Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-12-06
THE NEWS.

Grace NJ. Hubbard, aged twenty-five years,
committed suicide in hotel at Syracuse N.
Y.-The American Machine Company has
been incorporated at Columbus, o., to secure
from the manufacturers OF all sewing ma
chimes the exclusive right to sell all their ma
chimes to the retailers.--The organization
of the Virginia State Oyster Tongers' League
was perfected at a meeting held in Norfolk.
"A railroad train struck a wagon near
L oledo, o., killing Joseph Reimean, his ten
year-old daughter and Ernest eiver-In
n quarrel over girl at a dance at Point
Pleasant, w. Va. Hiram Ward stabbed and
seriously wounded John NJ. Christy. The
grand jury of Accomac county, Va, has in
dicted large number of oystermen for viol-
ating the oyster law.-The West Virginia
Court of Appeals decided that the state trus-
tees cannot lease the Berkeley Springs prop
erty without authority from the legislature.
Rev. DR.. George Morrison, Of baltimore,
delivered an interesting and patriotic SER
mon in Chambersburg, Pa, on christianity
as a Reforming Power. Mrs. Henrieua
Price. aged forty-hve. starved to death In
wretched tenement In Wheeling, W. va
Atlanta and South Carolina Day combined
was the biggest day at the Southern Exposl-
zion up to date.-The government light
house steamer Golden Rod, commanded by
Major George Yerdigrift, struck snag and
sank in the Ohio River, near Marysyllle, n.y.
The Christian Endeavor Unions CT Cleve-
land. O., offered prayers for the conversion
of Robert Ingersoll.- I. Overton,
pensioner aged ninety-eight years. has been
convicted. at Fort Smith, Ark, OF forgery.
a. H. Nichols, Nebraska farmer, threw
a club at a horse he was trying to catch, and
missing the animal, struck his little girl, VINO
died from the bow.-Richard G. Meade,
an insu rance swindler, Of Atkinson, han.
was convicted and sent to prison for i've
years.--James Anderson was fatally shot
by Charles Harris in the Buchanan county
Jail, at st. Joseph, Mo.
The retail and wholesale millinery estao-
lshment of A. II. Fuchs, occupying four
story building in st. Louis. was destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at Sll5, ,OOO.--
Announcement was made on the Commercial
Exchange in Philadelphia of the failure OF s.
J. Clevenger & Co., commission merchants.
| The amount of the liabilities and assets are
NOT known. The liabilities will be heavy as
the firm did a big business. Vice Chan
cellor Bird, in Trenton, N. j., decided that
Colonel and Mrs. Lewis Perrine were In con-
! tempt of court for taking away the two chill
dren of Mrs. Mary X. Slack pending pro-
ceedings for their recovery. ry.-~Goyernor
Werts. of New Jersey, for the third time, SEN
fenced Theodore Lambert to be hanged
Several deputy wardens at the state prison
in Jackson. Mich, were badly beaten by re-
! voting conyicts.-Deputy United States
Marshal Donald, of the United States Dis
| trict Court at Lynchburg, levied on all the
property of the United States Express Com
pany at Lexington, Va, to satisfy In part
judgement rendered by the United States
! District Court against this company for sixty
thousand dollars, in favor Of +. NJ. Thread
| Gill & Co.. of Lynchburg, for violation o
! contract t.-Governo Cleves, Of Maine, II
behalf of that state, presented to the new
battlesbip Maine an elaborate service.
The stockholders of the Illinois Central Rail
road met in Chicago and voted to increas
the capital stock by s1O,OOOOOO. Report
from Union county, Tenn, state that revenue
officers captured still, twenty persons ant
thousand gallons of whiskey. .--Blanch
vierheller, a blind girl, was burned to deatl
near Clarington, W. Va.
Harris Shawk and Harry March, of Lisbon
O., were killed in their buggy, which wa
struck by train in crossing the Fort Wayn
Railroad. Mrs. Eliza Snively. who wa
divorced from the Rev. Sniyely, of Chicago
short time ago, was married to William
Alexander. a real estate dealer. of SAINTS
Barbara. At Canterberg Hill, on the Nor
folk and Western Railroad, a bad freigh
wreck occurred. Engineer Walter anC
Brakeman Hardin are fatally, and severa
others seriously, injured. The loss to tn
company will run far into the thousands. -
A terrible battle took place at Hazel Green
Wolfe county, KY, between John Williams an'
David Rose, two prominent and wealth,
stock traders. Williams was killed and Ros
will die. They fell out during settlement
Mrs. vodre, while travelling from Cham
plain, N. Y, to Springfield, Mimi, becam
insane and leaped from the train, killing
herself. f.-The Chattahooche National Banl
of Columbus, Ga, failed.--At Thanks
giving celebration in Johnson county, Tenn.
James Martin and Kirk Eller, who had Ions
held a grudge against each other, got into a
fight. Martin drew his rifle on Miller, and
the latter shot him with a pistol. Martin
lived few hours. A mob gathered to lyncl
Eller, but he was landed safely in the Noun
tain City Jail.