Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-16
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

A consolidation of the Ingersoll-Ser-
geant Company and the Rand Drill Com
pany has been made through the incor-
poration of the Ingersoll- Rand Com
pany The new company will have
capital stock of $4,000, 900.
The fight for the millions of William
Weightman, the Philadelphia chemist,
was begun in earnest. Sensational
charges were made by the guardian OF
Martha Rogers Weightman.
The junior oratorical contest OF
Princeton's one hundred and fifty-eighth
commencement was held, with President
Woodrow Wilson presiding.
Mrs. Alexander Wood, of Philadel-
phia, who was Miss Louise Geary,
daughter of Governor Geary, was mar
ried in Stockbridge, Miss, to James L.
Ludlow, of New York .
The boiler of a locomotive attached
to heavy loaded freight train exploded
near Quincy, Mass, and several cars
were wrecked and brakeman was serl-
ously injured
In a head-on collision between two
Texas and New Orleans trains near
Spochard, Tex, two trainmen lost their
lives and several others were injured.
Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia, has
decapitated two organization committing
magistrates His advisers are planning
to put all Independent ticket in the field.
Miss Edna Theresa Kenton, of PhiIa-
delphia, was secretly married to Black
Hawk, full-booded Indian, who was at
the Carlisle Indian School.
Albert T. Patrick, the convicted muir
derer, retained his nerve when told IN
OsSining, N. Y, OF. the decision against
him.
A consolidation mortgage of the Term
inal Railroad and Coal Company for
$I4.ooo,ooo was filed in New York.
The Florida Bankers Association met
at Atlantic Beach, Fla, and elected Off
GERS for the coming year.
Scarlet fever has spoiled the COM
mencement plans at Lawrenceville
School, near Trenton, N. J.
Mabel Gates and George Job COM
mittcd suicide in Kansas City, Mo-, by
mutual agreement
The strike of the miners at the Nor
ris Run Colliery, New York, has been
adjusted.
Forty-onc members of the Philadel-
phia Branch of the National Structural
Ironworkers and BridgebuilderS were
arrested. One of their members, Ed
ward Joyce, of Washington, was mystic
riously shot during meeting OF the
union.
AT Albany, N. Y, the Court Of APP
peals upheld the conviction of Lawyer
Albert r. Patrick for murder in the
first degree in causing the death Of
William Marsh Rice, the aged million
aire, in New York on September %,
1900.
Near Neave, KY, Dr. Edmonds
Courtney was assassinated by the friends
of DR.. William Korney, who was re-
Gently killed Korney's friends held
Courtney responsible for the formers
death.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has given $4,000 to the Harrisburg
Hospital in appreciation of services rem
dered by that institution on the occasion
of the recent explosion and disaster.
Leah l.. Lehman, young woman who
was employed in Hartford, Ct, as
tailoress, leaped overheard from the
steamer Hartford while in He'll Gate and
was drowned.
A New York father, angered because
his wife gave birth to a girl, instead of
a boy, picked up the infant, and dashed
it against the wall, causing instant death.
The Wisconsin legislature has passed
a bill requiring railroad companies to
file with the Interstate Commerce Conn
mssionrrs a list OF all passes and mile
age books.
At Canton, O., Architect Magonigle
threw out the first shovelful of earth
that marks the excavation work for
the Mckinley National Monument.
Frank OLeary, of Buffalo, died of
yellow fever in New York hospital.
He was taken i'll at sea while on his
way from Colon.
Fire broke ont in the village of Proc
torvillc, o. The schoolhouse cold
storage plant and five residences were
burned.
Paul Morton, secretary of the Navy,
called on Mayor Mcclellan in New
York to discuss the proposed entertain
ment of Prince Louis OF Battenburg,
who is coming here with British fleet
in October. Prince Louis is an admiral
in the British Navy and nephew Of
King Edward VII
Ioreign
King Oscar has finally accepted the
address of the Storthing announcing the
dissolution Of the union, which he at
first refused A member of the Nor
wegian Cabinet says the popular sentl-
nent favors a republic, and he hopes
the United States will be the first to
recoznize the new government.
The United Irish League of Great
Britain, at its annual meeting, under the
presidency of T. P. O'Connor, passed a
resolution to organize national memo
rial to O'Donovan Rosa.
Germanys draft of its views on the
proposed commercial treaty with the
United States is nearly ready for SUBJ
mission to Washington.
An attempt was made to asSaSSlnate
lieutenant Colonel Spiridovitch, of the
secret service police. at Kieff, Russia.
King Oscar has finally accepted the
address of the Norwegian Storthing, an
dissolution of the union.
Tho Newfoundland government DrO-