Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-02
THE NEWS.

The b eaking OF couplIn pm caused six
freight cars to back upon the second section
OF train, near Columbia, s. O., ana
wreck re .ulted. The directors Of the ou-
peror Na'io al Bank, Of West Superior,
WIS, decided to go into qudation, ana
Pre- sident Alvord was directed to turn the
assets and business OF the bank ever TO th'
national bank examiner. The bank neVef
recovered rom the shock OF the Cadwalader
affair, three years ago-Indian Agent
Teter sent dispatch from Markt Lake,
Ida., to the department at Washington say
ing there was no truth In the report OF
massacre by the Indians at Jackson's Hole.
A report to the governor OF wyoming says
the trouble With the Indians was caused by
their aughter OF game contrary to law
Ex- President Harrison spoke at fla pole
raising at Old Forge. -Mattie Haywood, a
beautiful music teacher Of Provide ce, H. l.,
committed suicide. Victor Adams, who
shot Justice Boxer in Fresno, CAL, was
lynched by mob "A mass oil human nair
clotted with blood was found In Ho mes
home in Chicago. Two vaults filed with
oulckIIme were also found III .-ThlF-
teen pla es of side armor for the Ru sian
warshlp Petropavlovsk were shipped by the
D thlehem Iron Company to Russia
l. F. Walker, of Howard county, Nd,
brother OF the late J. 7. Walker, wealthy
merchant Of Wilmington, DEL, who left all
his property 10 his young wife, whom he
married on his deathbed, has fled papers in
the court at Wilmington protesting against
the granting of administration rapers TO the
widow. negro murderers, W. Ferr-
and and Anderson Brown, wer, hanged at
Winston, N. C.-Tho Supreme Council OF
the Knights OF Py has convened at Ocean
V ew, Nolfo.k The Ire ton Iron Works
Company OF New York made contract with
the Cataract General Electric Company for
the instruction Of an experlmen al line for
towing boats by electricity on the Erie
Canal. flve-story factory Ct Delany
& Co., philadelphia, was totally destroy d
by FIRE. Surrounding properties were also
damaged Total loss $T5,O ,O00.-Ihe second
trial Of W. P. and George E. Taylor,
brothers, for the murder of the Meeks fam
l.y near Carrollton, Mo, was begun In the
court at that place. more human
bones and another piece OF woman dress
were found by the detectives in the Holmes
chameleon 9, Chicago. At Rcck Camp,
near Weston, w. Va, franklin Barnes and
his vile were badly burned In taving theii
two children from the flames that consumed
their house. The safe OF the Kansas City
Jockey Club at Exposition Park, Kansas
/ City, was robbed Of $2, OO0-David Waters,
aged fourteen years, was killed, and ". W.
Waters, his father, had his skull fractured
and was otherwise badly injured by the fall
Ing OF the roof OF a fire-cIay mine at Farr-
andsville near Lockhaven. Pa.
John Brokaw, wheelmaD, aged twenty
four years, was killed by colIiding with a
trolley car, in Wheeling, W. Va.
The brckmaking plant of Mckay & Co..
In Frankford, suburb Of Philadelphia, MAS
destroyed by fire. Loss $50, 900, partially in
sured. Among the machinery destroyed was
the gold medal dry Drick-making machine
which the firm bought at the Worlds Fair
for 81, 500, and another machine that cost
S6OcO.-A heavy freight train on the
Pennsylvania road parted near New Florence
Pa, and came together again with terrific
force. Ben Covers, the fireman, was killed
and the engineer was severely injured
The robbers who held up the Like Shore
express in Ohio obtained only $150.-
George Reed, ST. Louis painter, killed hi
wife because she stayed out all night.
Robert Bruce Langdon, the well-known rail
read contractor, and prominent figure in
the history Of Minneapolis, and in the polite;
of Minnesota, died at Minneapolis, aged six
ty-eight. Langdon was a Vermonter, and
self-made man.--At Ration, N. NJ MARTINEZ
an escaped murderer, robbed faro bank o
$3.50.
In Jersey City John Czech was found gull
ty OF the murder of his wife, and remanded
until July 81 for sentence. Czech and hii
wife wero fish pederA Jealousy was the
motive Of the crime.