Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-08-04
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic:

Noble ]. Dilday, Indiana agent OF
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
has resigned. He says business OF the
company has fallen off 500 per cent. He
also says he is not in good favor with
Vice President Tarbell
Fifteen-year-o Isabel Cowan, who
ran away from home three months ago,
has lived most of the time in Central
Park, according to the story she told
in the Children's Court in New York.
Attorney General Mayer has decided
to institute suits against the old directors
of the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety.
DR.. Doty, health officer of New York,
says he is not able to pass definitely up
on the cases of suspected yellow fever
in quarantine in that city.
The Japanese ENJOYS now in America
have shown themselves to be tactful,
shrewd and resourceful, and fully able
to cope with the Russians.
Julius Wolf was dubbed to death near
Philadelphia by Michael McHale, a
farmer, to whose wife he made an in
sulting remark.
Miss Flaude Cleveland is girl bar
Der at Addison, Mich, who has mo-
nopoly of shaving and haircuttlng in
the town.
Secretary Root and his sons will go
as far north ss Labrador.
With only a few exceptions, all the
deaths from yellow fever in New Or
leans have been confined to Italians.
Two more names were added to the
death list of the gunboat Bennington,
making the total number o.
A cloudburst occurred at Bridgeport,
CT, causing loss of life and immense
damage to property.
Nelson Tablet, former slave, died
at GAINESVILLE, o. He was the wealthlest
colored man in Ohio.
Paul Morton, president of the Equl-
table Life Assurance Society, notified
Archibald C. Haynes, a leading general
agent of. the Equitable Society in New
York city, that Mr.. Haynes contract
with the Equitable was terminated. At
recent meeting of his subagents Mr..
Haynes recommended that on account
of recent troubles in the Assurance So
ciety, which had reduced the profits OF
the agents, they be put on salary until
such times as the Equitable could re-
sumo its former relations with its agents.
This recommendation was not agreed
to.
President Roosevelt made a visit to
Coney Island to inspect the institutions
established there by the city of New
York to improve the condition of the
poor. The President was accompanied
by Mrs. Roosevelt and Jacob Riis. The
trip from Oyster Bay to Sea Gate was
made on the naval yacht Sylph.
Bishop Isaac W. Joyce, of the Meth
cdist Episcopal Church, dice in Min
neapolis as tine result of hemorrhage
and paralysis suffered on July while
preaching at a camp-meetlng.
Fred w. Smith, grandson of Prophet
Joseph w. Smith, of the Mormon
Church, has started propaganda &c
convert Mormons of Utah to former
principles.
Arrangements have been completed fol
constructing an oil pipe line from Cha
mute, Kan, to Port Arthur, Tex, dis
lance of $50 miles.
John Carbutt died in Philadelphia. he
was well known to photographers ant
was the first president of their assocla'
tion
Serious charges were made against the
Mutual Reserve Insurance Company BY
Chief Examiner Vanderpool to the state
superintendent of insurance
Steps for an endowment of a chair Of
applied forestry at Yale University have
been started in Chicago.
Six men were killed and three others
injured by a railroad train near Am
sterdam, N. Y.
Two additional deaths have occurred
among the victims of the Bennington
disaster
The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius was
torpedoed at Newport, but was not IN
jured.
President Shonts and a party of engl-
neers INSPECTED the canal route