Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-24
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.


Mrs. Young was rescued by members
of fire company.
Charles Stimmell, prisoner in the
Ohio Pcnitentiary, who had been con-
demned to death. received reprieve
from Governor Herrick three minutes
before the time set for the electrocu-
ton.
The court dismissed the suit broug ut
in a Chicago court by one of the VIC
Tins of the Iroquois disaster against
Klaw & Granger, deciding that SER
vice had to be made personally.
Special inspection of passenger
steamboats, plying from Chicago have
been ordered as a result OF the Gen-
eral Slocum disaster.
The one hundredth and twenty-ninth
anniversary of the Battle of Bunker
Hill was celebrated in Boston and
adjacent towns.
Santos-Dumont arrived in New
York with his dirigible alrshlp
mo 7" to compete for the prize at
the Worlds Fair.
Massachusetts Prohibitionists NOM
mated Mrs. Fannie J. Clary for secre-
tary of state.
Charles F. Mccoy, a Chicago law
yer, committed suicide in Jacksonville,
Fla.
A new cotton bug has appeared in
Alabama.
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation Of Miners. who
was released by Federal Judge Thayer
on habeas corpus, is now prisoner
in the county jail in Telluride, Col.
Counsel for Mrs. Nan Patterson,
who is under indictment in New York
for the murder of Caesar" Young,
made a motion for an inspection OF
the minutes of the grand jury.
Ten thousand Confederate veterans
marched in the parade which was the
closing feature of the fourteenth an
nual reunion of the United Confeder-
ate Veterans.
Testimony was begun in Boston in
the case of the Western Union Icle-
graph Company against the Bell Iele-
phone Company for $4,ooo,ooo.
A number of papers on pertinent
subjects were read before the Ma
tional Conference of Charities and
Corrections, in Portland, Me.
DR.. Nathan Smith Davis, one of the
most prominent physicians in America,
died in Chicago at the age of 81 years.
The theatrical managers and pro-
prietors of Philadelphia formed an
organization.
William A. Snyder, former
evangelist, was arrested in Philadel-
phia and confessed that he had OBJ
tanned money in Maryland towns and
elsewhere by raising the amount on
postal orders.
Frederick Warren, of Buffalo, lost
$1,000, the savings of lifetime, while
playing English faro in New York
upon recommendation of a friend,
whom he attack with cane.
Warrants have been issued for 81
miners in the Cripple Creek district
for completely in the dynamite outrage
at independence. All are charged
with murder.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee and DR.. Ran
dolph H. McKim, of Washington,
were the principal speakers at the re-
union of Confederates in Nashville,
Tenn.
AT Brazil, Ind, Methodist breaches
opened a dance with prayer as
compromise with the young folks who
participated in the social event.
Miss Elsie Whclen and MIR. Robert
Goelet, of New York, were married
at Wayne, a suburb of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Martha E. Lunn, aged 81 years,
has been arrested at Elgin, ILL.,, on the
charge of forgery.
AT Cleveland, O., Mrs. L. D. Allen
shot her husband and then herself.
She was 20 years old.
Arrangements for the fourteenth
international convention of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union of America,
hlcn WI meet i, DetrT- July 4
10, are approaching completion.
Levy T. Hannum, Trenton lawyer,
who is legal representative in TINS
country OF Ion Periicaris. has received
letter from him written in his
captivity.
James King Clarke, the former hus-
band of Miss Esther Bartlett, the
violet BRIDE was married IN bryn
Mawr. Pa, to Miss Katherine VIII
loughby.
Lieut. Nathaniel T. Bowers, En-
gineer Corps, of Fort Leavenwortth,
was killed near the target range by
which struck his rifle:
In free fight at Brands Springs,
Ga, Bert Smith, while shooting at
someone else, hit and killed John l..
Smith, his step-grandfather.
Rev DR. Frank Gunsaulus, formerly
of Baltimore, in baccalaureate ser
mon in Chicago, said that all men
are not created equal.