Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-05-03
THE NEWS.

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n Denver has fled several suits In the
Uaited States Circuit Court against the late
cashier of that bank, AMI against other par
tie, directly or indirectly interested In the
management OF the conce.n before IL ialleu,
In July. 1894. grand jury returned an
indictment against c. Il. Hopkins, agent Of
the Standard Oil Company in Asheville, N.
G.. holding that the company is trust, con-
trary to the laws of the State. Mayor Fat
ton and s. r. Kepler are named as witnesses.
Mrs. Elwa d Duffy, aged eighty years,
who lived alono on the Catskllls, near Kings
tcn,tN. Y, was found dead In bed with her
throat cut, and the bedding, ga urated with
kerosene, In blaze. The old woman was
evidently murdered for her money.-Fish-
ermen ON the Potomac River are withdraw
Ing their nets aud giving up business BE-
cause of the low prices herring are bringing
In The Washington and Alexandria markets.
Tho remains Ct william Barcayidge, one
OF the four workmen who were closed In the
Luke Fidler mines, near Shamokin, "a, IN
October last, were recovered. Barcavidges
remains were In COOL condition, and snowei
that his death was duo to su1ocatlon' r.
Cu9nin :ham & Co. IS glass factory In Pitts
Lurg, was almost entirely destroyed by lire.
The loss on building, machinery and stock
will aggregate about $4,000. The PLAN
was we'll In .urei. The suit OF the We.ls-
Fargo Express Company against the Ad ans
Express Company, for $35,0O', the value OF
n package of currency stolen from the Adams
mpany between Cincinnati aad Nashville
IA 1892, has b?en compro missed, the Wells
Fargo people excepting $4,000 In full and
final settlement Five cheap two-story
stores in the Fincel Bu lding, on Bridge st.,
South Frankfort, KY. were destroyed by fire
Georse Yager a crippl', a1d his two chill
dren, aged five aud eight years, respectively
It Is thought, were burned to death. jas
Smith. a tramp. who has beon working on
ranch one mile from Delmar, small town
near San Diego, CAL, was shot and instantly
killed by Constable John Bludworto while
resisting arrest.
Survey for a rail DAD through the North
ern Neck, Of Virginia was begun. "A. F
Gault, the Canadian cotton king, has do
mated 800, 900 to build Church OF EGG and
college at Montreal including dormltories
and recreation grounds -"BllP Cook, the
outlaw, arrived in Albany with twelve other
famous convcts sent from the West They
were transferred to the Albany Penitentiary.
"A hails:orm in Texas dii great damage.
William O. Irvine, manager OF the Oga-
lalla, the largest cattle company In Wyom-
ing. has been arrested at Buffalo, Wy,
charged with shooting at o. II. Flagg, once
callsd "King Of the Rustlers," on April 8,
1892 Iivlne gave $1,000 lal.-John
johnson. coxs vain on the cruiser Olympia
was killed while the crew was engaged in
target practice off Coronado the breech-plug
OF a flve-inch gun flying out and striking
him. m.--Sailors on the cruiser Olympia, at
San Diego, complain Of lad food and cruel-
IS.
Bill Cook. the outlaw, has BEEN taken to
Albany N. Y.-Five tons Of niIro-giycerine
at the factory OF the Ojio and Indiana Tor
p,do Company, two miles west OF Lima, D.,
exploded. The shock was felt for twenty
miles. Over a thousand panes OF glass, IN
Guiding q number OF large windows In tusl-
ness blocks, were shivered. Two employees
had barely left the building when it weat
up.--Fire in Lebanon, Ph, caused loss
OF 81 O,OOO; insurance partial H. NJ
Burch, the Oldest dry goods merchant In
Central New York, died at Little FALL, NY +,
aged eighty-three years. He was n business
there flfty-three year,, his firm being Burch
Il Aldridge.-lwo attempts were made
near Benton Mich, to wreck fast Big
Four train. Nobody was hurt.--At Gin
cinnati the Pettigone Regalia Works were
sod to Hoffman and Fleishman for S55.o0O
at public sale under an order OF the cour {.
Hoffmln and f eishman were directors in
the old Pettib ,ne Company that re emily as
slgned.-Jake Brewer shot and killed his
cousin, VIM. Whitelauf, at Paducah, KY
At Philadelphia J. W. Robinson, John ash
and Samuel wilkinson, the New York green
goods men who were arrested for trying to
sWindle man whom they supposed was
nephew OF Eryn Mawr farm named
Hoeffer, but who turned out to be Phila-
delphia detective, were held in $3.50 bail
each for court.
The Naval Small Arms B,ard adjourned
at Newport, R. l., to May IA, having tested
all arms submitted. The Lee, Russell and
Livermore arms have been tested during the
terms just finished, AMI have stood trial
vel. l.-Ex- Mayor J. II. Davidson, tried in
L xington, Ky, Tor carrying concealed
welpons, ths result of pulling pistol dur
ing his encounter with Charles G. Moore,
ed tor of the Blue Grass Blade, was fnel So
and sentenced to ten days In jail. The
report OF the local inspectors to Chief In
spector Chancellor upon the wreck OF the
steamer Longfellow at Cincinnati exonerates
the officials OF the vessel, and says the dis
aster was caused by the smoke shutting of
from the view OF ths pilot the bridge pier.
The four-story byick block occupied by
]. W. B shop& Co., contractors and builders
in Worcester, Mass, with headquarters at
Providence, R. L, WIS destroyed by fire. en-
failing loss OF $4,000.