Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-30
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
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Japan might desire another loan to take
up the domestic loan made soon alter
the declaration Of war.
Paul Morton returned from Washing
ton to New York and resumed his work
as chairman of the Equitable Society.
The Houston and Texas Central Rail
road will sell its lands in Northwest
Texas south of the Oklahoma line.
The village of Vicksburg, Mich, is
bankrupt as the result of the closing
of the Vicksburg Exchange Bank.
The officials of the Lake Shore Rail
road are still investigating the wreck
OF the Twentieth Century flyer.
Assistant Secretary of State Looms
has sailed for Europe on a secret mis-
sion for President Roosevelt.
Rev. Augustus Rohrlock resigned as.
| secretary Of the Evangelical Lutheran
General Synod of Missouri.
Mrs. Aggie Myers, who was found
guilty of numbering her husband, was
sentenced to be hanged.
The convention of Modern Woodmen
at Milwaukee ended with the installa-
ton of officers
The Seaboard Air Line will extend its
road to the sources of the Big Sandy
River.
An effort is to be made for the pres
ervation of the home of Paul Revere IN
Boston.
Naval officers witnessed the test of
the new gun turret at Bethlehem.
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Cured at La Bocay.
Consul General Wynne sailed for
England.
Another warrant was issued for the
arrest of John w. Hill, formerly chief
of the Filtration Bureau of Philadel-
phia, on charges of forgery. Mr.. Hill
is now under $1,000 bail for trial on SIM
liar charges.
A condition bordering on slavery has
been found TO exist in Chicago in sew
eral cases OF children who were trans
ferred from institutions to families who
did not raise them properly.
The Modern Woodmen, in session at
Milwaukee, have Endorsed a plan to
hold congress to urge fraternal nsur-
ance over old-line insurance.
Miss Lillian Moore, of Poughkeepsie,
was fatally injured in trolley collision
at Fishkil Landing.
Illinois coal miners have offered to
submit their differences with operators
to arbitration.
The Vicksburg (Mich) Bank, pri-
vate institution has closed its doors.
Governor Carter, OF Honolulu, has re-
signed.
Westbound passenger train No. 5, on
the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad,
was wrecked at Pinto, small station 20
miles west of Grand Junction, Col. No
fatalities resulted.
The report of Superintendent of In
surance Hendricks, of New York, was
submitted to District Attorney Jerome
for his use, should he think criminal
action is justihable.
w. H. Grenell, of Pierrepont Manor,
n. Y, was elected president OF the
American Seed Association at the an
nual convention at Alexandra Bay, N. Y.
A boiler at the sawmill of the Curtis
Alfalfa (Ala.) lumber plant exploded,
killing James Watts, Will Rosson, Gus
Cash and Marion Maddox.
The lard refining building at the pack
ing plant of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger,
at Armourdale, Kan, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, 100000.
Mrs. Lucinda Samson, of Davenport,
Ia, refused a bequest of $4,000 that
was made on condition that she became
Catholic.
The Supreme Court of Illinois grant
ed new trial to Joseph Briggs, con-
victed in Chicago of the murder of Hans
Peterson.
August Belmont has rendered his res
ignation as director of the Equitable So
ciety to former President Grover Cleve-
land
Carl Schurz, of New York, delivered
the address at the, commencement eX-
ercises at the University of Wisconsin.
The train dispatchers in convention in
Denver, Col, reiterated its stand IN ia
vor of the block system.
The festival of the North American
Gymnastic Union began in indianapolis
! Yesterday