Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-07-28
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic

Boston of General Blackmar, command
erin-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Three laborers drank can of beer
and laid down on the Burlington tracks
at Omaha. One was killed, another IA
tally injured, and the third was injured
and not awakened by his shaking up.
A collection of $4,000 was taken UP
at the closing session of the Missionary
and Christian Alliance of the Eastern
District of the United States at Lancas-
ter, Pa.
A New York woman who is the moth
er of six children has passed the ex-
animation for admission to the New
York bar. She was at the head of I,ooc
candidates.
Anthracite coal operators are reported
to be storing immense quantities of Goa
with view to resisting the demands oil
the miners when again made.
Delamore Place, the historic home OF
the Bayard family, in Wilmington, will
be sold in the settlement of the estate
of the late Thomas F. Bayard.
Six passengers on the steamer Finance
arrived in New York from Panama, hav-
ing abandoned their positions on the
canal.
The New York Legislation Commit
tee will not be hampered by restrictions
in its investigation of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society.
A Polish merchant of Pittston, Pa
is dead as the result of fright because
of receipt of several BLACK Hand" let
tiers.
Miss Florence Everett, of South Am
boy, had thrilling experience by being
lost in coal mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Miss Frances Schroeder, daughter OF
former mayor of Brooklyn, New York,
will wed Alfred ]. Boulton, mechanic.
William Holroyd, machinest, 20 years
old, killed his I7-year-old wife in Phil
adelphia and then committed suicide.
1t is reported that the grave of the
mother of Abraham Lincoln, near Lin
coin City, ILL.,, is neglected.
AT a prayer-meeting in a Cleveland
Baptist Church John D. Rockefeller said
he never tasted rum.
A serious riot occurred at the celebra-
tIOii VI d OiioI WCuuiIiS HCdi Ao'iOON,
Pa.
Charles NJ Schwab denies that he gave
$4,000 for a copy of "Fads and Fan
cies," but admits that he paid $500 for
subscription.
In order to avert a disaster like that of
the General Slocum, the steamer Sirius,
with 1000 Sunday School excurSionists
on board, was run ashore after she had
struck rock, which knocked hole in
the bottom.
A Lockport On. W women left $1,000
to her only child and $4,000 for home
for houseless dogs and cats.
Mary l. Nelson, who sued Frederick
Gebhardt for $4,000, got judgment by
default
The rate war between New York and
Chicago may lead to reduction of the
fare to ST. ~
J. II. Patterson gave dinner to TO-
600 persons in Ohio.
The City National Bank Of Kansas
City, which held some of the Devlin pa
per, besides considerable other bad pa
per, was closed by order of the Comp
troller of the Currency.
J. B. Gregory, an escaped convict and
expert counterfeiter, was arrested in Los
Angeles, Cal. He has an unexpired
term of seven years to serve in De-
troit
Governor Higgins sent message to
the New York legislature recommending
a legislative investigation of the insur-
ance laws of the state.
D. T. Terry, former president of the
Howard County Bank, at Nashville,
Ark, was arrested on the charge of
embezzlement.
The coroner's jury found four negro
men and one woman implicated in the
death of Mrs. S. ]. Smith, in Sededen,
Ala.
Fred Montgomery, of Sandwich, On
tario, died from a wound caused by his
being stabbed in the breast with a hat
pin.
Captain Hobson's bride became i'll
while travelling through Iowa and was
taken to a hospital in 'Des MONIES.
The Cuban government has made per-
manent the suspension of Mayor O'Far-
rell, of Havana.