Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-09-11
THE NEWS.

The Talbot Dye Wood ald Chemical Com
many. at North Billerica Mass one OF tho
largest Wholesale chemical houses in New
England, closed temporarily hn account oil
dull market. Fire at YOnkers, N. u,
caused a loss Of $4,000, and rendered nine
families homeless Fremen had diflcultyin IN
rescuing women and children. Thomas e.
Burke was killed and his body terribly man
gled In a boiler explosion ut sawmlll near
willis Mountain, In Buckingham county, Va.
"A yacht capsIzed off Cape May, and the
llfe-sayIng crew rescued three men and TWO
ladies in an exhausted condition. .--Bessio
Little. a young woman, OF Dayton, Ohio was
found dead In the river near that place with
n hullet-hole In her head. Albert J. Frantz,
n vonng man, who had been her companion.
was arrested d.-William and George raw
cett. wholesale grocers, Of Sayannah, Ga
made an assignment liabilities, over eco, ,OO0,
with assets about the same.--Fire destroyer
several warehouses In Harrisonburg, Va,
causing total loss Of about $lS,COO.--L
Hung Chang experienced an electric shock
while Investigating the works at Niagara
Falls Eleven llremen were crushed to
death By the falling walls OF burning opera
house at Benton Harbor Mich. h.--deorge
w. Roberts was hanged In the state prison ut
Folsom, Cal, fot the murder OF Walter ID.
Freeman. OF Latrobe EdoradO county, last
April.
Captain John Stark Novel;, of the cruiser
Detroit. is dying at Port Angeles. The
Edgar Thompson Steel Works Of Carnegic's
closed down Indefinitely colonel JOS i
Ridgway, late superintendent OF the Trenton
IN j. L ectric Light Company, committed
suicide at Trenton. Tho steamboat Rose
dale was run into by q ferryboat In New
York harbor and sunk.-A new building
collapsed in Lawrence, Mass. while six men
wero working on the roof. One .: these was
so badly hurt that he vii dle.-Jobn Dill
lion was nearly mobbed by Dublin toughs mt
the close Of the session of the Irish National
Convention. The amnesty resolution, sup
ported by Delegate O'Hara, Of Baltimore,
was adopted by the convention.
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Rolf. Of Lawrence.
Nass, was mu dered by Antonio Quatiero,
all Italian. who boarded with the Roffis -
Particulars Of the big washouts on the At
lantic and Pacific, which have tied up pas
,enger and freight trains for the past three
or four days, show that Oh the night of Au-
gust 2S heavy rains extended along tho road
from Hackberry to Siberia, a distance OF 187
miles, and the track was washed badly ia
more than one hundred Places
In Alexandria, Va, H. NJ. Owens was sen.
fenced to six months in the penitentiary for
embezzlement.-T Knowles woOleD
mills, OF Wilmington, were forced to the
wall by hard times. IN attempting to
capture George 0 Quinn, Virginia desper-
ado. who had half killed Everett Fowler in
Russell county, Va, week ago, the posse
fred on him, killing him instantly y--The
schooner Ellsworth was sunk In collision
off the coast of Michigan Five persons
we're burned 10 death in a fire in the Com
mercial Hotel at Van Kleek Hill, Ont -
John s. Poyen Co., carriage findings, es-
tablished at Merrimac. Mass, nearly g half
century ago, made an assignment to r Z
Briggs The liabilities are about 100000.
Miss Frances Willard issued The Official
call for the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union convention. At the
meeting Of the American Social Science AS
sociatlon, held at Saratoga Springs, N Y.
officers were cleo ed.
The floor OF the room in which W. A. Dan
lev and his wife and family were sleeping at
Chadrou. Neb., was sprinkled with Kerosene
and fired by some unknown enemy, ana t"F
children wero suffocated. IN bloody en-
counter at Kilbourne, Ark, between Dave
and Joseph Mckee, father and son, and ). {.
Wilson. all OF West Carroll Parish, La, both
the McKees were killed, and Wilson u
thought to be mortally wounded The
Columbus Genital Street Railway Company,
Of Columbus. O., was thrown into the hanGs
of receiver, George A. Worthngton, OF
Cleveland. being appointed.--In Rhine
,and Mo-. an angry mob lynched Thomas
Iarbln. who had outraged little Allan Gam
mon --Rev. Thomas F. Reeser and John u.
Love, of Holldaysburg, were drowned wni'e
fishing in the Juniata Riycr.--Arthuf
Hanve was hanged in Atlanta forthe murdei
of Will Spinks. The Attorney General has
appointed James Byrne, Of New YORK. as
snecial counsel in the case Of the Dean Lin
seed Oil Company against the government
for drawback on linseed oil cake which was
made from imported sccds.--At the Grand
Army encampment in St. Paul, Major Ihad'
dous 7 Clarkson was elected communicating
chief.