Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-09-30
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

ran into a locomotive at North Brook
held, Mass. The members of the
party were shaken up, but nobody was
hurt.
A cablegram from Caracas to New
York says that criminal charges arc
to be brought against the Asphalt
Trust. which is accused of fomenting
4 revolution in Venezuela.
The First National Bank of Dun
dee, ILL.,, sued Tracy & Co.. stock
brokers, of Chicago, for $4I.4oo lost
in margins by the banks cashier, who
embezzled the money.
In fight at the plant of the Pitts
burg Steel Company, at Glassport, Pa,
between strikers and unionistS, G. w.
Fidlar, deputy, was fatally shot.
Senator German had conference
with Judge Parker at WHICH Dan La
mont was present. General Miles is
to take the stump for the Democrats.
Sebastion Fasancilo was arrested in
New York on the charge of selling
bogus naturalization certificates.
Final arrangements were completed
for the national Convention of the
Republican Clubs at indianapolis.
DR.. George S. Conant, of New York,
willed his brain to the medical faculty
of Cornell University.
The National Council of Good Sa-
maritans closed its session in In
dianapolis.
A reunion of Wilder's Brigade was
held in Lafayette, Ind.
r. M. Alcivar. a Mexican passenger
on the Hamburg American Line
steamer Prinz Oskar from New York
to Genoa, became insane upon the ar
rival of the ship at Genoa and shot
Captain Duggc, in command of the
steamer, and Frank R. Shattuck,
prominent Philadelphia lawyer.
Roy Fenton, the driver of the ex-
press wagon from which the dynamite
was dropped that caused the blowing
up of a street car in Melrose. Mass,
was held on the charge of manslaugh-
ter.
Justice D. Cady Herrick, Democrat
ic nominee for governor of New York,
has arranged to resign from the SUI
preme Bench as soon as he can finish
the legal work now before him.
Charges of discrimination were filed
with the Interstate Commerce Com
by John Compton, OF Georgia,
against the Seaboard and the South
ern Railroad Companies.
Caspara Lamonica and Restiro
Franch, two Italians, held>for passing
counterfeit money, were discharged
by the United States commissioner at
Ala.
An attempt was made to dynamite
the residence of President ]. C. Ma
ben, of the Sloss-Shefield Steel and
Iron Company, in Birmingham. Ala.
The executive committee of the
Continental party named Austin Hol-.
comb, of Georgia, for president, and
A. King, of Missouri, for vice presi-
dent.
The Erie Railroad Company has
brought non-union men to take the
places of the locked-out boilermakers
at their shops in Susquehanna, Pa.
The Postmaster General has award
ed the contract to supply street letter
and package boxes to the Van Dorm
Iron Works of Chicago.
George Vollner, a Brooklyn ma
chinist, and Samuel Schotten, of New
York, both committed suicide because
they could get no work.
In a quarrel over the spoils of a
burglary Frank Shoemaker was fatal
ly shot in Jackson, Mich, by his pal.
Four Egyptian students bound for
the University of Missouri have been
held up by the Italian immigration
authorities at Naples.
The insurance commissioners OF the
various states will endeavor to pre-
vent the use of the mails by Wild
,at insurance companies.
Charles A. Senior, assistant CASH
er of all Akron CO., national bank.
las been arrested at San Francisco for
The fireman was killed and the en-
,ineer seriously injured by the derall-
nent of the Diamond special at Bar-
lay, Ill.
One woman was killed and a num-,
,er had narrow escapes from death in
tenement-house fire in Jersey City
Six persons were killed and many
injured by the blowing to pieces of
rolley near Melrose, Mass.
The State of Tennessee has sued
he Standard Oil Company for vio-
ating the Antitrust Law
Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
ows will meet at Washington, d. I,
lext year.
Engineer William D. Simonlon was
'urned to death in wreck near Lock
urn, 0.
Forty thousand bushels of wheat
we're burned in an elevator at St.
oseph, Mo.
Suit was begun by the United States
gainst the Fidelity and Deposit Com
any of Maryland to recover on the
ond of Charles F. w. Nicely.
Foreign.
The unwilling of the monument to
,atherine the Great, at Wilma. Rus
ia, was a notable event 1t is ex-
ected that Prince Sviatopolk-MirSky,
he new minister of the interior, will |
hortly announce important conces-
ions to the Jews.
The Institute of International Law,
t Edinburgh, discussed Sir Thomas
'arclay's proposal for a permanent
ommittee to deal with questions arts
,g out of practice before The Hague |
,ourt.
The jury in Dover, England, that
1oured into the death of Charles B.
pohr, of New York. brought in a
erdict of found drowned"
Rev. Samuel Ives Curtiss, of Chi
ago Theological Seminary, died at
t. Bartholomew Hospital, in Lon
on.