Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-11-29
THE NEWS.


trip with $500 Goldfish on board, went aground
off Sandy Hook and sank.-The schooner
John W. Foster, which cleared from Phil
alelphia ostensiby for Tampa, Fla, was
seized at Lewes. Del. by United States offlc-
ers at the request of the Spanish minister,
who charged that the vessel carried arms for
Cuban insurgents. BY the fall of wall Of
the Poland Union Seminary, near Youngs-
town. o., four Of the young women students
were injured John X. Dietz shot William
Castle in the law office of c. w. Hall, at
Charleston, w. Va.-At McGregor, Ia. H.
Allen, prosperous farme, met william
Cross. against whom he had grudge, and
shot him dead. A young woman in the
house at the time ran away, but Allen fol-
lowed and shot her. She may recover. Allen
then shot himself dead. Miss Nora Work,
drowned in the Cumberland River at Pond
Greek Ferry, twelve miles from Nashville,
Tenn, while attempting to cross the river in
a skiff. Their boat upset, and the occu'
reach them.
The Virginia Court of Appeals sustained
the petition of the Lunenburg authorities
asking for a mandamus to compel the de-
livery to them of the men convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Pollard. "A number Of
Protestant Episcopal bishops and clergymen
took part in the bi-centennial services of old
Christ Church in Philadelphia. Governor
Claude Matthew'S Of Indiana, eloquently ex-
pressed his sympathy for Cuba in a speech
at q meeting In Philadelphia given under the
auspices Of the Philadelphia Antetam Brig
ade Association. Charles Hurd, colored,
was lynched at Wartburg, Tenn, for murder
ing Jasper D. Kelly.-The B. & o. South
W stern stockholders met in annual session
at Cincinnati. DR.. S. P Pace, ex-United
States consul to Sarnia, Ont, and a promi-
nent Republican politician died at Port
Huron, Michigan.-L. NJ. Rosenthal, Of
Columbus, Ohio, failed for $4,000 He had
mi fit clothing houses in Columbus, Toledo
and Cleveland. Assets not known. The
mortgages took possession.-Th schooner
Lucy A. Davis, went ashore on Wachaprea-
que Beach. ya.-Several vessels went
ashore on the Rhode Island coast, but were
not seriously damaged George A. Dozen
ges died in MartinsburS. --Governo Mac
Corkle pardoned Thomas B. Harness, con-
victed two weeks ago in Wood county of in
voluntary manslaughter in killing Mark
Peray. and sentenced to six months in jail
and to pay fine of S5OO.-By the caving-
in Of bank in Louisville two boys were
LiIled and four others injured. At Chicago
Charles Moe was arrested, charged with MUIR
dering his mistress, Annie Anderson.
United States marshals have destroyed
many illicit distilIeries in Wise county, Va.
The business portion of Madisonville,
Kv.. was burned. Loss 50,OOO-Fire at
Lowell. Mass caused loss of $95,OOO.-
DR.. David j. HILL president Of Rochester
University resigned in order to do literary
work.-Frank Huffman the notorious out
law. who has long dehsd the authorities, was
killed by Sheriff Moore, of Hickory county,
fifty miles northwest of Springfield, Mo-
A fast mail service between England and
Canada will be established. The postoflce
at Summit Grove, N. j., was robbed OF
stamps and money, valued at $500. The
battleship Indiana was put in commission ct
Philadelphia. John Tod, of Cleveland,
vice-president, was appointed receiver of the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad
Company by Judge Yorls, of Akron, o. Tho
petition under which the appolntment was
made was fled by the Farmers Trust Com
pany. of New York, and Herman Drisler and
VIM. Tell trustees Of the company, were
made parties defendant. by an explosion
of dynamite cartridges in Wellsboro,~ Pa,
Frank A. Johnson, proprietor of the marble
and granite works of that borough, and his
father-in-law, Mr.. Raymond, who is seventy
five years old. received injuries which will
cSuss their death
Henderson S. Travis, a well-known sports
man of Cape Charles City, Va, was acci-
dentally shot and badly wounded on gun
ming trip.-Daniel Lee was convicted OF a
murderous assault upon Mrs. l.. B. Railey, OF
Charlottesville, Va, and sentenced TO twenty
years in the penitentiary. --Three-fourths
of the town of Purcell, Indian Territory, was
destroyed by fire.-Mrs. Minnie Kemp,
aged seventy years, was run over by trolley
car in Wheeling, w. Va, and killed.-The
Italian bark Brom Carlo collided with the
British ship Condor off the Horn. The Brom
Carlo was sunk, and only four out of a crew
of nineteen men were saved. "A snow and
sleet storm, followed by a cold wave, passed
the Northwest, trains on roads west OF Chi
cago being delayed and Topographic COM
munication interrupted. -Joseph Hodgetts
who shot and killed his brother William in a
Philadelphia saloon last March, pleaded
guilty to murder in the second degree, and
was sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment. The young men quarreled over some
money. Joseph fed after the shooting, but
was captured in Chicago. Vlalpando
and Feliciano Chavez, convicted Of murder
| ing Thomas Martinez ranchman, January
| 90 1895, were executed in Santa Fe, Mexico,
| In the presence of 600 people.
The Pittsburg and Butler Railroad Com
| pany was incorporated by the Pennsylvania
State Department, to build line from Etna
| TO Butler, distance of twenty-five miles,
Peter W. Breene, president of the defunct
Savings and Deposit Bank, of Lsadville, was
arrested in Denver, charged with having re-
caived deposit of $500 from Mr.. N. II. Gun
| ningham after the bank had failed. 1t is
said that several other criminal complaints