Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-19
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

work among the negroes by decidlilie
that if was no affair of the convention
to solve the so-called negro problem;
Judge Peter V. Voorhees,, lay Judge
of the Court of Errors and Appeals, IN
Camden, N. J., announced that ne f'ad
sent his resignation to Governor stokes,
The transport Warren sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with big
cargo Of supplies for the government STA
lions in the Philippines and at Guam.
Five of the unidentified victims OF the
railroad wreck at Harrisburg, Pa, were
buried in a lot selected by the railroad
company officials.
Two fast freights on the Chautauqua,
Division of the Pennsylvania Kialroad
collided head on Two trainmen were
killed and several injured
The report of the General Sa6bath
School Board was submitted to the Uni
ted Brethren Conference, III session III
Topeka, Kan ma,
Miss Edith |. Gibney secured IN Pitts
burg verdict for $I3,925 in her breach
of promise suit against Klaus Steiner
President F. d. Underwood, OF the
Erie Railroad Company, denied that
that company was paying rebates :,
Northern Texas has again been HOOD
ed BY heavy rainstorm and telegraph
wires are nearly all useless.
Abe Weinberg, aged 81 years, was
stabbed to death by John DAILY IN a
lodeing-house in Philadelphia.
A. Brightman shot and killed Mrs.
Charles H. Gurney in Los Angeles, Cai.'
and then committed suicide.
All OF the negroes and men imported
bv the Employers Association to take
the places of the strikers in Chicago are
being yaccinated by the Chicago Board
of Health Department. Twenty nSpe,c-
tors are working among the strlke-break-
ers. There are at present 100 smallpox
patients in the Isolation Hospital.
Papers have been served on James
w. Alexander, president of the Equitai-
Bile Life Assurance Society, in the SUIT
of James II. Hyde to have him removed
as trustee of the Hyde stock.
Herbert V. Croker, son OF Kicnaro
Croker, of New York city, was found
dead in car on the southbound At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Re Railroad
when it reached Newton, Kan.
Several persons were nlured and two
cars demolished in a collision between
locomotive and passenger tram on
the Chicago and Northwestern in Chi
cago.
The felt hat factory of Jonas & Naum-
berg, SO to 522 West Thirty-hfth street.
New York was damaged 100000 by hre'
Two hundred men and women escaped.
Five men have been killed and two
INJURED in an explosion in mine belong
ing to the Henze property at Butte,
Mont.
In wreck on the Cotton Belt Kali
way the train was ditched and four per-
sons are reported killed
Emerson Z. Bennett, well-known
writer and composer, Of Philadelphia, is
dead
At the Convention of the American
Stock-growers' Association in Denver
resolutions were adopted indorslng the
Presidents attitude toward fair railroad
rates.
Las Vegas, N. NJ, has been selected as
the location of national sanltarlum,
over ST. 100000 having been donated IN
land, buildings and cash for the purpose:
AT the Convention of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters President
Washburn referred to the immense loss
that had been sustained during the year:
Trueman Mason, aged 65, shot and
mortally wounded DR.. V. Davis in Wa
pela, ILL.,, and then shot himself in the
head, death ensuing almost instantly.
Edward Gottschalk was convicted IN
St. Paul, Mimi, of the murder OF Chris
tan H. Schindeldecker and sentenced
to be hanged.
The New Jersey Board of Pardons has
refused to pardon Libbie Garrabrant, who
has served 80 years of life sentence
for murder
Thirty men who went to Panama as
employees of the Canal Commission re-
turned, fearful of the fever prevailing
there
Wallace MacCreary, once well-known
comic-opera singer, committed SUICIDE
by leaping from New York ferryboat.
For unrequitted love Peter Kathesizer
killed Miss Grace Townsley in Lin
coin, Neb., and then killed himself:
John Hewitt, of Abel, Ga, killed his
wife, wounded her sister and brother, and
then killed himself.
Mrs. Alexander Schaffer and her SIX
year-old son were killed by lightning in
Lancaster, o.