Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-10-11
THE NEWS.

Two messenger trains on the Atlanta aud
West Point Railroad were in head-on co..
lIsion at Red Oak. near Atlanta, aud Engi-
neer AIexan Ter Atkins wa killed. Amos
J. Cummings was nominated for Congress Iy
Tammany Hall in the Tenth New York dis
trict to fill the vacancy caused by the death
Of Andrew ]. Campbsll The regular
Democratic orga ,izalIon OF Brooklyn, N \,
nominated E. NJ Grant for mayor. The
Savannah and Western Rrllro I'd Company's
4iS miles OF road in Alabama AMI G orgia
was sold at pubic auction to cJmmittee re-
presenting the bondh jlders. At PembT
vile, Ohio, Henry Fapel a. d L'uis Wegman
went down we'll that al been shot with
dynami.e @ to increase the flow OF water, and
b 9TH men were suff ,ca.el b. poisonous gases.
Lloyd Mffl.n Scott, a wealthy young
man. has been ordered b. the New York
courts to produce his former wi g, from whom
he was divorced, but whom he is now
charged with having abducted.
Arthur ]. Goodwin, recently agen. at Grip
pie Creek, Colo, for the Con mental Oh
Company OF Denver, was arrested IN D.
Iouis on a charge o; emb mb-zzlement at the
request of the chief OF polio, OF Colorado
snrincs.-The Re Cloud Roller Mill Ee-
vator and Warehouse at Red Cloud, one oil
tbe largest plants in Nebraska, were totally
destroved by fire. The loss will amount 10
$40 0 0 with $4,000 insurance on building
and machinery. Cornell, we'll
Lnown prospector and rancher OF San Mateo,
NJ. was sh t from ambush AMI Killed Iy
one of a small band OF renega lie Apache Ia
| dians who have been prowing about in the
mountains In that vicinity. The informal
onening OF the Western States Deep-water
| Conference was inaugu ated In Topeka, Kan,
lv serenades at the various hotel headquar-
,ers. Marshalrs famous military band OF
| Afty pieces ma le it plain that there Is music
in the ar.-George Seeg, living In Lam
berton. Pa. during celebration OF his birth
dav anniversary, accidentally shot and killed
his soo. aged six years. The Lawton y
Pratt Axle Works at Brightwood, Masa.
we're completely destroyed by fire. The lose
is about SIS OCO, partially covered by insur-
ance.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank oil
Creighton, No.. has made an assignment Tor
the benefit Of its creditors. The statement
6led shows ASS ts TO the amount OF 1000,
and abilities amounting to $50, 600, mostly
In real estate paper. Edwin Bookmyer
! IL n Ia IL
caster. Pa. were arrested on charge OF at
temp. ed fraud. j. P. Carruthers, OF Chi
cago, IL charged with embezzliug. He has
been arrested. Andrew Cain and William
Grose, coon hunters in Montpelier, Ind, lost
their live, by an explosion of nitro-glycerlne.
Charles Dreher, murderer, confined In
81. Louis attempted suicide by setting fire to
his cell. &C. w. Lawrence, OF Wayne
c,un'y. w. Va, drew his money out OF the
bank at Huntington, and then disappeared
| His bloody coat was found recently, and 1t is
believed he was murdered. R. W. Card
well, defaulting bookkeeper OF the State
Bank of Richmond, Va. plead guilty, and
wa sentenced to two years in the Peniten-
tiary. The Pennsylvania firepen's parade
at Reading was big affair, over 1000 men
being In line Five youngsters at Eas'
Liverpool, O., who had been playing Indians
tortured companion by burning him at n
stake the little fellow, who Is but six years
old. being badly injured. - -Greenberg, one
OF the leaders OF The counterfeiting gang cap
| Va nd made
n confession to United States Commissioner
Craig in Philadelphia. duplicating all the
prisoners, and stated that they were known
by numbers and were sworn to secresy.
A block OF two-story frame houses in CHI
cago we're burned Ten families were rem
dered homeless and lost all their possessions
Several small stores were also destroyed
The losses will aggregate $4,000, with smaI
insurance. .-LilIie Bay, one OF the womei
who claims to be the lawful widow OF tn
late Senator Fair, is now a pri; ;oner, an
must serve ten years for embl zzlement -
Iyna Goldman, an old man living a'one i
st. Louis, was beaten to death by unknow
thugs Charles II. leiers and wife, {
Bermudian, Pd., made an assignment
The thirty-sixth trienniai convention OF th
Protestant Episcopal Church Of Americ'
was begun in Minneapolis Henry Greer
burg and julius Stein were brought to Phils
delphia by secret service officials, and jaile
there on The charge of Icing the leaders Ct
gang 0! conspirators.
8. s. Burkholder & Co., wholesale miln
ers. of Chicago. assigned to Charles b. Pam
The liabilities are $50, ,OOo, but no statemen
OF assets was made. Slow collections, 1t
sal caused the failure. a Chicago an
N)rthwe,tern train ran down hackIoao
citzsns in Manitowoc. Wiz. The driver
who was drunk, was thrown thirty feet, Du
not hurt. One man, A. I. Weblin, was killed
and two others were probably fatally IN
iured.-A nor.hbound International an
Great Northern passenger train was wrecKe
at Hulf Park, Texas, and Engineer Barne
} Lane was la,ally hurt. The fireman an
three passengers were also injured. In
train ran over cow.--Judge Woods,
the United States Circuit Court in IndianaE
oils. appointed Charles A. Corbey, maste
commit s,oner, to settle the famous suit, in
yolying $4,000 which was brought in 1875
by General Herman Strum against BokeI
Schum cher ct al. g., OF New York. The su