Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-09-23
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.


United States Consul Diederich, at
Bremen, writes about the competition
between the big transatlantic compa-
mics for supremacy on the ocean. 1t
is a battle of size against speed.
The Kansas City, Okmulgee and
Gulf Company has been incorporated
to build railroad 500 miles long, from
Kansas City to point on the Red
River, in the Choctaw Nation.
Alphonse Joseph Stephan, who is
serving a life sentence for murder IN
New York and is now in Dannemora
State Hospital, has fallen heir to an
estate of over 100000.
Mrs. Della Pringle Faith, of Des
Moines, instituted proceedings for di-
vorce in accordance with request
of her husband, who said he did not
love her any more.
Henry Fleming sued Benjamin Elan
agan in Des MONIES for $500 dam
ages for injuries to his digestion,
caused by food he had eaten at Elan
agan's restaurant.
Mrs. Hatty R. Waugh, of New
York, has sued Miss Clara Louise
Peters, of Washington, for 100000
for alternating the affections of her hus
band
At a convention of Faith-cursts in
Jersey City one of the communicates
testified that she learned to play the
piano as the result of prayer.
The peculiar antics of cow led to
the discovery of the body of Hannah
Beckel, who had committed suicide
in field near Paterson, N. ].
Joseph Jefferson has Cancelled all
his dates for this winter on account
of his i'll health and will spend the
winter at Palm Beach, Fla.
The jury in the case of DR.. Julian
NJ. Baker, on trial for the murder of
Dr. H. 7. Boss, at Tarboro, N. G., re-
turned a verdict of acQuittal.
Rewards aggregating nearly $1,000
have been offered for the arrest of the
person who has been poisoning dogs
in Larchmont, N. Y.
Former Vice President Levi P. Nor
ton and family reached New York
from Havre They will go to Rhine
Cliffe, N. Y, to attend the funeral of
Miss Lena Morton, whose body ar
rived from Paris several days ago.
The Burns faction of the Knights
of Labor filed petition in the District
of Columbia Supreme Court asking
that John w. Hayes and others as
sociated with him be adjudged in con-
tempt of court.
The creditors of the Townsend
Downey Shipbuilding Company passed
resolution authorizing Trustee Ide
to apply to the court for permission
to sell the property of the bankrupt
company.
All the Canadian Pacific boilermak-
ers went on a strike. All the COM
pany's west line are affected. The
boilermakers expect the support of the
machinists.
Two men, believed to be members
of the gang of train bandits who held
up the Rock Island express, were ar
rested between Brighton and Way
land, Ia.
The American Bankers Association
elected officers and listened to papers
read by United States Treasurer Rob
erts and w. E. Schweppe, of St. Louis.
Elias P. Smithers, former register
of wills of Philadelphia. fell down an
elevator shaft in Trenton hotel, sus-
tanning injuries that proved fatal.
The ninety-fourth anniversary OF the
independence of Mexico was cele-
brated at the Mexican Pavilion, at
the Worlds Fair.
R. M. Arrange was appointed con-
sulting engineer ON the staff of Chief
Engineer Wallace in the Panama
Canal construction
The United States transport Sher-
man arrived at San Francisco with
four colonies and over 900 troops from
the Philippines.
The Breakers Hotel, one of the fin
est summer hotels on the North Pa
cifc Coast, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
John Wilkinson, under indictment
in White Plains, N. Y, for burglary,
committed suicide in the county Jail.
Operations at the Beaverbrook Col
lery of c. NJ. Dodson & Co. were tied
up by a strike of the breaker boys.
Henry B. Metcalf, of Pawtucket,
was nominated for governor at the
Rhode Island Prohibition Convention.
Brigadier General Francis Moore
has been ordered to assume command
of the Department of California.
The schooner George d. Loud was
wrecked off Thatchers Island during
the storm of Wednesday night
The annual report of the Reading
Company shows large increase in
the earnings.
The study Of insurance has been
made part of the curriculum at Yale
University.
Four students were seriously in
jured in a class-rush at Wittenburg
College.
During the fire on bridge across
Lake St. Croix, Minnesota, a span
gave way and fire apparatus and a
number of people fell into the water.
Two lives were lost and number
of people injured.
Plans for an extensive campaign for
civic betterment were outlined at a
meeting of the American Civic Associ-
alton, in New York
The FIVE children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jessie Sapp were burned to death and
the parents fatally injured in Column
bia, KY.
Thomas and Chalmers White,
brothers, were convicted of murder i'll
the second degree in Salisbury, N. c.