Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-02-01
THE NEWS.

Two Young sons Of Andrew Cole. OF Louisa
Kv.. are affected with rabies, and their tive
sisters show symI toms OF the same terrible
malady. Major John Gilbert, a printer
who set up and corrected the proofs OF the
first Norman bible, died at Palmyra, n. Y.
at the age of nine;y-tbree years in col
lision OF RIGHT trains on the Virginia Mid
land Division OF the Southern Railroad,
Locomotive and twelve box cars, loaded with
all sorts OF merchandise, were wrecked. Los,
about SIS, ,O0l.-W. A. Dunagin, promi
nent merchant Of Newton, Miss, was COW.
bided by four women, the wife, mother and
sisters of Eugene Wilson. whom Dunagiu
and others thrashe1 last summer for the al
legged slanderiny of young lady. Rev
Henry Liebbart, D. D.. for thirty-one years
editorially connected with the Western Meth
odist Book Concern, was killed by falling
from a railroad rain near Detroit "A bob
sid collided with an electric car in Pitts
lury. resulting in the faal injury OF Clar
once Toerge. aged fifteen, and seriously in-
turing four others, named Gearmeyer, Blair,
Peary and Harmon.
Miss Maggie BOURNE, who .rowLed her
two children was taken into court at Boston
for arraignment She did not plead but
talked incoherently, and was finally re-
manded 10 Jail 10 be arraigned later. 1t Is
believed that she is insane. Tho bark
Beatrice was reported ashore near Sandy
Hook.--A number of independent oil pro-
ducers formed a company to compete with
the Standard Oil Company. II. Nc
Graft shot his eight-year old daughter and
then killed himself in Philadelphia Lon.
G. wilson, a wealthy and prominent farmer
OF Hale county, Alabama, was found dead In
bed. having been murderad during the night
by robbers. Robert Jones, OF South Delta,
Pa. was seriously hurt at Herr & Benefits
quarry by the discharge OF blast. Cooks
gang No. 2, which held up the southbound
cotton train in Arkansas, got about S25,O
"A train on the Sunbury (Pa.) and Lewis
burg Railroad struck sleigh near Sunbury
containing 1S people. TIVE were killed and
several badly hurt
John H. Harvey, of San Francisco, eloped
tn his stepdaughter. Bullard BLOCK,
in Elizabethtown, N. j., containing three
stores anl the pos, ,offlce were destroyed by
nre.-NIiss Maggie Gill confessed in the
police court In New York having killed her
mother Mrs. Bessie Webb Loubbridge,
wfe'of Professor Loubbridge, OF the Uniyer-
| sity OF California, committed suicide.-
The Peoples Savings Institution OF North
cast Pa made an assignment. Tho forty
boar,lers at the fashionable boarding house
of Ira L. Wilson, of Chicago, narrowly es-
capped de nth in the urning building
Bank Examiner Prescott closed the Chenan-
! 20 Valley Savings Bank In Binghamton, N.
Y--The Me;calfe Boiler aud Engine Works
al Shippensburg, Pa, was destroyed by fire.
Loss. $4,000; partly insured. The fire Is
supposs sd to have been OF incendiary origin
--Judge Dallas, in the United States Cir
cult Court In Philadelphia confirmed the
recent sale made by Master Martin P. GrGJ
Of the property of the Pennsylvania, Pough-
keepsie and Boston Railroai Company. The
| purchaser is William B. Scott, and the prize
realiz ID 1850, 0J0 two daughters OF the
late George Gary of Perry Township o.,
are reported to be suffering from leprosy
DIR. James Orna Whitney. a noted sur
geon anil writer o.. medical topics, died at
Pawtucket r. I--W G.. Mazick, treasurer
of the South Carolina and Georgia Railway
Company. and Jacob William, an employe,
were bearing a bag of money containing
1850 to the railroad offics In Charleston, B.
| O., when they were attacked by two roooers,
who fred pistol at them, seized the bag ol
money and escaped.
An explosion OF one the generators In the
works OF the Huntingdon (Pa) Gas Com
pany wrecked the whole structure. Flames
from the boiler set fire to the plant, which
was totally destroyed. Loss $4,000; no in
surance. Bill Cook was arraigned before
Judg ge Parker In Fort Smith, Kan, and plead
cd not guilty to each OF the three counts. HI
Is charged with robbery In two counts, and
with taking government money In another
count. The store o. A. S. Thomlinson a
Co.. and a clothing store adjoining, II
Charleston, s. c., was destroyed by fire. The
Exchange Bank Building was also damaged
Loss, $3.50, ,O)0.-S. Downing Son, dry
goods dealers at 612 and 615 Fulton stree
Brooklyn, have assigned with liabilities a
$40 0lO Mr.. Downing says the assignment
was caused by the hard times, which have
beel aggravated by the street railway strike
The stockholders OF the Cumberland
Valley and MartinsburS Railroad met il
Martnsburg and elected officers. THE
mother OF Chief Spotted Horse vas burned
to death at ghost dance on the reservation
OF the Pawnee Indians
The trial of q suit brought by .hs Mormon
Church against the hurch OF Christ at In
dependence, No.. to recover possession o
certain church property claimed by adher
ents OF the Brigham Young school, wa
tegun in the United States Court at St. Louis
-snowstorms and avalanches have dom
great damage in California. - Leande
| cLn.t ~ nunmore KV was knocked III tD'