Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC

Vice President Fairbanks deHVeleu Oh
address and paid splendid tribute to
| President Roosevelt at. the celebration
of the golden Jubilee of the Republican
nartv OF Chester county, Pa, at West
| Chester.
According to a Russian correspond
emf. war operations continued the past
week in Manchuria. Each day since the
peace treaty was signed has seen lhe
shedding of blood uselessly.
Baron Komura and Minister Taxa
hira took lunch with President Roose:;
welt, and in the evening Mr.. waite aho
Baron de Rosen were the President
guests at dinner.
The historic elm at Cambridge, Mass,
which marks the spot where Washing-
ton assumed command OF the Army Is
believed to be doomed.
After eight men of his crew had been
lost, Capt. Isaac Frazer of the Boston
fishing schooner Joseph II. Cromweii,
committed suicide.
Jacob H. Thompson, an editor on the
New York Times, was found murdered
in his room at the St. James Hotel, IN
New York.
CORPORAL Tanner was elected comman-
der-in-chief of the Grand Army OF the
Republic, whose ~encampment is in pro-
gress at Denver, Col. Minneapolis was
chosen as national encampment city If
1906.
United States mail delivery wagon;
were accompanied through the streets Of
New York by police guard because OF
demonstrations against the new drivers
by the drivers on strike.
President Roosevelt has designated
Judge w. L. Penheld, solicitor OF the
State Department, to investigate the trade
relations between Europe and South
America.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw was
one of the principal speakers at the an
nual outing of the Vermont Fish ano
Game League at Bluff Point, N. \.
During fire in crowded tenement
| in New York an Italian lost his lite IN
vain effort to rescue his two children,
both under 10 years Of age.
The President is in receipt OF con-
CALCULATIONS from the Emperor OF China
for his efforts in restoring peace between
Russia and Japan.
The Chicago police say they have cap
,tured a band of women robbers who
operated under the guise of nuns. =.
The United Spanish War Veterans Will
hold their 1906 encampment at Washing
ton, D. c.
The yellow fever situation in the city
of New Orleans is steadily improving,
only IS new cases being reported and SIX
deaths. An invasion of millions OF marsh
mosquitoes gave the city bad fright.
The strike of the 900 mail drivers IN
New York city did not interfere with the
delivery of the mail. There were early
in the day more applicants than there
were positions vacant
Two persons were killed and 80 in
| jured as the result of collision between
an excursion train and regular passen-
ger train near Newcastle, 0.
John E. tanning, receiver OF the Mon
mouth Trust and Safe Deposit Company
of Asbury Park, N. j., has sued number
of directors.
A fast passenger train ran into party
of workmen at Homewood Station, near
Pittsburg, killing two and seriously in
juring three others.
Town Marshal H. G. Porter, OF Nc
Connellsville, O., was shot and killed on
the street by "Woodie" Stewart, a de-
mented man.
One man was killed and several ser
iously hurt by the premature explosion
of a charge of dynamite at Saxon, ia.
DR.. w. J. MCGEE is reported to have
discovered how storms are bred IN the
"storm-breeding belt" of Arizona.
A site for home for conSumptive let
ter-carrierS was donated by the people OF
Colorado Springs, Col. :,
The State of Georgia has proclaimed
general quarantine against all fever
infected points.