Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-11-11
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.


press ran into light engine during
dense fog at Portage, Pa. The pas
sengers had shaking up, but none
was seriously injured.
Arnold Gundcl6nger and his wife,
while guests at the Hotel Dorchester,
in San Francisco. were held up IN
their rooms and robbed of bag OF
jewelry.
The driver boys at No. Q Colliery
of the Pennsylvania Coal Company.
at Wilkesbarre, went OH strike, caus-
ing the shutting down Of the mine.
The Republic Iron and Steel Com
pany filed a mortgage in the county
recorders office in Cleveland, O.. for
$Ioooo,ooo.
The Methodist Women's Home
Missionary Society, in session in Kan
sas City, adjourned TO meet next year
in New York.
A runaway trolley car dashed into
a coal cart at McKeesport, Pa. The
motorman was killed and the passen-
gers injured.
Martin w. Burke, for II years the
manager of the Brcvoort Hotel, in
Chicago, was found dead in bed at
the hotel.
DR.. Lewis BOOkwalter was naugu-
rated president of Ottcrbein Univer-
sity, in Wcsterville, O.
William Muthart, living near Men
ger, Ind, shot his sweetheart and
then killed himself.
Seven persons in the household OF
Elisha w. Case, president of Chi
cago pie company, were overcome by
smoke and carried to the street I'M
conscious by members OF the fire de-
partment.
The cope stolen from the cathedral,
at Ascoli, Italy, has been presented to
the Italian government by J. Pier
pont Morgan, who purchased it.
George Hall, of Kansas City, was
arrested on the charge OF using the
mails to defraud. He sent 200 la
borcrs, who had paid him fsc, to
Alaska.
The body of Alma Steinway, tele-
phone operator, was found on a va
cant lot near Cincinnati. She had
been brutally assaulted and murdered.
Daniel w. Trotter, formerly assist
ant treasurer OF the American Lin
seed Oil Company, was declared IN
sane in Chicago.
Three officers Of the Preferred Mer-
camille Company OF Boston were in
dicted on tho charge of conducting a
lottery.
Directors ef the various roads affil-
lated with the Rock Island system
met in New York and elected Off
GERS.
A fire in the stationery store on the
first floor OF the Astor House caused
a scare, but little damage.
Henry p Seffenfeld, of Chicago,
sued Mrs. Eva Wood for $4,000 for
breach of promise.
Miss Eva Booth has been appointed
commander of the Salvation Army in
the United States. to succeed Booth
Tucker, who will return to England.
John A. Sheridan, former member
OF the House of Delegates, indicted
for bribery. died OF tuberculosis at
St. Louis, Mo.
The Methodist bishops have select
ed the commission on the unihcator
OF the different Churches in Japan.
-Four men have been killed and one
fatally wounded in personal alterca
tons i'll the Birmingham district.
Hayden Y Loring, manager of the
Loring Hotel, St. Louis, was shot and
killed by Norman NJ. Vaughan.
The proposition favoring an eight
hour day has been passed by the refer
cndum of the Typographical Union,
The twenty-seventh annual meeting
OF the Woman'S Board of Missions be-
gan at Providence, R. |.
Two female patients at the City
Hospital of Indianapolis died as the
result of the mistake of nurse.
A permanent organization was af-
fected in Chicago of about 40 tornado
insurance companies.
Adolphus Busch has resigned as di-
rector of the Worlds Fair Company.
A decree has been issued against the
receiver OF the Asphalt Company OF
American to show cause why the
pending suits against the promoters
should not be discontinued
Warrants were issued at ST. Louis
for the arrest OF FIVE men charged
with using fraudulent naturalization
papers.
More than 5000 passengers arrived
i'll New York on three German liners.