Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-01-04
THE NEWS

The old capitol building at Atlanta was
damaged by fire about 100000, covere by
,nsnrance. The commissioners of Brooks
couu y; Georgia, issued statement saying
all the trouble there was caused by about
twepty-fye white men, only about four OF
whom lived In the county. Th" statemen.
savs that there has been no race riot. NO
case WAS made ont against the seconds In the
r.z, aoht In New Orleans In which Andy
r ,w.n was killed. The directors and the
managers of the Commercial Bank, at st
1obns Newfoundland l, were arrested on the
charge OF presenting false statement OF the
hank -John Moreland, an old soldier was
found dea near Martins Ferry. Ohio. A
man. who two days ago registered at the
putnam House. New York, as Joseph Harri-
man Chicago, was found dead in his bed
thera.--A bill was fled In the federal court
ot Springfield, H.. asking for the foreclosure
If mortgage against the Louisville, Evans
| Vile and ST. Louis (consolidated) Hallway
and n sale Of property. At Cincinnati the
Kou. u.hton Engineering Company assigned to
Andrew J. Marsh. Liabilities 100000; asset!
a9O 600. They accepted bonds for building
woter works. an could not realize on the
same Recently they were attached at Hills
boro Ohio. AMI Hartford City, Ind. The
firm will soon resume.-At Piqua, OHIO,
rol,l,er, entered the residence OF Henry
F,cker while the family was absent, and Sc
cured between four and five thousand dollars
| E.rat
Nashville by Purdy Ellis. The men W. re
partncrs in.the dairy business and had
ouarre IS Secretary Carlisle has ordered
that tea ut St. Paul. st. Louis, Detroit and
Milwaukee be more cl, sely examined
Col. VIM. Bundy, commander in-chipf OF
the Sons OF Veterans, has sustained The re-
fusal of Southera commanderles to giant
charters to colored applicants. He counseis
colorel applicants to form separate organ
zation Judge John G. Stallup has filed
suit for decree to prevent the city of Taco
ma from paying any more interest on us
light AMI wat plant bonds claiming that
the city has been swindled by those who
formed the company Two million feet Of
lumber, ownel by J. r. B 10Th, the mills OF
W. and G.. L. Crane, and twenty cars, anu
the engine house OF the Central Vermont
Railroad, were destroyed by fire at Burlingr
ton, VT lCs', S15O,00O, Insurance, s12o,O ~
Timothy Kane, a lumber foreman, wal
stabbed aud killed by Louis Stretcher in a
saloon at Seney. Mich. Mrs. Sarah l. Leel
Md. wife OF DR.. ]. NJ. Lee, OF Rocheste I
N. Y, has given up the practice OF thd
homeopathic school, and became a faitil
healer. Harry Menier, the English bridgi
Jumper, leaped from the top rail OF tn
Poughkeepsie Bridge with his parachute;
and, apparently sustained no injury from /
foo o.bardy act.-Samuel Golden shot an /
instantly killed Rufus Williams, In drunke +
quarrel, at Lamberiyille, N. IA MAJ
named Wilkinson was arrested near Ain4
wood, W. Va on the charge OF obta nir +
cattle uLder false pretences. .-EdwHr
Kehee. of Benwood, w. Va, fell from raj
road train, and was killed. Tho rae
: trouble Ia Brooks county, Ga, is over. !
Two Big Four trains COLI !el near Lafa
, cite. Ind, demolishlng both locomotives
| SIX lTolbUL cars tuu lAlotdhbiJ hA'AAAo
Elijah campbell, OF indianapolis.
Whitecaps in Michigan have made seveIF
attempts 20 kill the Rev. w. A. Wetscher,
Bapt st minister OF Niles, Mich. IN a
lision between passenger trains on the d.
r. c. Railroad near Waxahatchie, Tex
two persons were fatally and q number o
others seriously injured. Jacobsen
, was arrested in Chicago and takeA to New
York to answer to the charge OF being at the
8 head of a gang OF swlndlers whom he sen
around the country to pass bogus checks Oh
hotel proprietors. The St Louis granc
iury returned over fifty indictments for cleo
ton crimes, Sheriff elect Henry Troll anc
his son being charged with bribery. .--Foul
burglars threw q sack over the jailers head
and escaped from the jail at Montgomery
] Ala.-The Yorkhaven Water-power Com
pauy has been Incorporated at YORK, ia
The object is to harness the ConowinI'
Fails, on the Susquchanna River --Ex
Police Captain John T. Stevenson, OF NeV
York. was sentenced to Sing Sing prison To-
three years and nine months, and to pay
fine OF one thousand dollars for accepting
bribe.-A penitenti ry guarI In Coium-
\ trina county. Ohio. killed one prisoner ant
4 wounded two others. The Carnegie Com
nany proposes to erect large steel works nea
Lorain Ohio.