battleship Rhode Island was
launched at Quincy, Mass. The water
was not deep enough, and she stuck
in the mud
The dissolution of the second or
extended bond conversion syndicate
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton took effect.
The Rosebud Indian Reservation,
in the southern part of South Dakota,
will be thrown open to settlers IN
July.
The General Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs is holding its seventh
biennial meeting in St Louis.
A monument to Gen. Rufus Putnam,
of the Revolutionary Army, was dedi-
Gated at Sutton, Mass.
Foreign.
One of the first official acts OF the
Gar upon his return to st. Peters