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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
TWO KILLED IN RACE RIOT.
Negroes Resist An Attempt to Drive Them Out
of Town.

Fort Smith, Ark, (SpeciaD. Two
white men are reported killed and one
white man and two negroes seriously
wounded in race riot at Bokashe, l. T..
White laborers on the Midland Valley
railroad, at a camp short distance from
Bokashe, attempted to drive the negro
laborers from the town. The negroes
resisted and pitched battle followed, in
which Hopper and Butler were killed
and three others wounded.
Negroes are reported to have fortified
themselves in strong position in the
woods and seem determined to resist to
the utmost efforts to dislodge them
White laborers are making wild threats
of vengeance.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Laid on the Table.

The House Committee on Postoffice and
Post Roads unanimously agreed to re-
port the Hay resolution calling for in
formation relative to the use of 'infiu-
ence" by members of the House in be-
half of increases in salaries of postmas-
tiers, increases of clerk hire, etc, to the
House with the recommendation that it
clay on the table" The resolution will
be accompanied by all the information
on this subject which the committee has
been able to secure, including confiden
tial exhibits in the Bristow report of the
postal investigation and other informa-
ton This will be printed and made
public and, as it meets the demands OF
the resolution. the order to ''lay on the
table" will not be opposed. The report
is to be made Monday.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
MONTERREY HIGHLAND COUNTY, VAr MARCH II, 1904.
MILITIA CALLED OUT
TO Protect a Colored Man 10 jail at Meri'
dian. Mississippi.

Meridian, Miss. Special. The kill
ing of Postal Clerk Stockton has caused
much excitement. After Paris, the al
legged murderer was placed In jail here
a mob gathered, and, fearing lynching'
the Sheriff notified Governor Vardaman,
who ordered out the local militia.
Birmingham, Ala.-According to re-
ports received here by the officials of the
Alabama Great Southern Railroad, the
shooting of two postal clerks on a north
bound train two miles north of Meridian,
Miss, was part of plot to rob the train
The shooting was done by Jim" Paris.
negro. who boarded the train in thu
Meridian yards as it was pulling out,
Before it was under good Roadway Paris
entered the postal car and opened fire on
Clerks J. T. Stockton and A. j. Bass,
killing Stockton instantly and woundlngg
Bass in the arm. The negro then seized
a package of registered letters and
Jumped off.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
FACTS FAVOR DREYFUS
Reasons Advanced for a Revision Of
His Trial.
OFFICIAL RECORDS ARE FORGED.
Initial Altered on One Document and Another
Dated While Dreyfus Was on Devils Island
Traitor In the French War Office Revealed
..Hearing on Appeal Before Court Of Cassa'
tioa Attracts q Large Crowd.

Paris, (By Cable. The Court of Casa
tion began the consideration of the APP
peal of Alfred Dreyfus for revision OF
his trial
Councillor Chambareaud presided.
Though the general interest in the case
was not as great as in previous years,
vet the courtroom was crowded with
officers, non commissioned officers and
private soldiers, lawyers and others and
a number of women, among whom were
relatives of Dreyfus By their side was
former Colonel Picquart. Dreyfus was
not present, his interests being in the
hands of Lawyer Mornard The report
of NJ. Boyer, reporter of the court, which
was read, presented the two new facts
upon which the minister of justice, NJ
Vale, recommended a revision of the
case. These were set forth as follows:
"1-The secret documents include q
letter bearing the initial p. Now, by
an affidavit of October 6, 1908, signed by
NJ Grbelin, keeper of the archives, II
appears that this document previously
carried the letter IT. For this letter was
substituted a p, and thus the altered
document was presented to the court at
Rennes.
"2-According to the minister Of jus
tice, another letter, signed 'AleXandrine,
which agent "A addressed to agent b,
contained some words in the handwriting
of the late Lieutenant Colonel Henry,
who committed suicide in prison, after
having confessed to committing a forgery
in the case This letter relates to the
organization of French railroads. NJ
Gribelin swore during the inquiry of the
minister of war that this letter was false.
1t was true, however, that the date OF
this document was March %, 1895, when
Dreyfus was imprisoned on Devils
Island"
The existence Of traitor in the French
war office was revealed by an alleged
foreign diplomat, who acted without
compensation. 1t is now claimed that
Lieutenant Colonel Henry in 1897 caused
a book of expenditures to be recopied in
order to remove all trace of payments to
this diplomat, who, it has developed,
was an employee of the intelligence de-
partment.
1t was claimed by those present in
court that if the new facts were acknowl
edged by the tribunal the innocence OF
Dreyfus would be established.
Fearing disturbances during the pro
ceedings the government stationed guards
among the spectators and in the corridors
leading to the court, but their presence
was not necessary. The crowd was in
terested, but there were no demonstra
tons against the favorable conclusions
of the reporter and attorney general.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Happenings Condensed for
Rapid Reading.
Domestic.

