Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-11-30
THE NEWS.

In Mandan, N D., the jury In the Kent
murder case brought in verdict OF guilty
with n death sentence Ke2t was accused Of
wife murder. having offered large sum to
nm accomplice to commit the cr.me. His wife
belonged to prom nent Minneapolis family
The Philadelphia police decided to dis.
enter the body which was supposed to be B.
r. Pitzcl. so that his wife may identify 1t, il
nossible. Michael Deccci was killed whilo
blasting rock in Wilmington n.--Peter Webb
was killed by falin; tree in Ellenboro, W.
| Va.-Mr. Wanamakcr was asked TO become
n candidate for the presidency OF the Lehigb
Valley Road. The steamer Lampasas, OF
the ! allory line was discovered to be on fire
while off the Delaware Breakwa.or. While
some workmen at the pew wafer works reser'
yoir in Charleston, w. Va, were trying 10
| dry some wet dynamite sticks frightful ex-
plosion occurred. Joseph Haskins was in
stantly killed, Frank Ridley fatally Injured,
and two others badly hurt. Judge Pit, Oh
Missouri. granted the application for e re-
ce.ver for the st. Joseph Loan and trust
(ompany The case has been on trial for
three weeks The liabilities OF the company
are about $35 900, and the assets about $780,
OOO.-The Knights of Labor convention ID
New Orleans adjourned.
Mrs. May Davis, widow OF James S. Brown,
has brought suit In Denver against the lbex
Mining Company, owner Of the Little Johnny
Mine at Leadville. for 100000, her share,
she ALLEGES. of the ore taken from the mine,
in which she claims to own an eighth inter-
eet Goodloe Coombs, charged as acces-
sorry 10 the murder of John a. Rose in Powell
county, KY, five years ago, was sentenced to
the nenitentiary for life. Seven OF tho jury
we're for hanging Coombs. Three other men
who were implicated in the murder received
life sentences. - Clara A. Dawson, rich
lady. and the daughter OF millionaire mer-
chant of Brooklyn, N. Y, was divorced in
Perry 0. T., from her husband, John II.
Dawson. The cornerstone of the main
bulding OF the Western Pennsylvania Instl-
tu.e for Predetermined was laid in Polk coun
tv Pa. with impressive ceremonies
Charles and Henry Lathroy, Ottawa business
men, who were out for time in Ottawa,
Kan struck the wrong house, kicking the
doors. Charles was shot dead and Henry
was seriously wounded. The coroner gave
the corpse to Undertaken Sessions, which sc
enraged an opposition undertaken that he
etahbed Sessions The J. NJ. Dawson Can
merry ind tho Fisher Can Company in sar
lose. Cal was burned. Total loss s15O,OOO
insurance $4,000 The fire started in th'
rosin room of the can company. Aim'
Howard the thirteen-year daughter o
Charles Howard, % Northwestern Railway
official, Is missing from her home in Mil
waukee under circumstances that warran
the suspicion that she was kidnapped.
The Mexican warship Zaragosa, which Is
in the drydock at San Francisco ungergoing
repairs will be sent south as soon as pos
sibe to look out for Mexico's interests on the
western coast in case OF war with Guatemala.
Mr.. Endicott, Bostons commissioner oi
corporatlons has fixed the price OF the five
thousand new shares Of American Bell Tele-
phone which are to be Issued at $3.50 pei
share. VIM. A. Jones, farmer living
near Boonville, Ohio, was buncoed out ol
$1,000 An order was received at the
headquarters OF the Department oil Colorado
from Washington, deciding that Theodore
W. Morrison. OF the Sixteenth Infantry, sta
toned at Fort Douglass, be tried by court
martial for alleged insubordination during
the railroad strike last summer.-George
A. Elder. formerly manager Of the American
Loan and Trust Company, was arraigred al
Duluth in the District Court, on four indict
ments for grand larceny In the first degree
Nine horses and ten head OF cattle rer
ished in the burning Of larn anu stabI'
belonging to C. S. Hutler, near Lynchlurg
Va.
In Philadelphia Herman MIDGET, ALA
Holmes, J. b. Howe, ST. Louis lawyer, an'
C. nsyiracy to delraud an insurance com
pany.-Mss Matte Martin and Miss Lizzie
Miller. Of Huntingdon, Pa, were struck by
Pennsylvania fast train and seriously injured
james Patton and George Colson, boil
coored, are charged with assaultng Mrs
Robinson. a whito woman seventy years old
in Clay county, Ky. LynchiDg is threatened
-Congressman james G. {. Black, Of Au
gusta. Ga. has written letter to Thomas e
Watson, his populst opponent in the recen
election. concerning alleged frauds. By
the burning Of MIS-. Cary's residence in New
Orleans. Maggie Kinselie seamsiress, los
her lie. The coal mines in Marion count!
are running on full time and want more min
ers.-Samue 2. Wilson, OF Pit sylvanlu
county, sa d to be the largest land-tax pay
Il, Vir,inin L dead