Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-07-14
NEWS IN. SHORT ORDER.
The latest fiapl enIngs Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic

ceedings which resulted IN tne iiIuie,
ment OF LAWYER Hummel III, New YORK
were instituted by Capt James 4.
Morse an uncle of Charles w. Morse,
who employed Hummel without his neph-
ew's knowledge. = .. j.
Theodore ii. Price, the New York cot
ton broker, CAME to Washington and,
through his attorney, called upon SecreT
tary Wilson for retractlon OF the lniT
plication in his report connecting MN
with the cotton-leak scandal: !
Walter r. Langdon, son of the assist.
ant superintendent of the insane hospital
at Poughkeepsie, 'led with Mrs. Jane, L,
Wilson, who made her escape from tna'
institution. 49,,
Miss Emma Frances Potts, a Phila-
delphia society girl, was released on Dail
on the charge of stealing valuable ring
from Mrs. Mabelle Jarder.
Lena Duerr, a child of IS, living IN
Pittsburg. was "made up" to look older
and married to Robert E. Long by de-
ceived minister in Youngstown, ..
While officers had him II custody II
New York, Berthe Claiche, a trench
girl killed Emil Gerdron, who had made
her life one of abject slavery.
The State Board of Control OF IAN
sas reported that there were many cases
of insanity in counties where religious
revivals had been held.
Iohn Trout committed suicide IN Phlla-
delphia at the home Of Miss Emma Ia
Wis. who had refused to marry him.
Mrs. Matilda Won Under, who was be-
lieved TO have died 80 years ago, re-
turned to Reading to collect $50 legacy
Two blocks of the business and resi-
dence section of Goldheld, New, have
been destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000,
A quiet Sunday was spent by the
President and his family at Oyster Bay
They attended church in the morning.
Two persons were shot, one probably,
fatally, in a fight between whites ana
blacks in New York. 80.
While crazy with drink, Mrs. Eliza
Bradley branded her foster-baby, using
a hot fatiron. c
Judge Cochran, of the United States
District Court in Kentucky, decided that
Caleb Powers could not secure 1aiI
trial in the state court and removed
the case to federal jurisdiction.
George D. May, formerly presidfHt
of the Big Bend National Bank OF Da-
venport. Washington State, was arrest
ed in Boston as fugitive from Justice.
George G. Pierre. chief of the Bureau
of City Property of Philadelphia, re-
signed upon the request OF Director OF
Public Safety Potter.
The Supreme Court of Kansas de-
cided that the Kansas Natural Gas Com
pany, Delaware corporation, cannot 90
business in that state.
The Supreme Court of Kansas decided
the law appropriating $4,000 to build
an independent oil refinery to be uncon-
sttutional.
Speaker Fred Paul Groscup, of the
West Virginia House OF Representa-
tives. is i'll in Cincinnati from ptomalne'
poisoning.
Michael Dunn, former building inspec;,,
tor of Milwaukee, was sentenced to 10
months in state prison for accepting a
bride
Grover Cleveland declared that he had
no idea of retiring from the trustee
ship of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society ?, q
Commander Frank B. Sawyer, U. S;
N. assumed command OF the naval
training station at Newport, K l..
Mrs. Matilda Bender and her daugh-
ter Marie were arrested in Chicago on
the charge of perjury
Mrs. Flora Bigelow Dodge was mar
ried in Sioux Falls, Dakota, to Hon.
Lionel George Guest.
John WILDER was arrested IN Onicago
for throwing his child into the river.
Rabbi Joseph Stolz, of Chicago, was
elected president of the Conference OF
American Rabbis, just adjourned at
Cleveland, o.
Nathan C. Schaefer, OF Pennsylvania,
was elected president of the National
Educational Association, in convention
at Asbury Park, N. J.
Thirty persons were inJured, IN inc
wreck of a Great Northern flyer at
Springbrook, n. d.
Two Illinois banks, of which l.. J.
Devlin, the Topeka (Kan) capitalist,
was president, have closed.
Refugees fleeing from the yellow tev-
er scourge on the IsthmuS OF Panama
arrived at New York, and paint condi-
lions in the Canal Zone very darkly.
A man who registered as son OF
August Belmont was arrested III Colo
RADIO Springs for alleged forgery. In
New York he was declared an impoS'