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

VV&Veuse
Nine prisoners were taken from the
jail at Watkinsville, Ga, and elght. OF
them shot to death by mob, the ninth
escaping serious injury and being lett
for dead by the lynchers.
AT the request of President McCurdy,
Superintendent of Insurance Hendricks
is to make a thorough investigation OF
the Mutual Life Insurance Company OF
New York.
The California Limited" of the San
ia Fe Railroad, colided with a stock
train in Kansas City Two men were
killed and several injured,
The executive committee of the Su-
preme Council of the Royal Arcanum is
sued statement declaring the higher
rates necessity.
Samuel F. PARROT was elected gen.
eral manager of the Georgia Southern
and Florida, succeeding William Check
ley Shaw.
James Lee Furman and John O'Brien
were hanged in Lancaster, Pa, for the
murder of Samuel Ressler
One man was killed and three were
injured in head-on collision of freight
trains at Punxsutawney, Pa.
The resignation of Chief Engineer
Wallace, of the Isthman Canal Com
mission, has been accepted.
Lorenzo Lemongelli and Pietro Bru-
nomota had duel with stlettos in
Scranton. Both were killed.
The Industrial Unionists are in Chi
cago forming labor body in opposition
to the Federation of Labor.
Six persons were killed and twenty in
jured in a storm that struck Philips
burg, Kan.
AT the Yale commencement exercises
President Hadley announced that Mr.:
John d. Rockefeller had made gilt OF
100000 to the university, and the
alumni had raised another million.
The Ohio Democratic State Conven..
ton nominated John M. Pattison, OF
Cincinnati, for governor, and State Sen
ator Louis B. Houck for lieutenant gov
ernor
Edward c.. Bellows, former United
States consul general in Japan, explain
ed, in San Francisco, how the Chinese
were boycotting American goods.
Columbia Post, No. 700, G.. A. R.,
gave campfire in Chicago in honor
of Gen Stephen D. Lee, of Vicksburg,
commander of the Confederate Veter-
ans
President Roosevelt made an address
at the commencement exercises at Har-
ward. Among the recipients of the hon.
orary degrees was Secretary Taft.
Assistant Postmaster Edward c. Hill,
of Pittsfeld, Mass, was almost instant
ly killed while riding his bicycle by be-
ing struck by trolley car.
The United States Steel Corporation
is reported to have bought the Lake
Erie and Pittsburg Railroad.
Three men held up 10 men and IS
women at resort in Chicago.
Frank Ward and Thomas Driscoll,
suspected OF being implicated in the at
tempted holdup of the North Coast linn
tied train near Tacoma, were arrested
in Seattle, Wash.
An unknown chauffeur ran down FL
don CARRIER, a fve-year-old child, and
killed it in Philadelphia.
The United States Circuit Court in
New York decided that the owners OF
the wrecked steamer La Bourgogne must
pay only the amount of the passage and
freight money.
Former United States Senator Nc
Bride, of Oregon, has been named by
the Lewis and Clark Exposition man
agement as president of the jury OF
awards.
The safe in the Elmer On. j. post
office was wrecked by dynamite and
postage stamps and cash amounting to
$500 were stolen.
Senator John H. Mitchell did not
testify in his own behalf in his trial at
Portland for being involved in land
frauds.