Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-08-05
NEWS IN SHORT ORDEP.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

iCICu IllO dill dSl SSh'Sht w AoiSN N
price of soft coal
Rear Admiral George A. Con
verse was appointed chief of the
Bureau of Navigation, succeeding the
late Admiral Taylor.
The peace prospects at the stock
yards strike received black eye IN
the arrest of President Golden, of the
Transfers Union.
The managers of the St. Louis EX-
position have decided not to pay the
expenses of the foreign jurors to the
fair
Receiver w. G. Taefel, of the New
York Savings Bank, was found
drowned in branch of the Licking
River.
E. J. Gildersleeve, a ticket broker,
was fined for dealing in nontrans-
ferable Worlds Fair railroad tickets.
A dozen persons were injured in
a collision between motor train and
a trolley car near Coney Island.
Minister Leishman cabled the State
Department that he had along inter-
view with the Sultan.
One man was killed and several in
jured in head-on collision near
Sharon, Pa.
Custer Gardner, a white man, was
hanged at Munfordville, KY, for the
murder, in November last, OF ). u.
Osborn and his son David.
The house of John Harper, at New
Haven. O., burned. and Mr.. Harper
and his wife, both over 30 years old,
were burned to death.
The remains of Rear Admiral Henry
c. Taylor were buried with military
honors at the National Cemetery at
Arlington. !,
State Bank Examiner Bergh, OF
Wisconsin, took charge of the state
bank at Mansion, Wis, and closed Its
doors.
The Republican State Convention
of Missouri nominated Cyrus P. Wal
bridge, of St. Louis. for governor.
William Hoyt hitched himself to
sulky and pulled his wife from Moline,
ILL.,, to the Worlds Fair in St. Louis.
Private Joseph J. Hammot, of the
Eighteenth Regiment, y. 5. A., sta
toned at Fort Schuyler, was MUIR
dtred.
Ambassadors Bellamy Storer and
Charlemayne Tower arrived at New
York on the steamer Deutschland.
President Roosevelt and his family
returned to Washington, where they
will remain for while.
Former Secretary of War Root has
declined to become candidate Tor
governor of New York.
Michael Davis was arrested IN
Brownsville, Pa, on the charge OF
killing his mother.
Heathheld Washburn. grain dealer
Of Buffalo, committed suicide.
The accident bulletin of the Inter
state Commerce Commission shows
decrease in the casualties on rail
roads since the use Of air brakes on
freight cars.
Judge Platt, of the United States
Circuit Court in Hartford. Ct, signed
the decree of foreclosure OF the
mortgage given the Ship Trust.
George F. Hammond confessed in
Spokane, Wash. his part in the hold
ing I'D of Northern Pacific passen-
ger train near Bearmouth, Mon.
The will of Abner Mckinley, filed
in Somerset, Pa, leaves the bulk OF
| his estate to his widow and his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mckinley Bear.
Nj. Marshall Langhorne, of Vir-
GINA, was appointed consul to Chung
king. China, and Frank S. Hannah,
of Illinois, to Madeburg, Germany.
Salvatore Brandaleone and Giovan-
nj Giordano, two Italians, were con-
victed in New York for counterfeit
ing. They confessed.
John Rogers, the sculptor who de-
signed the famous groups OF statuary
bearing his name, died in New Haven,
Ct.
A fire broke out in the lard re-
fnery of Swift & Co., in the STOCK.
yards in Chicago. 1t was not OF
incendiary origin.
Jealous John Anderson, of Pueblo,
COL, killed his sweetheart, Mrs: J: }.
Appley, and then shot and killed him.
The Lancaster Bank of Lancaster,
o., closed its doors in Consequence OF
a run, and receiver was appointed.
The National Association OF Kali
way Postal Clerks elected delegates
to the national convention to be held
in Boston in September.
Senator Davis emphatically denies
the report that he is to marry the
widow of DR.. John Reynolds, OF Shep-
herdstown, w. Va.
The record in the case of James b.
Howard against the State OF Ken
lucky was filed in the United States
Supreme Court. =,
The resignation of Charles M.
Schwab as director of the United
States Steel Corporation was &C
cepted.
Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, was
elected chairman of the Democratic
National Committee.
Rev. Robert Perine, dean OF All
Saints Cathedral, at Spokane, Wash,
died at Newark.
Foreign.
The recovery OF Lego, alias
Porozef, the assassin of the Russian
Minister of the Interior Won Plehve is
believed to be assured. The officials
declare that the murder was part
of widespread plot. =.
The French police are searching tor
all Italian nobleman who is alleged
to have swindled various people IN
London out of sums amounting to
about G8o,ooo.
Antonio de Castro won the prize OF
$1,000 awarded by the Lisbon Geo
graphical Society for completing, a
walking tour of Europe in IL months,
The Viceroy of Hukwang has mott
fed the officials of Singanfu to pro-
duce the murderers of Monsignor Yer