Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-05-17
THE NEWS.


for selling indecent itora uro on & O. Rail-
road trains. The u i cI States customs
officials In Montreal hlv' discovered q gang
OF smugglers who ave been ngaged ins SNUG
Cling phenacetne AMI sulfonal across the
border conceal led in hollow walking sticks
The fast mail ira on the GeorIia Rail
road was wrecked at Uaion Pint, Gu, and
several persons injIred. -Four persoLs
were KILLED and two injured by glass ex
plosioa II the mines OF the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company, at Soprio, Col.-Ihe
Woman's Board OF Foreign Missions OF the
M E. Church met In Meridian, Miss. The
schooner Mary IA, from Ha pton Roads
to At seeom, struck on shoal an founder
ed at the entrance to the in!es at Atlantic
City. "A heavy fall OF rain caused land
s ide on Terrace Mountain, near Mount Un-
ion. Pa, and freight train o! eighteen cars
was wreck d. Iu tie crew escaped injury
Jers Young, aged sixty years, committed
suicide at his home, In Newmarket N. d.,
by shooting himself through the head. lem
norary insanity. resulting from a years IL
ness is supposed to have him to end his
life.-W. G. Donnelson, alias W. h. crow,
has been arrested in Sacramento, CAL, fjr
s20.O pos:ofice burgl~ry at Colvllle, Kas.
The greater part OF the large pottery OF
s. A. Weller, in GAINESVILLE, Oaio, was burned
including the new bull ling lor the manuiac-
ture Of Lonhuda ware, which Is similar to
the celebrated Rookwood pottery OF Cincin-
raj Tt @ loss about $50, ,OOo with an In
surnnce OF $4,000. Tho Imperial Varnish
Works plan, in Akron, O., was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, s125, OOo--During
heavy fog opposite SkiIligallee Light, off
Lake Miclgan, the steamer Cayuga. bound
down. loaded with merchandise, ran into the
steamer Joseph L. Hurd, bound for Chicago,
with lumber, and both sank. Both crews
we're picked up by the Mnnola, except the
cook Of the Hurd, George Johnston, OF Chi
cago. who was drowned.
1t took the fire department and posse OF
citizens, led by q sherifl's deputy, 10 arrest
burglar named Camp who was In the room
OF hotel in New Richmond, Wis.-An at
tempt was made to blow up a new hotel at
Garwood, N. j., with dynamite Garwood
ia situated a short stance from Cranlord, In
Union County. A portion OF the building was
destroyed. Proprietor Patt and bis wife,
who were in the hotel at the time escaped
Without being seriously hurt-A party oi
vorkmen W re- drilling in the rock at the
foot OF a thirty foot precipice, at Uniontown,
when ledge became lcosened AMI fell,
burvine three OF them. Michael Joy was
crushed TO death, Patrick Ryan was fatally
injured. and an Italian was seriously hurt.
in Pottsvllle, Pa, Thomas Flood was
killed James Tidibock fatally injured, and
two other men badly burnel while drillin I
n hole that had already been c.argel with
dynamite, at the Albright collery at Level
lyn-
The schooner @. D. White, from San Fran
cisco, was wrecked In storm Oh hoolaK
Island, Boring Sea, April %, and the ere"
were lost.-Two road agents robbed pas
senge:s in stage in Lake county, CAL
GEM. who W convlctol OF killing Clara
Arnheim, was sentenced at Jersey City to be
executed May 2).-O:e Biereiy, OF Ct
Marys. O.. and Peter Finch, of Portland, lnd''
we're killed in a freight wreck on the Erie
Railroad, near Gel ma, O.--Chrisian May
killed himself at bis wiie's grave at Haze
ton. Pa. Cyrus Rick, cashier OF the FARM
er's National Bank at Reading, Pa, droppeu
dead.-At Eau Claire Wis, Judge Bailey
sentenced embezzler Harry E. McMaster 10
twJ years in the state prison.--E. Brown'
s.earn, dry goods dealer, assigned at Ports
month, Va.-At Syracuse Charles E. VIII
son. who killed Detective James Harvey,
July 81. 1898. was sentenced by Justice Wright
TO be electrccuted during tie week beginning
June 1.-Two men were killed and third
severely injured by falling wall on Broad
street. Haz!eton, Pa The killed are Cnrls'
iian Stillwagon and Emanuel Altenbach. ano
The injured samuel Grinlths.
At Buffalo tile co oper shops Of the Richard
! Grant Cooperage Company were burned,
with oil their contents. Loss $75,00O-At
Savannah Ward McAllister's son Hayward
sued for a d vorce -Rsceivers were ap-
pointed for the o Is Steel Works at Cleye-
land. 80. W. Nehrbras, agent for the
Deering Machine Company, OF Chicago, lost
hi, life in a q which destroyed the Hotel
Arlington, at Montrose, Col.-An explos-
ion of tubes connecting with the fire COM
paitment Of an engine OF the fast freight
on the n. Y, N. H. and Hartford Railroad
caused the Instant death of B akeman Owen
J. McCafferty, the fatal injury OF Fireman
Arthur A. Fuller and the ser ou' scalding oil
E1g neer Taylor. McCaffer;y who resided
at Ballardsville, Mass, was 10 have been
married next we k.-The Delaware legis'
lature adjourned sine die, but the speaker
Of the House. McNulty, declared Henry A.
Dupont elecle United s. ates senator. lie
last ballot. taken Immediately before ad'
journment, resulted: Dupont, Is; Addick1,
4;Rdgeley 9; Tunnel, 1. The Republicans
claimed that Senator Watson, in succeeding
to the governershlp, ceased to be senator.
and that there were, the efOre, only 20 on
joint ballot, Is votes constituting qu rum.
Miss Belle Flltcher, Of Clarks9urg, w.
Va. committed suicide near Damstown, IN
that state. Winslow Brick Works
near Egg Harbor, N. j., were burned loss,
800, COO