Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-28
THE NEWS.

vessel ever built on the Great Lakes, con-
structed for the Mutual Transportation
Company. of Cleveland, was launched at the
sbinvards of the Globe Iron Works, of Cleve.
land. At a meeting in the commencement
hall of the West Virginia University in Nor
raptown. resolutions favorng international
arbitration were passed, though minority
wanted to reserve the right of occasionally
twisting the lions tail. The Southern
Tobacco Manufae turers' Association was
organized at Greensboro S. c., and Col: J:
S. Carr. of Durham, N. c.. elected president.
The executive assembly OF the Grand
Couaci. Knights of Pythias, met in Cincin-
natl, and decided to hold the biennial con-
vention of the Supreme Lodge at Cleveland,
o, on August 25 No encampment OF the
Uniformed Rank will be held this year
The conten of two oil tanks and two wells
we're set on fire at Bucks Run, W. Va, by
John Freemen, gauger, who received fatal
injuries At Richmond the anniversary OF
the Inauguration CT Davis and Washington's
Birthday were jointly celebrated by the
Bradley 7. Johnson was the orator.
Charles Wooley and Nettie Donnelly were
arrested in Wilmington, Del, charged by
Thomas Donnely, the woman's husband,
with eopement and larceny. The Star
Furniture Co.. of Rockford, ILL.,, made an
assignment. Liabilities S5O,OO0j assets un-
known. One boy was killed and several
others more or less injured by the collapse
of the roof Of an old building In Dublin, Ct
D. W. McGlasson, private banker in
Troy, Tex, has assigned. The failure was
follow ed by the suspension OF the Troy Drug
Company, and j. w. Cam, of Troy, and
Williams & McGlas-on, of Rosebud. LA
billties $4,000
Meager details we're received In San Fran
cisco OF disastrous hurricane at the Tonga
Island, in the South Seas The barks Woo
sung and West Australia and the Samoan
schooner Aele were wrecked, but no lives
were lost st-Howard Boring instantly killed
his father at Crooksyille, o. The latter had
been burning a kiln Of pottery, and was try
! ing to enter his homo through a window,
when the son, supposing him to be burglar,
| fired, without warning.-Private Marshal
T. Mitchell, formerly of Mississippi, COM
mitted suicide at Fort Douglas, Utah, by
shooting himself with a rife. Cause was
dependency j. Jackson was waylaid,
shot and killed near the Half-way-House,
near Middlesboro, KY. Jackson usually kept
large sum of money about him, and evil
IDENTIFY the object Of the assassin was robbery.
Bernard ]. Ford, ex-superntendent of
the State Capital Building IN Trenton, N. j.,
withdrew his plea Of not guilty OF official
misconduct The special report on Japan
and Japanese missions was made public by
the American Board Of Missions OF the Con-
gressional Church In Boston.-The Buck'
eye Glass Works in Martins Ferry, O., were
destroyed by fire.
Alfred Whitaker, of Cleveland, O., while
irving, was struck 10y train and instantly
killed. Dana Cannon, who was with him,
was badly hurt-A defense alliance was
formed in Pittsburg of the workers in differ
ent forms of glass manufacture, for the pur-
pose Of raising big defense fund.-Gov-
ernor Bushnell, of Ohio, granted the requisi-
lion Of the Governor Of Kentucky for jack
son and Walling, the alleged slayers of Pearl
Bryan.-A writ OF error was granted in
Trenton, N. j., in the case Of Jacob S. john
son. who was convicted in Somerset county
last month of the murder OF Annie Rogers.
Johnson was sentenced to be executed on
March 18th next, and the courts action in
wolves a postponement of the banging
The flint works of Golding & Sons Company,
In Trenton, n j., were almost completely
destroyed by fire. The loss will amount
to $4,000 Two fremen were seriously in
jured by falling from a ladder. r.-Robbers
secured about $500 from She Market Street
Bank in San Francisco The cashier and
bookkeeper were held up.-CharlesS S. Naz-
worthy. assignee Of tho American Lounge
Company, was removed from his trust in
indianapolis. and later shot himself.-In a
wreck on the Central Vermont Railroad, near
Ludlow, four people were seriously hurt
The D. &. o. will have new feeder from
Buckhannon. W. Va.
Secretary Carlisle testified for the govern
ment in the trial Of the Brockway counter
feting gang in the United States Court at
Trenton, N. 1.-TWO men were frozen to
death in Chicago. ago.-Ex-Goyernor McKin-
ley was the guest Of honor and made aspsech
at the banquet of the Tippecanoe Club in
Cleveland. Fire caused a loss of about
$4,000 at State College, Bellefonte, Pa
William Walters surrendered at Los Angeles,
saving he had killed man in Alabama, In
April, 1890. The Union Pacific sent from
Omaha a freight train of forty cars OF agri-
cultural implements to Snake River Valley,
Idaho and Utah. 1t is consigned to one OF
the cooperative concerns of Salt Lake City.
1t is one Of the largest single shipments OF ma
chnery In the history OF the West.--The
Delaware (Ohio) County Childrehs' Home
was burned. All the children (43) escaped.
The loss is S25, ,OC0. james Fitzgerald vas
hanged at st. Louis for numbering his sweet
heart. Annie Naessens, November "a. 1898.
-Firemen were scalded by the explosion
OF boiler in jackson Park, Chicago
Fire at Hamburg, Pa. caused loss Of $15,-
OOO.-A. B. Williams. late cashier Of the
Traders National Bank Of Scranton, Pa.
was arrested in that town OIL the charge OF
embezzi;ng s95, 900 Of the banks funds. "A
horse car in Jersey City was struck by a train
and six people hurt, boy fatally.
FOUR KILLED, SEVEN HURT.