Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-07-03
THE NEWS.

Cress for the Protection OF Chi dren, when
meets in Geneva September II to IS next.
Upon application Of Erskine l.. Babcock
and Akron Biting Company, J. A. Long
wa, appointed rec liver of the Falls Rivet
and Machine Company, located at Cuyahoga
Falls. OIL. The company has AM ideOtcdn'ss
of S375, 900, with assets es imated at $1,000,
incnding real estate, accounts. letters pat
ent. etc. Edwin 7. Thayer, OF the firm of
Hastings Il Tbayer, agents for Brown Il
Company, OF New York, and vii lam n.
Luther, contractor, wer4 indicted at Bunalo
by the grand jury for manslaughter in the
second degree in connection with the col
lapse of tho Brown building in that city
month ago. when four people were killed
and many injured. .-TheOdOre Eisenhower
was found guilty at Pottsvile, Pa, of the
murder of John Schwindt. -Ex-N Mayor
Thomas F. Gilroy has been appointed
member OF the Greater New York Commits
sion, in place Of Comptroller Ashbel P.
Fitch. who declined Miss Lydia Bowsher
and Robert Watt were killed by trains near
Toledo.-The British minister ca le on
Secretary Olney and asked the Intervention
Of this government in The case OF Mr.. Har.
rson, now under arrest in Venezuela. --
Plans for an international congress Of physi-
clans to be held during the Paris exhibition
OF 1909. were discussed at the meeting of the
American Association OF Physicians and Sur
geons in Buffalo, \. Y."A clOudburst in
the vicinity of Marietta, o., swept houses
away. drowned numbers of live stock and
did other serious damage. IN the trial OF
James i. Gentry for the murder of his
sweetheart, Margaret Drysdale, at Philadel-
phia, the commonwealth rested its case and
the defense opened David Arnctt, aged
forty wears. and Mrs. Jacob Grimes, aged
thirty-eight. who recently separated from
her husband and six children, were found
dead in bed in Wlkes-B Barre, Pa having
been suffocated by gas.
CITY MARSHAL Scott Reese, Of North Balti-
more. ohio. was killed instantly while at
tempting to arrest three robbers whom he
caught in the act Of endeayoring to effect an
entrance into the village pOstOf1ice. Tho
III. S andy towboat Buckeye Boy was totally
destroyed by fire at Sout'point, Ohio. Tho
fire was caused by the explosion Of Ian
tern The boat was worth SO, 900. and was
insured for half that sun Henry II. R.t-
tenhouse. aged hfty-eight years, blew tho
ton of his head of in Reaiing, Pa, with Il
shotgun He had recently applied for an
increase in his pension. This was refused
tenhouse became very despOndent. A
memorial statue Of Theodore Dwight Wool
sey. second president Of. Yale College. was
unveiled and presented to the college by
Rev DR.. Joseph Twichel BY the col
LAPSE of a three-stOry lodging house In San
Francisco, seyera' persons were buried in
the ruins. -A An unsuccessful attempt was
made to wreck tho Pacific express on the
Lake Shore road at bridge near Norwalk,
O.---City Councilman Alf T. Hayden, OF
Memphis. Tenn who has been on trial in
the Criminal Court on the charge Of bribery
In connection with the plans for a new mar
kct house, was founl guilty ard sentenced
to eleven moths and twenty-nine days in
the wOrkhouse, and to pay fine OF ten dol-
lars. james MacCready, formerly an ac-
tor. but for the last five years hOtel-keeper
at Newark, n j., was killed In a runaway
accident Judge Vailliant, of st. Louis,
granted divorce TO florence Lillian WicEes
Ford. daughter Of Thomas II. Wickcs vice
president of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pauv. from George Oliver Ford.--In the
L. f,l
Vernon was killed in Bowling Green, Ky,
by his cousin. William Vernon.
The Illinois Appellate Court for the Fourth
District has handed down an opinion de-
claring that where a secret society eXpels
member the courts may inquire to the eX-
pulsion and see whether or not it is Just --
The report of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company for the year ending December ii,
1895. shows that the net earnings per milo
have decreased gradually from S5,76397 in
1872 TO -. 59G 81 in 1S95.--John l.. Cowan,
the young lumber merchant Of Pittsburg.
who disappeared last winter leaving an in
deltedncss Of 92O. .OOl, and was later arrested
in Central America and brought back to
IItlSNuTR, was lOuuu buiity Ou lllAON Nh'i 7N'
Of forge ry.-A man, supposed to be Jack
Millcn. co'ored, who killed his wife in Nor
folk. was arrested In Kelford, n. c.
balcony of the Royal Exchange Hotel
In Chatham. Ont, collapsed while a crowd
stood und rneath, and number of persons
were injured. = II Gibson, president Of
the Ondawa Paper Company, of Greenwich,
n Y, committed suicide by poisoning. The
company failed some time ago, and it Is al
legged that it was then discovered that Glib
son had used up number of estates to
which he was trustee. The amount involved,
it is said, will probably reach $2Oo,OOO.--
Isaac Simmons Of Columbia Pa, freight
conductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
was Instantly killed Just east OF Lancaster.
As he was stepping from one car to another
the train paitcd at that point. and he fell to
the tracks. The second section pas ed over
his body, cutting off both legs The New
England Granite COmpany's works at Mason
n. H.. have been destroyed 10y fire. Loss
$1,000 Two hundred operatives are thrown
out { employment. - George Sut2, ma
rino engineer, shot and He'd Mrs Cora
Borden in a San Francisco lodging house,
and then turned the pistol on himself, send
ing a bullet into his own brain.--Mrs. Re
becca Sutton shot her lover in Belyiderc.
n J. hotel. and then killed herself -A All