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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
NEW PENSION RULING.
Bureau Fixes the Age Limit for Civil War
Veterans.

Commissioner of Pensions Ware
with the approval of Secretary Hitch
cock has promulgated the most import
ant pension ruling that has been is
sued in a long time. the order fol-
lows:
Ordered, in the adjudication Of pen
sion claims under said act of June u
1890. as amended, 1t shall be taken
and considered as an eviientiai fact
IL the contrary !oes not appear, and if
all other legal requirements are prop
erly met that when a claimant has
passed the age of 81 years he is dis
abled one-half in ability to perform
manual labor and Is entitled to be
rated at Sc per month; after 65 years
at So per month; after 6S years, at SIG
per month; and after 70 years, $12
per month.
Allowance at higher rates, not ex
ceeding S12 per month, will continue
to be made as heretofore, where disa
bilities other than age show a condi'
ton of inability to perform manual
labor.
This order shall take effect April 10,
1904 and shall not be deemed retro
active. The former rules of the Of
fee fixing the minimum and maximum
at So years and rs years respectively
are hereby modified as above.
The order itself is prefaced by
preamble which, after citing the laws,
says the pension bureau has establish
ed with reasonable certainty the aver
age nature and extent of the infirmity
of old age; that 80 years after the
Mexican war, congress, in 1887, placed
on the pension roll all Mexican war
soldiers who were over 81 years old.
Commissioner Ware, just before
leaving for trip south for his health,
spoke as follows regarding the order,
which he said, would save both the Old
soldiers and the government a great
deal of money and time.
There has long been in the bureau
a rule fixing maximum age limit at
s12 for rs years. This was made DUR
ing Mr.. C7eveland's administration by
Commissioner Lochren.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
COURT HOUSE DYNAMiTE0.
Attempt to Demosh Building Failed to Have
Much Effect.

An attempt was made to wreck the
Court House at st. Marys, W. va,
by dynamite. The last prisoner had
been released and Jailer D. l.. Slime
moved into a dwelling several squares
away.
The dynamiters forced open the
north door. In the southeast corner OF
the Jail near the ceiling they placed
stick of dynamite and attached fuse
which led to the corridor. The ex-
plosion occurred about II o'clock at
night, and although Policeman RIGGS
was on the spot within five minutes
he found no trace of the perpetrators.
Windows were shattered, the ceiling
torn loose and the floor Of the court
room raised in that corner foot.
Some think It was done by someone
who had once been confined in the
iail. Others suggest that the deed
was committed by parties who are
in favor of a new Court House. Two
wears ago the County Commissioners
caused to be recorded in their minute
book the fact that the building was I'M
safe. and also passed an order pro
yiding for the erection of new build
ing, going so far as to pay about W.
600 for an architects plans, but nave
since done nothing.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
No American Slave Dealers in the
Philippines.
To Mandamus a Judge.

In the Supreme Court the Govern
ment, through Acknowledgement Knox
applied for a writ of mandamus to
compel Judge Francis ]. Wing, OF
the United States District Court OF
the Northern District of Ohio, to
take what the Department of Justice
maintains is legal action with respect
to certain Chinese expulsion cases.
This is the first time in the history OF
the Supreme Court that the Govern
ment has sought writ of mandamus
against a Federal Judge.
Acknowledgement Knox maintains
that Judge Wing, in holding unconsti-
tutional that part of the Chinese Ex-
clusion law which provides for the
deportation of alien Chinese after a
hearing before a United States COM
missioner, is proceeding contrary to
decisions of the United States ST.
preme Court and is preventing the
decoration of Chinese who are I'M
lawfully in the United States.
According to Mr.. Knox's petition
the proceedings in Judge Wings
Court are peculiar. Many Chinese ex-
clusion cases recently have arisen IN
that district. Chinese persons, said
to be in this country unlawfully, were
taken before Commissioner Simpson,
and by him were ordered deported.
Their counsel then went before Judge
Wing with proceedings in appeal, and
on the showing made the Judge re-
leased them. Subsequently, it is said,
Judge Wing refused to take the neces-
sary steps to have the papers filed in
the District Court, which would en-
able the Government to appeal the
cases to the United States Supreme
Court. He held that the proceedings
before him on appeal from the United
States Commissioner were before him
as Judge. and were not before the
District Court. and that none of the
papers. therefore, should be filed by
the clerk Of his court.
The result has been to nullify all
efforts Of the Government to get the
cases before the Supreme Court Judge
Wings position effectually blocking
all proceedings in the cases after he
has passed on them.
Cleveland.-Judpe Wing recently re-
leased a number of Cinnamon BROUGHT
before him upon the charge of being
in the United States rnlawfully, on the
ground that they had not been proven
Chinese.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
Foreign.

