Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-05-20
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed fof Rapid
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Boston School of Theology caused
lively debate at the Methodist Cen
eral Conference, in Los Angeles, Cal
The Southern Baptist Convention
opened at Nashville, Tenn, with
nearly 1000 delegates present Gov,
ernor Eagle, of Alabama, was elected
president tor the third time.
An explosion of sawdust in the
furnace Of the Day Lumber Com.
pany's mill, in Portland, Ore, started
a fire which destroyed property valued
at $4,000.
Charles Stratton, former police
man at Seaside Highlands, was shot
and killed by George WATSON, an ar
tilleryman of the Fort Hancock gar
rison.
Fire started from burning leaves at
the Silver Lake Assembly grounds, at
Perry, N. Y, and in short time 10
cottages were destroyed.
By an explosion of gas iii the Lacka-
wanna Coal Company's No. 3 Nine,
near Vintondale, Pa, three men were
instantly killed
Edward +. Shaw, postmaster in
Three Rivers, Mass, was arrested for
the alleged cmbezzlement OF $500.
Whitney, Pousland & Co., the lead
ing commission firm of Boston. filed
a voluntary petition in bankruptcy.
James Gray Thomas, a prominent
physician and surgeon of Mobile, Ala,
died there, aged 90 years.
Everett Abbott, former treasurer of
the American Marine transportation
Company of Boston, who left that
city on March II, was arrested III
San Francisco OH charge of having
embezzled from his employers $3.50.
The committee on state OF the
church has decided to recommend to
the Methodist General Conference a
relaxation i'll the present prohibition
of certain dmusements.
Two officers and IS enlisted men
of Company F, Seventeenth Infantry,
which was ambuscaded by the Moros
in the Philippines, were killed.
The nominating committee has de-
cided on Judge George Gray, of Del
aware, as president OF the National
Civic Federation.
The body of Josephine McCahill,
the abducted child, was found near
the top of the chimney of her home,
in New York.
Fire destroyed Canadian Paciilc
grain elevator at Fort William, Ont
The loss is estimated at $25o,ooo.
1t was officially announced that the
New York Central Railroad would is
sue a S5o,ooo,ooo loan.
The Indiana State Convention in
structed its delegates for Parker and
adopted the unit rule.
The sensational libel suit brought
by r. S. Siever against Sir James
Duke was concluded in London with
erdict for Sir James, the cost being
assessed OH the plaintiff.
Miss Bell Crane, of Decatur, o.,
tJld consul General Gowdy, i'll Paris,
that she had been locked up by man
Who took her out automobile riding.
In the Reichstag, the army govern
ment was censured for dismissing
three members of the court-martial
that had tried Lieutenant Biltse.
The government of France has
made NJ. Philippe BunauVarilla an
officer of the Legion of Honor.
members Vi lIlc w liitC Pdily Ho'o
blown up two railroad bridges, which
were poorly guarded, short distance
from Montevideo, Uruguay.
King Peter of Servia has emphatic
ally declared that he will not abdicate
the Servian throne.
There was riot at Chinkiang. The
mob burned the quarters of the new
police force. -,
The Gillian government has sold
two cruisers to Charles R. Flint, OF
New York.
There was a strike of journeymen
bakers in Berlin.
The charges of heresy which have
been made against high church OFF,
Gals are destined to provoke
spirited debate at the Methodist Cen
eral Conference.
George M. Porteous, who intro
duced the bertillon system in the
United States, has been arrested at
Chicago, charged with embezzlement::
The sixth biennial convention OF
the international Brotherhood OF Lo-
connective Engineers assembled at Los
Angeles.