Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-06-12
THE NEWS.


Al Cedarville. Ohio. Rome Murray, while
drink. tried to kill his wife and oaoy Win
hatchet. Their condition is dangerous
crowd Of enraged citizens tried to lynch
Murray. but he was jailed at Xenia before
lbev could act.--Cyrus Moser vas Killed
and Alexander Kidd fatally injured by the
collapse of a scafGold at the top OF an eleya-
for shaft at Lips & Sutton's silk mill, in
petblabem Pa. The men fell TO the cellar
a distance of thirty feet. Moser's neck was
broken. and Kidd had almost every bone IN
his body broken.-A family OF three Ar
manians were found murdered in'their home
near Fresno. Cal.--In panic on Brook
lyn. N Y, tro ley car, two boys and a man
were seriously injured, and some thlrty
others cut and bruised. Jas. Monatan
and John Atkinson, OF Duryea, Pa, were
drowned while fishing in the Susquehanna
River.-Mrs George Hess, OF Stonevllle,
Pa, was struck by lightning The com
mencement exercises of the one hundred
and thirteenth year of Dickinson College
we're opened with the baccalaurate sermon
preached by DR.. George Reed, the president
William Perry, colored, was arrested IN
Norfolk on suspicion of having stolen F6OU
belonging to woman servant --Goorge
t. White, who was accused in Norfolk OF
wife poisoning, was eXonerated. w A.
Bowes was elected superintendent OF Deaf,
Dumb and Blind Institute in Staunton, Na.'
vice II S. Doyle, who failed of reelection.
Mrs Pagan Bourland, of Fort Smith,
Ark shot her husband and Maude Allen,
his paramour.-Carl Kloppenburg, cash
Ter of the State Bank of Buffalo, LII wac
sentenced to the penitentiary.
Two women were allied In Philadelphia
by jumping from burning building
Nassia. the Apache chief, was killed in
Southern Arizona Andrew n. Henderson,
a commission merchant, shot himself in Chi
cago At Doylestown, Pa, John Hogan
was sentenced to the pententiary for fory
years.-The delegates to the advisory
board of tho Philadelphia Commercial
Museum. including men from chambers oi
commerce all over the country met in theil
first annual session in Philadelphia. The
purpose Of the conference is the simulalloE
Of export trade and the consummation OF
prompt and intelligent cooperation between
all manufacturing interests Of the United
States. s.-The people Of st. Louis are taking
energetic steps to rebuild The session OF
the General Synod of the Reformed Church
OF America was begun at Catskill, n. Y. -
The Henry Z. Bill Publishing Company. or
ganized in Norwich, Conf, in 1Si5 with
capital stock Of $4,000, assigned to +. d.
DOVE. The schedule of liabilities and assets
is not given out.-AIlss Peacy Williams, OF
Staunton. Va. and Mr.. Ewing Cockrell, SOL
of Senator Cockrell Of Missouri, were mar
rIed in Staunton. town OF Parksley,
in Accomac county, Va, was almost entirely
DESTROYED by fre.--The loss will react
| 800, 900 HI. Belamy, n young man oi
Powhatan county, Va, killed himself; cause
| ill-health.
Henry Mitchell Smith, was hung at LeXlng
ton. Ky. for ASSAULT ., Mrs. Hudson,
white lady, last year. Only fifty people Wit
messed the execution in the iail.-Mrs
Barnes. of Trenton, N. j., has secured
divorce in the court ut Oklahoma City from
her husband, who was foreman OF eX-Mayo
Magowan's factory interests at Trenton an'
who recently Instituted suit against Mago
wan for alternating his wifes affections --
The annual convention Of the Nallona
Plumbers Association was begun in CleYe
land.-The choollleldHanauer Grocer.
( tomnsnv. one of the oldest wholesale tlrD'
IN Memphis, Tenn, assigned. The laoiil
ties will reach S1OO,OO9 assets nominall
s1Oo 600 john f. Blair and Alva Blai
killed Henry Anthony on the street In Ne
vade Mo.--The annual meeting OF tn
stockholders Of the Pennsylvania Rallroa
was held in Pittsburg. 1t was decided D
the executive committee TO hold the mex
meeting Of the Worlds w. c. T. U. In CdH
ada.-Three tramps were killed in raj
road wreck near Livingston, Mon
John Clarence Lee, Phi. D., has been eiec
cd President Of st. Lawrence University
Canton. n. Y. ard has accepted. DR.. If
has been professor at Lombard UnlVcrsr
of Galesburg. Ill twelve years --Ausu
Corbin. the millionaire, was thrown from Il
carriage at Newport, n. H., and received Il
iuries which caused his death in few houf
His coachman was also killed in the acc
dent.-In collision on the Cincinnati al
Ohio Southwestern Railroad near Wing
XIV. Edward Dead and Robert Packer we
killed. THE battleship Massachusetts W
90 into commission next week.