Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-10-07
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading
Domestic,


broken up and the indictment of the
leaders secured.
Virginia H. Bowles, of Roanoke, Va,
has entered suit for 100000 against
Charles S, Johnson, of New York,
whom she charges with having de-
ceived her by pretending to be an
unmarried man.
According to his confession, Bigler
Johnson, of Macedonia, Pa, offered
his mother and other members OF his
family So each to put his wife out
of the way.
Floods have done an immense
amount of damage in New Mexico
Half of the town Of Watrous was de-
stroved and at least IL persons were
drowned. .,
The Oxford Local of the United
Mineworkers, which was the first to
be organized in the Lackawanna VAL
ley, disbanded and surrendered its
charter.
Sheila Kcddy died in Detroit from
ptomaine-poisoning, and other mem
bers of the family are reported to be
in serious condition.
Three firemen were overcome by
fumes while fighting fire in the T..
B. Newman Charcoal Company's tac-
tory, in New York.
Charles Fraga, of Mexico City, and
Mrs. Julia Miller were found shot III
ST. Louis. The woman was dead and
the man dying.
Meetings of the three tobacco COM
panies to arrange details OF the pro-
posed consolidation were checked by
proceedings to enjoin the combine.
The body of Frances Parkhurst, the
missing student of Lake Forest Col
lege, was found, after long search,
in Lake Michigan.
The floods have caused washouts
on nearly all the railroads entering
New Mexico and traffic is practically
at a standstill.
Fire in a block in New York occu-
pied by meat-packing plants caused a
loss of nearly quarter of a million
dollars.
The scaffolding on railroad bridge
near Malone, N. Y, gave way. One
man was killed and four seriously in
jured.
Dr. Thomas D. Hogg, of Raleigh,
N. C., 81 years of age, allowed a
freight train to run over him. ~.
II. w. Walker, owner of the Asad-
eny of Music, in Pittsburg, died in
| that city.
Frank Lewandoski. convicted OF
| E.. n
yard in Chicago.
Stephen w. Townley died from sum
stroke in Mobile, Ala. -
Expressions of regret by Governor
Bates and Special Justice Phelps, at
Lee, Mass, that lack of knowledge OF
international law had resulted in the
imposition of fine by Judge Phelps
upon Hugh Quincy, third secretary OF
the British Embassy, were forwarded
to the State Department, at Washing
| ton.
The years record of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions shows larger receipts from
gifts and smaller receipts from legacles
than in the previous year.
The battleship Connecticut was
launched at the New York Navy Yard,
Miss Alice B. Welles, granddaughter
of Gideon Welles, being the sponsor.
Trthur D. Wyman and Charles F.
Wyman died at Cambridge. Mass,
from injuries received by being run
over by an automobile.
H. C. Cash. town marshal of Oliver
Springs, Tenn, was shot and killed
at that place by William West, a son
of DR.. T. A. West.
Joseph H. Edwards, while being
taken from Denver to New Orleans to
answer a charge of embezzlement,
tried to commit suicide.
George Frame. tried in Huntsville,
Ala, on the charge of being concern
ed in the lynching of the negro Naples,
was acquitted.
Purity in banking-powder and con-
fections was discussed at the Inter
national Pure Food Congress, in St.
Louis.
Thomas w. Williams, mining con-
tractor, OF Wilkesbarre, was accident
ally killed in South Wilkesbarre
Colliery.
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,
in charge of Franz Won Blon, arriv-
ed at New York on the steamer Pre-
toria.
The American Bar Association, at
its session in St. Louis, adopted res
olution approving the steps taken by
the Interparliamentary Union toward
the settlement of controversies be-
tween nations.
Foreign.
The case of George Crocker, OF