Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-14
THE NEWS.

An lee gorge in the Platte River has caused
the flooding Of miles of iowands in Nebraska
and imperiled the lives Of farmers and their
families. Several fremen were injured in
a fire that destroyed King & Goddard's ware
house in Boston, entailing losses aggregating
800 O.-Detectives found the hat and
bloody handkerchief CT Pearl Bryan, the
murdered girl beside the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad tracks near Newport, Ky
Peter L. Atkins and Maud Kelly. young
woman. persisted in attempting to cross tho
flooded meadows near Msa adletown. n. Y, in
buggy. Eight persons were seriously
injured by the derailing Of a passenger ear
on the Cleveland. Canton and Southern Rail
road near Dell Roy, Ohio. The Altmeyer
Theater, in McKeesport, Pa, and adjoining
property were destroyed by fire. &. NJ. Bar
ton was burned to death. Joseph r. Dun
lop. proprietor of the Chicago Dispatch, was
sentenced to two years in the Penitentiary.
Fire at Lancaster, Pa. destroyed part OF
the works Of the Chafcnt Manufacturing
Company. Loss $50, 900 j. r. Colean.
the defaultng bank cashier of Fort Scott,
Kan. was sentenced to five years in the
penitent!ary.
At Providence, r. l., President Joseph
BanniVan. of the Rubber Tr st, resigned, to
take effect March ch31.-Ex-Alderman George
O. Tilton, of Haverhill, Mass, one of the al
legged toodle aldermen Of that city. was sen
fenced to serve fifteen months in the House
of Correction. The alleged bribery occurred
in connection with the issuance OF liquor
licenses at Hayerhill. At Boriontown, n.
J., the pow6; house building which was be-
ing built for the Borden: own Electric Light
and Power Company was blown down dur
lag storm. The building was complete,
with the exception of the roof.-The iIcnti-
lcation of the body of the murdered head
less woman found near Fort Thomas, Ky, rs
Pearl BRYAN. was followed by the arrests OF
Scott Jackson, q student at the Ohio Dental
! College. William Wood and Alonzo WallnS.
! Statements Of Jackson a1d NallinS to the
| Cincinnati police authorities are virtual al
missions of their guilt. Jackson is sail to
have turned states evidence against Alex
anler Let's. now serving term in the New
Jersey state prison for embezzling 923,O00
from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
THE winh aad rain storm unro0fol and
undermined anumber of buildings in Eastern
,itics. A condemned building in Brooklyn,
n Y. was blown down and two men were
killed and one injured. In tho neighborhood
of Hazleton. Pa. many barns were wrecked
and fruit trees destroyed. The schooner
Allie b. Catherall went ashore near False
Cape Va, Life Saving Station. The crew
were saved. but the vessel all cargo are a
total loss. Several vessels were blown ashore
Ia New York Bay The House OF Della
gates in Virginia ;ctoI a3iion against pool
selling al race tracks.
Two cults were entered In Norfolk against
the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Com
pany for ten thousand dollars each by the
administrator and the daughter of Ell
Gibbs. deceased "A motion to defeat tn
Maupin anti-race track bill was defeated il
the Virginia House. Michael Lynch, Dan
Brown and John Swan, ex-keepers OF th'
Farmhurst Insane Hospital, were indicted il
Wilmington for murder.--Anthony Jem
mitz was found guilty of murder in the frs
degree in Wilkesbarre for killing Anthor'
Yeasev-Ths Citizens Bank at Conners
Vile. Ind, asslgned.-J. II. Richelderfe
was found dying in his home in Philadelphia
and his housekeeper, ANA Tate, dead in he
room. The house had been ransacked.-
At Connersville, Ind, the Citizens bank
owned by ex-Unlted States Treasurer Hus
ton. assigned. The statement to the publi
SAYS that all deposits will be paid in full i
three months There is an epidemic Q
typhoid fever in Elmira, n. Y.--Richar'
Klattke. an anarchist, in Chicago killed hi
father. mother, wife and three children an
then himself. Col. A. j. Fountain, law
yer, has b en- kidnapped in New Mexico b
cowboys
Governor Mcintyre, of COLORADO, has de
termined upon a complete reorganization
| the Denver fire and police departments Wit
a view to putting stop to gambling an
kindred evils in the city. President Fran
Church, Of the fire and police boards, re
signed in compliance with a request from tn
governor. or.-Four persons were seriousl.
burned by the explosion of an oil stove at tn
residence of Thomas Coswell in Camden, n
J. The injured are Thomas Boswell, hi
wife and son and Mr. Joseph Bowes.