Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-26
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
IRE latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
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A New York policyholder of the Equl-
table Life Assurance Company has writ
ten to President Roosevelt asking him
to order an investigation of the COM
panys affairs.
Additional claims, aggregating $4,000,
were filed in the United States District
Court in Philadelphia against the Halght
& Freeze Company, brokers.
The committee of the United Brethren
Conference, in Topeka, Kan, refused to
accept the report of the treasurer, Rev.
DR.. Mckee, of Dayton, 0.
Mrs Mary Shepard died at her home,
in Poughkeepsie, N. Y, at the age OF
Io4. She was born in County Kilken-
ny, Ireland, December rs, 1900.
The president, vice president and cash.
Ter of the American National Bank OF
Abilene, Tex, were indicted by the ted
eral grand jury.
The municipal ferryboat Richmond
was launched at the shipyards OF the
Burlec Shpbuildng Company, OF Port
Richmond, S. |. :,
Minister Barrett declared i'll New York
that sanitation presented more difhcult
problem on the isthmus than the engi-
necring.
II. Clay Grub, who was tried at Sal
isbury, N. c., on the charge OF killing
his brother-n-law, o. B. Davis, was
acquitted.
P. J. McArdle, of Muncie, Ind, was
elected president of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
erS.
Thieves killed William Strickland,
Waterman at the Standard Oil ware
houses in Raleigh, N. C., and burned
the place.
The various committees made reports
at Yesterdays session of the American
Baptist Missionary Union in St. Louis.
The American Federation of Musi-
clans, in session in Detroit, decided to
hold next years convention in Detroit
The General Synod of the Reformed
PRESBYTERIAN Church decided to allow
instrumental music in the church serv-
ices.
Reports were made to the Convention
of the Swtchmen's Union in lndianapo-
lis
Andrew Carnegie has given $I25,ooo
to Wellesley College for library.
DR.. William Osler, recently professor
of.medicine at Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, sailed from New York for
Liverpool enrout to Oxford to accept a
professorship.
AT Natchez, Miss, Peter Matheson,
a book agent, killed two men and fatally
wounded his motherin-law. He also
shot at four ear-old girl, but without
effect.
The women connected with the Toron-
to (Kan.) Baptist Church, which was
demolished by cyclone, have appealed
to John D. Rockefeller for funds for a
new edihce.
AT Somerville, N. J., George H. Wood
pleaded guilty to the murder of George
Williams in the second degree and was
sentenced to,the penitentiary for 80 years
The First National Bank of Cornwall,
N. Y, has closed its DOORS 1t was cap
italzed at $4,000, and, according to re-
cent statement, owed its depositors $Io,-
600.
President Ripley, of the Santa Fe Rail.
way, says that Paul .'lorton, secretary OF
the Navy, can return to the service OF
the Santa Fe if he so desires.
1t is probable that an increase IN rates
will be discussed by the Royal Arcanum
at its convention in Atlantic City.
At Pueblo, Col, Frank Cowells killed
his sweetheart and then himself.
Philadcphia's City Councils voted to
lease the city's gas works to the United
Gas Improvement Company for Is years
for $25,ooo,ooo. The announcement OF
the result was received with misses and
cries of Thieves" from the gallery.
Alienists testified in Somerville, N.
J., in the case of George H. Wood, &C
cused of killing George Williams, that
epieptics might commit crime without
knowing it while in state of subcon-
seriousness.
Carl NJ. Spencer, former trusted
employe of the Dcs Moines National
Bank, was indicted by the federal grand
Jury on a charge Of cmbezzlement and
for alleged fraudulent entries in the
books.
DR.. D. K. Pearscns, philanthropist,
of Chicago, who has given many hun
dred thousand dollars to small colleges,
has donated $4,000 to Montpelier Sem
mary, of Montpelier, VT.