Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-04-08
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed ijr Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

Lieutenant Commander Edgar
Townsend Warburton, chief engineer
of the battleship Maine, now at Pen
sacola, committed suicide in his cabin
on board the vessel.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin testified in
her own behalf in her trial in San
Francisco for sending poisoned candy
to Mrs. John P. Dunning, in Delaware.
William E. Church confessed in
St. Louis, Mo-, that he killed his
benefactors, Mr. and Mrs. Henry w.
Yeater, while they were asleep.
Al Adams, the policy king, serving
indeterminate sentence in Sing Sing,
has applied to the board to be re-
leased on parole.
Seven hundred members of the Ele-
vator Constructors and Millwrights,
Union of New York and Brooklyn
went on a strike.
Otis White, of Ransomville, N. Y,
deliberately walked into the rapids at
| Niagara Falls and was drowned.
The United States Army transport
Logan sailed from San Francisco for
| Manila with IT'S recruits.
Mrs. Abbey Morton Diaz, the writer
and rcformer, died at her home, in
Belmont, Mass.
On account of the strike of the
miners coal famine is threatened in
| Iowa.
Nearly five and one-half million dol
| lars was set apart by the board of
estimates in New York to be expended
in installing an auxiliary system of
saltwater mains to be used in con-
nection with hre-hghting in the
Boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The United States Steel Corporation
filed a demurrer in Trenton, N. j., to
the suit of Alfred Stevens, who asked
that the corporation be required to pay
dividend.
The Iowa coal miners and operators
have been unable to adjust their dill
ferences and shutdown is likely to
follow, throwing 1850 miners out OF
employment,
Edward Reglar, who is something
of a White House crank, was arrested
in Pittsburg and held, pending an in
vestigation of his mental condition.
The appointment of Col. Edmund
Rice, U. S. A., retired, as military sec
rotary of the ceremonies committee
of the Worlds Fair is announced.
The cruiser Denver was given a
Cape Ann course and agaiIi failed to
meet contract speed requirements.
Judge eager, in New Haven, ex-
cluded the sealed letter in the Ben.
net will case, which made bequest OF
$4,000 to Mr.. Bryan.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee, and Captain
Wainwright and other officers OF the
North Atlantic Squadron paid an OF
fetal visit to President Amador. at the
palace, in Panama.
OR" Dewing WIS arrested IN Chica-
go for buying railroad tickets at cler-
gymen's rates and selling them to tick
ct brokers.
A Sabine Pass and Northwestern
passenger train was wrecked iii texas
and several passengers were injured,
Further sensational incidents mark
ed the second days hearing in the
Bennett will case "a New Haven.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
against the Pettingill Advertising
Agency, of Boston.
Mrs. Cauncey Marian, known as the
latest woman in the world, died IN
New York.
The Great Belgrade levee broke at
Vincennes, Ind, causing much dam
age.
Fire in the Quincy Mine, near
Houghton, Mich, did considerable
damage.
The Alien immigration Bill requir-
ing that the immigration of certain
classes of aliens into the United King
dom be subjected to state control
passed its first reading in the British
House of Commons.
The French Chamber of Deputies
began debate upon Marine Minister
Pelletan's administration of the navy,
which promises to be test of the
strength Of the entire French ministry.
Foreign.
NJ. Muravieff, Russian minister of
justice and recently president of The
Hague Arbitration Tribunal, in his
report to the Gar on the Venezulan
arbitration proceedings concludes with
the conviction that The Hague Court,
due to the Russian Emperor's lnltla-
tive, will render invaluable service in
the cause of international peace.
Bonaparte Wyse, original conces-
sionair of the Panama Canal, has
declared that he would appeal from
the decision of the French Court.
King Peter has removed from his
encourage all those concerned in the
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Draga.
The First Civil Tribunal Of the Seine
has decided that the Republic of Co.
lumbia, having lost its sovereignty
over Panama, has no standing in court
to prevent the sale of the canal
property.
Emperor Francis Joseph performed
the ancient foot-washing ceremonial
in the Crystal Hall of the Hofburg, in
Vienna