Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-03-27
THE NEWS.

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them was fatally shot by the desperadoes.
Joe Benson, his wife and DR.. J. Stin-
son we're poisoned by rough on rats placed
in the coffee by young Benson. &c. V
Wing. a matriculator of human skeletons in
Columbus, notified the Cincinnati police
that he had brought to him head which he
believes to be the missing head of Pearl
Bryan.-John Windorsy bad man, was
lynched by Whitecaps in Todd county, Ky
The New York and Montreal express
from New York was thrown from the track
by ice on tho rails near shelburne, vt, but
no one was badly hurt--The Atlantic Re-
flnery at Pittsburg, together with 125,OOc
barrels OF oil, were destroyed by fire BE-
ginning April /, miners in the Clearheld and
Cumberland regions will be paid forty five
cents per gross ton, or forty cents per net
ton.-Trafic over the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg and Potomac Railroad was de-
layed by spreading rails at Milford, Va =
Claudio Hopkins, little girl was burned to
death at her home in Parkersburg, W. Va.
The license people elected their candi-
date for Mayor In Fairmount, W. Va.
At Piuston, Pa, the large planning mill OF
Dershimer & Griffin was burned. Loss Slo,-
900; partly insured. -Four boilers exploded
at Miners Mills, Pa, and caused great ex-
element Nobody was killed. -Lamoreaux
and ONeil, two OF the alleged murderers OF
Jim Washakie, the young Shoshone, VINO
were followed from the Shoshone ReserVa-
ton by Deputy United States Marshal j. M.
Waite, were captured at Malta Mon. Two
officers were shot and train robber named
Daniel McCole was killed In an attempt
made by robbers to hold up the south-bound
New Orleans express near Tulare, Cal
Fire caused loss of 725, 900 in Providence,
r. I.-Four prisoners got out OF the FAIR
fax county ya.) jail.-Miss Emma For
tune. who became insane recently from the
effect Of hypnotism, died at Chambersburg,
Pa.-Miss Phoebe Welsh was burned TO
death at Waynesboro, Pa Mrs. A. q.
Conway dropped dead while at work near
Charlottesville, Va.
Executions aggregating $4,000 were is-
sued against the Carlisle Manufacturing
Company, tho largest industrial plant in
Carlisle, Pa. A receiver will be appointed.
Dan Brown and John j. Swan, cx-Seep-
ers Of Delaware State Insane Asylum, who
we're convicted Of manslaughter for killing
Loen Lewis, alias Pisa, an inmate OF the
hospital, were sentenced to one year I'M
prisonment each In Newcastle iail.-Pat-
rick ]. Clancy was arrts ed in Trenton, N.
j., charged with atrocious assault and bat
terry on VIM. FlanneSy, OF Philadelphia: He
was held without bail. The victim is un-
conscious at hospital and there is doubt OF
his recovery.-Three men were killed by
boiler explosion near Caledonia, Mo.-At
Nashua n H., Hon. David A. Taggert, o.
Manchester. was appointed assignee OF the
Granite State Provident Association, by JUS
tice Wallace in the Supreme Court. Bonds
were placed at 300, 900. john King, en-
gineer. was killed in a railroad wreck, near
Paris. Ky.-Herman Keck was held in bail
at Philadelphia. charged with smuggling
diamonds into the United States from Eur
ope.-Gov,rnor Bradley was hung in effigy
by a mob in Danville, Ky.-The congrega-
tional council in San Francisco found Rev.
C. o. Brown not guilty of immortality, but
censured him for unministerial conduct. -
The NJ. E. Conference in Philadelphia voted
for the admission Of women as lay delegates
to the General Conference. ce.-Five men were
| killed in an explosion that occurred at a
powder mill at Rifton, n Y.
". L. Peaz and his wife wero arrested IL
ST. Joseph, No., for counterfe;tilg. The wit'
confessed. Miss ALI Douglas, Of Akron
Ia, was outraged and abused by tramp
The church council In San Francisco, &C
quilted Rev. Dr. Brow. of intimacy with Mrs
Stockton.-Emil de Faw, at Feesyille, Mich
shot Fred Ssipferlein and his wife,
freight train ran into a passenger train or
the Pennsylvania Railroad near SteeIton
Two persons were killed aad eight injured
Captain Wiborg and Mates Peterson and
Johansen, OF the Danish steamer Horsa, were
sent to prison by Judge Butler, OF the United
States District Court, in Philadelphia, for
nibustering The Kentucky legislature
adjourned sine die without electing a senator
to succeed Senator Blackburn. William
sifert. farmer residing near Alliance, O.,
forbade Andrew Fife to call on his daughter
Carrie. Fife.met Sifert In a country road
and beat him with club causing injurie:
from the effects OF which Sifert died. Tive
Indians belonging TO the Shoshone tribe IL
Northern Wyoming were killed by three
white men, who then sole their horses. They
are being pursued by United States Marsha
McDermott, OF Wyoming. Solar lror
Works of William Clark's Sens Co., II
Plttsburg, were closed by the sheriff on exc
cutions aggregating 1886, 425.-The conven
ton of the American Association OF Passen-
ger and Ticket Agents opened in Richmond
Va.-The failure OF L. I. Pratt Il Co.. deal
ers In metals, Boston, was announced. a
special train carrying officials OF the st
Louis and San Francisco Railroad ona tour
Of inspection, was wrecked at Rogers, Ark.
and brakeman killed. 1.-The Ancient Or
der of Hibernians in Philadelphia celebrated
st. Patrick's Day with parade, in which
several posts of the G.. A. R. took part.
TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION
A Resolution Providing for the Event o
Death of the Presdent-Elect'
r H. 1Jo,,oo Ranraeentative Boutelle q