After 100 years existence as financial
institution the Marblehead mass Ma
tional Bank closed its doors to public
business, and its affairs will be liquidated
as rapidly as possible.
BY the explosion of the boiler of saw
mill at Greenwood, Pa, p. T. Brown
the proprietor, and his two helpers, Wal.
lace Tice and Robert Compton, were in
stantly killed
Charles Lasek, who had retained life
while pinioned under the ruins of the
Hotel Darlington, in New York, for 30
hours, died on after being taken out.
A consolidation has been formed of
the car service associations of Pittsburg
Philadelphia, st. Louis and Denver.
Two hundred marines left the League
Island Navy Yard for San Francisco, en-
route to the Philippines.
The establishment of a college of do
nestle science is announced at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Dominick Antello killed Miss Nellie
Flanagan in New York and then shot
himself
Robert Mcmahon, brother OF Benja-
min Mcmahon. of New York. committed
suicide in Waterloo, Ia, by taking
cyanide of potassium.
Clavborn w. Merchant, Jr., who killed
George II. Hutchins in a duel in CarlS-
bad, n. NJ, was declared not guilt OF
murder.
Richard Sibley, manufacturer of large
molasses importing concern in Boston,
filed petition in bankruptcy.
In race riot at Bokashe, l, t., two
white men were killed and one white
man and two negroes seriously wounded
Dan Cushing was captured by brigands
near Devils River, Tex, and released
after an all-night horseback ride.
A number of lives have been lost and
much property destroyed by prairie fires
in Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
The crew of the lighthouse-t tender Nina
were put in jail on the charge of mutiny
in San Juan, Porto Rico.
Denny Memorial Hall, at Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa, was destroyed by
fire
There were several collisions in New
York harbor on account of the fog.
The coke trade is hampered by short
age in cars.
DR.. Morris Jastrow, of Philadelphia,
has been offered the craftsmanship OF the
department of the history of religion at
the st Louis Exposition.
A warrant charging Wallace II, Ham
with the embezzlement of 1914, 600 from
the funds of st. Luke's Home was is
sued in Boston.
The Santa Fe Railroad has finished
all of its preliminary surveys for a new
line to Eureka, Humboldt county
Dr. Charles B. Pillsbury, brother in
law of Congressman J. Adam Bede, died
at Duluth, MINI.
Edmund F. Dixey, once famous
minstrel, died in Philadelphia of conges-
ton of the lungs
Distinguished prelates and educators
met in convention in Philadelphia.
Gen. Charles E. Dick was declared
elected to the United States Senate.
A large part of Rocky Mountain,
North Carolina, was destroyed by fire.
Former Congressman Levy was
severely injured by fall near his New
York city home.
The United States transport Sherman
sailed for the Philippines.
Joseph White, one of the military
prisoners who secured his release from
Alcatraz sand by means of a forged
pardon, has been arrested at San Fran
cisco.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
MANY PERISH IN FLAMES
Indian Territory Settlers Are Caught
By Prairie Fires.
A WIDE SECTION LAID IN WASTE.
Six Deaths Definitely Reported and Many
Others Rumored -T0wu OF Hobart Suffered
One Thousand Fire.fighters Saved Lawton
from Des ructlon-Three Thousand Square
Miles Observation-Disclosures In Kansas.

