Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-11-04
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,


monlng OF another international peace
conference.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is preparing to handle increased
traffic. Works of improvement, tenn
porarily suspended, have been taken
up and orders have been placed for
more cars and locomotives.
Officials of the Enterprise Collicry,
in Shamokin, Pa, which caught fire
three weeks ago, stated that the FIRE,
which caused over 100000 damage,
has been extinguished
Kogora Takahira, the Japanese min
lister to the United States. has under
gone an operation for appendicitis in
New York and his condition is serious
Ross Schatcr, farmer, living in
Ohio. shot and killed John Ham, who
had been employed by him as farm
hand. The motive was revenge.
Alvah R. Cooley confessed being
implicated with Edward Douvall in
an attempt to blackmail Mrs. Theresa
A. Sheridan in New York.
The report OF the United States
Commissioner of Education shows
that during the past year 16,ooo,3 sol
pupils attended the public schools.
The steamer Manlander, of the Pa
cihc Coast Steamship Company's feet,
lies at the bottom of Puget Sound, off
West Point lighthouse, north of Seat
tie, as the result OF collision with
the powerful tug Sea Lion.
The summer home of former State
Senator John r. McCarty, at Pitts
field, Mass, was robbed The thieves
secured jewelry valued at $4,000.
II. Stanley Wilson, y years old, was
| shot and instantly killed at Pushaw
Lake, Me-, by his brother Herbert,
who mistook him for deer.
One man was burned to death and
another injured in fire on the New
York waterfront that partially destroy
| cd several vessels and the pier.
Columbia College began the cele-
bration of the one hundred and fftietn
anniversary of the university since its
inception as Kings College.
A young lady fell between the plat
form and train in the subway and
was painfully hurt. This was the first
accident in the subway.
Myrtle Smith. IS years old. is dead
and Jennie Leaver critically i'll as the
| result Of Knockout drops administered
to the girls.
Former Gov George K. Nash, of
Ohio, died suddenly Of heart disease
at the home OF his stepdaughtcr, in
Columbus.
The American steamer Miami, which
arrived at Havana. brought IL of the
crew of the Spanish bark Cosme CAL
zada, which was wrecked on the Flor
ida coast.
Thomas NJ. Higgs, hotel man in
Huntsville, Ala, has been arrested
and placed under $1,000 bond on a
charge Of conspiracy i'll the lynching
Of Horace Naples.
r. Haning, father-in-law of County
Treasurer Thomas J. Chase, was in
dicted in Pomeroy, o., on the charge
OF being involved in the county treas
ury robbery.
On account of the charge of arson
brought against him, Isaac n. Perry
resigned the presidency of the Ma
tonal Bank OF North America, of
Chicago.
The grand jury in Akron, O., re-
turned an Indictment against Aaron
Wagner, cashier OF the Akron
| c,:..x- Do.I, ,,.L;oL f,;iaj i,et Orii
Belamy Storer, American ambas-
sador to Austria Hungary, sailed from
| New York on the steamer Deutsch-
land on his return to his post.
Mrs. Maud Cohoon was shot and
probably fatally wounded in Clncm-
natl by Charles Lugannani, an Italian
| belboy.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany met in New York and reorgan-
lied by tho reelection of the old Off
GERS.
Mrs. Rae Krauss was indicted in
Hartford City, Ind, on the charge OF
murder in the first degree.
The directors of the United States
Steel Corporation declared the regu-
larly quarterly dividend.
The steamship Massachusetts IS re-
ported to have been wrecked off the
Old Bahama Channel.
John Connolly died in Pittsburs
from wounds said to have been IN
hcted by his mother.
Cornelius Van Colt, postmaster Of
New York city, died suddenly OF heart
failure.
| J. Harry Tregoe. Of Baltimore, adj
dressed the Chicago Credit Mems AS
ISOLATION.
A large meeting of window glass IN
tereSts was held at Pittsburg.
The village of South Royalston
Mass, was threatened by fire.
The International Arbitration So
ciety met in Chicago.