Officials of the American Embassy
in Paris are considering points OF
French law to insure protection of the
United States when payment of S4o,-
ooo, 1000 for Panama Canal property is
made.
The German government has asked
the Reichstag to appropriate $685.
600 for expenses in suppressing the
Herero rebellion in German South
west Africa.
Lewis Vernon-Harcourt, eldest son
of William Vernon-H arcourt, has been
elected to the House of Commons.
It is admitted in British government
circles that Premier Balfour suffered
a personal defeat in only being able
to keep his ministry in power by a
majority of 46.
The French Court of Cessation con-
tinued in the investigation of the War
Office documents in the Dreyfus case.
On account of conflicting reports
of the intentions of the Japanese
commanders in Manchuria the Russian
corps which has arrived at Hardin will
be detained there.
Twenty-four States of the United
States have passed industrial arbltra-
ton laws.
Mattresses at Rochester, N. Y, have
formed union. A shorter workday
is desired.
The trials of the rioters and muir
derers at Kishineff were concluded.
One man was sentenced to 20 years
for the murder of a Jewish couple.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
Dewey Feared Bullets.

Admiral Dewey has cabled the
Navy Department the reasons why
he did not pay a visit to President
Morales, the head of the provisional
government of Santo Domingo.
The Admiral on his flagship, the
MayAower, cruised in Dominican
waters last week. On the day the
Mayfower reached Santo Domingo
there was fighting in progress be-
tween the federal and insurgent troops.
One army was on one side Of the
river which led to the city and the
enemy was on the opposite side.
Transit of the river was accordingly
Subject to considerable danger. It was
deemed inadvisable to run the May
flower into this wild fire.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
Diplomatic Appointments.

The Senate in executive session con-
frmed the following nominations:
John Barrett, Oregon, envoy extra
ary to Panama; Arthur M. Beaupre,
Illinois, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to the Argen-
tine Republic; William w. Russell,
District of Columbia, envoy extraor-
binary and minister plenipotentiary to
Columbia; Henry w. Shoemaker, O.,
secretary of legation at Lisbon, Por-
tugal; Nelson O'Shaughnessy, New
York, secretary of legation at Copen-
hagen, Denmark; Louis A. Dent, Dis
trict of Columbia. consul at Dawson
Civ. Yukon territory, Canada James
Tanner, register of wills for the Dis
trict of Columbia; James H. Mon
teath, agent for the Indians of the
BlackAeet Agency, Montana.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
NO POISONED SWORDS.
But japanese Had Planned TO Blow Up Rus
sian Cayalry.

St. Petersburg, (By Cable).-Thc
talk of "pyroxiline" (poisoned) swords
having been left behind by the fleeing
Japanese is based on the mistransla-
ton of a Russian technical term.
General Zilonski. chief of staff to
Viceroy Alexieff, in telegram said
that pyroxiline had been found in the
form of disc-shaoed torpedoes, six
inches in diameter, which The Jap
anese intended to use in bestrewing
the road over which the Russians were
expected to pass, in order Hhat the
explosions resultino from the impact
of the horses hoofs might cause a
stampede. AS the road between Anju
and Ping Yang is very narrow, the
hoofs of the horses of the Russian
cavalry and artillery and the wheels
OF the wgons would have been certain
to have exploded the torpedoes, there
by causing great confusion.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
EXPLOSION OF LIQUID AIR.
One Man Killed, Another Injured and the
Vicinity Shaken.