Lawton, Ok, (SpeciaD. Reports re,
ceived here indicate that five persons
have been burned to death and 5000
square miles of territory in Kiowa and
Comanche counties swept by prairie fires.
Hundreds of people are homeless, and 1t
is impossible to estimate accurately the
financial loss. owing to the wide extent
of country affected Lives have also
been lost by fires in other sections.
Following is partial list of the killed
and injured
D. Hammond, living six miles north
east of Lawton, burned to crisp.
John Hammond; cannot live.
A. N. Crawford, near Lawton; seri'
ously burned.
Mrs. Henderson, widow, living rear
Lawton, and two daughters; seriously
burned; one cannot live.
At Hobart, the county seat of kiowa
county, the fire approached from the
east destroying the stables AMI 10 race
horses, Is residences, two business
houses and various small buildings,
Spreading to the southwest, the fire
swept rs, 900 acres of government mill
tary and timber reserve and Indian
school reserve, destroying several Indian
houses and 40 head of government cattle.
Spreading westward the flames covered
miles of the Homestead district, destroy
ing houses, barns and stock. 1t was in
this district that five persons are report
ed to have persisted in attempting TO
protect their property. The names OF
three have been learned They are as
follows:
Doc and John Harmon, brothers, and
man named Fischer.
The other two were women ana their
names have not yet been learned.
Late at night the fire began moving
southwark toward this city. At mid
night 5000 people of the city were bat
Ting with the approaching flames. The
advance line of the fire was fully two
miles in length, and came in semi
circular form.
a thousand men turned their efforts to
checking the grass borders of the reser-
walton at the city limits Water from
every source, carried in every conceiv-
able way, was distributed along this
line and carried all around the city
limits This served the purpose of check
ing the advance lines of the fire, but was
of little avail in hindering the continual
rolling Of the tirebrands into the streets
of the city.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
$4,000 For LIQUOR Selling.

Dallas, Texas, (SpeciaD. The grand
jury of Bell county is making crusade
against violations of the Local Option
law More than 1890 indictments have
been returned against Illicit liquor sellers,
and of the total number 1,147 bills are
against one man. Piimpton Morgan. In
each conviction Morgan is bcina assessed
money penalties amounting to $50, mak-
ing the total penalties apr ximate ST5, =
900. In addition 10 the f. e. his cumula.
tive sentences leach total of more than
So years imprisonment.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
E. P. ABEL DEAD.
President OF the A. S. Abel Company Ex'
pires..fIis Work for the "Sun."

Baltimore, Md, (SpeciaD. - Edwin
Franklin Abel, president of the A S.
Abel Company, publishers of The Sun,
died Sunday morning at his residence,
northeast corner of Charles and Preston
streets, in his sixty fourth year Mr..
Abel was also a director of the Safe De-
post and Trust Company
On May Is, 1910, MIR. Abel was born
in this city on Lee street, near Charles,
which at that time was one If the promi-
nent residential sections of the city. Mr.,
Abel was the eldest of ~ children, and
with him passes away the last of the
sons of the late A. S. Abel, the founder
of The Sun.
Mr. Abel was educated in the public
schools in Baltimore and also in Hartford
county, near Jerusalem Mills, later going
to Dairymple's old University of Mary
land, on the south side of Mulberry St,
in what is now the bed of Cathedral
street which has since been cut through
to Saratoga street. Many of the most
prominent men of Baltimore were edu-
Gated at this school, and the name of
"Old Dal's" is familiar by reputation
to even those of later generation
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
DROWNED IN BRIDGE COLLAPSE.
Structure Was Weakened By Cloudburst
and Goes Down.

Cleveland, o., (SpeciaD.-Six men
were drowned and four others injured as
a result of the collapse of the bridge
spanning Yellow Creek, near Irondalc,
on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad.
The men were on two locomotives that
attempted to cross the bridge close to-
gether.
Most of the men lived at Wellsville, o.
Of the II men making up the crews of
the two engines all went down except
one man left at one end of the bridge as
fagman.
The bridge had been weakened by a
cloudburst that occurred Thursday. The
engines had hauled out two work trains
and were returning to Wellsville for
water when the accident occurred.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Five Killed By japanese Fire.

st. Petersburg, by Cable).-Official
dispatches received here concerning the
BON bardment Of Vladivostok by Jap
anese feet do not mention any Russian
losses, but private advices say that five
were killed-four sailors and the wife of
an engineer.
1t is appare at the japanese were afraid
to risk exposing their ships to the plung-
ing fire of the land batteries, and it is
considered probable here that the attack
was really for the purpose of drawing
the fire of the Russian forts, compelling
the Russians to disclose the position and
caliber of their guns, and also for the
purpose of ascertaining whether the
Russian squadron is in port.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Assaulted By Boy Strikers.

