Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-04-28
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

The Republicans OF tile FlrSt Noh-
gressional district of Indiana nominated
Judge Foster to succeed James A. Hem
enway. elected to the United States Sen
ate
In a cave-in at coal mine on Heron
Hill, in Pittsburg, Thomas Fitzgerald,
aged Id years, was killed and two men
fatally injured.
Frank J. McKnnon, apprentice sea-
man. was the second victim OF cerebro-
spinal meningitis at the Naval framing
Station at Newport. :, ~,
The walled city of Jolo, in the Phil
ippines, was attacked by Moros. Inc
secretary of Governor Scott was ambush
ed and killed.
United States Commissioner Ridge
way, in New York, discharged three men
who had a stolen United States bond
for $4,000.
Sam Vandenbroeck blazed away into
charivari party near Lowell, Mich.'
wounding several of the crowd.
Charles Holenbeck committed suicide
in Johnstown, N. Y, by taking carbollc
acid.
Nearly 10000 immigrants arrived in
New York. The total number OF I'M
migrants landed in New York during
the month is 62,7oI, as against 42,447
landed during the corresponding period
in April, 1904! :. :,
Application was made in the United
States Court at Chicago for the appoint
ment of receiver for the Equitable
Society and for the distribution OF its
surplus among the stockholders.
At Allentown, Pa, 20 Hungarian Ia
borers, residing in boardlng-ho
were rendered insensible by chloroform
and were robbed Of their savings OF
more than $1,000.
A panic was narrowly averted among
the hospital patients on Blackwell Is.
land by the overturning of a pot OF
boiling wax and the ignition OF the
floor.
Three members Of gang OF shop
lifters from Chicago were sentenced to
II months in the penitentlary and to
pay fine of $500. each in New York.
Prosecutor Keller, of Cleveland, may
try Mrs. Chadwick on forgery charge
Doubt is expressed if she can be con-
victed of conspiracy if given a new
trial
A man who registered at the Hotel
Hastings, in Brooklyn, as Henry Bren-
ner, of Philadelphia, committed suicide
by gas asphyxiation.
A woman and her two daughters were
found dead in their home in New York,
having been asphyxiated by illuminating
gas.
The handsome country home of Brutus
j. Clay, minister to Switzerland, at
Paris, KY, was burned. :,
The Montana Supreme Court affirmed
the decision of the District Supreme
Court of Silver Bow County in the
Mime Kaly case, Chief Justice Brantly
dissenting. This decision favored Heinze
Mrs.. Florence Cunard, of London,
formerly Miss Florence McFeeters, OF
Baltimore, obtained judgment in Phil
adelphia court against her first husband,
E. NJ. Padelford, for $1,000.
The Cincinnati and Florida express on
the Southern Railroad broke through
burning trestle near Rome, Ga. None
of the passengers was injured.
George Gould, who killed Alonzo X:
Hammond, of Chicago, whom he accused
of alternating his wife's affections, was
acquitted in Chicago
Mime. Tcetrazini, an Italian opera sing
err. had Siguor Uriburu arrested IN San
Francisco on the charge OF mlSap-
propriating her funds.
The snow along the Union Pacific is so
deep that telegraph and telephone lines
are down and traffic is impeded.
DR.. |. S. Wegand committed suicide
in Denver, Col, because he had been
indicted for illegal use of the mails.
A man who registered as George Bur
70, of Washington, was found asphyxi-
ated in New York hotel.