New York. (SpeciaD.-The explo
sion of tank of liquid air i'll the
laboratory of the American Liquid
Air Company killed one man. caused
a panic among the employees in tht
place, and shook the entire nelghbor,
hood like an earthquake. Edward
Corliss, of Bangor. Me-. was working
at compassionate machine, when
the tank, which was only few feet
away from him. burst with terrific
report. One of his legs was torn from
its socket and the other was mutt
lated.
Only four men were in the labora-
tory at the time. They were all badly
hurt.
Soon as one of them. Edward Rus
sci, regained his faculties he went to
the superintendent of the place and
resigned.
aft I had known | was taking such
desperate chances with my life never
would have worked near liquid air,
he said as he put on his hat and coat
and departed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
Charged With Peonage.

Savannah, Ga, (SpeciaD.-In the
United States District Court, before
Judge Speer, argument was submitted
on the constitutionality of the acts of
Congress against peonage. The par
ties indicted are Sheriff Mcclellan, of
Ware county, and Attorney Crawley,
of the Way Cross bar, charged with
selling negroes to be held in peonage.
Judge Newman, of the northern dis
trict of Georgia, has held the law to
be invalid. An argument against the
law by William Toomer upheld the
right of the state court to take any
needed action.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
NO STRIKE OF MINERS
Vote in Favor of Accepting the Wage
Scale
ALL THE STATES AGAINST STRIKE
illinois and Iowa the Only Two Where the Ma
iority was Two to One Against The Scale and
for a Str ke-President Mitchell Much Pleas
ed-Auotter Conference Between Operators
and Mine Workers to Restore Agreement.

Indianapolis, Ind, (SpeciaD AT the
national headquarters of the United
Mineworkcrs of America estimates on
the vote of the miners had been COM
puted by the national officers. They
are positive the scale has been &C
copied and there will be no strike.
Of the 100000 miners in the states
voting it is estimated that $4,000
voted, and OF these $500 voted for
the scale and 46.5oo voted against 1t
and in favor of a strike.
Maryland did not vote. not being
sure it was entitled to vote. West
Virginia reports are meager, and no
estimate is made. Indiana cast 10000
votes-a majority of two to one tor
the scale. Illinois cast 10000 votes,
with majority of two to one against
the scale and i'll favor of strike.
Pennsylvania cast $4,000 votes, with a
a majority of two to one for the scale.
Kentucky had small vote. with three
to one for the scale. Iowa cast TO-
900 votes, with a majority for a strike.
Michigan cast a small vote for the
scale. Ohio cast $4,000 votes, with
four to one for the scale.
President Mitchell said he was
pleased with the reports that have
come in. He expressed confidence
that the proposition of the ooeratorrS
would be accepted. He said that in
case it were accepted meeting OF the
Joint scale committee would probably
he called for Monday of next week to
sign the contract for the central COM
petitive field.
When the committee meets it is
understood that it will appoint time
for the next conference between the
operators of the central competitive
field and the mineworkers, and in this
manner restore the interstate agree
ment system TO its former position
The greatest opposition to an. &C
ceptance Of the operators proroSitlon
was expected from Illinois and Iowa,
representing about $1,000 of the total
of 100000 votes.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
WANTS NO DELAY IN EXECUTION.
Murderer Believes He Is Deserving OF inc
Death Penalty.

Albany, N. Y. (SpeciaD.-Governor
Odell has received most extraordi-
nary letter from a man condemned
to death for murj r, requesting the
interference of the executive TO pre-
vent any attempt to delay the execu-
ton. The writer is Frank II, Bur
ness, sailor, convicted in Brooklyn
of the murder of George B. Town
send, the captain of his vessel. He IS
confined to Sing Sing Prison and was
to have been executed February 8, but
the execution was stayed by an APP
peal to the Court of Appeals, taken by
his attorney, without the consent OF
the condemned man.
The letter says in substance that
the writer believes himself deserving
of. the death penalty, which he wants
inflicted with all speed possible. He
declares he does not want new trial.
as he has violent temper which he
is unble to control.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
Russian Treason Case.

