Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-11-25
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic

WIZ lCCCiHCu ny d committee OIL
prominent citizens, members OF the
governors staff, and a military detail
OF regulars and members Of the state
guard
Andrew Meaders, Jushua Cummins
Bee and Edward Hollsomback are
under arrest at Williamsburg, Ky,
charged with the murder of George
Curd and Emma Durham near Cum
berland Falls.
The Liberty Bell was brought back
to Philadelphia from St. Louis and es-
corted to Independence Hall by al
imposing military procession.
William Bate, d chauffeur, was found
shot dead in an automobile on lonely
road near Chicago. He is believed to
have been killed by robbers.
Reuben Loree, aged S., and his son
Fred Loree, aged 80 years, were suffo
Gated to death in the village lookup ir
COlumbiayille, Mich.
George Mack, chauffeur for Anna
Held, was arrested in New York or
the charge Of running down aged ia
cob Clemens.
Three election officers in Denver
COL, were convicted OF frauds at the
recent elections. They were fined
and sent to jail.
Twelve whitecappers were indicted
in Jackson, Miss, Oh the charge OF in
terlering with homesteaders.
The Central Vermont Railway:
freight steamer Mohawk was burned
off Horizons Point. L. |. The Mo
hawks crew was taken off by the
Fall River Line steamship Boston.
Henry Medium, formerly United
States surveyor, was convicted of for
gerry, being the first man to be con
victed in the so-called land frauC
cases.
~ premature blast in the excava
ton for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Tunnel in New York did $4,000 dam
age to neighboring buildings.
Announcement was made in Chi
cago Of the completion Of the fund o.
5000, 1000 ofor the erection of the Nc
Kinley monument.
After the death of DR.. t. G. Conk'
lin, a physician OF Pennington, Ill.
the discovery was made that he hac
two wives.
William P. Haydc, for many year:
county license inspector in Kansas
City, Mo-, shot and killed himself
! while in bed
President Francis and other official:
OF the ST. Louis Exposition were dec
GRATED with Legion of Honor insignia
John and James Black. twin broth
ers, and John Murphy were arrested
in Indian Territory on the charge o.
being the men who held up the Rock
Island train at Fort Logan, n. NJ.
William Polworth, 20 years old
shot and probably fatally woundel
Conrad Boxman at Bartlett. ILL.,, ant
then barricaded himself in his moth
er's home and deied citizens and po'
lice, but finally surrendered.
John G. Heckscher. secretary OF the
National Horse Show Association, wa:
run down and trampled upon by pail
OF horses in the ring at the New YORK
! Horse Show. His injuries may result
in conclusion OF the brain.
All the stipbuilding cases brough
in the United States Court in New
York against Schwab. Morgan. Gate!
and others were discontinued with th'
consent OF the cOmplaintants.
The Hotel Olympia, the larges
frame hotel building in Olympia, Wash
has been burned to the ground, Th'
loss is 100000, with $4,000 insurance
Ali the guests escaped safely.
One man is dead and three other!
are seriously injured as a result of
fire which destroyed the tar plant 0
the Denver Gas and Electric Com
pany, in Denver, Col.
In a head-on collision at Chatta
nooga, Tenn, on the rapid transit cleo
trio street car line, due to heavy fog
FIVE persons were seriously injured.
W. S. Lang, superintendent OF th'
GOAL mines at Blocton, Ala, died from
the effects OF bullet shot from am
bush.
Three hundred cottages on the Ur
bana Chautauqua camp grounds, nca
Springfield, o., were destroyed b!
fire.
Four men, comprising the entir'
working force. were asphyXiated at ;
gas plant at Dover, n. ].
Meridian Street Methodist Church
in Indianapolis, Ind. was destroye,
by fire. Loss $4,000.
Former Gov. Hugh Smith Thomp
son, Of South Carolina, is critically
i'll at his home, in New York, anC
death is a matter of only few hours