Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-26
THE NEWS.

Professor Lugger, the STATE entomologist
OF Minnesota. has invented machine that Is
used to EXTERN nate grasshoppers. john
p. Leconi. who has been smashing windows
in Chicago. was captured. He Is Insane
Asuit has begun in he United States Circuit
Court In San francisco to test the federal
shinpIng Iaws.-Peter Belleque, an Oregon
fisherman. has fallen hair to $50 OOO.-En-
ulneer Mark WIckens, who went down with
the Santa Fe bridge at Monument, died at
The railroad hospital at La Junta, Ca.-H.
E Smith a condemned murderer, at Spokane,
WASH, tried to escape, and being overtaken
cut his throat from ear to ear. Dick Han
sen and John Hall started from Great Falls,
Mont. down the MI souri River for ST. Louis.
The boat was overturned five miles below
Big Falls, and both we're drowned. David
7 Martin. ex-police commissioner of Denver,
Col. committed suicide. Five Philadei-
mia firemen were injured by the oVerturnine
of a hose carriage going to fire.
John Goode and William Freeman, potn
pecroes were hanged 10 the courtyard at
Greensburg. Pal In the United STATES
Court at Philadelphia, Judge AcAeso1 over
ruled the demurrer OF the Reading Railr ad,
In the proceedings for the foreclosure OF the
general mortgage OF that company. instituted
bv the Pennsylvania Company for the insur-
ance OF lives and granting OF annuities.
In Miller, Neb, Joseph Neckina shot his
divorced wife and then cut his throat.
nication has been made to the Court Oh
Chancery, In Trenton, N. j., by Lemuei L.
Nil or. of Cape May for a receiver lor INC
Central New Jersey Traction Company,
Joint company OF the New York and Philadel-
pha Tract en- Company. AT Tuscaror",
N J.. northbouud freight train on the
We,tern New York and Pennsylvania jumped
the track. burying Engineer john Stout ana
scalding Fireman Angus! Mlrth in he wreck.
Poth died. They were residents OF O!ean. N.
! Schilansk & Schatls propr.e;ors OF the
bio general store at Thomas, W. aV., and a
number of large branch stores in the lumber
and coal regions, have failed, with ia
bilitIes exceeding $50, 900. 1t was the largest
retail ,ncern in that region. At Los An
celes. Alouzo Mayors shot and instantly
killed his wife, and attempted to XIII his sls'
ter-in. law Mrs. Irving Linson, and her nus
hand Afterwards he shot himself and in-
aicted fatal wound. His sister-in-law es
caped withou; injury, but her husband le'
oaived wound from which he may die
Jealousy was the cause.
Reports on the peach crop to the Agricur
,ural Department are not favorable Al
Memphis Judge Z. s. Hammond, OF the
limited States District Court for the Western
District Of Tennessee, was married TO Mrs
Marie Wiltshire. AT Kansas City, in fl
Of drunken rage, George McMamara fatal.
stabbed his wife and seriously wounded hi
mother law, Mrs. S. E. Maydeld. I'M
difficulty originated with family quarrel
Several large barns, together with thei
contents, on Pierre Lorlllard's Rancoca
Stock Farm at Jobstown, N. j., were strucl
bv lightning and destroye'. Loss, $lO,COU
insurance partial Brakeman K'lsender
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was killed IN
freight wreck near Norrlstown, Pa.-Chas
Wilson. OF Boston, WAS killed in Phlladel
nbia by negro, who struck him with hi
as:s.-George A. Knight, at Brazil, lno'
fatally shot John Wherle. his friend, think
inr he was burglar. r.--Herman L.. Mule
was charged at Kansas City with embezzlin
money from the J. S. Schlitz Brewing Com
nanv.-J. l. Smith, OF Corslcana, Texas
tried TO kill his wife and himself at Augusta
Ga.-Fiye sailors Oh the torpedo boa
E,icsson. at Now London, c., were scalde
bv bursting steam pipe while the boat wa
cruising in the harbor. They were taken I
the Sailors Hospital.
Robbers held up stage near Oregon Cit
Ore. They got about fifty dollars. B
order of the government OF Sonora, II
thieves who robbed an American were sh'
Immediately after capture. Captain job
Saunders, a vessel owner and business ma
OF Kingston, Ont, was drowned at Ogden
burg. N. Y, having fallen out OF rowbo'
In which he and Daniel McCartin, OF Pre'
GOLl moIO bhlliuBs Jul AheShOA hAOA W.
tered down the door OF John Miblins hous
near Ashland, Ohio, bound and gagged Mi
lin and his wife and tortured them until the
gave ups SlS, all the money they had
bill for a receiver for the Hotel Richelieu
Chicago was flled.-The twelye-year o
, daughter Of John Delinger, farmer mel
Woodstock, Va, ran a splinter into her TO
and died OF lockj jiw-The Manual Trai
Ing chool Teachers Association OF Amerit
met In Chicago. "A letter from Managu
) Nicaragua, states that unless the Nicaragua
. Canal Company builds canal at Tip.tap Il
concession will be concealed. Villa
Brus eau, the accompice OF Mrs. Nellie Poi
In the murder of DIR. Horace N. Pope, hI
, teen sent up for twenty five years in Detro
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