Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
THE NEWS.

home near Sue Belle, S. c., by unknown
parties. A boiler at the mill of Brooks
Bro her. gin house at Drifton, Fla, ex|
ploded, killing Allen Brooks, Prince Hall
and Amos Gross, AMI badly injuring Jim
Reagan, Clnda Johnson, Nancy Johnson and
Charlie Harris, all colored. The cause OF
the explosion is unknown. F. Banks,
one OF the most prominent young men in st.
Matthews, S. G., was killed by W. B. Chap
lin. Chaplin caught Banks In his yard and
emptied double-barreled shot gun into his
body There are mysterious hints as to the
cause Of the shooting. The coroners jury
found the killing jistidable. "A bill in
equity was fled in a Philadelphia court to
re rain the city from taking the berty Bell
10 Atlanta. The senate committee ap-
pointed ly the Pennsylvania legislature
to investigate Philadelphia's municipa.
affairs accepted the money offered
BIZ the cltizen,' associations to defray ex-
penses Mrs. Mary Murphy aged sixty,
and Frank Kelly, aged four, we're burned
at Cohoes, N. Y, The woman fell asleep
while smoking, and her dress caught fire. 1t
IS thought the boy must have been burned IN
attempting to extinguisa the flames. -Mss
Charlotte Dut:on his been arrested In
Welsboro Pa, on a charge OF poisoning
Miss Elizabeth Knapp. Waco, Tex.
Morning News has closed It's doors as O re
suit Of failure to meet obligations.
Vice President Stevenson, his wife, daugh'
ter and two brother, passel through Winni-
per. Man., en- route to Alaska There are
one hundred and fifteen cases OF smallpox at
Quarantine, Ea:le Pass, I xas.-R.v'
George Whee er was ki.lel, and three or
four O: hers injured a wreck on the Allan
tic and Pacific Railroad near bcquerque,
N. M.-The Ohio board of public works is
entertaining O proposition ON the Wini-
fred Coal and Company, OF Philadelphia,
for the purchase Of the Ohio Canal. -Four
men have been lodged In jail in Kansas City
char.ed with robbing the postoffice in
BrookfleId. Mo- In February, 1894, of 500.
DIR. May and a mining expert named
Dun have been arrested at Scottsboro, Ala,
on the charge OF ,alting gold mines on Santa
Crt elk. Marshall county, by which numLer
OF ci il ms we're induced to invest large sums
Of money. - Isabel Garrison, of tho Chicago
Tribune, is in Quebec to select site on be-
half of the Sons Of the revolution for
statue to General Montgomery.
Atn stockholders meeting OF the Augusta
and Savannah Railroad at Savannah, Ca, 1t
was unanimously agreed to accept the offer
made by the Central Railroad reorganization
com nittee to release that road at five per
cent. annual dividends. The Rocky Noun
tain Savings Bank made an assignment at
Denver. a number OF persons a. Park
Ridge. N. j., were made sick by eating ice
crean.-Henry Waterman, bicyclist, COL
lided with a WAGON 10 Atlantic Highlands,
N J.. and was killed. ej.--Further examina-
ton OF the room occupied by Mrs. Connors
at Holmes Castle, In Chicago, resulted In
the fading OF additional blood stains upon
the floor. strong microscope was used
upon the stains by an expert, who said they
were undoubtedly human blood. The re-
cevers for the Order OF Provident Shield In
PHILADELPHIA announced dividend OF sixty
five per cent Texas fever has appeared
among the cattle about Bennington, Pa
Deputy sher II Alfred Werner, OF Ciittenden
county, Ark, was killei by colored man
he wanted to arrest.
The steamship line OF the Panama Rail
Noad Company, between New Orleans and
colon will sool be in operation. Heirs OF
the Sharon estate ale ready to dissolve tn,
trust organized tea years ngo.-The Pan
American Railroad Company formed'to build
road from ctoria, Texas, to Brownsville,
aud thence 70 the City OF Mexico, wi be re-
organized August 20. The Cali ornia S.a
| Board OF Dental Examiners has Withdrawn
| from the National Dental Association
Gottlieb Gilman, aged sixty, and Harry
Weinberg, aged thr y-hv', were killed by a
cave-'n at a gravel pt on The outskirts OF
Philadelphia. ELI Hx and four children
were burned to death q; B g Stone Gap, Va.
Fire ih the Enlistment OF G nm Bros,
publishers, 60 to S3 Purchase stree, Btston,
caused loss o; s4) ,OoO Peter Marchetti
| Il CN ul0CllObOk VI 1RiShLhOh", '" -' 49,
head blown of by an overcharged gas gener-
ator. used in the soIa water f)untalD. -
Charles II. Cramp has requested the Navy
Department to have the Official trial trp OF
| the battleship Indiana on Octobert 1st.-
| John s. Mat hews, secretary OF the Valley
Exchange Building and Loan Asso citation, oil
Martinsburg, w. Va, has beea arrested
| charged with eing short in his accounts.--
The United Typo.hetoe met in Minneapolis,
where an address OF welcome wa, made by
Mayor Pratt. The next convention Will be
held In Rochester, N Y.
Mrs. Annie NJ. Gardner, of Arcadia, Neb
who disappeared at the time OF the Christian
Eudeavor Convention, in Boston, met her
husba nd In Chicago. women Of Lex
ington, Ky, held convention and nominated
candidates for the Board OF Edlcatio -
The convention Of the Knights OF Labor gar.
ment workers, held in Chicago, endel In q
free fight, the Federation members breaking
up the meeting. Mis-, Annie D Wis, mis-
eionary In Japan, writes that cholera Is rag
| ing in that country. Three persons were
killed and two seriously injured ly railroad
trains in Philadelphia. n. Dabney Mar
shall, Mississippi lawyer and state legsIa-
tor, shot down and killed R. T. DlnkiOs, at
Brauda, Miss.--Fremont Smith was hanged
at San Quentin prison, California, for the
murder OF two fishing companions. - Thos.
Hartley, aged thirty-two years, died at Read
ing. Pa. He was crushed under an embank-