Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-09-09
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

| port OF paCklng-nOuSe Strike.
The Northern Securities Company
filed in Trenton, N. J., an answer tC
the suit of the Harrimans to restrain
the company from carrying out it!
proposed plan of distribution of it:
assets.
The Superior Court in Chicago de
cided that operators who formed {
corner in wheat, oats or other com
modities cannot enforce payment
against those caught in the squeeze.
Judge Joseph Sheldon, of New
Haven, CT, was selected as, the candi
date of the Peoples Party for gov
ernor Of Connecticut by the state exec.
utive committee.
Engineer Johnson and Conductor Ir.
win were held responsible by the cor
oner's jury for the train wreck at Tin
taluta, N. w. T.
The New York Police Commission
er has asked for $I3.328,I29 for the
support. of the New York police force
in 1905.
The Johnson-Dunbar Mills Com
pany, of North Adams, Mass, manu-.
facturers of cotton goods, has made
an assignment.
A Wabash train ran into street
car at crossing in St. Louis, killing
persons and injuring IS, several ia
tally.
Will Bruner and Joseph N. Trahan,
farmers, were killed near Rayne, La,
by Homer Meche, a drunken man.
Charles Rothermel and his wife were
frightfully slashed in Philadelphia by
their maniac son Edward.
Mrs. George Packer was murdered
in Clarkton, N. c. Her mutilated body
was found in the woods.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween the coal-mine operators and the
mineworkers in Montana.
Fire in the wholesale district Of
Memphis, Tenn, destroyed property to
the value of 100000.
Plans have been arranged for in
structing the primitive Filipinos at the
Worlds Fair in English.
Clark Caryl Haskins, the electrical
inventor and writer, died in Chicago.
Fire completely destroyed the &C.
ment plant of the Struthers Furnace
Company, near Youngstown. o. The
loss is placed at $4,000, with 100000
insurance.
Six persons are dead and four dan
gerously injured as the result of a
dwelling house fire, followed by an
oil-tank explosion, at Yellow Creek, O.
The Chicopee (Mass.) Manufactur-
ing Company has shut down its en-
tire plant until September IL on &C
count of the state of the cotton BUSH
ness.
Former Judge Lyman S. Bur, of
New Britain, Ct, was arrested on the
charge of embezzling $5.4o3 from the
estate of Timothy w. Loomis.
The imperial express on the Cana
dian Pacific was wrecked at Sintaluta,
N. w. T.. and five women passen-
gers in the tourist car were killed.
Philip Caldwell, elevator conductor.
was killed and eight persons were in
jured by the falling of a passenger
elevator in Chicago.
DR.. w. E. Woodend, the bankrupt
New York broker arrested on the
charge of grand larceny, was dis
charged.
Twelve hundred and fifty miners
have gone on strike in the Coal Creek
District of Tennessee.
Canadian authorities seized the
American fishing schooner Samoset
off North Sydney, c. B.
Six Indians of the Turtle Mountain
Reservation were killed by drinking
wood alcohol.
The Chicago and Alton Railroad
has passed to the ownership of the
Union Pacific.
Edward Armes, nonunionist, was
savagely attack by union butchers in
New York.
Judge Parker has decided to go to
the St. Louis Exposition on Septem-
Der "a.
The cause of the disappearance of
c. B. Spahr, editor of Current Litera-
ture, from the Cunard Line steamer
Aurania at Dover, England, is mys-
terry to his family and friends in New
York.
The State Department, at Washing
ton, was officially notified of the death
of the Colombian charge. DR.. Her
ran, by the Colombian consul general,
in New York.
Rosa Stern, daughter of Rev. Lewis
Stern, the Washington rabbi, made an
attempt to take her life by cutting her
throat and wrist with razor.
DR.. Z. G. Simons, wealthy physi-
clan, of Ripley, N. Y, was instantly
killed by Lake Shore freight train. i'll
Chenille, a suburb.
Marshal A. B. Hammond shot and
killed Bud Tucker and seriously
wounded Jim Tucker in street duel
in Florale, Ala.
Judge Edgar M. Cullen, of Brook
Ign, was appointed chief judge of the
New York Court of Appeals, to sue
coed Judge Parker.
Bail for the release of Nan Patter
son, indicted in New York for the
murder of Caesar Young, was fixed at
$4,000.
The United States army transport
Thomas sailed from San Francisco,
carrying 800 army recruits to the Phil
ippines.
Foreign.
The Uruguayan War Minister, COM
the government troops. re-
ports having won a decisive victory
over General Saraiva, the leader Of
the Uruguayan insurgents.