Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-02-24
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

Domestic.
In view of the threatened strike on
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad, the officials OF the COM
pany have opened employment offices.
A holdup man tore 5000 brooch
from tho dress of Mrs. John ". Cornish
in New York, fired two shots at her nus
band and escaped.
AT a meeting of the creditors of Mrs.
Chadwick in Cleveland Attorney l.oes-
or. who has been acting as receiver,
was elected trustee.
Former Congressman Christopher A..
Bergen, of New Jersey, is dead at his
home, at Haverford, suburb OF Phlla-
dclpha.
The law firm Of Mcpherson. Hyde 4
Damon, of Boston, announced the THEFT
Of notes and bonds TO the value Of $780,
900.
Five persons were burned to death
in dwelling at the Howe Brook planta-
ton, near Island Falls, Me.
Five men were killed and 10 injured
by fall of rock at the Lyle Colicry,
near Pottsville, Pa.
The remains of Gen. Lew Wallace
were buried with simple ceremonies III
Charlottesville, Ind.
DR.. T. Jones Watson. of Denver, Col.
was acquitted of wife murder in New
London, Mo.
William II. Parsons. the paper manu-
facturer. of New York, died at Palm
Beach, Fla.
Six armed robbers entered delivery
office in Chicago, held up the employees
and compelled a clerk, at the point of a
revolver, 10 open safe, from which they
secured $780, They made their es-
cape
Tuberculosis farms will be established
in different sections of the country by
labor organizations for treatment OF
union workers afflicted with consunp-
ton.
The body of the man who committed
suicide i'll Boston hotel was identified
as that of Hiram McCollum, formerly a
department clerk in Washington.
Because of difference with the facul-
ty, the senior class at Massachusetts,
Agricultural College, at Amherst, has de-
cidcd to withdraw
Governor Hoch. of Kansas, signed the
bill appropriating 100000 for the cree
ton and maintenance Of state oil re-
finery.
A dozen persons, cut off from escape
by smoke and flames, were rescued by
firemen from a Cleveland apartment
house.
The second trial CT Nan Patterson, ac-
cused OF the murder of Caesar Young,
will begin OH March 6, in New York.
A negro, charged with assaulting a
white woman, was shot to pieces by a
Texas mob
Governor Toolc, Of Montana, signed
bill prohibiting employment of chill
dren i'll mines.
An effort will be made TO establish
lodges of the Knights Of Pythias i'll Lon
don. England
The Religious Education Association
concluded its sessions i'll Boston. Bis,-
op w. f. Mcdowell, OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Chicago, was elected
president, and President Faunce, OF
Brown University, first vice president.
Damaging evidence against Wallace
A. Lowell. alleged wildcat insurance
man, was introduced i'll the trial OF Low
ell and w. NJ Cowel in Chicago,
charged with using the mails to de-
fraud.
Judge Judson c. Clements, represent
ing the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. began all investigation in Pitts
burg of charges of excessive rates on
terminal railroads i'll that city.
In the United States District Court,
New York, an order was passed dismiss
ing the involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy against the brokerage firm OF
Munroe & Munroc.
Mime. Rejane, the French actress, and
her daughter, Germaine, were among the
passengers who sailed from New York
on the steamer La Touraine for Havre.
Harrison F. Johnson, wealthy New
York lawyer, died i'll hotel from NOR
phine or some other drug. A woman
of the Tenderlon is under arrest.
Three children were burned to death
at Springdale, Mich. eahd their father,
Frank Pearson, so badly burned, that
he probably will die.
Bigler Johnson was convicted of the
murder of his wife in Tonawanda, Pa,
and sentenced TO DEATH
Eight workmen were seriously injured
by an explosion OF sulphur in the Brook
Ign Sulphur Works.
Sam Bowen was declared not guilty
of the murder of Prof E. l.. Cotton at
College, Pa.