Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-10-18
THE NEWS.

noko,a handed down It's decision in the case
of W ". TAYLOR, the defaulting State treas
mar His sentence is cut down to two years
and held to begin August IA last. Prank
w uar,i. tie protest. nal baseball player,
Who murdered Charles W. Bengel last May
was found guilty In Frespors, H., and sep
tanced 10 be hanged The condemned man
,o,n,od in court. He nat bis victim in the
street and shot him down. .-Ilsanity was
tbe defense. The Tempe Opera House
and a portion OF the Masonic Temple at
Duluth Minn.. was burned. Loss 5000 0.
The Commercial Bank OF Springfield,
ILL.,. was closed on recommen iation OF the
state bank examiners. Total assets, S99.-
GA go: liabilities less than $50, 00o. Three
peop.e were killed and seventeen others In
iured by trolley car In Pittsburg jumping
the track and overturning on down grade.
Mis-, Stella West popular society Girl
of Savannah. Ga, accidentally shot and
killed herself. The drouth In Pennsy.-
yania and West Virginia was broken by
conious rains.-Mrs. Leland SANFORD won
another victory In the United States Court at
San Francisco in the governments suit
against her to recover S5 397, 09) alleged 10
be due the government from her hrsoands
es ate on account OF Central Pacific Railroad |
bonds.
The freight trains OF the Atlantic Coast
line collided at Potomac Run, eight miles
from Fredericksburg, Va. The engines were
destroved and the cars were badly wrecked
| Two men are said to have bsen injured
| Rev. Samuel H. ChuLb, pastor oil the Evan
pelical Church OF Plymouth, Pa., wa con-
vlcted OF indecent as ault upon Rachel Hit
ner.-Ben Turner threw cupful OF sui.
phuric acid upon his wife's head in Sisters
Vile W. Va.-The teard OF regents oil the
Territorial University, at Tucson. Ariz, have
elected Professor Blake, OF New York, the
well-known geologist and mining engineer
professor Of mining and geology. An IN
cendiary fire destroyed the Holland Radiator
Works at Bremen. Ind. All wrenches 10,
hose carts were stolen, and no water could
be ob. aimed. William Hylton was killed.
at Peusaukin by one Of the guests he bad in
vtad TO sample his wine. e.-Mrs. Mary
Knight. aged forty three, murdered nei
mother Mrs. Catherine Hart aged sixty-fouf
On DAYTON. Ohio. Both were drunk and
uuarrellng, and Mrs. Knight knocked her
mother down with piece ofiron, then, pick
Ing up chair, beat her over the head,
mashIno her skull and Draining her. The
old woman was dead when the officers ar
rived. The daughter Is in the city prison
charged with murder.
A war on the speak-easies In Morgantown'
w Va. has resulted In the finding OF one
hundred ind Ictments against four saloon
kespers in Morgantown, W. Va-Ihe body
~ an unknown man who had been robbed
and murdered was found lying near the
tracks at Bower Hill, Pa, near Pittsburg.-
The twenty-sixth annual session Oh the
Grand Lodge Knights OF PyIhias OF West VIZ
pinia closed at Fairmont with the election o.
} oe9cers and the selection oil Point Pleasant al
the next meeting place. ALFRED Alien
coored. ] hn Brown and Edward WiiKey'
, uhita have bean sentenced In the UniteC
states Court at Fort Smith, Ark, to b'
t hanged December g. This Is the third time
| that Brown and Allen have been sentenced
to death.-Rosa Kummer,a a child was kl'le'
nv a train at Chicago. Two other girls Wer
$ injured .-Mosher & Mcdonald, one OF IN
l IarOest 10 rping firms In the State OF Wash
ingtop, whose property Is worth soVV'o.e
have gone into the hands OF receiver, as tn
1 result of disagreement between partners
I "A storm caused much damage at u
S paz Mexico.-Frost destroyed late peache
: about Waynesboro, Ps.-Prof. Dixon,
L hypnotist, was killed at Ardmore, l. l.,
7 H Forceine The latter charged thu
Z Dixon had led his wife astray. "A ne
, monthly TO be called tie Christian En-
deayorer, will be started in Chicago. III
: Bushnell Car Seat Works, at Easton, Pa
we're burned loss $40 600.
3 Two forgers, said to he members Oh a non
Swedish family have been arrested In Cn
| caoo for issuing bogus checks OF the liIino
b., Humane Society. Is reported mat Il
~ baltimore and Ohio Railrod will build a ne
!, line from Cleveland TO Lodi, on the Pittsou
" Cleveland and Chicago Railroad. d.-O
roman was killed and several badly inlur
hv f,re in a tenement in San Francisco.
= The people OF Quincy, ILL.,. have passed res
~ lutIons of sympathy with the Cuban reVoI
- tonist..-The twenty fifth annual conve
-, ton Of the General Council of the Evange
,e cal Lutheran Church OF North America
or bexun at Easton, Pa-severai men na
-, been arrested in Buffalo, N. Y. charged W
9. padding- the pay-rolls OF tho street pure
, Of the city with dummy names, and emO
10 ling large sums of money.-The Thea
~. Comioue at Kansas City was destroyed
"a = fire. Loss s25 OOO.-The warden OF 81
bo s,ng nrison has discovered plot by Hen
Movers. sentenced to prison for lie Tor
insurance murder to induce his vile to
another man TO obtain the Insurance on
. ute.-The Ohio River Improvement AS
les ciotior has been organized at Cincinnati
m The Liberty Bell was taken from the stat
of ot Atlanta to the exposition groun a
es. nlaced IN position. There was large csc
Ter Of military and school children. B. s.
ew berger & Co., dry goods dealers OF DanSi
of Va. made an assignment with haoilties
-g. COX o-Thompson Wade, colored,
on haen arrested near MorristoWn, MISS, Oh
in charge Of killing Mrs. F. d. Hathearne'
Ter u,,to ~ n farmer. At the session CT
Inc Protestant Episcopal convention A''an'"