Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-03
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

Prof. William H. Pettee, senior
professor of mining engineering at
the university of Michigan, dropped
dead at his home, in Ann Harbor.
J. p. Morgan & Co. announced that
the transfer of the $40 100000 in gold
incident to the Panama Canal pay
ment has been completed.
Fall River cotton manufacturers
have started a movement for a re-
duction of 10 per cent. in the wages OF
cotton textile operatives.
A great mob gathered about Miss
Alice Roosevelt on the Worlds Fair
grounds.
Verona Fleenor, under sentence of
death, committed suicide in Morgan
town, Ky.
Robert +. Knox, college man, was
convicted of forgery in portland, Ind.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, the Presbyterian
General Assembly adopted, by two
thirds vote, a resolution which pro-
vdes that Presbyterian ministers be
enjoined from marrying divorced per-
sons who are ineligible in the churches
belonging to the lnterchurch Confer
ence.
Rothchild. the convicted New York
banker, decided to serve his term OF
nine years rather than have other III
dictments pressed against him.
Nonunion men are taking the places
of the strikers who were in the en-
ploy Of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad.
Twenty persons we're injured near
East Liverpool in a wreck caused by
a passenger train running into some
freight cars.
Rev. J. A. Boyd, colored, was arrest
ed while preaching in his church on
the charge of stealing from mail
pouch.
TIE General Federation Of Clubs, at
St. Louis, adopted resolutions against
divorce.
Broom manufacturers are said to be
trying to form trust.
Two Iowa farmers were killed by
lightning.
Rev. James R. Day, who was on
Saturday elected bishop by the
Methodist General Conference, in Los
Angeles, resigned. The Conference
indefinitely postponed the election OF
his successor.
The Congressional Merchant Marine
Commission began in New York hear.
ings on the question with a view OF
recommending remedial legislation
for the present unsatisfactory condi-
tons.
The three-masted schooner Fanny
Adele, laden with oil and merchandise
for Cape Nome, was set on fire by an
explosion and burned to the waters
edge at San Francisco.
Mrs. Frank Burt, who shot her
husband, the well-known theatrical
manager, has been arraigned on
charge of shooting with intent to kill:
Frank H. Slyder, superintendent of
county schools from 1887 to 1893, COM
mitted suicide in the attic of his
home, near Ckambersburg, Pa.
Peter 0. Elliott, the crank who
caused stir several weeks ago among
the White House police, committed
suicide in Minneapolis.
David Rothschild, the New York
bank president convicted of larceny,
was sentenced to nine years in the
state prison.
The General Federation of Womer's
Clubs resumed its sessions on the
Worlds Fair grounds, in St. Louis.
The Dunkards, or German Baptists,
in conference in Carthage, Mo-, de-
cided to drop the name of Dunkards.
The annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Baptist Home Mission Society
was held in Cleveland. /
The Pennsylvania Railroad has laid
off 500 additional employees at the
Altoona shops.
1t has been ascertained that the
victim of all attack by an unknown
assailant in New Haven, Ct, was
Miss Emily B. Richards, daughter of
Professor Richards, of Yale Scientific
school,
Harry D. Babcock. a Yale fresh
man, died at his home, in New York,
from the effects of a blow from a
polo mallet received during a game
with the Princeton team.
Judge MacLean, of the Supreme
Court of New York, appointed a
referee to examine into the charges .
of fraud made by Zoltan Doeme Ill
the Nordica divorce case.
Brigadier General Funston explains
that he did not swim across the Rio
Grande, but did swim across the Bag
Bag River during the Filipino War.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Bristow is on an inspection tour
in Texas He is looking up the work
ings of the rural free-delivery sys-
tenn