Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-07-08
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

beas corpus to Charles H. Meyer,
president of the Western Federation
OF Miners.
The Louisiana Exposition paid into
the United States Subtreasury, i'll 81.
Louis, $2I3,oo2.I5 as the second IN
Stalmen on the repayment OF the loan
made.
George l.. Upton, prominent So
ciety man of St. Paul and his wife
were killed by the explosion OF
gasoline tank on his gasoline launch.
The police saved from mob of
foreigners in Chicago Stephen Wac
lavik, who had shot and killed Mrs.
Annie Waclavik, his former iandlady.
Capt. Edward Alfred Graham, divi-
sion counsel for the Southern and
Seabaord Air Line Railways, died i'll
Montgomery, Ala.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles R. Furst, of
New York, were robbed of their
diamonds at the Park Hotel, Mount
Clemens, Mich.
Two trolley cars collided near
Marshall, Mich. and three men were
seriously wounded and number
shaken up. :,
Rev. DR.. Swallow has not decided
whether or not to accept the Proh'bl-
ton nomination for president.
Pending the adoption OF a new
wage scale, $500 union miners in the
Alabama district suspended work.
Rev. Charles Mayne, pastor of the
Methodist church at Nevada Ia. was
shot and killed by burglar.
The Gloucester fishing schooner
Harry G. French was sunk by the
Hamburg American steamer Deutsch-
land and the crew was taken on the
steamer TO New York.
Baron Cpeck Won Sternburg de-
livered the commencement address at
the University of the South, IN
Suwanee, Tenn, and received the de-
gree of doctor of civil law.
DR.. Floyd Whitccomb, of War; H.,
Pa, was drowned i'll Conewango
Creek, near Frewsburg, N. Y. while
driving on professional business.
A number of tranmen were injured
in a collision between passenger trains
on the c., H. & D. Railroad near
| Miamisburg, 0.
w. H. Maxwell, superintendent of
instructions in New York, was elected
president of the National Educational
/ Association.
Henry F. Billings, manager of the
investment department of Granger,
Farwell & Co., brokers, of Chicago,
committed suicide.
The motion to quash the Brooklyn
! indictment against George w. Beav-
| ers was quashed by United States
Judge Thomas.
A locomotive boiler exploded near
Shoenfeld, Pa, killing three men and
injuring two others.
Yale University bestowed the de-
gree of doctor of laws on DR.. William
Stewart Halstead, of Johns Hopkins
University. Harvard University be-
slowed the same degree upon DR..
William Osler, also of Baltimore.
The report of the committee on
synod which was submitted to the
Conference of American Rabbis, in
session at Louisville, favors the es--
Enlistment of synod for the central
government of the church.
Mr.. o J. Kern, of Illinois. made an
address on the country school before
the National Educational Associa-
ton, in session on the Worlds Fair
grounds.
Wesleyan University conferred the
degree of Ii. D. upon Abram w.
Harris, president of Jacob Tome ms
titute, Port Deposit, Md.
Directors of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road declared dividend of 10 per
cent. on preferred stock and I per
| cent on common stock.
DR.. c. Alphonso Smith, professor
of English at the University of North
Carolina, was elected president OF
that institution.
Forty hremen were overcome by
smoke and gas in New York while
fighting a blaze. Four will probably
die.
The West Virginia Building OH the
Worlds Fair grounds was dedicated.
In an address before the Harvard
Law School Association at Cam
bridge Secretary of War Taft de.
Bonded the American government OF
the Philippine Islands, and pointed
out what the government hoped to &C
complish.
John Bailey Tyler, who was believed
to be the youngest Confederate, sol,
der, died in Chicago. He enlisted
when IL years old as cavalryman.
Walter Scott, an Alaskan miner!
says he was robbed of $4,000 in gold
on a Pullman Car between Pittsburg
and Harrisburg.
Thousands of persons are ready to
make the rush Into the new. tract
thrown open to homesteaders IN Ne
braska.