Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-10-04
THE NEWS.

Sandy Hook. N. J.-Lieutenant Colonel |
Samuel M. Whiteside, Uni ell States army, |
cormandent at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, |
WAS disposed and Lieutenant Colonel Guy |
V Henry ordered TO that post.-Burglars |
blew open the safe in the postoffice at Bu-
cbanan. Va, and got away with al the
stamns and money it contained. d.-Seyeral
nersons were injured In collision between |
trolley cars on the Darby division OF the
Chester (Pa.) Traction line. Charles
Smith. at Decatur, H., killed his sister-in-
law Edna uchert. W unded his seven-y ear.
old child and tried TO kill his vile, from
whom he had been ser arat d Tor some time.
The anthracite and mining carrying
companies have advanced wholesale prices
at tldewater and at the Western distrilu Ing
nolnta-A disastrous prairie fire has been
raging In the western half OF the Cher kee
| strjp in Kansas. "A large number OF ve'-
sells were wrecked by storm on Lake Mich.
an.-At WiIkesbarre, Pa, John Robin
son was sentenced to eighteen years I'M
nti,onment for the mu der OF Barney Reick
Fire damaged the River Spinning Com
pany's mill at Woonsocket r. l., 10 the ex-
tent OF 100000.
F.re damaged the o naha and Grant smell
Ter in Durango, Co., $50, 900, destroying the
ceiying house sampler, roaster and several
smaller luildings. The fire caught from inc
boiler room. and for two hours the entire
plant. representing 81, 500, 900. was in danger
| of total destruction. Geo. John Z. biack'
| Tinted States district attorney at chicago,
| received ms ructons to investigate the al
gel combination Of Chicago packers to
control The price OF beef His Instructions
Games from Attorney General HARMON
The S.. James, an old hotel, centrally located
in Columbus. o., was damaged by fire to the
amount OF O,Ot0 at 4 A. NJ. Many guests
| had 10 bs saved by ladders. No one was lost
or hurt.-Martin Adams, OF Cincinnati,
who caused the death OF John Dinner by put
ting s.rychnine into pint OF beer, was
hanged In the penitentiary annex at Co UNI
bus s--United States Revenue Collector Bond
Inns received information Of the capture In
Harden county, Tennessee near the Missis-
sippi line, Of George Davis and Bob Thomas,
Two noted desperate mooDshiners. Nelson
Miller a colored man, charged in Wilkes
larre. Pa, with the murder OF three Hun
garIans, was found guilty OF murder In the
first degree.
Governor O'Ferrall has set October 2S a
Virginia Day at the Atlanta Exposition.
Bishop Haid OF North Carolina, conducted
the conservation service Of st. Aninony 8
Catholic Church OF Lancaster, Pa a co.
vention OF Irish Americans was held In Cni-
cago to start new movement for lrelenu
| Independence. Ex-Congressma John f.
Finerty, OF Chicago, made speech advoca'-
ing strong aggressive movement The
| NorIi-town Shoe Company, oil NorristowD,
Pa. made an assignment Lial ilties, s94
OOO -Four men were seriously injured by
the fall OF derrick On the new )un!y court
house building at Troy, N. Y-An investi-
CATION was begun in Pitlsburg OF charges q
lribery and blackmaiI agains the police de-
partment OF that city y-The West Virginia
NJ. E. Conference adjourned, after the an
nouncement of the appointments. "A wagon
In which were five colored women and one
colored man was struck by a railroad train
at Long Branch Allie Bell Wa, instantly
killed. Louis Bennett was badly hurt abo ut
the back, and the others received severe In
juries.
Erwin Clarke. a diamond broker who dis
appeared from Denver. Col, July 20, VIII
several thousand dollars worth oil dlamonus'
entrusted to him for sale, has besn arreste"
at San Francisco, and will be brought back
to Denver He was traced 10y means OF ie'-
ters mailed TO him from Louisville ly his
wlfe.-John r. Lanier was shot and killed
at Point Pleas ant, W. Va, by Thomas POTTS.
The crew OF the schooner. .Menuncaiuc<, from
P,rth Amboy, Nj, narrowly escaped dIown-
ing. and were landed at Lynn. D.-Ihe qnes-
ton OF the revival OF American shipping was
discussed at the International Deep Water
ways Convention, in Cleveland. The lTisn
New Movement Convention, in session In Cnl-
caro. passed resolutions demanding the Tree
dom # Ireland from English rule. .-hot
Robinson. white, and a negro, name un-
known. we're killed in shaft at Winter Rock
coal mines. in Chesterfield, Va, the sides
caylng in.-John s. Matthews was sen-
fenced 10 four years in the renitentiary Ior
embezzlement in Martinsburg, VIVA. Mis-.
Violet Haskell. who last Juno left her hus-
band at Deer Isle, Maine, and married the
colored leader OF the Pickanlnry Band at
Cinclnr att, and shortly afterwards returned
and was forgiven by her husband committed
suicide.
By the explosion OF lamp IN the dwelling
OF Leon Kuchinsky in Pittsburg, two daugh-'
ters OF Kuchinsky. aged six and eight years
were fatally burned. DR.. t. S. Mcdonald
who rescued the children from the flames,
WAS severely burned, and will probably lose
the sight of one eye.-Five Indians were
killed and several others wounded In nght
with ranchmen, who lost three men. The
aroe frame icehouse OF Frank Richards, neal
Bustleton, a suburb OF Philadelphia, was de-
stroyed by fire. A great quantity OF ic' wa'
DESTROYED. Loss 800, ,OOO.-Various coun
ties in Pennsylvania fear water famine un-
leg, there is a rainstorm within few day
Rev. Thos. G. Hanna fought two bur.
cars who entered his room In StoningtSn
Ct They cut and beat him, but got nothing
Two men were killed on the Ameoy d.
v.sion OF the Pennsylvania Railroad a