Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-07-22
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,


Judge Bradford, in the United States
Court, in Trenton, N. j.. granted a
preliminary injunction restraining the
proposed distribution of stock by the
Northern Securities Company.
A freight train ran down hand
car near Emporia, Kan. One young
man was killed and his three COM
panions, including two young ladies,
were seriously injured.
Osceola Kyle, of Alabama, took the
oath of Office in Washington as a
Judge in the canal zone in Panama,
and will sail from New York next
week
William f. Sugden, for FL years
president of the Hartford County
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, died
in Hartford, CT, aged SO years.
The National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association has brought
| charges of discrimination against 81
| railroads.
The Worlds Fair has made the
first payment of 100000 on the gov
| eminent loan of 100000.
Having secured decree of divorce.
Mrs Ella Swoboda, of Chicago, COM
mtted suicide.
There was large attendance at the
funeral of Mayor Samuel M. Jones,
in Toledo
The minority members of the Gu
ban Congress refuse to meet for the
purpose of passing bill covering the
proportionate distribution of the pro-
ceeds of the $35,ooo,ooo loan for the
| payment of veterans or to authorize
an additional loan because the adj
Indication of soldiers claims is not
likely to be completed until Novem-
| Der, when it is supposed that another
session of Congress will begin.
The beef packers in Chicago re-
| jected the proposition of the union
that all strikers be taken back pend
ing arbitration, and proposed instead
to retain all help employed since the
strike began The various packing
houses in the West have resumed
slaughtering.
President Roosevelt will receive a
committee of the United Mineworkers
of Pennsylvania at Sycamore Hill re-
garding the Colorado labor trouble
| petition.
George Wilson, believed to be one
| of the men who held up the Northern
Pacific train near Bearmouth, Mont,
was arrested in Spokane, Wash.
An .eastbound passenger train on
the Rock Island Railroad was wreck
ed four miles west of Havana, Ark,
and Fl persons injured.
Mrs. Louise Bruseke, of Washing
ton, committed suicide on her hus-
bands grave, in Prospect Hill Gene
terry.
A conspiracy among the employees
of the admission department at the
Worlds Fair is said to have been I'M
earthed
Horace S. Ferree, the defaulting
postmaster at Jennings, La, was
brought back from Montreal to New
| Orleans.
French Day at the Worlds Fair was
observed by the unveiling of an al
legorical statue of the French Re-
public.
A block of Io-room houses at Sails
bury, Pa, owned by the Merchants
Coal Company, was burned.
The judgement for $4,000 awarded
by New York jury to Eleanor
Anderson in her suit against James N.
Abel for alleged breach of promise
was vacated by the Appellate Divi-
sion of the Supreme Court, which
finds that the service of summons and
complaint in the case was defective.
Because of discrimination against
their race by the Worlds Fair di-
rectors the National Association of
Colored Women refused to hold its
sessions on the Worlds Fair grounds.
William p. Scott, candidate for
president of the United States on the
National Liberty ticket, was arrested
in East St. Louis on account OF an
unpaid fine.
All the union iron and steel plants
in the Pittsburg district have signed
the new wage scale Of the Amalga-
mated Association.
John w. Parker. aged IS years,
committed suicide in St. Louis while
in mood of melancholy.
New York customs inspectors seized
valuable articles in the possession OF
the officers of the steamship Shimosa.
The STANDARD Oil Company an
nounces a cut in crude petroleum.
Memphis, Tenn, is making a cam
paign against gambling.
Because he was discharged August
Geber tried to exterminate the family
Of his employer, at San Francisco.
Foreign.
Sir Henry Campbell annerman an
nounces that he will ask Premier Bal
four to set day for debate in the
House of Commons oflta vote of CEN
sure of the government in view of the
prominent part taken by leading men,
berS of the Cabinet in proceedings OF
the Liberal Unionist Council. during
which resolution was passed approx
ing the fiscal policy of Joseph Cham
berlaln.
George A. Church, of Rhode Is
land, astonished the French claimants
to the estate of NJ. Poulet, valued at
100000, by fully establishing his
identity as the heir named by Poulet
in his will
The White Star Line steamer Ger
manic will be transferred to the Do
minion Line, renamed the Ottawa and
be placed on the Montreal-Liverpool
service. .
President Loubet, of France, will
confer the Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honor upon Secretary Hay.
Mohammed FL Torres, foreign min
lister, released the Anghera Tribes
men who have been held prisoners at
Tangier and Tetuan. The Anghera
tribe is pleased with his action, which
minimizes the danger of the kid
mapping of Europeans.
Count de la Vaulx. aeronaut, while
attempting a flight in his dirlgible