Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-04-19
THE NEWS.

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tvtown. W. Va.-Mrs. Mary Coudrey, wife
Of G. W. Coudrey who secured verdict o'
IS .OO) damages against George J. Schwein'
furth. the &C. called Messiah, fer alternating
her affections. has cow sued for DIVORCE
A colored mother In PamIico county, N c.
burned her baby to dea h by laying 1t on the
hot Goals in a fireplace. Two little girls
LottIe and Annie Al AIplegate, returning home
from an Easter festival in Bethlehem, Pa.,
we're struck by an express train and fatally
injured. i Five pri ones broke jail al
Smith. Pa, by cutting through wall
The body OF eight-year-old Alice Sterling,
daughter OF Georse Sterling, OF Bos on, was
found luried in a manure pile. she mao
been outraged and her sku crushed IN by
blow from an axe. Angus D. Gilbert was
n rested charged with the crime. "A. ID.
Foreman. superintendent OF the Iron Noun
tai, (MIch. } Electric Light and Power Com
pany, has disappeared. He Is said to De snor'
in his accounts for large amount, out now
rouch will not be known until thorough
examination OF Tue UOShS'
The town of Dorchester, In Clarke county,
Wis.,, wa, swept by fire. "A Chicago syn
dica is negotiating for 100000 acres ol
land In Montgomery county, Co., on which
coIon,sts from the West intend to setl -
The prisoners In tho jail at Roswell, N NJ,
over owered Jailer Talia'erro and locked
him up and escaped. 1.-The dead bodies oil
n man and woman we're found on the road
near 81. Louis, all indications pointing 10
murder and suicide. .-Charles Schinstein,
n molder in a foundry at Phillipsburg, N j.,
was burned to dea' h by molten metai:-
John Yengllng temp'oi to shoot his wife
at Minerva o. She escaped. he then be
gan to beat his child, anl sh OF and seriously
wounded Thomas E. Booth, who attempted
10 re:cue the Chi - hirty-nine case' o.
smallpox In shawneeto wu, IIl.-The Mor'
mon elders, in sess on at Independence No,
cannot agree upon the acc ptanc, OF a so.
call d revelation from -sePh Smith
The S.rathmore Hotel, at Crescent B,ach,
Moss. wa, bnrned Loss $4,000, partial y
coyerel by insurance.
The spring session OF the Carlisle Presby'
terry was opened in the First Presbyterian
Church at Waynesboro. 1t was decided
that the fall session be held at Mercersburg,
Pa.-The engineer, fireman and conductor
we're killed, and locomotive and eighteen
freight cars demolished in wreck on the
Buffalo, Roche Ter and Pittsburg Railroad,
near Punxsutawney, Pa.-A Chicago court
awarded $4,000 damages to George ".
Coudrey In his suit against Jacob Schwein-
furth. the Rockford Messiah" for aliena-
ting his wifes affec cions.-The collapse Of
of wall OF the 7. 7. Hutchinson's Com
panys storehouse In Wheeling, W. Va,
caused the loss Of fise or six lives, including
Very Rev. F. H. Park, vicar general OF the
diocese OF Wheeling. Several men were In
iured. Damage by floods was reported
from ,ints in West Virginia, Pennsylvania
and North Carolina. 1t is reported that a
great many counterfeit two-cent stamps
have been made and solo, while Charles
Marshall, o Bowers, CAL, and Frank Ham,
ton, a colored deputy, we're shooting at
each other, Albert Lawson got in the way oil
bullet, and was fatally wounded.
The Susquehanna rolling mill, near Co
lumbla. Pa, wa burned. Loss $50 OOO.-
The Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Rail-
road will be built.-Tho jury in Anna
Dickinson's case, at Scranton, Pa, dis
agreed. The big steamer St. Paul was
successfully launch ID a. Cramps ship yards.
The boilor OF the lebanon Brick Works
at Lansing, Mich, exploded, XII ling an
unknown man and injuring several others.
About seventy-Hve men were employed al
the plant. M. Wadley, promi-
nsnt farmer and drover, has absconded with
about S5. .OO) which was loaned him by the
bank at Byron, Mch.-Mrs. Anthony
Packer and her six weeks old child were
struck by the Cons olida'e flyer viii walk
ing on the track near Mystic, ct. and insian'
| killed. "A seven tory elevator was burnet
at St Louis. Loss 100, 90 bushels Of wheat val
ued at SIS. O0O.-Hi b water has caused mucl
damage in Mohawk Valley, N Y.-Sadie
stineger, aged twelve, and Ann Bradley
aged thirte n, were found dead near Pnila-
delphis 1t Is supposed they were killed by
lightning Harry L.Stehman, OF Rohrers-
town, Pa, was put in Jail for setting his Owl
factory on fire.
The Susquehan~a River is falling, an
| 15o nm mn feet of LOGS are now In the Xes
Branch booms ready to be sent to tide-wate
markets. more outlaws were kille'
In battle between the Dover train robber
and United States mnrshals, near Hennessy
O. T.-George Stice was killed whie sit
ting at the window OF his home. near Macon
Mo-. holdi his body on hi knee, an uo
known MAJ firing through the window a
hjm.-High water In the Merrimac Rive
caused the closing OF the mills, and 900 EN-
pIoyes we thrown out Of work Tive
American sal ing ships arrived at New Yorl
within an hour Of each other after a ninety
six DAYS race from Hong Kong. IN I
quarrel about girl at dance at Fluvanua
near jamestown, N. Y, James Rainey stabbeC
and killed Frpd Mitchell. y Mary Croughan
aged twenty-five years. died at Lynn, Mass.
as the re ut OF nine week. OF continuous hic
coughing. The new enterprise OF shipping
frozen milk from Norway to England ha
proven q success.
VILLAGES WIPED OUT.