Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings CONDENSED for Rapid
Reading.
domestic.

Reading.
Domestic.
Miss Mae Wood entered suit in Lin
coin, Neb., against Private Secretary
Loeb, former Postmaster General Wynne
and Miller Martin, a Secret Service em-
ploye, asking $4,000 damages for gee
ting from her by trickery Senator Platt's
love letters.
The grand jury returned indictments
against ii members of the executive COM
mittee of the Cleveland Retail Coal Deal
ers' Association for violating the state
antitrust law.
A shortage of $7I,o 900 has been found
in the treasury of Athens county, .. The
fund was tempered with during the in
cumbency of various county treasurers.
A number of aldermen of Grand Rap
| ids, Mich, convicted Of being involved
in the water works scandal paid the fines
imposed on them.
The stock market in New York was
completely demoralized, frantic efforts
to sell causing terrific break in all
securities.
The legislative committee which has
been investigating the gas question IN
New York has recommended 75-ccnt gas.
United States Senator Bacon, of Geor-
gia, sailed from New York for Europe
on the steamer Princess Irene.
Paderewski has cancelled his Ameri-
can engagements and decided to return
to Switzerland.
Helen Lord took arsenic in New York
on learning that the man she loved was
dead. .s.t
Mrs. Whelan, IS years old, recluse,
was found murdered at her home, IN
New York.
A tablet marking the house No. 63
Prince street, New York city, in
which President James Monroe died,
in 1881, was unveiled by Gouverneur
Hoes, of Washington, D. c., a descen-
dant of the dead president. Gen. Fred
erick Dent Grant made an address on
Monroe the Soldier" sf -.
After netting of the directors OF the
Wabash Railroad Company in New
York it was officially announced
that President Ramsay and Mr.. Gould
had settled their differences and that
Mr.. Ramsay will probably remain at
the head of the company.
In the United States Circuit Court
at Chicago Judge Kohlstaat issued
temporary injunction, returnable May
10, restraining interference with EN-
ployes taking the places OF striking
teamSterS.
In Louisville, KY, Bishop McCabe
expressed himself in favor Of the Of
ganic union of the two branches OF
Methodism. :.
Fred Foote has been arrested at
Beaudette, Mimi, on the charge OF
killing Mayor Cannon, of Spooner, WIS.
The killing was the outcome OF a
town-site feud. :.
DR.. John McMaster, professor OF
history at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, disapproves of Carnegie's pension
fund for college professors. :,
Paderewski, the pianist, was attacked
with neuritis in Canada and has can
celed all of his engagements.
Kansas City will be supplied with
natural gas at the rate OF rs cents per
1000 cubic feet. e
In an address before a committee OF
ministers in Boston Dr. Washington
GLADDEN. again attacked the Rockefeller
gift. declaring that the Standard Oli
Dlayed with stacked cards and Loaded
dice.
The east wing of the new Clarlnda
HOSPITAL for the Insane, Iowa, collapsed,
carrying seven workmen down with the
debris. None of the men was seriously
injured.
DR.. Wesley R. Wales, of Cape May,
N. J., pleaded not guilty to the charge
Of fraudulently obtaining money from
the First National Bank of New Jersey.
Frank G. Bigelow, the defaultlng bank
president of Milwaukee, filed petition
in bankruptcy with liabilities of over
&, 100000 and assets estimated at $780,
700. :4:- .-.
Mrs. Blanche Shaw, the principal wit
ness against a number of officials in
Pueblo, COL, has disappeared. 1t is be-
eved she has been kidnapped.
R. L. Leatherwood and w. A. benson,
Young lawyers of Birmingham, Ala, had
1 pistol duel A bystander was wounded.
Mrs. Josephine l.. Noble was acquitted
1t Flushing, Long Island, of the charge |
Of numbering her husband.
Elijah Johnson, .colored, was hanged in
for the murder of Julius
Collins. R#a 3 e. @s#s
Albert T. Spargo shot and kiHedthis
wife and himself in Quincy, Mass.
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