Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-08-03
THE NEWS.

Mrs Marietta ISress, widow Of Thomas
Kress. who was murdered by Charles Coope-
rider June Y. 1896, has filed suit in the 'Su-
preme Court in Brazil, Ind, for ten thousand
dollars damages against her husband sslayer.
The defendant is now serving a two-years
sentence in JefTersonyille prison for the crime.
Thomas Crew. a successful business man
of Carlinville ILL.,, retired to the city ceme-
terr,. and. at the grave Of his mother, blew
ont his brains. Mr.. Crew owned and oper-
ated the cooperage plant OF the st. Louis
Milling Company. B. w. Wrenn, general
Messenger agent Of tho East Tennessee. Vir>
pinia and Georgia Railroad, handed in his
resignation and it was accepted. during
heavy storm lightning struck and set fire to
the barn of Patrick Riley, ut Dorrance, Pa,
entirely consuming the structure. Twelve
head of horses. seven COWS and all the farm
products OF the barn were burned. - Harry
Ia Gov. who claims to live in New York city,
was held under $4,000 bail by Magistrate
Pole in Philadelphia on the charge Of rob-
bng the guests Of the Arlington Hotel
An attempt was made after midnight to wreck
a Burlington engine by exploding dynamite
bomb under the wheels of the locomotive.
Two men we're seriously injured. They are:
John NJ. Best, special officer OF the round
house. wounded in breast and legs by fraS-
mcnts of the bomb: Frank MOtuck, switch
man, cut in thigh.
President David Starr Jordan, OF Stanford
University. says tho institution will open on
ssptember /. with I, 100 students. He states
that thcIUniyersity has an abundance OF funds
% maintain !. 900 or more students and eighty
professors indefinitely. joe Craig, an eX-
/ policeman. killed his wife, brother-in-law
and father-in-aw at Los Angeles, and tried
20 kill himself. Trouble with his wife the
rauso. o. Colonel Edward Herrick Castle,
died at Chicago Of old age. He was born IN
| 1911. in Amenia, n. Y. Colonel Castle was al
one time general Western agent OF the Erie
/ Railroad. by an accident at Braddock,
! Pa, Charles McCauley, fireman on an en-
CINE. was fatally hurt, and John McCauley
and John McNIunn badly injured. AT
BROOKLYN JOSEPH W. Stray was appointed re-
ceiyer Of the Higgins Soap Company. -
! Coke strikers about Scottdale Pa, have
given up their arms. The Illinois steel
plant at Chicago started again, $500 men go
ing to work. The Louisville New Albany
and Chicago Railroad Company entered suit
against the city of Chicago for damage done
to its property during the strike.--Mrs
Margaret McManus, forty years old, wife ol
JobI MclIanus. aged siXty-eight, was found
murdered in bedroom in tenement IL
Boston, where the couple have been living
Her husband was arrested. charged with th'
crime. Six men were arrested in Denver
and Colorado Springs for the tarring a2c
feathering of Adjutant General Tarsney.-
Major William IL. Upham was nominated fo
governor Of Minnesota by the Republican
convention.
The steamer Saginaw arrived at New Yo-h
with adviccs Of an unsuccessful plot to assas
sinatc President HereuX at San Domingo
Louis Wright, the young Boston incen
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nagration in 1892, and several other fires
which cost Boston about $500, 900, was re
captured in BrocktOn, Mass. s.-The Supreme
Court in Brooklyn denied the motion for I
new trial for John T. McKane "A lynch
ing in Las Vegas. New Mexico, led to dead
ly afTray between MeXicans and the officer
who killed the outlaw. --Joe Robesky trieC
to kill his wife in Scranton, Pa, and thel
shot himself. 4. Cotton, well
known Kan.as pioneer, one of the trainers o
the Leavenworth constitution and noteC
frcc-soiler, died in Kansas City.-G. Hol
brook and a man named Gibbe were drowned
in the main North Fork OF the Clearwate
River. The men left Spokane last May on
prospecting tour. Harrison Duncan wa
hanged in Clayton, Mo-, for the murder 0
Police Officer James Brady, whom Harrison
murdered in a crap-shoOters' den, run b
Charles Starkc, in st. Louis. An attemp
by the prisoners in the Jail in Belvidere, n
J.. 10 escape was frustrated. .- Mahano
City. Pa. was visited by a disastrous fire
which originated in the hardware establish
ment OF T. J. Joyce. This building was de
stroycd, as were the drug store Of Biswe
Brothers and the grocery store of y. \
Graham. The Masonic Building, handsom
structure. and the residence ofJohn McGowa
were badly damaged. The loss will reac
$21 900, partially covered by insurance