Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-03-29
THE NEWS.

The Virginia Con erence OF the Uni.ed
Brethren concluded its annual session at
Martinsburg, and VII moet next year at
Braddock. Va.-The residence OF John +
Cour er, at Tarentum, Pa, was burned, and
the old man, aged eIghty-two years, perish
ed IA the flames. s.-B nj imin Niilar, me-
chanic In Cincinnati, placed his say ngs o.
over $500 in tho top If a stove, which bis
wife unexpecte lily made fire in. He has
asked the Treasury to red eem the blackened
n otes and coin.-Jobn McN1lta was con-
tinued by the United States CJu,t at Chicago
ss sole receiver OF ths Whiskey trust j
Coleman. mo t successful diam md swim
dler. was captured in Toronto, Olt. He had
swinded jewellers in Atlanta and other
Southern cltivs, out Of oy S5J, COO worth oil
jewel-W Wealthy oil men OF Pennsylvania
have leased %, 900 acres OF land near Whit
tier. Cal. whore extensive borings vii lie
made for oil. The Memorial Mu cum,
built in Golden Cato Park, San Francisco,
from the surplus fund, from the MidwintT
Fair, was ded Gated. During a storm in
Pine Hill, Monroe county, A a., lightning
struck Jeptha Williams resi- lcnce, killing
hi, wife and ten-year old son, and COM
pletely binding him.
Vice President Stevenson and wife expect
TO 20 to Europe next summer burglars
GOT one hundred dollars out OF the postoftice
at Dubois. Pa.-At Lexington, KY, the
heirs Of Mrs. Colonel r )bert F. Johnson are
mino TO contest her wi |. The contestants
are descendants OF the noted candidate Tor
yico president. There Is quarter OF MIL
lion inv lived. Pat Grove tain robber,
shot Detective AL Moore in Denver and e'-
caned Moore is not seriously hurt. The
dynamite gunboat Yesuyius started from
New York to continue the destruction of
derolicts along tho coast.-Robert J.schaii
was committed for court In York, Pa, On
the charge of numbering Richard Jordan.
james Marlin, q tramp, was shot at
Gettysburg, in scufIle for a gun which he
ia soil to have stolen. - Ex.cashier Frank
McEan, Of the Indian Head National
Bank. Of Nashua, N. H., was indicted In
eight counts in the United States Circuit
Court for embezz ement
Fire in the Internati nal Cotton Press al
New Orleans destroyed nearly 10000 bales
If co.ton-A storage house OF the western
Transfer and Implement Company in SIOUX
City, Iowa, fl ed with farming macnlhery'
was destroyed by fire. Loss, s5(ooo.
william L. E kns, of Philadelphia, offered
nrize OF flv, th.u,anl dollars Tor Inc pes'
work bv m American to be exhibited at tue
Academy of fine arts In Phi adelphla IN de-
osn,her 1895 At Fors Smith, Ark, tWen
tv.seyea United States prisoners pieaoeo
rriltv in the federal court an received sen
tences ranging from thirty days In jail ''
aye years In the peniteniiary at A pany, New
Y,rk At Columbus, Ohio, the Lockhart
,talev and Willard Dry Goods Compan.
went into the hands Of II ceiyer George !"
BRIGHT Disagreement between partners wa
the cause. Assets, $50, 900; Liabilities, So''
foO-Two Ensishmen were found dea'
near SOM rette, Mexico. 1t Is suppose 'he
rere murdered. Fire In cotton IN Ne'
orleans caused a loss of $3.50, OOO.-Ih
nroperty of the Macon and Atlantic hallroa'
hetween Macon and Savannah was transfer
red to the Macon, Dublin and Savanna
Road, at Macon, Ga. a.
More than forty cases and four or hV
} deaths of tho FloJ county epidemic ar
reported on Lower Elkhorn Creek, IN f'A
conn;y. Ky. Drs. Gray and CAmpDeh I"
OF the best known physicians IN the o"nA
! valIev have been called to tho scene, an
ore not able TO nams the disease or cnecA IL
t Not a sin yle atient has been known 10 H'
, over three days after taking the disease
: Clarence Hogan, aged twenty three year
and Frank Champion, aged seventeen year
both Of Millville, n. j., were arrested al
CO .fe.sed to having been implicated IN Il
teen burglaries ia Bridgeton, N. D., au
A[illyille. within a few weeks. In sever
/ Instances they attempted to fire tue Dui''
o .no.-The Georgia Southern and floriu
Railroa wa8 put up az auction at M"oo
bpt M h d was rec lived. Frank Ihohl
= son killed his brother Edward In Iam,
q row at their homo in Carmel, MO- -'oi
G Oswald, farmer living near oley' ra'' " "
d killed by his son "A fire broke out on L
:, steamer Spokane while crossing hoo'en
: Lake. TIE passengers wer' rescued
is ,he steamer was destroyed. Fire
:, stroyed $500, COO worth of property In b
n lington, vt. Oae man was burned u 'ea