Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-12-09
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

| L nc dylc SOtlOn mills, IOCdleu Ill
one of the suburbs Of Macon, Ga, will
be again placed in operation Thurs
day. Extensive repairs to the ma
| chinery have been made.
Edward |. Gray, 80 years old. an
electrical engineer, shot and killed
himself in a New York hotel because
| Of jealousy of a woman.
Preliminary steps were taken at
Trenton towards the formal dissolu-
| tion of the Universal Tobacco Com
pany as a distinct corporation.
Lieutenant General Miles has ac-
copied appointment as adjutant gen.
eral on the staff of Governor elect
Douglas, Of Massachusetts.
Representative James A. Hemen-
way will succeed Vice President elect
Fairbanks as senator from Indiana.
Hey John. Chinaman, committed
suicide in New York because he
thought he was pursued by Highbind-
crs.
A writ Of habcas corpus was grant
cd TO Mrs. Josephine l.. Noble, who is
charged with killing her husband.
The Women's Christian Temper
ancc Union at its annual convention
in Philadelphia reelected general Off
GERS Of the union.
Mrs. George Henry Gilbert, WIG
was the oldest actress on the Ameri-
can stage. died suddenly in Chicago.
Two trolley cars equipped with fire
apparatus are being tried on Chicago
elevated road to fight flames.
Mrs. Lucinda Murphy committed
suicide in New York because she had
been deserted by her husband.
Fred Wittrock. who succeeded in
obtaining $4,000 in a train robbery
i'll the West in 1887, is. dead,
Young wheat i'll Ohio has been seri-
ously damaged by the drouth.
The Women's Christian Temper
ance Union. at their convention if
Philadelphia, appealed to President
Roosevelt to use his influence to Sc
cure observance of treaties with In
dams in Indian Territory forbi ]ding
sale of liquor.
Richmond & Co., incorporated, Z
bucketshop, of Pittsburg, with branch
!
states, were forced to close.
| Fred Karrell dropped dead while
steering the freightcr w. r. Linz
through the rapids at the entrance Of
the ST Clair River.
Alexander G. Gordon, profession
al blackmaler, was arrested in Min
neapolis on the charge of blackmail.
William Barclay Parsons, chief en-
gincer OF the Rapid Transit Commits
sion of New York. has resigned.
Three men were killed in a collision
OF freight trains near Oneonta, n. Y.
and others had narrow escapes.
Officials of the Wclls-Fargo Elk
press Company are looking for SIS
900 which has mysteriously disap
peared.
Prince Fushimi was the guest o.
honor at the New York Chamber o.
Commerce.
A slight shock Of earthquake was
felt at San Francisco and at Wes
Point, Neb.
If claims of attorneys for Governor
Peabody are proved. the vote of about
50 precincts in Colorado may BIZ
thrown out, and he would be declared
30 have been reelected
Organizers from all sections Of the
country occupied the attention Of the
delegates to the Convention Of the
Woman'S Christian Temperance Unior
in Philadelphia.
Plans for organizing the employers
of labor to combat labor unions were
discussed at the Convention of the
Citizens Industrial Association il
New York.
Orrin Cox, aged II years, of Ken
sington, a suburb of Chicago, has
been sentenced to life Imprisonment
for robbery under threats of death.
Senator Plat, of New York, was Z
witness in the suit for $500, 900 brough,
by A. D. Wales against John Mitch
ell president OF the miners union.
The directors of the Interborougl
Rapid Transit Company declared &
dividend of 3 per cent, making a
per cent dividend for the year.
James Lindsay Gordon, assistant
corporation counsel of New York, who
was a native of Virginia, is dead, after
brief illness.
Rev. DR.. Charles f. Woodcock. o.
Detroit, has accepted the appointment
as Episcopal bishop Of Kentucky.