Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-22
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC

or of Miles. Mich, was found in the
Matteawan Insane Asylum, in New York.
| 1t is charged that his disappearance was
the result of scheme to detraud insur-
ance companies.
The Boston and Maine Railroad is
using briquettes of peat in some OF its
engines on the shorter runs in and out
of Boston. and experiments with the new
fuel have been pronounced successful.
After having been so near deaths door
that he was able to compromise on $1,000
for his $4,000 life-insurance policy, M.
J. Harrison, of Sioux City, has appar-
emily regained complete health.
Katie Moher, who for more than a
quarter of century, under the name
and guise of man, lived the life OF a
freighter, cowboy, scout, gold-seeker.and
stage-driver in Montana, is dead.
The body of the young woman found
off Pelham road, in the Bronx, New
York, has been identified as that OF Au-
gusta Pfeiffer, ~ years old, whose home
was near where the body was found.
Felizarbo, chief of the Filipino outlaws
in the Province of Cavite, who has made
considerable trouble for the authorities,
was surrounded, and leaped off a cliff to
instant death.
Romano Daurignac, brother OF Nine.
Therese Humbert, now serving a sem
tence in France on swindling charges,
has been ordered deported by the New
York immigration officers.
Massachusetts state police are inqulr-
ing into the death of Mrs. Jennie P.
Chase, who was declared by the medi-
cal examiner of Lynn, Mass, to have
committed suicide.
Letters from Santo Domingo assert
that the recent revolutionary furry was
the outcome of the visit of an American
known as Senior Larawes or Mr.. Rawls-
Reader.
The Japanese minister. Mr. Takahira,
expects to sail for his home, in Japan,
in few weeks to join Nine Takahlra,
who has been over there for nearly two
years.
George Wagner was killed and Robert
Hills and Milton Eckert seriously injured
in landslide at the quarry of the Pitts
ton Slate Company, at Slatington, Pa.
Large pieces of iron placed on the
track derailed the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass Railways "Davy Crock
ett' special, near San Antonio, Tex.
DR.. l. G. Tracy, who returned to New
York from abroad, says good results
have been secured in experiments to
cure insanity by the use of radium.
John Morrissey, an aeronaut, was
caught in storm in Nebraska and fell
into the Nemaha River, where he spent
the night clinging to tree.
Frank Clazebrook bought a farm near
Monezunla, ILL.,, and found gold mine
that had been revealed to his wife in a
dream.
Prof William ]. Arnbruster declared
to St. Louis audience that most wealthy
women were doing their best to 60 to
hell
On the stand in the insurance investi-
CATION in New York George w. Per-
kins produced check for $4,000 drawn
by the New York Life Insurance Com
pany December 80, 1904, payable to }:
P. Morgan & Co. Mr.. Perkins testified
that this check was contribution to the
National Republican Committee, and
was promised to Cornelius N. Bliss,
treasurer of the committee. Mr.. Perkins
said the same thing was done in 1896
and 1000 The reason for these contri-
buttons, he said, was that the company
feared its assets would be endangered
in case of Democratic success.
Engineer Merritt Turner dropped dead
in the cab of his locomotive just as he
was about to apply the brakes to stop
the Erie Railroads Chicago train, known
as the Pacific express, at Deposit, N. Y.
David E. Sherrick, who was removed
by Governor Hanly, of Indiana, from
the Office of auditor of state, was for
mally arrested on a charge of embez-
element.
Near Scranton, Pa, Lewis Croker, a
foreman, his wife and four children
were poisoned by eating toadstools. One
child is dead and two others cannot live.
A prisoner has been found in Walla
Walla (Wash.) Jail who was sentenced
three years ago to death for murder.
Buildings at West Lebanon, Pa, be-
longing to the Cornwall Railroad Com
pany. and valued at $4,000, were burn
ed.
The old Grant farm, near St. Louis,
will be converted into an amusement
park.
A hailstone fell in Nebraska which
measured six Inches in diameter.
FOREIGN
The Norwegian and Swedish Com
mission held Sunday session and dis
cussed the question of Notifications.
The resignation of Minister Yoshika-
wa, of Japan, has been received with
satisfaction by the people.
The Russian Red Cross administra-
ton during the war just ended expended
100000.
The Car, the Czarina and Grand
Duke Alexis started on cruise of Fin
nish waters.
The German government has pro-
posed to France and to the Sultan OF
Morocco that the Moroccon conference
be held at Algeciras, Spain, instead oil
at Madrid, as Premier Rouvier desires
or at ldngleT, DIS the Oultdi WISHES.
The Russian army maneuvers at Cob
LEM ended with an action along the
entire front The Empress rode horse
back along the front and was cheered
by the troops.
Rumors that British Foreign Secre-
tary Lansdowne has been asked to arbl-
trate the questions in dispute between
Sweden and Norway are denied.
Thousands of Hungarian workingmer
marched TO the Parliament House Tor the
purpose of making demonstration in Ia
vor of universal suffrage.
The Cars ukase abolishing retaiia-
tory duties on American imports was
gazetted.
Miss Alice Roosevelt and the ladies III
her party visited the Dowager Empress