Chicago, Especially. Edward Tenncy
one of the men employed by the West
ern Union Telegraph Company in place
of striking messenger boys, was attacked
by three young men, who knocked him
down and stabbed him. A Waterman al
the Hamilton Club went to Tenneys aiC
and drove away the assailants. Tenny
was badly cut in the face.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Twelve Lives Lost In Fire.

Roberval, Quebec, (SpeciaD. Twelve
lives were lost in fire which DESTROYED
the home Of Thomas Quay at St. Felicien.
When the fire was first noticed by neigh.
bors, who live at some distance, the
house had been burned to ground. In it
at the time were the eight small children
of Thomas Quay, Mrs. Phillip Gagnon,
and her three small children. All were
burned> to death. Both Gagnon and
Quay, tee fathers, were absent, working
in thu woods.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
A Mill Operative Scalped,

Covington, Ga, Especial. Mrs. ]. w.
Worsham, wife of the superintendent of
the Covington Cotton Mills, suffered
from distressing accident, as the result
of which she may die. While in the
basement of the mill her hair was caught
in the betting of moving machinery and
she was scalped, the skin and hair being
torn from her nose to the back of her
neck
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Wants $1,000 to UnYeiI Statue.

Secretary Shaw transmitted to the
House an estimate of $4,000 from the
War Department to defray the expense
of dedicating the statue of Frederick the
Great to be placed on the ground of the
War College in Washington and unveiled
October 90, 1904. 1t is stated that the
money is TO be used for pedestal, review
ing stands, rent of carriages for dstin-
guished personages. printing invitations
and for other expenses.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Rights OF Rural Carriers.

Senator Alger introduced an amend
ment to the Postoffice Appropriation bill,
amending the provision inserted by the
House prohibiting rural carriers from
engaging in other business, so that car
riers may carry articles authorized by
law not authorized to be accepted for
mailing, also to make contracts with
publishers to distribute newspapers and
periodicals upon which one rate OF post
age has been paid.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Department Appropriation Bill.

The conference agreement on the Leg
islative, Executive and judicial Appro-
priation Bill reached makes the total car
ried in that measure S2S, 556,913. The
conferees agree on provisions declaring
that no money appropriated in the bill
shall be available to pay any persons in
the public service ineapacitated perma-
nently from performing service and
limiting the use of carriages at govern
ment expense to those used by the Pres
ident, his secretary and the heads of ex-
ecutive departments in the District of
Columbia.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Stolen Meat Killed E ght.

Birmingham, Ala, (SpeciaD.-Eight
negroes arc dead from eating poisoned
hog meat that was stolen from the smoke
house of Thomas Perkins, white farmer
residing near st. Stephens. Ala. The
farmer had been constantly robbed of
his winter supply of meat, and put rough
on rats ON q quantity of it, which he
placed where the thieves were apt to get
1t. They got it, and the result is that
number arc dead. Other negroes were
made ILL., but will IecQYeT,-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
100000 For murder.

Winchester, KY, Especially Mrs. Ara
bella Marcum, for herself and children,
filed suit in the Circuit Court against
JAS Hargis, Alexander Hargis, Edward
Callahan and B. F. French for 300, DOC
damages. She alleges in her petition
that the defendants entered into con-
spiracy with Curtis Jett and Thomas
White to murder her husband, the late
J. B. Marcum. Callahan was formerly
Sheriff of Breathit county. Jett and
White are now in jail in Louisville.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Reeves Defeated,

Bogota, Colombia, (By Cable) The
result of the presidential election is that
though Gen. Joaquin Velez has major.
ity of II votes over Gen. Raphael Reyes,
the fact must be officially declared by
the electoral committee on July next.
Complete calm prevails here.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
HoId.Up Ia Massachusetts.

