Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-10-28
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

Hickey and Engineer Rouse) were
killed.
Miss Josephine IIillhouse, daughter
OF the late James A. Hillhouse, the
poet, and the last member of one Of
the most distinguished families in
New Haven, was found dead in her
bed.
Secretary Morton has appointed a
board of officers to study the types
and qualities Of torpedo vessels and
their machinery needed for the Navy
and as to the number necessary.
Allen Parker, cashier of the First
National Bank of Tulahoma, Tenn,
is missing. 1t is alleged that the
banks books show shortage of be-
tween $4,000 and $75,ooo
New York and New England caught
the full force OF the tropical storm
which swept up the coast. Telegraph
wires were Frustrated in Connecticut
and Rhode Island.
DR.. George Purviancc, aged OF, Of
Washington, D. g.. plunged hcadfore
most from the fourth-story balcony of
the Orthopcdic Hospital, in Philadel
phia. and was instantly killed.
Robert S. Mccormick, American
Ambassador to Russia, arrived at New
York on the steamer Deutschland.
lie came home on a leave of absence
to attend to urgent private business.
DR.. Auguste Frederic Muller, chief
of the staff of the Germantown Hos
pta!, died at his home in Philadelphia
Of cancer. He was Ga years old.
During the registration of voters
in Porto Rico for the election, No
vember 8, several judges who al
tempted fraud were Immediately re-
moved.
The international Congress of
Heads OF Schools for the Deaf select
ed Indianapolis as the meeting place
OF the tenth trienal conference.
The Pittsburg Steamship Company
placed an order with the American
Shipbuilding Company for four large
ore steamers, to cost $4,000 each.
George Jaggers, under sentence of
death in the county jail at Newton,
N. J., for the murder OF Mrs. Mary
L. Bevans, committed suicide.
NJ Fl. Phillips, balloonist, Of Hud-
son, Mich, was fatally injured while
making an ascension at the fair
grounds at San Angelo, Tex.
DR.. Henry c. Hatch, of Quincy, in
paper before the National Prison
Congress, advocated the death penal
ty for degenerates.
American marines are to be re-
tanned on the lsthmus of Panama on
account of the unrest among the dis
gruntled elements.
r. J. Laws. while on Southern
Pacific train, died from heart disease
when the train collided with stock
train.
A hurricane has prevailed on the
coast of Florida since last Sunday.
Many wrecks are reported and great
damage has been done to the fruit
crop. Eight people were drowned
from the schooner Mclrose.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commits
sion will make no awards until its
next meeting. which has been fixed
for January IS, 1905. Several cases
are now under advisement.
Mrs. Eva Lyons was married to
Frederick Mehren, a smallpox pa.
tient at the Municipal Hospital, in
Philadelphia, Magistrate McCleary Of
floating by telephone.
Marines have been sent to Cramps
shipyard to guard the armored cruS-
err Pennsylvania, now near compile
ton.
AS result OF quarrel, Charles
Harding shot his wife three times and
then turned the pistol on himself, at
Mobile, Ala. Both are fatally wound
ed.
William H. Kensington, a leading
Mormon, has been arrested at Alton
Wyo, on a charge Of polygamy.
Two children were burned to death
in fire at the Middlcswork Chldren's
Home, at Shelbyville, Ill.
Comptroller of the Currency Ridge
ly addressed the Illinois Bankers AS
ISOLATION at St. Louis.
The annual meeting of the Crucible
Steel Company was held in Jersey
City.
The officials of the Nonpareil Coke
Works filed demurrer to the indict-
ment charging them with conspiracy
against the government.
John McCullagh, of New York, has
been recommended as an available man
to organize the police department OF
Panama.
Charles Schreve, aged IL, of Union
City, Pa, died as the result Of being
kicked in the head while playing foot
ball.
Michael F. Dwyer, the turfman, was
seriously injured i'll a trolley collision
in New York.