Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-23
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic

OF the order, members are DelllS IhltI
ated, new applications are being received
and others are increasing the amount!
of their certificates.
AT the Convention of American Zion
lists in Philadelphia it was decided tina
Palestine was the best place for the col
onization of the Jews, al.
Alvin ]. Tucker, of Clyde, New York
dreamed his uncle had died and let
him legacy of $4,000, and on the fol
lowing day learned that it had really oc
Cured - - H.
College entrance examinations, con
Quoted by the college entrance examlna
ton board, will be held today at To-
points in the United States and in Eu
rope.
Six members of the last Arkansa
General Assembly; including the presi
dent Of the Senate, are under indictmen
on charges of bribery, perjury and con
spiracy
Judge Dickey, Of Newburg, N. Y, de
nounced in open court the defendant
who was trying to recover a second tim
money he had loaned on mortgage.
The patrons of the public school a
Little Silver, N. J., insisted on the rein
statement of the schoolteacher who hat
been dismissed because he chewed to
bacco.
The manual of the Daughters of thu
Faith, about to be issued, declares tina
a Catholic Divorce who remarries shoulC
be socially oStracised.
Pascel P. Pratt, millionaire merchan
and banker, died in Buffalo, N. Y. HI
had undergone an operation and never
rallied from the shock.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee's squadron sail
ed from Tompkinsville for Cherbourg
France, where John Paul Jones body
will be taken on board.
The Bell and the independent tele.
phone companies in Amsterdam, N. Y.
and contiguous cities are indulging in
rate war.
Francis Murphy, the temperance adj
vocate, who has been i'll six weeks with
blood-poisoning, is recovering slowly.
There was a free fight in the FirS
Recorders courtroom in New Orleans
in which all parties produced guns.
Miss Mamie Babb a schoolteacher, Of
Norway, Me-, will join Peary's expedi'
ton in quest of the North Pole.
During an orgie among the Eskimo:
on the Diomed Islands native woman
was burned at the stake
Herman Kluesendorf and Mary Koh
eloped from the poorhouse in. Milwau-
kee and were married.
Miss Minnie Stoermer, of New York
after trying twice to shoot the man who
Tilted her, killed herself.
Dowie wants to raise 100000 to carry
a restoration to Paris and purify the
gay French capital.
Otis Bolts, aged FL years, convicted
of the murder of his child wife, LOST
his nerve on the scaffold at Peoria, ILL.,.
and was barely able to stand while be-
ing prepared to be hanged.
The concluding session of the Credit
Mems Association was held in Mem
phis. A resolution was adopted favor
ing the Lodge consular bill. Officers
were elected $780,.
Samuel Greason, colored, convicted of
the murder of John Edwards, was &C
quilted at Reading, Pa. Edwards wife
having completely exonerated him.
The federal courts have issued a tenn
porary injunction restraining the Mis-
souri, State Railway Commissioners from
enforcing the maximum freight rate law.
Harvey Smith, John Collier and VIII
Jackson, all colored, were hanged at
Decatur, Ala, for murder Troops were
present as precautionary measure.
While excavating for water mains in
one of the main streets of Helena, Mont,
a workman found an ingot of copper
and gold weighing Is pounds. +
Formal indictments against five pack
ing firms of Chicago have been drawn
up and presented to the federal grand
jury in Chicago for action. a-..=s
w. H. Werner, of Columbia, S. c.,
the winner of Cecil Rhodes scholar
ship, committed suicide at Asheville,
N c. He had been ILL. -s*-hs.5>
AT ST. Paul, Ind, jealousy prompted
William Boardman to kill his wife and
then himself .,.=... ..=.-..z-.....-,.
At Keller, Wis, Mrs. Paul Kloss Kill
ed her four small children and then
committed suicide. d b ~