Vienna, (By Cable).-A telegram
from Lemberg says that Captain
Ieontieff of the Russian General Staff
was recently arrested at Warsaw for
having sold to foreign Power a list
of the secret agents maintained by the
Russian General Staff in the frontier
districts of Russa's western neighbor.
The discovery was made through
the delivery of a money order to an
other person of the same name.
Leontieff is reported to have been
shot. -
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
GERMANS WANT SANTO DOMINGO.
Efforts to Secure Control OF that Revolutionary
Island,

Adyices from Santo Domingo indi-
cate Germany is at work to gain a
preponderant influence in that repub-
lie as will give her reasonable excuse
to exercise a protectorate over the
country if not to make it a German
colony.
The recent arrival there of the
nephew of the late President Heureaux
whose assassination preceded the rev.
olutions, is connected with Germany.!s
designs. NJ Heureaux, it is stated has
been exiled and the hint GENES the
cause of his exile is the suspicion that
he is really acting in the interest OF
Germany.
One of the plans attributed to Ger
many Is the purchase from Spain, OF
a debt of over 100000. This debt
was contracted after the war Of in
dependence in 1863 when treaty was
signed in which Spain recognized the
independence of Santo Domingo and
the latter recognized the above in
debtedness which has never been paid
1t Is asserted at a much later date
Spain freed the island from this liza
bility with the condition that the debt
should be paid in the event of its an
nexation to some foreign power.
IF Spain should transfer this debt to
Germany and the latter power should
insist on it's validity, it would make
Germany the heaviest creditor of the
island. Should she try to collect the
debt the only settlement possible
would be the giving to Germany OF
Santo Domingo territory.
It is believed in Santo Domingo. &C.
cording to the advices received here,
that unless the United States soon
undertakes the pacifcation Of the re-
public, Germany will step in and I'M
dertake the task.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
MLIKE A CITY OF DEATH"
Peri Arthur Seemed to Be on Pire From a
Boat.

London, (By Cable).-In dispatch
from Cheefoo, dated on March II, a
correspondent of the Daily Mail de-
scrbes IN inspection of Port Arthur
made from a boat. The new city
seemed to be on fire; three columns of
smoke were ascending from it. The
Bread Hill fort appeared to have suf-
fered terribly; the defenses were shat
tered and the earthworks torn up. No
guns were visible. The line of forts
on the Tigers Tail also appeared to
have suffered damage. At sunrise no
sign of life could be seen anywhere,
and Port Arthur looked like city of
death. The torpedo-boat destroyers
inside did not appear to have steam
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
Ticket Office Robbed.

Harrisburg, Pa, (SpeciaD.-Point-
Ing revolvers into the face of Night
Operator and Ticket Agent c. U. Cas-
sci, in the Hammelstown Station of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railway
at 1890 P. NJ, two men, wearing false
mustaches, demanding all the money
in the office Cassel, who had been
sitting with his back to the door, was
taken by surprise and compelled to
open the cash drawer. which contained
SIs in small change The men took
the money and escaped, going toward
Harrisburg.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
Congressional and Departments.

Chief Judge Clabaugh sustained the
demurrer of former Commissioner Of
Pensions H. Clay Evans to the amend
cd declaration of Henry D. Phillips.
Professor Burr discussed the ques-
ton of sanitation of the Panama Ca
nal route before the House committee.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware has
issued an order making changes in
the age considerations in ratings.
The Dietrich Investigating Com
mittee resumed its inquiry into the
charges against Senator Dietrich.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
Suicide to Music.

