Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-03-08
THE NEWS.

The Misses Hettie AMI MImlo Logan and
linda Fields were drowned by breakinc
through the ice while skating at Sergeant,
Ky.-A large acrolte was seen shooting
out Of the haavens at Reno, Nsv., early Sat
urday morning, expodin, with tremendous
force and awakening the people,
boiler in the sawmill OF John McCroom, near
Ade,phi, O., exploded, and three men were
blown to atoms. The works Of the Akron
CHI ma Company, at Akron, O., was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $500 0, and one hundred and
fifty men thrown out OF work The Presi-
dent Flour Mills. at Bethalto, ILL.,, was burn
ed. They were owned by d. X Kau fiman,
of st. Louis, and valued at $150,0Oo IN
az attempt to escape from convict camp on
the American River, near Folsom, Cal, three
nrisoners were shot. Alfred E. jewell
special policeman, at Railway, N. j., was
shot and killed while as-is ing in raid on
gang OF tramps. Thieves, by slick trick,
robbed the pos:offlca at New Haven, Ct, o.
1920 "A West Greenland expedition has
been organized by parties in New York, Phil
adelphia. Princeton and Chicago. fire
bugs continue to alarm the citizens OF way
nesboro. Pa. threats having been made oil
burning the Geiser Company's works. The
stables OF this company were burned as'
summer.-Percy B. Chamberlain, an Eng
lishman, who owned consdera le property
IN West Virginia, committed suicide in chi
! cago
Mrs. Helena Seims, OF HoDoKel, N j..
died of broken heart. The Portland
! (Ore.O Cold Stora 20 Warehouse was burned
Loss $3.50 O-Several owboats and barges
were sunk In tn, Oli) River near East
Liverpool, o by the ice. "A COOL deal OF
silver is being shipped from tle UnAei a,es
to japan. REV. H. w. Harris, OF OIkland, F,
Cal. has gone on the stage. -GeoTge
Macee was hauge ut Frankfort, KY--At
a fight q. Kimball, VIVA four persons we're
seriously woundel, and Frank Mournot was
killed. d.-Bill Tom Hatfield was killed on
Short Pole Cre,k, W. Va.-The Nebraska
lesisla ure has decided to pay bees-sugar
PRODUCERS uNJ w lilo - eSh' ~~e-j
who murdered Matthew Akeson, OF Cass
county. Neb vas hange1 at Plattsmouth,
Nsb-Fire at Norfolk, Neb., destroyed the
Reno Hotel au other property Damage
s75. OoO-William H Wallace, an cid rail-
road man in the service OF the Consolidated
Road re,irel from ac:ivs service. The
firm Of Waxe.baum Son, dry goods mer-
chants a. Macon, Ga went into the hand
OF a rec siyer -Joe Dean, mu derer, wa
han rcd ia Fairburn, GI. The rop, broke,
anl he wa, swung off the scafrold the second
lime Fiy. thousand people tore down the
tonce surrounding the gallows and witnessed
the execution.
Edward KahIey, wealthy farmer nea
eIengardner Hunterdon county, N. j., com
mitted suicide by hanging himself to al ap
ple ;ree in the rear OF his house He wa
sixty years old. The rea on for the act Is
unknown.-The Charleston, s. c., polio
force seized the schooner Carolina. whlcl
was DAD d with contraband whiskey. -
The grand jury iniic;e1 ex-County Audito
Van Auken. OF Mason City, Ia. for forger
OF the public records. He had dispute wit
the county board over fees, and 1t is CHARGE
tha to make good his case he altered tn
records. An tempt to rob the oyerlan
eypres, at Siens Pass, Arizona, failed b'
, cause the robbie mado a mistake II cuttln
off the wrong car.-Tne- -coroner's iusy il
Ashlani. Pa. returned a verdict that Mr.
Edward Welsh was murdere by some un
known person. Her husband is under arres
| in au explosion OF molten metal at tn
/ furnace OF the Shenango S eel Company,
I Newcastle, Pa, James O'Brien, Jeremia
Sullivan were probably fatally 'rnei. viii
Mathew Custis and six others were painful
: injured The accident wa, caused by an IN
&: o rfect bosh plate which burned out.
8 Business has be N re ,umed at the Tud
g Iron Work in East st. Louis The India
! on tho Umatila reservation, Oregon, a
q riv.ng some trouble. Mrs. Coyen ry W
n burned to death at Liber:y, N. Y.-Ls r
n F.rnald. who murdered his mothet Id the
home in East Lebanon, Me., and, alter Sc
ting the building on fire, ran to al attic
await death in the flames, was found dead
his cell in the jail Ls Roj was insane -
mail rider waI m lrdered In Smith coun
Miss. and the mail bag robbed. The re
EMU, cutter Corwin left San Francisco +
- Alaskan waters to hunt for llct dealer,
wli.ksy. The Santa Fe road has made
Ia cut OF $3.50 in rates from California to t
East.-The Los Angeles Californ Co
1t solidateI Electric Railroad Company b
been taken possession OF by the boniholde
,p on acc unit of default In payment of, the h
years interest on the So. OOJOO) bond is'
re due last September. Fifteen suits, aggl
Te eating over million dollars, have bsen d
M 'ssed at San Francisco, rem wing the la
rs obstruction from the distribution OF the II
vi mense estate OF John H. Doe, veal;
lumberman. Twenty five men were XII
n and eighteen seriously injured by an exp
-, sion at the White Ash mine near Los Cerr
az los, New Mexico