Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-02
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
TIE latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

Domestic
Louis Levin, formerly in business at
ITO Blocker street, who was arrested
in Baltimore and convicted in New YORK
of grand larceny in the first degree on
the complaint of William Meyer Co.,
who were one Of the many firms that
accused the defendant of swlndling, was
sentenced by Judge Fister to not less
than three, nor more than three years
and one month, in state prison.
The motion of Frank B. Lord. which
sought to restrain the directors OF the
Equitable Life Assurance Society from
mutualizing the company, was granted
by Justice. Maddox in the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn.
At Winona Lake the report OF the
committee of the General Assembly OF
the Presbyterian Church on forms OF
worship was recommitted. The ques--
ton will come before the next General
| Assembly.
AT Fort Worth, Tex, the General AS
sembly of the Southern Presbyterian
Church voted against federation, but
continued its committee for conference
with other branches Of the church.
At the meeting of the Woman's Home
and Foreign Missionary Society OF the
Lutheran Church, in Springfield, ",
Mrs. P. A. Heilman, of Baltimore, was
elected president.
The First National Bank, of Barber
ton, O., has been ordered closed by the
Comptroller of the Currency on the
ground that the bank is insolvent. The
capital stock is $4,000
AT Birmingham, Ala, Isaac Waltes,
secretary of the Mississippi Camel Coal
Company, was mysteriously murdered in
front of his home during Thursday
night.
Jesse B. Anthony, superintendent of
the Masonic Home, at Utica, N. Y,
dropped dead just after reading the
burial service over an inmate OF the
home.
One man is dead and several are Sc
riously injured as the result OF COM
bat among rival gangs on the East Side
of New York.
Former Judge Alton B. Parker made
an address before the Illinois State Bar
Association on "The Lawyer in Public
Affairs"
Charles H. Van Brunt, presiding JUS
tice of the Appellate Division of the
New York Supreme Court, is dead.
At Topeka, Kan, Secretary Shaw gave
assurances that the government is not
facing bankruptcy.
According to New York advices, new
interests have entered the Norfolk and
Southern Railway.
At Peoria, ILL.,, Richard Higgins was
acquitted of the murder of Mrs. Nellie
ThomaSson.
Sections of Iowa were visited by frost;
J. B. Young, president Of the tailed
Goldfeld Bank and Trust Company OF
Goldheld, New, and Francis l.. Burton
have been arrested in San Francisco.
The centennial celebration Of the
Grand Commandery Masonic Knight
Templars of Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island was held at Boston.
William J. Bryan, as administrator OF
the estate of the late Philo S. Bennett,
appeared in the Probate Court OF New
Haven. :.
A final settlement of the difficulties
growing out of the corner in Northern
Pacific Railway stock has been reached
c. J. C. Wyngaarden left New YORK
commissioned to secure desirable immi-
grants for South Carolina.
Over 400 mules persisted in fire that
destroyed the stables of Maxwell q
Crouch and Sparts Brothers, near East
St. Louis. The total loss is estimated
a, 100000.
For the purpose of restoring order on
the Island of Samar, in the Philippines,
the military will assume charge at the
request of the chief of the constabulary.
The four-story dormitory of the Rog-
err Williams University, near Nashville,
Tenn, an institution for the instruction
of negroes, was destroyed by fire..
Erhard Adolf Matthissen, former
partner in the banking house of August
Belmont, died at his summer home, on
the Hudson River. =,
A passenger train on the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad was wrecked
near Columbia, Tenn, and eight per-
sons were injured. -,
Wesley G. Parker, teller Of the Arkan-
sas National Bank Of Hot Springs, is
missing, and his accounts are short.
William T. Mckee was arrested IN
Chicago on the charge Of being the man
ager of a get-rich-quick concern.
A delegation of more than 100 Meth
odst ministers marched in procession
to the Philadelphia City Hall to protest
against the proposed lease OF the gas
works.
A 2o-story apartment-house is TO De
erected in Brooklyn by well-known Il
nanciers as a philanthroplc enterprise.
No family will be taken that has not at
least one child.
Dagmar E. Turnberg and her sister
Dora, two young women stenographers'
were struck and instantly killed by
passenger train near. Chicago.
The store and house of Vinceno "a
Jumbo, of Monessen, Pa, were dy1la-
nited because the owner ignored the de-
mands of the Black Hand.
Joseph O'Connell, boy, shot and Kill
ed his father, Thomas OConneli, IN
Beliport, r. l. The shooting was done
in self-defense.