Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-12-02
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

OF Deputies against the criticism Of
the Franco Russian alliance in the re-
port Of the committee on the foreign
budget.
Continuous heavy rains interfere
with the inspection of the Panama
Canal zone by the American congress
sional party. The members had a
conference with President Amador.
Samuel Gompers was reelected
president OF the American Federation
OF Labor, only one delegate in the
San Francisco convention. socialist
leader, voting against him.
Mrs. Rosie Lusander, aged Is years:
wat shot and killed in Philadelphia by
her husband, to whom she had been
married but two months.
The body of Mrs. Emma Brigham.
OF Leicester, Mass, was found in the
woods covered with leaves. She had
been murdered.
Arrangements have been made for
beginning the work of dismanting the
Worlds Fair promptly on Deem
Der 1.
Frank Brady, against whom several
charges were pending, was shot and
killed by officers at Rock Creek, near
Bonita, Mont
The Big Bend National Bank of
Davenport, Wash, was closed by di-
rection OF the Comptroller OF the Cur
rency.
Mrs. Maria B. Wilkes, the oldest
actress in the country, died i'll the
Prince of Peace Hospital in Philadel-
phia
The National Grange decided i'll
Portland, Ore. to hold the next an
nual session in the State of New
Jersey.
Otis Loveland was electrocuted in
Columbus, O.. for the murder of Geo.
Gcycr, a farmer, near Alton.
BY the overturning Of patrol wag-
on i'll New York several policemen
were seriously injured,
The Union Pacific Railroad is re-
ported to have bought the Chicago
Great Western.
Frank Duncan, notorious safe
blower, was hanged in Birmingham,
Ala, for murder.
The United States South Atlantic
Squadron sailed from Rio Janero for
Bahia.
A fire in Chinese tenement in
New York caused something of a
panic
A Confederate monument was I'M
yelled in Eufaula, Ala.
to James Breitung, OF Marquette,
Mich, and who was accused of steal
ing $4,000 worth Of securities from
him, was arrested in Liverpool.
The American barkcntine Webfoot,
waterloggcd and dismasted. arrived at
Astoria, Ore, with three Of her crew
missing and the survivors exhausted,
Col. William Moore, once promi-
nent i'll Tennessee politics, died at his
home, in Nashville, Tenn. He was "a
years old.
The apartments OF Prince Fushimi
were robbed while the Prince and his
attendants were at the Worlds Fair.
Milt Shaw, a prominent lawyer, Of
Hickman, KY, shot and killed his
uncle. Robert Buck. The plea is self
defense.
-Four men were drowned from a
rowboat while being ferried from Port
Huron, Mich, to Sarnia, Ont.
- The congressional committee has
arrived at Panama to make d study
OF canal conditions.
The grand jury OF Tonawanda. Pa,
found true bills against Mrs. Sophia
Merritt and her four children, charg-
ing them with murder and arson.
Joe Harrie, the negro charged with
insulting a white woman at Augusta,
Ga, has been spirited away to Atlanta
to avoid mob violence.
Italian steerage passengers were
thrown into excitement by the COLI
sion in New York harbor OF the
steamer Nord America with a car
float
The Janney manufacturing Com
pany, Of Ottumwa, la. capitalized at
$4,000, has passed into the hands OF
receiver.
The National Grange is considering
proposition TO institute life insur-
ancc department for the benefit of