Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-09-18
THE NEWS.

The four-story morocco factory Of J. ,.
Quincy & Co, Ii Salem, Mass was de-
stroyed by fire, together with lot Of valu-
able machinery, and the loss Is estimated at
$25.OO6; $40, 900 on contents and $4,000 on
the building Bernardo Ambrosoij the
proprietor OF the famous italian restaurant
in Boston; was assassinated by his clerk
Charles G. Bacigaupo. BacigalupO is In
sane. "A boat used for gambling was
blown lip with dynamite at Burnside, Ky.
1t has been operating fof months; and the
authorities on both sides Of the river failed
to prevent It's operations. The boat and con-
tents were comp etely destroyed Miss
Clara Barton OF the Red Cross Society, re-
turned from Armenia -Speaker T'ios b.
Reed has been elected insurance referee -
succeed the late Wm. E. Russell,
One man fatally and four others seriously
Injured is tile result OF on explosion caused
by the careless handling Of gasoline IN the
building occupied by the Mound City Clean
ing and Dyeihg Company, at st. Louis
William DuaIe, Of Camden; N. j., shot his
wife, and then attempted his own life.-
John Mccarthy was arrested in San Fran
cisco for completely In the attempt to tunnel
into tho vault of the First National Bank Of
Los Angeles The L. Candee Company,
manufacturers OF rubber shoes, resumed
work at Now Haven, Ct.-Mr Warren
Whitehead was arrested in Denver, Col; on
a charge OF poisoning her husbandsand Mrs.
Kearney.---The Mutual National Bank Of
New Orleans closed its doors Heron.
Taylor & Co., wholesale grocers, of Mem
phis, Tenn, assigned. Assets, $124,O00;
liabilities, S9S, 600 Poor collections is the
cause The Gorman-C Campbell Tobacco
Company, Of Richmond, Va, sustained a loss
Of $4,000 by Ere in their large works.
The Sons OF Veterans Encampment was
opened at Louisville, Ky. Nearly ten thou
sand delegates and visit RS are in attend
auce.--The bimetallc smelter at Leadville,
Col employing two hundred men, shut
down, orders not being sufficient to contlnne
operations---The Lockwood Manufacture
ing Company Of Philadelphia made an as
signmen.. The Consolidated Electric
Railway Company of Fort Wayne, ind,
passed into the hands Of a receiver. The
body ora dead man, supposed to be George
Mann, Of Philadelphia, was found near Mid
deton, Del. He was probably murdered.
Salvador Romero anu nena Garcia COM
mitted suicide in San Francisco. Charges
of corruption was made in the admlnlstra-
ton OF tie dispensary law in South c ro-
llna.--Ii Hung Chang left the United
States and wai delivered by General Ruger
to his Dominion hosts. In giving a de-
cision in a contest between a father and
mother for possession Of young child,
Judge Stewart, at Chanbersburg, Pa, said
that he feared that the Pc nsylvana legisla-
ture. In it's anxiety to eman ipato married
women, had gono too far in the new law
giving the mother equal rights with the
father. john Savage Graft, son of Rev
w. N. Graft prominent Episcopol clergy
man of West Philadelphia, was instantly
killed on the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Bow
mans. near Bethlehem, Pa.-John L.
Diehl. OF York, Pa tried to shoot his sister
Ela.--In Richmond, J. Z. Wimmock killed
SamuelJ. Thalheimer, who had betrayed his
daughter.