Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-04-22
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

of the Civil Rights Law by refusing
to serve them i'll restaurant
Six men were injured by collapse
of building at Eighth avenue and
Thirty-hfth street, New York. -Four
of the injured were passersby.
Two St. Louis physicians are using
a new drug i'll the treatment OF con-
sumption with promising results.
-Four persons were injured by a
gasoline explosion in All automobile
factory in Detroit.
The first trip through the new sub
way of Ney York City was made.
Six men were injured by the col
lapse of a building in New York.
w. H. Kenworthy, an American
Express Company messenger, and
Harry Drake, baggagemaster on the
Big Four Railroad, have confessed to
the Cincinnati police that for year
they have been robbing trunks and
express packages.
A settlement was reached IN the
sheet and tin-plate wage dispute ana
q strike avoided that would have IN
VOWED thousands of men.
Monk" Eastman, the leader OF
notorious gang of thugs of the East
Side, New York, was convicted OF as
sault in the first degree.
A fine of $1,000 was imposed on K.
Friedlander & Co., of Chicago, tor
making false afidavits to undervalue
imports.
DR.. George w. Webster, of the Ill
inois State Board of Health, gave
whisky drinking as one of the causes
CT typhoid.
The Standard Oil Company an
nounced another reduction Of half per
cent. on all grades of refined petro-
leum.
The Circuit Court, in Richmond,
Ky.. threw out as invalid all the varl-
Gus wills of the late Gen. Casslus M.
Clay.
Harry T. Hill, the veteran theatri-
cal manager, died at his home, in
Saratoga, N. Y.
The United States torpedo-boat ho-
tilla arrived at Cavite.
Thousands of men employed IN the
cigar factories and breweries OF Ma
Mia united in demonstration against
proposed measures of the government
to secure internal revenue.
The San Francisco Merchants Ex-
change has received cablegram stat
ing that the steamer Colon has been
wrecked at Punta Remedies.
Mrs. Joseph B. Hall, proprietor OF
the Catskill Recorder, one OF the Old
est newspapers in the United States,
died at Catskill.
The car barn and paint shop OF the
international Traction Company at
Cold Springs, near Buffalo, were de-
stroyed by fire.
Former Police Chief Devery has
made demand on Commissioner Nc
Adoo for $4,000 as damages tor
breach of contract.
The -four mills at Minneapolis will
close down for an indefinite period
because of railroad discrimination.
Charles A. Beecher, a friend and
adviser of Abraham Lincoln, died sud
denly at Marysville, 0.
A fire in the hold of the steamer
Havana caused damage of $4,000.
Foreign.
The House of Commons sanctioned
by resolution the employment OF In
dian troops in the political mission
to Tibet. 1t was announced that
Colonel Younghusband had reached
Gyangste, Tibet, which was his goal.
An imposing funeral service was
held over the body of Queen Isabella
in Paris, after which the body was
taken to Madrid.
The police in Barcelona have ar
rested an acomplice to Joaquin Miguel
Nrtao, who attempted to aSSaSslnate
Premier Maura.
Colonel Marchand, the hero of the
Eashoda affair, bitterly resents his
treatment by the French War Office.
Bebel, the Socialist leader, criticised
IN the Reichstag the German govern
ment for permitting the sale OF a
steamship by the Hamburg American
Company to a Russian company.
Chancellor Won Buelow replied that
the sale did not affect Germany's nett
trality, and that Japan had an equal
right to buy ships from Germany.
Emperor William went on board
the American steam yacht North Star,
at Syracuse, Sicily, and had a chat
with Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt.
An Internal machine concealed in
IN anarchists trunk in hotel in St.
Petersburg exploded, blowing him IN
to bits and causing a fire in the hotel.
The British torpedo-boat destroyer
Teazer, which ran ashore during the
naval maneuvers at Portsmouth, has
been towed off.
The Mad Mullah, whom the British
have been trying to catch, has es-
capped into Italian territory.
The matter of Zionist settlement
in Uganda, East Africa, has been ar
ranged satisfactorily.
The Berlin canals and waterways
bills just presented to the Prussian
Diet propose the expenditure of $780,
100000 on new waterways, including
6 canal from Berlin to Stettin, for
large vessels.
Financial.
Nearly 100000 of Japanese gold