Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-10-14
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,


While suffering from delirium trem-
ems, DR.. Edward ]. Belt, of Spring
held, Mass, shot and wounded DR..
Benjamin Jackson, his physician, and
Judson Strong, Jr., and then COM
mitted suicide.
The remains of Postmaster General
Payne were buried in Forest Home
Cemetery, in Milwaukee, after they
had been viewed by about $4,000 per-
sons as they lay in state in the city
hall.
Najit Hashp and his Chicago bride,
who were arrested at the instance of
the brides father on the charge of
theft, were released on habeas cor
pus proceedings.
Henry E. Simmons, member of
the wealthy colony at Summit, N. j.,
was arrested on the charge of footing
while executor of the estate OF his
Connecticut aunt.
The Convention of the Boys Bri-
gade, in Washington, concluded with
a masS-meeting in Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.
Frank Woodbridge, wanted in Hon
olulu for embezzlement committed
about three years ago, was found on
the transport Logan and arrested.
Charles A. Ward was arrested in
New York on the charge of getting
$4,000 from justices of the Supreme
Court by misrepresentation.
Allen M. Gangewar, who was once
private secretary to Secretary Salmon
P. Chase, of. Ohio, died in Washing
ton.
Mrs Martha c. Noxon sued Mary
E. Remington for $4,000 damages
for alternating the affections of her 10
year-old husband.
Six Grand Trunk Railway train
men were suffocated to death in the
tunnel under the St. Clair River, at
Port Huron, Mich
John Whipple, the outlawed Massa-
chusetts farmer, was surrounded in a
barn by posse. and put two bullets
into his head rather than be captured.
His injuries are probably fatal
David Aud, president of the First
National Bank and a pioneer Kansas
dropped dead in Atchison, Kan, aged
90 years. Mr.. Aud built the Hanni-
bal Road into Atchison.
Rowland c. Hill was shot and killed
in Memphis by Ben Gillian. colored,
who was defending Mrs. Emma Leon
ard from Hills unwelcome attentions.
Six hundred students of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin were ducked in
the waters of Lake Mendoza in the
annual university freshman-sopho-
more rush.
The International Peace Congress
decided to hold the next convention in
Lucerne, Switzerland A scheme for
an international court was proposed.
Charles, alias Shotgun" Foley was
hanged in New Orleans. 1t was the
first execution there of a white man
in number of years.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was fined and
sent to Jail in Wichita, Kan, for sa-
loon-smashing, while her companions
were only fined
William E. Dunlap, an artilleryman.
made sensational escape from Fort
Smelling, where he was under sem
tence.
Four men were horribly burned at
the Wharton Furnace, at Wharton.
Pa, and at least one of them will
die.
The three-masted schooner James
R. Talbot was burned near Rockland
Breakwater, off the coast of Maine.
One person was killed and seven
injured in collision on the Pan
handle Railroad between the Wheel
ing express and freight engine.
The Nebraska, the latest and largest
United States battleship, was success
fully launched at Seattle.
William B. Gaitree, former super
intendent of rural delivery for Ohio,
Indiana and Kentucky, was indicted
by the federal grand jury in Cincin-
natl on the charge of embezzlement.
At the international Peace Con-
gress, in Boston, resolutions were
passed expressing qualification at the
recently adopted arbitration treaties
and encouraging disarmament.
NCIClVCiS WClc dppOlltCu DIT MUM
gomery for the Alabama Cotton Prod
ucts Company, round-lap bale con-
Germ, the capital stock of which is
$23o,ooo and the liabilities $323755.
A summons in an action for crimi-
nal libel was served upon Mayor Nc
Clellan, of New York. 1t was secured
by Hal Bell, former civil service COM
missioner.
Under the will of Mrs. Mariana
A. Ogden, who died at Lenox, Mass,
100000 is bequeathed to Arnot Og-
den Memorial Hospital, in Elmira,
N. Y.
Otto Kuhn, of the firm Of Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., of New York. testified
that the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.
was responsible for the Northern Pa
cific panic.
Pauline Hall sued Floyd, Crawford
r. ca etockbrOkere in New VOrk