Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-09
THE NEWS.

could not secure en- loyment, killed hims ell
In sisterville, W. Va.-Miss Jennie Knox
was killed by James Powe !, discarded
suitor IN Fruita, Ca .-George Yeager,
charged with numbering Daniel w. Stitze.
by shooting him down IL COLI blood in am
BUSH near Ku'z.owo, Pa, was discharged
from Reading jail, a free ma, Judge End
Itch declaring that the common wealth had
not shown sufficient evidence to hold him.
At Eagle, W. Va, John Bates and Walter
Burke lecame angry over political a gu
ment, and q Iarreled. Both drew revolvers
and began firing, and both were hit Bates
Is rrp7ried to b, so badly hurt that he can
not live, and Irke Is very seriously injured.
-Thomqs Westbrook shot and killed "Bl''
Williamson, en- Bread street, In Nashville,
Tenn, after demanding that Williamson
marry his sister, with whom Westbrook
charged Williamson had leen intimate. -
E. NJ. Greene, shipswriter at the training
sta ion, at Newport, R. l., has mysteriously
disapl cared, .leavIng no cide upon which to
work 10 find him. He is the second writer
to disappear within year.
George and John Pierce, who were SEN
fenced by Judge Parker to hang at Fort
Smith, Ark, for murder, have been granted
appeals to the Supreme Court OF the United
stste', and their execution will not take
Place.-An explosion resulting from the
ignition OF gun tton occurrei In one OF the
houses OF the Dupont Powder Works at Car
neys Point, near Penns Grove, N j., and
John Torton, an employe, was badly burne |
about the body CHARLES Eckly, who came
TO Allentown, Pa, from Pitt, t,burg two
weeks ago to follow his trade as painter,
was killed by falling from the ihIrd-story
window Of schoolhou:e he was paint ng
Ed Garten was stabbed to death near
Murray KY, by his grandfather, Joseph
Elliott L. was clear case OF self-defense
The boy had attacked him with heavy stick
OF wood. frank P. SIN OF, WashingtoA
absconder, has been arrested in Fort Wayne,
nd-The Standard Wagon Company, OF
Cincinnati, has assigned to Edward M;chie.
Assets, $500, 600; liabilities, $4OO, 900. The
company assigned several years ago, and
never fully recovered. The Chinese ex-
cluson law v III be tested In tie United States
Court In Chicago.-The Bedford Chair
Company, OF Cleveland, made an assignment
to Solomon s. Drake. OF Bedford. Assets,
S85. 900 liabilities, $55, 900.
Fl. II. Edwards, travelling photographer,
poisoned his wife and two children and COM
nitted suicide at San Francisco. -James
D. Cook, prominent official of the Southern
Pacific Railroad at an Francisco, has dis
appeared. Governor Morrill,, OF Kansas.
has received from the State Department an
assurance that this government will do all In
It's power to afford John l. Waller, the pro-
lection to which he may be found entitled by
reason OF his American citizenship. .-Sev-
eral people were badly injured by the coll
lapse OF the Amphitheater at the new mile
race trackat Peoria, 1IL-Sanford Duncan,
Appointment citizen OF Stlllwater, Ok was
lound murdered on the Arkansas River hank
near the line Of the Pawnee reservation
The bank at Salisbury, No., has been closed
by order OF the state bank examiner.-The
Acme Gas Fixture Works. at Bridgetown, N.
J., were destroyed by fire. Loss $25 OOO.--
Stoudfs Excelsior P.aning Mill, at Bethle-
hem, Pa, was burned. Loss 1000; insur-
lnce 81, 500.
The launch of the Uuitel States armorel
ctui,er Brooklyn, which has been on the
ways at Cramps shipyard for about two
years, is Icing actively prepared for, and Is
expected to take place during the coming
month. "A cyclone and cloudburst at We'll.
ston, O., flooded streets and cellars, carried
away waterwoIks dam and drowned some
Italians working IN street railway cut be-
fore they could escape. Upon report OF
Special Master Crawford, Judge Dallas made
an order In the United States Circuit Court
authorizing the receivers of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad Company to our
chase some new equipments in carrying Oh
the company's coal trade.-The Irving
Cliff Brewery and the residence OF Augu
Hartung in Honesdale, Pa, were destroyed
by fire. The fire originated on the second
floor OF The brewery, and is supposed to have
been OF incendiary origin. The loss is $50,-
600 insurance S22, 1000. News that all the
Metho list missionaries in China, who were
in grave danger, are now safe in Shanghai
has been received. They had many narrow
escapes on their way from Chang Tu.-
The coored farmers and their families who
tro DIM od int f0V 70 iharf
rived, pennlles', In Philadelphia. "A meet
Ing Of men prominent in shipbuilding ind
agricultural interests which was held in
Philadelphia, passed resolutions asking for
the protection OF those two interests An
Albany court decided that insurance COM
panies have not the right 10 exhume the
bod e, Of policy y-holders.
The California heirs OF Cornelius King,
who died at the Napa Insane Asylum a few
months ago, leaving property worth over
5000 900 10 four nephews in New York, have
decided 10 make vigorous contest over his |
estate. Disappointment in love caused |
yalente Aragon 10 blow his brains out at Ell |
Paso Texas. He was at the house OF Victor
q. Ochoa, the notorious Mexican revolution
Isl. and, going to the parlor, he sat down,
placed the muzz!e OF pistol In his mouth
and blew his brains out.-George Allen,
one OF the men who kidnapped Lawyer o. o.
Cotte for ransom, has been arrested In
Buffalo. o.-Vice Chancellor Bird granted a
rule at Trenton, N. j., to show cause why
,ecelvership should not be app ointed for the