Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-05-24
THE NEWS.

A physician OF thu Marine Hospital Se.-
vice has pronounced the malady at Staun-
ton. Va. sma lpox. Charles and Andrew
Smith. brothers, were killed by fall OF roof
G al in the Plymouth mines, near Winches-
ter, W. Va.-The United States Court oil
Appeals at Boston reversed the decision OF
Judge Carpenter declaring the Berlner
telephone patent invalid. The Morrison
will case In the court at Richmond, Ind., In
which ex- President Harrison was 80 long
engaged, WIS compromised.-Six persons
we're injured, two Of them fatally, by
trolley car plunglng through bridge over a
brancl OF the Pennsylvania Railroad near
Norrs.own, Pa.-Marcls Nsgri and his
wife were arrested Ia N,w York by Uaited
States Secret Service officers upon the
charge OF counterfelting, and In their pos
Sc sion were found $3)J new spurious dol
rs--Ned and Will Ross, sons OF prom
Inent X ntucky farmer, quarreled over
calf, when Ned drew a pistol and sho: Will
dead. THE fast ma rom NV York was
wrecked near Jacksonboro, S. c., on the
Charlest IN and Savannah Railroad. Some
one had taken up three rails. The baggage
car, express car and coaches we..- over the
bank. and the engine ran along the ties sixty
feet or more.
John Howerton, a white man, was lynched
at Marion, KY, for lelonious assault upon
Anna Pierce, aged sixteen years. .-Ex-
President Harrison delivered an address at
the celebration of the fftieth anniversary Of
the New Jersey Historical Society, at Tren-
ton.-The S uh Carolnl state officials
have not given up the fight on the registra-
ton laws The register, who was enjoined,
will proceed to perform his duties, and when
arrested for contempt, habeas corpus pro-
ceedings will be brought lefore the Supreme
Court at Washington. The business houses
ofP. L Brown, who runs two of the largest
stores at Ponca City, o. T., were closed on
attachments. Brown vas one OF the biggest
merchants at Ponca City, and his failure has
caused some exc tement.-John Williams,
agel sixty years. quarrellel with Walter
Chairman. a neIghbor, in Wilkesb IRE, Ia.
An hour later Williams met Chapman and
shot and killed lin.
DR.. Richard Dubois Traver, Troy ply
sican took Il large dose of chloral by mis-
take. and died shortly after.--The applica-
ton for peni entiary Injunction and the ap-
/ pointment of q receiver pendente lite for the
Addicks B y State Gas Company was denied
by United States Judge W ales In Whining
| ton, Del.-Frosts injured fruits and vege-
tob.es In various sections Of the West. At
Helenwood, Tenn. Mike King was hanged
for the murder oil w. Beck. It WAS the first
legal OK cution In the county, and large
crowd was present. King completely broke
down on the scaffold Tho Virginia Hotel
at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, was de-
stroyed by Hre.-Miss Ella Booxmyer was
arrested at York Pa. on the charge OF COM
plicity in pension frauds. Her father, pen
sion agent Edwin Booxmyer, was arrested in
Lancaster, where his daughter was also
taken. The sixteenth annual meeting OF
the Woman's Executive Committee Of Home
Missions of the Presbyterian Church was held
n Pittsburg.
Fire destroyed over half OF the lumber and
nearly all OF the buildingt belonging to the
Dwight Lumber Company in Detroit. The
aggregate loss is $50, 900, with an insurance
OF $50, 900. Private Geelin, a marine on
the cruiser Raleigh, fell into the sea while
boarding the vessel, and was drowned. -
The annual meeting of the stockholders oil
the Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur-
ing Company was held in Pittsburg. Eli
Williams colored, aged forty-two years, who
lived at 129 Nor.h Juniper street, in Philadel-
phia, attempted to kill lis wife and then
commitsuicide. P D. John has resigned
as president OF Depauw University. The
resignation is the result Of q difference o.
opinion regarding educational methods.
Special Master Crawford filed his audit in
the United States Circuit Court of the ac-
counts OF the receivers of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad and Coal and lro0
Companies for the month of March last. -
In an attempt to recover heaving line.
worth seventy-1ve cents, the tug Mogul, oil
Victoria, valued at $25, 900, was wrecked near
Port Townsend, Washington The tug, after
towing the bark Dara to sea, tried to run
alongside the vessel to secure a heaviny line,
The sailing vessel struck tho Mogurs bow,
tearing away her STEM aud opening up the
seams OF her hull, the tug filling 80 rapidly
that it was nece5 ary to beach her.