Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-08-25
THE news IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic,

DOMESTIC
Near Clarksvil,e, Tex, two negroes
were accused of utterins detamatoty re-
marks about white girl. lhey were
arrested and tried by commilttce-nve
white and five colored. They were
found guilty and received lasheS, admin
istered by the colored men. r
The walls of the Avenue Theater
building, in Pittsburg, which was beng
wrecked preparatory to the construction
of new building, fell with crash'
carrying down IS Italian laborers, bury
ing a number under the debris. None
were killed.
According to Rev. DR.. w. A. T. Mar
tin. lately president of the Imperial Tun-
gwan College at Picking, who recently
arrived at Victoria, the Chinese are
greatly aroused by the Japs' trirnlphs in
the war and are seeking to emulate them:
Hundreds of thousands OF pounds OF
sulphur were burned in New Orleans
TO rid the city of the feverlnfected mos
quitoes, and the Marine Hospital Corps
now hope to stamp out the disease in
a few weeks.
Mr.. James Hazen Hyde, former vice
president of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society, has sold his country place,
on Long Island, to Louis Bossart tor
100000, which is about halt OF Its total
cost
President Mitchell is trying to check
the weakness in the United Minework-
ers' organization in the anthracite region,
the union having lost many members IN
the Hazleton and Schuylkill regions.
Joe Ullman, proprietor of the Bridge
Club in Saratoga, has received a dearly
bomb similar to those sent to Jacob II.
Schiff and the GuggenheimS, in New
York.
A log raft containing 100000 feet
of timber will start at an early date
from Stella, Wash. to be towed across
the Pacific Ocean to Shanghai.
The tribes in the Moro provinces OF
Zamboanga, Philippines, gave Secretary
of War Taft and his party a great re-
ception.
A project is on hand in New York 70
erect chimney into the clouds. 1t Will
be the tallest structure ever Duit.
Five Americans and several colonistS
are reported to have been killed IN
fight between them in Mexico.
After an inspection trip in the west,
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is con-
WINGED that some of the railroads are
making as obnoxious as possible recent
regulations governing livestock ship
ments in order to secure their repeal
Frank Ward, of Pueblo, Col, forced
his daughter to swallow poison, which
caused her death. He then took the
same drug, which also caused his death.
AT Plymouth, Mass, Chicago de-
tectives failed to identify George l..
Marsh, suspected of the murder OF
chauffeur near Chicago several months
ago.
r. H. Davidson, Chicago building
contractor, is missing. His friends be-
lieve that he has been slugged by Ia
Dor gang.
Henry D. Davis, of Cleveland, o., was
elected president of the fraternal order
of Eagles, in session in Denver, Col.
Kipson A. Andrews, former treas
urer of the Pittsburg Coal Company, IS
reported to be dying at Youngstown, Y.
Minooka, a large town bordering on
Scranton. Pa, is so good that the whole
police force has been dismissed.
Three negroes who had murdered
women of their own race were hanged
in Memphis. :.
On bench in Paramount Park, IN
Philadelphia, the body of a man was
found. Presumably from letter that
was on him the mans name was Joseph
A. Thompson, of Fittsburg. The let
ter found on him is a complaint against
his brother, and claims relationship
through him with the wealthy Thaw
family of Pittsburg.
At a meeting of the National Railway
Association in Deadwood "Stet Burr,
commissioner from Florida, accused
Walker D. Hines, first vice president OF
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
of perjury in his sworn statement OF
the value Of the company's property Tor
taxation purposes.
Adolph Kraus, of Chicago, expressed
himself as we'll satisfied with the result
of the conference of leading Jews with
M. White at Portsmouth regarding the
settlement of the rights OF Jews IN Kus-
STA.
The Chamber of Commerce of Bel
lingham, Wash, has passed resolutions
protesting against any attempt to modify
the tariff on timber.
Postmaster General and Mrs. Cortel-
YOU were guests of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt at Sycamore Hill.
Six Mexican laborers were killed in
a railroad collision near San Francisco,
Cal.