Clinton, Mass, Special. Two masked
men held up an electric car on the
Worcester Consolidated Railway, at
South Lancaster. The men were armed
and the 20 passengers in the car were
much frightened. IL. l.. Sauler, OF
Lancaster, knocked one of the highway
men off the car and fight followed,
during which two shots were fired by
the strangers. The highwaymen made
their escape. No one was seriously in
inred.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
FINANCIAL.

The Erie statement for January, to b.
issued eally in the week, is expected tc
show decrease in net earnings of be-
tween $500, 900 and 81, 900, 900.
Judge Gildersleeve has signed the or.
der authorizing the Boston u Montana
to paw its dividends, amounting to over
$4,000, 900, to the Amalgamated.
The New York Subtreasury has paid
to banks 1856, 900 on telegraph; orders
against the deposit of imported japanese
ven at San Francisco.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Obscene Literature In Commerce

The Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce ordered favorable report on
bill making the act preventing inter
state transportation of obscene literature
applicable to foreign commerce and all
territory under the jurisdiction of the
United States.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-03-11
Salina Kan.-Report of many serious

Salina, Kan, Report of many serious
prairie fires, aided by the high winds, in
this section and west of here are coming
in At Hill city, in the extreme north
western part of the state, the court
house, Jail and so residences are re-
ported destroyed, and one woman is
said to have been burned to death. In
stances of farmers being caught with
their teams in the prairie fires and OF
many persons seriously burned are nam-
erOuS.
Evening journal., 1904-08-10
sEvENTY-THREE DEAD.
Searching Parties Still at Work at Eden
Wreok-Forty Are Missing.

Pueblo, Colo. Aug. 10. The latest re.
turns place the number OF persons
killed I'm the wreck Of the Missouri Pa
cifc fief near Eden az seventy-three.
The list Of those reported missing has
now nearly reached forty. one search
ing party is at the scene Of the wreck
Coroner A. l.. Fugard has impaneled
a jury and has begun an inquest. The
jury. together with District Attorney
II. II. Low and Coroner Fugard. in
spected the scene Of the wreck Il in
tend to ascertain why and how the ter
rible disaster occurred" said Mr.. Low.
awe shall investigate the conduct Of
the train crew to see whether there
was due caution in approaching this
bridge and I'm running through a dis
trict that was almost deluged with wa
ter"
The body Of a handsomely dressed
young woman about twenty-five years
Of age was found twenty-five miles
down the Arkansas river and was
brought to this city. The body has not
been identified.
Evening journal., 1904-08-10
MANY SLAIN IN ARMENIA.
Turks Destroy Villages and Rebels At
tack Garrisons In Revenge.


tack Garrisons In Revenge.
London, Aug. 1O.-A correspondent
Of the Daily News at Tabriz. Persia,
IN a dispatch dated Aug. says:
"On July 13 a band Of Armenian rev.
olutionists appeared near Outchkilissa.
Turkish soldiers and Kurds, finding an
excuse, attacked and destroyed the vii
lagos OF Outchkilissa, Kooml0uboujak
Cougar. Karabazar and Sayto, butch
ering men and assaulting women.
Two large Armenian bands, march
ing TO Sassun to help the insurgent
leader Antranik, attacked the garrisons
at Mossunzory and Goutchagh for re-
venge on July 25. At dawn bombs
were thrown into these places. killing
many. and severe lighting ensued.
"A majority Of the soldiers were kill
ed. and the garrisons resembled grave
yards One band forced its way
through the Kurdish tribes toward Ar
jess.
''The number Of soldiers killed
amounted TO several hundred"
Evening journal., 1904-08-10
Strong and Vigorous at the Age OF
El9hty-el9ht.

Rev. J. n. Parker, Utica, n. Y, writes
ain June, 1901, I lost my sense Of hear
ing entirely. My hearing had been
somewhat impaired for several years,
but not so much effected but that could
hold converse with my friends; but In
June, 1901, my sense Of hearing left me
30 that 1 could hear no sound whatever.
1 was also troubled with rheumatic pains
In my limbs. commenced taking Pc
runa and now my hearing is restored as
good as it was prior 10 June, 1901. My
rheumatic pains are all gone. cannot
speak too highly Of Peruna, and now