Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-17
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

IN New y Ork on motion OF Assistant
District Attorney Rand at the conclu-
sion OF tie testimony of John X,
Platt, the aged millionaire, who caused
her arrest Tor extortlon.
In a TT Of temporary insanity
Robert r. Miller, who came to St.
Louis with his wife and daughter from
Tampa, Fla, to visit the Worlds Fair,
committed suicide.
Kokichi Hiraka was hanged in Fol.
som, Cal, for the murder Of MIR, and
Mrs. T. Yo5himoto and another Jap
anese in Sacramento year and a
half AGO
Three hundred employees OF. tina
Royal Paper Mill, at East Angus,
Que, went on strike for semimonth-
ly pay-days. All the work is sus'
pended.
striker by fire in New
York tenament, Mrs. Benjamin Ap'
pei threw her child of four months
from a thirdstory window.
Francisco O'Chago was hanged in
the state prison at San Quentin, Cal,
for the murder of Marie Berera at
Bakersfield in 1899.
Governor Pei~iypacker, of Pennsyl-
vania, has appointed Philaner C.:
Knox to succeed the late United
States Senator Quay
Laurence Hutton, the literary critic
and author, died suddenly in Prince
ton, n. J.
The Cripple Creek Citizens Al
lance has issued an edict that every
person connected with any union must
either sever connection with it or
leave the district. The order af-
fects 5000 men and women, and the
unioniSts declare they will fight the
movement to finish.
Abraham Judinski, who, while rum
ming amuck on the street in Chicago,
was arrested two weeks ago, charged
with being all anarchist was found to
be insane.
Among the passengers on the Prin-
zess Irene, which arrived at New
York from Naples and Genoa, were
Cardinal Satolli and friedrich Taylor,
the explorer
Levi Letter. the well-known specu-
lator and investor, of Chicago, died
suddenly at the Vanderbilt cottage
his family has been occupying at Bar
Harbor.
Isaac Nebenzahl, wanted in New
York for embezzlement, was brought
to New York on the steamer Barba-
rossa. He was arrested in Paris.
The National Packing Company has
absorbed the Ruddy Brothers Pack
ing Company, whose plant is in Ar
mourdale, Kan.
Charles L Tucker has been indicted
by the Middlesex County Grand Jury
for the murder of Mabel Page, in
Weston, Mass. :.
The international Association of
Police Chiefs decided to hold the next
convention in San Francisco.
The strike of the employees of the
international Paper Company at
Glens Falls, N. Y, was settled
Mart V. Vowel, an aged ex-Con-
federatc. was hanged in Paragould,
Ark, for murder.
Counsel for Edward H. Hartman
and Winslow S. Pierce filed in the
United States Court in Trenton, N. J.,
amendments to their bill against the
Northern Securities Company.
The King and Queen of Portugal
ball given by United States
Minister Bryan in Lisbon in honor
of officers of the American squadron.
Bank-wrecker George NJ. Valen-
tine, of New Brunswick, n. J., was
released after having served out a
term and was Immediately re-arreSted.
Fire that broke out in the seven
story drug warehouse of McKesson &
in New York did 100000
worth. of damage,
Edward F. Rooney cut his wife's
throat at the summer home OF the
Mystic Shrine, on the Connecticut
River, near Hartford
Members of the Russian war party |
in St. Petersburg are trying to force
he resignation of Foreign Minister
IamsdOrff.
The town of Northampton, Mass,
celebrated it's two hundred and fiftietl
Judge Wickersham, OF Alaska, has
uled that Russian half-breeds and set
led tribes of Indians i'll that territory
IRE citizens of the United States.
Albert Pouch died in the hospital
It Elizabeth, n. J., making the fourth
'ictim of the rurderous frenzy OF
Joseph NJ Pouch.
The Department OF Physical Culture
If the Worlds Fair will present Alice
Roosevelt with a souvenir belt.
The biennial convention of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
vas concluded at Los Angeles.
Fraud in a contract regarding ir-
igative lands has been charged
gainst f. c. Rutan, of Chicago.