Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-08-11
THE NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic:


Delaware Breakwater with IS OF her
crew i'll with what is believed to De
malarial fever. The vessel was remand
ed to the. government quarantine sta
ton at Reedy Island, Del, for fumiga-
ton and observation. 3,
William w. Russell, newly appointed
American minister to Venezuela, and
ex-Judge w. J. Calhoun, whom Presl.
dent Roosevelt has appointed special
commissioner to Venezuela, sailed from
New York for Caracas on the Red ~
Steamer Philadelphia.
Loretta H. Phiffer, aged 20 years, was
found in dying condition on the steps
of the late Chief of Police Sullivan, at
North Bergen, N. J. 1t is stated that
she was taken from her escort by two
men who claimed to be policemen.
Thomas Walton Stanford, of Mel
bourne, brother of the late California
senator, has offered to donate a valua-
bic collection of antiques to the Leland
Stanford, Jr., University, -1
1t is stated by growers that the Con-
necticut peach crop this year will be
the largest ever harvested.
The United Sulphur, Copper and Iron
Company was incorporated at Trenton
with capital of $I2,ooo,ooo.
Archbishop Chapelle mas been stricken
with yellow fever. His condition is moi
regarded as serious. -
AT Portland, O., the United States
Jury for the second time was unable tc
agree in the case in which Congressman
| Williamson and Others are charged with
conspiring to suborn perjury in connec-
ton with securing public lands ille-
gally.
The captain of the French ship AS
nieres, from Swansea to New York, re-
ported the finding of dozen capped
fuses among the coal of his ship. He
believes there was plot to blow UP
| the steamer in midocean.
In the suit for divorce against Mrs
Grace Culver Taggart in Wooster, o..
testimony seriously rejecting on hel
character was given by Filipino CIR
who served in the Taggart household
in Manila.
Henry W. Manager, who was sentenced
at Oswego, N. Y, to death in the cleo
trio chair for murder, has accepted his
sentence and has requested his attor-
neys not to take an appeal.
Mrs. John G. Carlisle, wife of the
former Secretary of the Treasury diet
at Babylon, l.. l., where she was spend
ing the summer
In New York state prisons the tir
plate, cup and saucer have been dis
carded, and for them glazed pottery ha:
been substituted
Minister Barratt, while in San Fran
cisco, expressed the opinion that the
Chinese boycott has caused unnecessar,
alarm.
Precautionary measures have beer
taken i'm Philadelphia against yellow
fever
The morning Baltimore and Ohio pas
senger train bound for Jamestown iron
lockwood was wrecked al. the Pant
Creek Bridge, in Somerset county, Pa
A rail broke on the bridge and the tran
plunged down. One woman was fatally
injured and several persons were hurt.
Vice President Fairbanks was the
chief speaker at the commemorative ex-
ercises held at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
upon the fiftieth anniversary of the op'
ening of St. MaIy's Canal. 'j
Because Of the continued absence OF
Mayor Belcher, Of Paterson, N. j., the
public officials of that city cannot gel
their salaries, which are now due.
W. J. Bryan, Jr, has undergone a
successful operation in Chicago hos
pital for the removal Of an abscess from
his knee. F+4ai,q Sc .
, The Nebraska Grain Dealers Asso-
citation has been declared to be a trust
and to be in restraint of trade.
The closing session of the Friends
National Educational Conference was
held at Richmond Ind.
AT Paducah, KY, H. H. Loving, a
former banker, shot and killed H. A.
Rose, a lumber man. III HNa
The National Lead Company has in
creased its capital stock from 100000
600 to 100000 -"V3!' IL.
/ The Poughkeepsie Bridge will be re-
constructed at a. cost of $I,3oo,ooo.
question of consolidating the
Congregational, United Brethren and
Methodist Protestant Churches will be
taken upaat conference at Dayton, o.,
in February, 1906.
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Among the passengers on the Aneri-
can. line steamer ST. Louis. which sail
ed from Southampton for New York,
we're United States Senator William B.
Allison and cengressmar Robert o.
Cousins, of Iowa. -
The Chinese Chamber OF Commerce
at Shanghai which started the boy
colt OF American goods. as now trying
to stop it.
The Governor of German East Arr
ca wired the announcement OF all up
rising Of the natives in the Maturbin
Mountains. .. 49,.
+ Detectives. .raided acoffee- house in
Warsaw and captured number OF So
cial democrats, of whom 80 were or
ganizers. .i,r...,
The American pilgrimage left Rome
for Florence, whence they will go to
Switzerland. = 49,,
The Russian government has decided
to issue, another internal loan of $780,
100000. ''
The hearty greeting extended to Sec
rotary Taft in Manila moved him to
tears. 80
Emperor William, in response to the
wish of the French government, has
ordered the return of the bodies OF the
French soldiers who died while pris-
oners on German soil.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for the