Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-06-19
THE NEWS.

The Bank OF Palmer, Kansas City, was
broke into, the safe blown open. and the
cash box robbed OF 81, 100, all 1t contained
The damage to the safe and building
amounts to about 81, 8OO The burglars es-
caped. leaving no clue. Turner,
charged with numbering Mrs. Elizabeth
Bossier, aged seventy. five, near Leesport,
Pa, and then burning her home, was cap
tured near the scene OF the tragedy and
lodged In jail In Reading. Arthur W.
Platt was shot by an insane patient at tho
Kentucky State Lunatic Asylum.
Cliffofd was convicted In Jersey City OF the
murder Of Division Superintendent Watson,
of the West Shore Railroad ---Shep Palmer
was hanged in Jackson, Miss, for numbering
Charlie Goodell and his bride.-The Eagle
and Phoenix Cotton Mills, Of Columbus, Ga
we're placed In the hands of receivers. IN
q rear-end collision, which occurred near
Goshen, Ind. on the Lake Shore road, John
Elliott. brakeman, was killed and four per-
sons we're slightly injured. .-Lightning
struck the barn OF Lewis Crugenheimer, In
Rlngtown Valley, Pa. Harry Markley and
Samuel Belz, two farm hands, who had
taken refuge in the barn, were killed.
John Mcpherson committed suicide ip Nor
folk. Memorial day was observed by
the Elks at Norfolk, Va.-John Martin,
lad of eleven years, living, near Carriers
Bridge. Va, was killed by bulldogs. Levy
H. Miller, aged seventy, fell from tree In
Wilmington, DEL, and was killed.
Fire broke out at Whiting, Ind. In spite
Of the efforts OF the town fire company, three
lives were lost and two frame structures
consumed "A caye-in at The north end oil
tunnel No. 4 on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad. between E liston and Glencoe,
about eighty five miles from Louisville, re-
suited in the death of Newt Will FORE
man. and an unknown negro.-The Cam
den, N. J grand jury returned thirteen In
dictments against ex-City Treasurer Michel
eon, charging cmbezzlement and malfeasance
In oflce.-The plant Of the Naylor Ropo
and TwIne Company at Burlington, n. III
was entirely destroyed by fire. The loss on
building aud contents will amount to $15,-
900: partially insured. The origin OF the
fire Is unknown. IN drunken rage John
Woler made an unsuccessful attempt az
Chicago to kill his wife He then shot and
killed one stepdaughter and wounded an
other 80 seriously that her life is despaired
of.-Louis Whitehead, George johnson
and Jim Reddick, who were confined In jail
at Bryan, Texas, on charge OF attempting
rape were taken out by mob and hanged.
At st. Joseph, No., the r. Doughlass
Crockery Company filed a deed OF trust
naming George E. Mininch as trustee. The
firm was one OF the largest dealers In crock
cry glassware, etc., In the West Liabili-
ties 100000; assets not giyen.-Russeli
White was found murdered In Whaleyyille,
town on the Norfolk and Carolina Railroad.
A short time before his body was found he
had come home intoxicated and beat his
wife and children.
In tho Isle Of Wight county, Va, Rev. T..
B. Trent HGs acquitted on the charge of set
ting fire to his churcn.--The twenty ninth
annual moetlngol the West Virginia ModI-
cal Society wa, held in Wheeling. An un
known man left 4 valise llloi with dynamite
In Chicago saloo1. Ono hundred and
eighty cans of dynamite exploded near Lilly,
Pa, killing one man and severely iniuring
six Others .--Commencement exercises was
held at York Collegiate Institute The
commencement exercises were concluded at
Roanoke College, in Salem, Ya.--The
bondholders' purchasing committee has
bought the Jacksonville, Louisville and st.
Louis Road for $25O,OOO.
A special from Redding, CAL, says Lake
City, mountain village was nearly destroy
ed by water spout. No lives were lost as
far as known, but the property loss Is said
to be heavy Two freight traips on tie
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad collided at
Stone City. Both engines and several cars
wero wrecked. The Injured are Conductor
Andrews, Dick Woodwork, Frank Wesley,
Engineer Chockly and John kirkpatrick.
The defense in the Walling trial in New.
port, Ky., introduced q dozen or more de-
positions from peop'o at Greenfield. Ind,
where Walling worked In the glass works,
proving his good character wEtlo there.
Seventeen people were injured Ia Ottawa,
Kan, by the collapse of a pcrt.ao, from
which they were viewing n cirrus parade.
----Herman Kecks was sentence by Judge
Butler, of the United States Court Ia Pha-
depLla, to one years lmprlsonmcnt and
two hundred dollar fine for smuggling dia-
monds, Memorial Day was
celebrated in Staunton. Ya.-C.eSon mill
tia were held in readiness to - Town the
Co'un.ela River to queIl dintur';la ,es at the
salmon fisheries.