Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-08-14
THE NEWS

the charge OF stealln8 scal oVnA0o7O"
that he Was implicated in the Coogan dla-
mond robbery Fifteen miners are inn
nrisoued In q burning mine at CLARK City;
TIL Attachments were levied Id Proyi-
dence, R. l., ON the funds Of the Woonsocke'
Rubber Company.---The steamer Stewart,
with Kirkhart & Ryans circus aboard, went
ashore on Virgins Reef, near Manistique
Tho Lake County Bank, OF East Chica-
90. Ind. has failed.-The Lehlgh Valley
Coal and iron Companys mammoth Logan
CoIliery Breaker at Centralla Pas, yalued at
900. 900, was destroyed by flre.-Frank
FreehIl. tramp, who had been Convicted OF
murder In the second degree, feigned insans
ity. and escaped from the insane asylum at
Elizabeth. N. President Barber, OF the
Diamond Match Company, closed big con-
tract with the Laender Bank, OF Austria.--
The operators at the T. g. Plant Works. In
tynn. Mass, went out on sympathetic
strike. Willis was arrested Ia
staunton Mass. on the charge OF murder
ing Fred NJ. Strange ge-Councilma John
Morse OF New Haven, has been arrested on
q charge OF incendiarism. Police Judge
Mullen, Of Cripple Greek, has been lndellnite-
" suspended by the City Council for numer-
Gus outrages committed Charles Thiede,
q wife murderer, was hanged at Salt Lake,
Utah.-fn Polk county, Ark, the whites
made war on the colored laborers. Three
~ the latter we're killed and many wounded.
ALFRED Edward Foot was arrested In
utica. N. Y, having confessed stealing dla-
monds from Miss Martha Smith, OF Norwich,
CT Charles De Hart was assassinated in
Evansville, Va, 1t is supposed, by moonshin-
ers George W. Windisch, awaiting exc
cution In Pittston, Pa, for wife murder,
died In jail.
lawrence Cummings, who 30 cfueliy mur-
red his wife. Elizabeth Cummings, and
tried to murder his daughter, on the night
Of Juno 12 1896; committed suicide In the
countv iail at Seattle; Wash. .-Ihomas
Mckinley; road master Of the Evansville ana
Indianapolls Railroad, wds killed at Wash'
ineton; Ind.-The Cincinnati police nave
IN custodv w. III. wllkerson, d prominent
lumber dealer of Asheville, N c, who Is
wanted at that place for participating In
shooting scrape over a woman, which oc'
cprred on the night Of July 29.-Two met
were killed and one fatally injured IN
freight wreck on the Philadelphia and Read
inc Roads. T. Neill a lawyer OF War
rem. Pa. who had been staying at Cape Ma!
with his family, fell from his bicycle, anC
when he was picked up was found TO d.
dead Heart failure was the cause OF death
Frank Lameo. an Italian blacksmith In Ne"
York shot his wife and himself f.--Curti
BARLOW. of Norfolk, Va, committed SUICIDE
There was collision between the sol
dia q and the strikers in Cleveland. The ex
oo,,tive committee decided to ask the Centra
Labor Union to declare sympathetic strike
Richard P Bland was nominated 10
conoress bv the Democrats of the Eighth dis
trict Of Missouri
AT Shelbyville, Ind. Millard Sullivan,
boy of thirteen, accidentally Killed nl
amt Miss Pearl Hilt.-The New Pari
Theatre at Niagara lis, was destroyed by
are Five members Of the family OF Jere-
Lliah Frazier, in Bridgeton, j., are sui
tering from the effects OF poison. Ihre'
will die.-E Argyle Campbell, OF spring
field. Mo-. committed suicide in Kansas City
Mo.--Maximillian Wilcolm, ex-cashier o
the branch of the National Bank OF Mexlc
! at Merida. Yucatan, has been declared guilt
of embezzling S16O, 900, and will receive
heavy sentence man was killed an
ten others fatally injured in fire in mea
house in Kansas City--A freight train ra
off track near Marengo, Iowa, on the lie
Moines Railroad, and a number OF cas- wer
badly wrecked, besides some other damage
Four tramps who were stealing ride wer
killed.
Mrs. L Walker, OF Croxtons Run ". Va
celebrated her one hundred and first birt
day.-The coroner's investigation into Il
collision between the West Jersey and t
Reading trains was continued in Atlant
City.-An attempt was made to wreck
Western Maryland train near Waynesbor
Pa--The yacht Vindex and the steam
Lauranda are being watched at WllmingtC
by the federal authorities, who think tn
y are bent on flibustering The Americ'
National Bank OF New Orleans has failed
Tom Hall and Henry James, two Kentuc
farmers, fought duel to death with knivt
: "A traction engine used in threshing
I Anderson, Ind exploded, fatally iniuri
l three people "A decision of Judge Adam
Q of the Supreme Court Of the Creek Natio
s DISTINGUISHES 1,70J oes.--James
1 Stokes, Philadelphia contractor, cor
s mitted suicide. e.-Harry ]. Frick, thoug
s to be insane, roasted himself to death In
e padded cell In Wheeling, w. Va.--Oliv'
L Davis & Hathaway, the three promine
: business men who were charged in Bost
I with conspiracy to defraud in connecti
: with the firm OF H. A. Davis & Co., We
B discharged. A railroad bridge at N
B Mechen, W. Va, undermined by the reet
rains collapsed. One man was killed
others we're badly hurt.-An attempt "
: made to poison Mrs. David LIE Gro, W
e Nvea near Lebanon Me-, and her two dang