Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-04-06
THE NEWS.

The revolt In South Carolina against Gov
ernor Tillman's Methods of enforcing his Dis
pensary law assumed formidable proportions.
In the fight at Darlington, in which dispen-
sary spies fired upon citizens. several men
were killed and others wounded, the latter
including the chief of police. The Governor
declared Darlington and Florence counties in
a state of insurrection. and ordered troops to
be massed in the towns in those counties. He
also had Judge of the state courts issue an
Injunction against the Western Union Tele-
graph Company to restrain its officers from
accepting messages for transmittal on the
Darlington trouble unless sent by state au-
thorities. es.-The United States Court of Pri-
vate Land Claims IN Tucson, Arizona, has
handed down decision in the Sonita San
Rafael del Valle Babacomari and Nogales de
Villas grant cases favoring the settlers. The
grants were declared void Collector OF
Customs Wise, of San Francisco, has issued
statement. which sets forth that the certificate
of registration issued to Cinnamon under the
Geary law is simply evidence Of his right to
remain in this country, and does not entitle
the possessor to land in case he should leave
the country and return.
Isaac Pequa has been elected President Of
the Central Pacific Railroad Company. ia
place of c. P. Huntingdon. Bishop Fow-
Ter, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, does
not think women will ever be admitted to
membership in the. General Conference Of the
hurch.-Park Colliery, No. 2, at Park
Place. Pa, was burned; loss, S15O,000; par
tial Insurance. In the colliery were employed
seyen hundred hands.-An unsuccessful at
tempt was made at bridge near Oxford, o..
to wreck an express train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad
furniture factory, and some dwellings at
Williamsport, Pa, were burned; loss, $4,000,
| partially insured. Herman Clark, wanted
in New York on some charge growing out of
the failure of the firm of Hunter, Clark q
Jacob. Of which he was member, was ar
rssie1 in Chicago.-Fire destroyed over
fifty buildings, embracing the entire portion
of the city of Barry, in Pike county, Ill. The
loss is estimated at 5000, 200. Trouble is
expected to follow the threatened strike of
the coke-workers in the Connellsville region.
Orders have been issued for starting up
the Belmont blast furnace of the Wheeling
Iron and Steel Company.
The mutlated body of CharIcy Tiffany, a
comparative stranger, was found about six
miles from Fort Dodge, Ia., up the river in a
secluded spot grown over with timber and
brush. H. Bourne died in Provi-
dence He was sixty-seven years old. and was
one of the best known horticulturists in New
England. and the founder of the Rhode Island
Horticultural Society.-Three young women
who represent the Rhode Island mills, started
for Washington from Providence to appear
before the Finance Committee of the Senate
10 protest against the passage Of the Wilson
bill. They are the most beautiful girls in the
mills.-The dead body Of Robert Beatty,
aged twenty-three, youngest son OF General
John Beatty, of Columbus, O., was found on
the banks of creek four miles from Giles
pieville, village in Ross county.-The adj
nual dog show Of the Philadelphia Kennel
Club opened at the Philadelphia Tatterstil
The show promises to be the best ever giyer
in that city, as the list of entries is unusually
large. and includes all the leading breeds OF
dogs, many of them champions or prize win
nets in their classes.-Major J.W. Bickhan
editor of the Dayton (Ohio) Journal. is dead
The cotton mills in Augusta, Ga, have or
ders sufficient tc enable them to run 81,
months. Major Vim. N. Evans, one Of The
best-known bandmasters in the West, died a
Chicago-C. P Huntington, H. L. Hun
tington and Charles w. Crocker have resigned
from the directorate of the Central Pacii'
Railroad Company their purpose being t
entrench themselves in strong legal posi-
ton whereby the Southern Pacific Compan,
may avoid the stipulation of its lease that i
shall paythe holders of Central Pacific securi
tiesthe annual sumofs 81, 100000 in dividends
Fire did 0,OOO damage at South Fran
ington, Mass.-The steamboat Sea Bird
running between Red Bank, n j., and New
York. ran ashore near the Atlantic Highlands
The passengers were taken to Oceanic il
small boats, and from that place walked t.
Red Bank-The Supreme Court of Massa
chusetts decided that note given in pay
ment of a bet on horse racing is Illegal
The right of way OF the South Pennsylvania
Railroad will be sold as unsettled lands.-
GUY r. Olmstead shot and killed Lettcr-car
rier Clifford on the street, ir Chicago.