Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-08-12
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
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beth. who were married about month
ago. were shot and killed by Harry
Fisher, aged 80 years, the woman
brother, in their home, in Philadelphia:
Fisher also shot himself and died
later. The motive for the CRIME was
robbery. :.
BENJAMIN Brown, of Philadelphia,
aged u years, will wed widow aged
O. wears. This will be his fourth mat
rimonial venture Brown has Inquired
in several accidents and on three oc-
casions had been pronounced dead.
There was a run on the Drovers'
Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago by
strikers in retaliation for the action
of one of the packing firms in making
the bank an adjunct to its pay de-
partment.
Rear Admiral Rivet and party Of
officers from the French cruiser Du-
pleix visited the statehouse and city
hall in Boston and paid their respects
to the governor and mayor.
An express train on the West Jersey
and SeashOre Railroad, bound for
Cape May, ran into al open switch
at Woodbury.. N. J. A number of
passengers were injured.
An Italian quarryman was wedged
for two days in the Palisades rocks.
on the Hudson He was without food
or water and lost his reason because
of his sufferings.
At Pottstown, Pa, Harvey Keck
and Henry Straub had prize-hght
because OF an insult offered Keck's
bride by Straub. Keck was the win
ner.
Alfred Knapp, the stranger, sem
fenced at Columbus, O., to die in the
electric chair, has collapsed and can
not eat or sleep.
A strike in the building trades and
in the subway, in New York, is I'M
minent. 1t will affect 10000 men.
An explosion of dynamite caused
panic in the Italian quarter at Pas
sale, N. J.
A southbound passenger train on
the Louisville and Nashville Road
collided with north-bound passenger
train near Horse Cave, KY; 81 pas
sengers and 4 trainmen were injured.
In an interview in San Francisco
| Governor Carter, of the Hawaiian Is
lands, said that annexation has not
been commercial success as far as
| the islands are concerned.
Judge ID. d. McKoon, of New York,
who disappeared on July IS, reappear-
ed in California. He tells thrilling
story of being kidnapped.
Supreme Court Justice Nash, OF New
York, has pronounced the trading
stamp act of that State to be unconsti-
tutional.
DR.. Orlando Brown, formerly a
brigadier general in the United States
Amy, died at his home, at Washing
ton, Ct.
Senator Hoar is suffering with an
attack of lumbago. He is confined to
his room, but is not seriously I'll.
The Suly creditors met in New
York, but adjourned without definite
action on any proposition.
Democrats and Populists OF Kansas
succeeded in effecting fusion on their
state tickets.
Russell Sage observed his eight
eighth birthday by attending strictly
| to business.
In Chicago September wheat reach
ed OH, a gain of nearly 3 cents.
Destructive forest fires are raging
in Montana. -,
Thomas Taggart, chairman OF the
Democratic National Committee, an
nounced William F. Sheehan, OF New
York, as chairman of the national ex-
ecutive committee.
Special Inspector Robert I. Ould,
of the United States Customs Service.
a native of Virginia ard a member CT
Colonel Mosby's command, died at
Champlain. N. 7. ,,
Governor Blanchard has selected
Miss Juanita Lalland, of New Orleans,
to christen the battleship Louisiana,
which will be launched at newport
News August FL. ~:
Prof, Frederick Starr, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, will visit Northern
China next year to investigate a mys-
FERROUS white race, said to be residing
there. w.;
DR.. Brown Ayres, Of 1llane UNI,
versity, New Orleans, has accepted
the presidency of the University OF
Tennessee. &c.,
John M. Jones, the Oldest printing
press manufacturer. is deao at i o.
home, Rochester, N. Y, ageo %
w N Ferris, of Big Rapids, was
nominated for governor by the Michi-
non democratic State Convention.
The railway postal clerks are nav
;,a her annual convention in CHI
cago. ,,oor the
Philadelphia Mint for subsidiary S ;,,od
One thousand nonunion sk''.so u
workmen have been employed -, by .ne
Chicago packers and they. Will thus
he enabled to operate the by-prouu"'
division of their plants.
The coming report of the Geoio-
gical Survey will show that the Unit
ed States exceeded all previous re-
cords in the production Of coal in 1908:
A suit involving the possession OF
letters written by George Wasnihe-
ton and Daniel Webster has begun
in New York. 80.
Bishop Potter denies that the visit
of the Archbishop of Canterbury Is
for the establishment Of an American
primacy.
Mrs. George Law has been sued by
the widow of DR.. Lane for medical
attention rendered the defendant by
her husband
Joseph Holtz, retired farmer, OF
New Oxford, Pa, was too shrewd 1or