Omaha, Neb., (SpeciaD.-Maj Will
liam H. Bean. U. S. A., committed
suicide by shooting. Ordered to the
Philippines, he had his trunk pack
ed and taken to the depot. I'M
mediately afterwards he asked his
wife to play on the piano, and while
she was playing he thrust an army
revolver to his right temple and fred.
The bullet lodged in his brain and he
died almost Immediately.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25
Reward for Indians.

A deed of heroic proportions will
receive Government recognition If
Senator Quay can induce the Senate
to insert an item of S3,400 in the In.
dian appropriation bill. This sum he
wants distributed, in equal shares, to
II Sioux who, in 1862, rescued Mrs
Julia Wright and Mrs. Emma Deely
and her six children from a band Of
White Lodge Sioux, which had made
captives of them during the Indian
outbreak.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-25

Mergantown, and WIZ aiw<.
with him $I,Ioo in money, strapped
to his person in wallets, was attacked
by three burglars, armed with knives
and razors, who entered his bedroom
and robbed him of all his savings.
III. Miller, arrested in Portsmouth
and released after being ordered out
of the city, but again arrested for the
Norfolk police, was sent TO jail for &c
DAYS, the charge against him beng
robbery from the room of {. h. Har'
graves.
The Virginia Corporation Commis'
sion has appointed Albert Sydney La,
nier, now secretary to Congressman
Lamb, assistant chief clerk to sue
coed B. J. Wysor, resigned.
John Sullivan. fireman on No. o.
the Southerns fast mail train, was ia
tally injured at Stanton river bridge
He was leaning out of the cab window
when his head came in contact with
the end beam OF the bridge and his
skull was crushed.
Among recent Virginia weddings
are the following: 7. {. McAlister'
of Orange county, and Mrs: Verona
Simms, OF Spottsylvania, at Staunton'
Miss Ida Gray Mccarthy and Mr.
Ellis Crenshaw, of Richmond; Miss
Lulu Boxweil and Harry Seabright. OF
Uniontown, Pa, at Winchester; Miss
Emily Raab was married at Beth
Ahaba Synagogue, Richmond, to
Adolph Manned, of Chicago: Mis-:
Mary Kinks Smith, of Winchester, TO-
George H. Kinzel, City Treasurer OF
Winchester. -.
Among the recent deaths in Virgins
are the following: Judge EDWIN
Brown, of Browns Store. Northunl'
berland county, aged 81; Capt. K. A.
Miller, of Tazewell county, aged Is;
Tohn Mcintosh, at his farm, White
Chimneys, near Pleasant Valley. Va,
aged Ga years; G.. Warehouse Harris,
near Charlottesville, aged 80; f: T
Voolfolk, of Newport News, aged AZ;
Iohn I. McKenna, of Bremo. Va,
aged 60; John |. Slaughter, of Rich
mond, aged so; J. w. Lockwood, Srs
at Red Bud, near Orange; Mrs; Agnes
G.. Booth, of Warrenton, aged 80; }.
H. McGufin, of Stanton, aged 81.
Reynoldson Barner, the ten-year-old
son of David Barner. formerly tore
man of the construction force of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
in Petersburg met with shocking
death in Dinwiddie County, near Din
widdie Station, on the Seaboard All
Line Railway. The unfortunate boy.
with two of his brothers, was engaged
in telling tree to be used by them
in building a dam across a creek The
tree in falling struck Reynoldson and
his head was caught between limb
of the tree and large rock and his
skull crushed.
Unless a higher court comes to
their aid President Sols l.. Bloomberg
Of the City Council; Luther Dawson.
lawyer Of previous good repute, and
Harry Marks, a merchant, must pay
!. H. Busby $4,000 for conspiring tc
destroy his business Busby has been
leading merchant in Richmond for
years. He asked for $4,000 damages
on the ground that Dawson, Marks
and Bloomberg, the latter also being
lawyer, have connived to, bring his
creditors down on him on the pre-
.ense of settling his affairs, Some sen.
sational Developments Resulted 4
verdict for 100000 wa rendered.