Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-12-16
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,


phla, Pa, woodworkers and manufacture
erS OF cigar boxes, was partially de-
slroyed by fire.
The Jury in the case of William Ny
ers, murderer of Mayor Bennett, of
thomson, ILL.,, returned verdict finding
Myers guilty and placing punishment al
death
While trying TO slide down a rope from
her room, on the fifth floor of the North
Side Hotel, in Chicago, Myra De!aros
Tell and was killed
A petition in bankruptcy was filed IN
Tic United States Court in Philadelphia
against the Neahe G. Levy Shipbuilding
Company
There is some mystery about the death
OF Mrs. Sadie Cohen, whose frozen body
was found in the ice in the Harlem
River.
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was
chartered i'll Trenton, n. j., with an au.
thorized capital OF $3ooooooo
Robbers knocked down the clerk and
stole $1,000 from the Office of the Lesley
Coal Company, in Altoona, Pa.
p In Philadelphia John w. Grange was
appointed receiver Tor the NeaGe &
Levy Shlpbulldlng Company, one Of the
oldest concerns Of the kind in the coun-
try. The company recently completed
the cruiser Denver for the government,
and IS now constructing the protected
cruiser ST. Louis.
!. n. Perry, the former bank pres-
dent, OF Chicago, who was accused Of
setting fire to the American Locomotive
Works plant TO obtain the insurance,
was discharged after long hearing in
court.
Joseph Jacobs, former detective on
the staff Of District Attorney Jerome, of
New York, was sentenced TO prison for
one year for perjury.
Mortimer Brooks, a New York mil
ionaire, was accidentally and probably
fatally wounded while hunting in North
Carolina
Six schoolb0ys were arrested in Chi
cage following the death of Rabbi Abra-
ham Click, who was struck by snow
balls.
A Chicago man was superintendent of
a printing establishment during the day
The contribution of MIR. w. l.. Doug
las, governor elect OF Massachusetts,, to
the campaign fund was $4,000.
Stock-raisers OF the Central Western
and Far Western States are forming
combination 10 maintain prices.
A firm of worsted manufacturers of
Touring, France, may establish branch
The Chamber of Commerce at Hunts
plant at Woonsocket, X. |.
vile, Ala, has invited President Roose-
welt to visit that city.
According TO an expert the borrow
ing capacity of New York city is $685.
100000.
The Farmers State Bank of Lam,
bert, Ok, was robbed by three men.
who dynamited the safe, obtaining $1,000
as their booty. While two robbers
worked inside, the third guarded them,
holding the horses. The robbers made
for the Gloss Mountains, pursued by a
posse.
J. Y. Brown, one of the wealthiest
men III Williamsport, Pa. president of
the Williamsport Water Company, and
also president of one OF the local banks,
was found dead in bed.
Some unknown persons murdered Ben
B. Hughes, a wealthy merchant and
planter, of Newton, S. c., his wife and
two daughters, and then set the house on
fire.
Alderman Hubert w. Butler, Of Chi
cago, charges that wholesale corruption
hoe hna,, ,,cad ia cacura Cuccoon nj
the Ravenswood Elevated Railroad or
dinance
Eleven miners were killed by an eX-
plosion i'll the Burnett coal mine, at
Burnett, WASH and it is believed the
number Of dead will reach IS.
Handwriting experts reported to the |
Supreme Court in Denver, Col, that
in the recent elections both sides had |
resorted to repeating.
The Order of Railway Photographers |
Of Mercy, at Loretta, Pa, was destroy
dent McNicol, of the Canadian Pacl-
hc Railway.
Howard Gale, former law partner
of Ben amin Harrison and a director
of Butler College, died in Indianapolis
The Children's Home OF the Sisters |
OF Mcrcf, at Loretta, Pa, was destroy |
ed by fire. All the orphans escaped
Warrants charging grand larceny !
have been granted against former !
President Emory. Cashier Werner aud
Assistant Cashier Lucdeke. OF the |
German Bank Of Buffalo.
John B. Mcdonald, the New York |
contractor, has resigned from the
board of directors of the INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit Company.
General Sickles is heading move
ment for the erection Of monument
on the site OF Andersonville (Ga.)
prison.