Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-01
THE news IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic,

to i:ght a duel because Stachelberg or
dered his employees to cease reading an ,
archistic literature. The challenge will
be ignored.
In his annual report to the War De:
partment General Whit, commander OF
the Department of the Missouri, recon-
mends that married men be barred IRON
enlistment and that chaplains be prohIO-
tied from marrying soldiers.
William H. York, aged II years, VINO
was one of Guerilla Morgan'S raiders
during the Civil War, is in Jefferson
County (Ky.) Jail on the charge OF the
murder of his brother, aged 90 years. i.
Mr.. Theodore P. Shonts, chairman OF
the Isthrnian Canal Commission, was
guest of the President at Oyster Bay,
and discussed with him matters apper-
tanning to the great undertaking.
The discovery of oil in the heart OF
Warren, Pa, has made that town oil
crazy. Wells are being sunk in back
yards of residents. There has been a
phenomenal rise in land values.
A Brooklyn man has asked that his
wife be committed to an industrial home
because he is tired of combing her hair
and sewing buttons on her blouses. She
was committed.
John Moore, a negro, 20 years old,
was taken from jail in Newbern, N. ",
by a mob of 100 armed men and lynched.
He attacked woman in country store:
A Philadelphia man became convinced
that he was about to die, and so predicted
in a letter to a relative. When about
to post the mssive he dropped dead.
A I5-year-old choir boy Of Phlladel-
phia has been arrested in Philadelphia on
the charge of burglary. The police say
he has committed over 40 robberies.
Six thousand union carpenters OF Bos-
ton will receive an increase in wages
under the decision of Judge George l..
Wentworth, to whom as special arbi-
traitor the employers and unionists sub
mitted the question of a new working
agreement.
The mystery of the loss of trunks and
of other baggage in Western cities is be-
lieved to have been solved by the Chi
cago police, who arrested man and a
woman. A search of their rooms re-
vealed evidences of the missing baggage:
Mr.. Harry F. Hooper, city register OF
Baltimore, was elected vice president
of the American League of Munlcipali-
ties. in session in Toledo. The league
will hold its next meeting in Chicago.
The Chicago police believe they have
clue to the Mize murder mystery. they
have arrested man for holding up a
woman. The circumstances and meth
DDS employed are similar to those in
the Mize case.
The work of the National Young
Women's Christian Association was out
lined at Lake Geneva by Miss Emma
HAYS, one of the national secretaries OF
the association.
Frank PUNISH, Chicago swindler, has
been arrested after being out Of the pen
itentiary for only three weeks. He has
spent over &C years behind the bars.
The report of the fever situation IN
New Orleans was encouraging There
was small report of new cases and
only one death during the night
BENJAMIN Kunkle and his daughter
il-law. Mrs. Francis Kunkle, were
drowned in Big Beaver Creek, near
Lancaster, Pa.
James Madison Brooks, a salesman
of the Standard Oil Company, commit
ted suicide in New York by shooting.
The value of the estate of the late
Secretary Hay exceeds $25o,ooo.
In an address before the National IT.
rigation Congress, now in session at
Portland, Ore, James J. Hill, presi-
dent of the Great Northern Railway,
quoted statistics to show how public
lands of the West are passing into the
hands of monopolists.
The breaker, office, boiler-house and
engine-house of the Pine Hill Coal Com
pany, at Minersville, Pa, were burned.
The loss is $4,000; partly insured Six
hundred men and boys are thrown out
Of employment.
James P. Hennessey was arrested IN
New York on the charge of the forgery
of $4,000 against the estate of the late
millionaire D. P. Morgan, of which he
was cashier.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announces that in future it will accept
no freight cars from manufacturers I'M
less they are equipped with airbrakes.