Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-01-31
THE NEWS.

Illinois. began proceedings in Chicago TO
have the Illinois steel Company declared a
trust.-An electric car apd switch engine
coIlided in Knoxville, Tenn. number OF
persons were badly hurt.--Henry {. Fos-
ter who murdered GeorgeW Wells in Chi
caco. was hanged. Mrs sudge Scott, the
sister-iD-law Of ex-Presdent Harrison VINO
was assaulted in Seattle, Wis, by an insane
domestic. is recovering, although still suffer-
ing from the nervous shock The woman
has disappeared. One Of the BLANKET mills
of Dobson & Sons cxtensiye plant in Mana
yunk, a suburb of Phiiadciphiai was de-
stroved by fire. Loss S35,O0O fulg insured.
Origin spontaneous combustion;--Joo
Wicker. his wife and two children were
drowned while trying to ford the Red River
in Randall county, Tex.--Adyices were re-
ceiyed in San Francisco of the mutiny at sea
of the crew Of the American schooner Maria,
and the murder of Captain Brown and Mate
Holman.-Western Populist leaders are
advocating Judge Henry c. Caldwell as their
candidate for president. The Eastern men
will favor the nomination of Sibley, OF Penn
svlyania. Bertram i. Atwater, young
Chicago artist. was waylaid and murdered
by several negroes while returning to 81
Louis from a suburban town, where he had
been TO see his sweetheart to make arrange
men;s for their wedding.
The stewards of the steamer Switzerland,
at Philadelphia, and a storekceper at that
port were held to bail for court on the charge
Of smuggling 'phenacetne aud anti-pirine.
The Wilmington, Del, authorities are
looking for Thomas Swan whose uncle
diel in Kentucky. leaving him $4,000. -
Ex-Governor and Mrs. Mckinley celebrated
their silver wedding anniversary at their
home. in Canton, Ohio. hundred and
twenty quarts OF nitro-SIycerne in wagon
exploded at st. Mary's, near Lima, ONO,
killing Samuel Enga5, the driver OF the
wagon. an the two horses, and the concus-
sion smashing nearly all the panes OF glass
in the village. W. D. Wheelwright Il Co.,
lumber dealers Of Brunswick, Ca, closed up
under attachments aggregating over 81 ,OJO'
The liabilities are estimated at 5000 OOO.--
The Champion Blower and Forge Company
works at lancaster, Pa, were burned. Loss
$50 900; insurance $50 O)O.-John II. God
win. farmer Of Shelby county, Ala, while in
sane shot and killed his wife, and then com
mittcI suicide. Henry Wilson, OF Newcas'
tie. Ind. and his swectheart, Clara Harris
whose parents had refused her permission tC
marry. committed suicide together --Jamc
Williams. cOlored, was shot at Primers Point
Va. by Joseph Mathews, the railroad watch
man at that place. ,-Yincenz0 Estado and
Nunciatta Duloka were arrested in Whining
ton for running away from New York witt
32G5 belonging to the woman husband.
The burning ont of an air-shatt at mid
, night in the Wellington Hotel in Chicago
caused panic among the guests OF the place
Many of them rushed to the hotel office cla(
in raiment not iast the thing for street wear
but all returned to their rooms within few
minutes IN police court in Des MoineS
l Iowa. the seventeen students OF Drake Medl
cal School arrested for grave robbery wer'
: discharged from custody, there being NJ
| evidence on MulCn W uOiu lhSth' - W.
presence of several hundred guests an
members. the Chicago Mineral end Minin
Board was formally opened IN the New Ior
! LifesBuilding, on La Sale street, midwa
2 between tho Board of Trade and the Chicag
Stock Exchange.-Thrce men were k1lle
+ and four seriously injured by the explosion
S of an acetyline gas receiver in English Z
: Messi,k's building. at New Haven, Conn.,
I The four principal gas companies OF Chicago
. foiled in their recent plans of consolidate
G by the state officials, have taken steps to ties
o the question Of the right to consolidate
. A convention Of cotton producers was hel
= in Memphis, Tenn, and action taken TO elle'
i n continuation of decreased acreage. A
y the leading planters in the South were pre-:
, ent or represented, and permanent organ
zmion was effected.
George Work and Edward &. Murphy won
" | live pigeon match at Babylon J.. l., &c
) eating II. A. Dolan and J. K. Palmer by the
= ,core of lG7 to 1G6.-Frank Wilson was
D, )ut on trial in Hollidaysburg, Pa. for mur
" lering miser Henry Bonnecka. Hiram
- Savidgc a well-known politician, ana tol
= ;ears bailifI in the District Court in Omaha
= was Jailed fer assaulting Alberta Rice, seven
! cen years old. He waived his prelimlnar.
examination and went to jail.-The dau9h
- er of Chief Kwa Kun Ic, head of all tn
Chippewa Indians near Towe, Mimi, CON
nittcd suicide by shooting herself with
lille. The squaw, who was about thirty-liv
5ears old, was sick, and chose the rifle
preference to the medicine man rs moan
If stopping the pain.-Ezra f: Bowman,
. ewelcr at Lancaster Pa, male an assign
- nent: liabilities $4,000 Minnie Swangel
thirteen years Of age, was arrested in A
e .oona, Pa, on the charge of putting roug
- IN rats in the family coffee pot.-M PhiIi
"a iephia Ambrose West ana wife, both oy'
!. seventy years of age. were found dead
n ocd il their home in Germantown having bee
n ,xphyxiatod by coal gas, which escaped fro
is stove in their room during the night
,r Charles Harmask was killed, and Pat Nag
p md Andy plasSo badly hurt, at the Oh
q steel Company's Works, Youngstown. o.
IS William Magee who died unmarried in Sou
q Carolina. has left an estate valued at ov
l. our million dollars to relatives in Delawar
A contest is looked for.