Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-08-07
THE NEWS.

OF Allen Jones ---Guy Smtpt DOyi WAS M
rested in Huntington, W. Va, for horse
stealing. "A small boardwalk at Atlantic
CITY collapsed, and several young people
were badly hurt-Two passenger tralns
on the Illinois Central, while running at full
speed. collided Two were killed and
number injured The Columbus Buggy
Company, Of Columbus, O., made an assign
ment The death list at the Atlantic City
disaster is now placed at forty-fQar, of whom
forty have been identified 1t has been
found that Frank Donnelli who was sup
posed to have leaped from the steamer Poca-
hontas into the James River, was murdered.
William Hawkins, bartender, was
killed In Chicago by J. G.. English and his
sister Nellie. He had deceived the CIR. -
John Webster shot his mother in Laport,
Ind. because she refused to give him money
J. George Smith. manufacturer OF spring
and iron bedsteads, at Chicago, made an as
sQnnent to A. 8. Tobias, an employe OF the
firm. Assets are given at $500 and LA
bilities $4,000
An unknown woman riding bike ran
down aud killed Wm Klink In Chicago
Frank Owens, brickmason, OF Brooklyn, N.
Y, who had been working in Kent, 0 re-
ceived his pay and went on a spree. He WAS
arrested 10 Akron, o.. while intoxicated, and
attempted to hang himself in his cell at the
city prison with his suspender. He was dis
covered and cut down before harm was
done. Two men robbed a faro bank at
Newport, Ky.-The East Chicago Iron and
Steel Company OF Hammond, Ind, has made
an assignment --Bert Green, colored, con-
yicted of the murder Of Miles P. Mitchell,
near Whiteville, Hardcman county, In De-
cember last, was hanged at Jackson, Tenn.
Henry Lyons, who killed his wife near
Mt Pleasant, W. Va, went to the home Of
his mother and committed suicide -
Charles De Heart, farmer In Patrick coun-
ty. Va, who had given Information to rev.
enue officers about moonshlners, was found
dead 10 field shot through the head
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company has de-
cided to stop all work on its lines wherever
possible, in order to reduce expenses. -
The Dennison Deposit Bank at Dennison, o.,
made an assilnment. Liabilities over 2lOJ,-
900; assets $60,t co Joseph Greidler, OF
Minnesota, crack bicycle racer, was til''d
on the track at Lima. 0.
George Mcconnell, grand keeper OF re-
cords and seals of X. OF T. OF Oregon. has
disappeared. His accounts are short $4,000.
IL, = fha Eron L ford
1 Music Hall, in Ffankford !. a suburtSot Phila-
delphia. was destroyed by fire. The loss
will amount to $40 900 The origin Of the
fire is unknown The building was 80 by
$50 feet--A. G. Elliott & Co., paper man
ufacturers in Philadelphia, made an assign
ment. Judge Tillinghast. OF the Appellate
Court of Providence, RI directed the en-
trance OF a decree forfeiting the charter oil
the Commercial Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany, restraining the president and Other
officers Of the company from transacting any
insurance business in the name OF the com
pany, and appointing James c. Collins, Jr.
receiver. Sheriff David Douglass and az
unknown highwayman were found dead il
the woods near Nayada City, Cal. They hac
probably killed each other.--Filteen miner
were drowned. several other lives were lost
thirty-six persons we're injured, many o
them by lightning, and property valued q
s1OO. 600 destroyed In the storm that swep
over Plttsburg and vicinity Monday night
The storm also did great damage in othe
parts Of Pennsylvania.
Edward Burl sAk, one OF the robbers OF tn
Cripple Creek stage coach, has been caught
The Civic Federation Of Chicago, claim
to have wholesale evidence Of police cor
ruption in that city Two masked me-
robbed the Illinois Central Station at Walker
q station between Springfield and Clinton j
Illinois. Agent CImpbell was shot an
probably fatally wounded by the robbers
Colonel John Hallam, an Arkansas at
torney shot and fatally wounded Rev. W
O. Forbes, prominent Baptist minister
Texarkana, k.-Ephraim Glover,
prominent citizen of Haddon0eld, N j., wa
instantly killed by being struck by the Al
antic City express on the Camden and AT
,antic road. Edward Johnson struck job
Heidelberg of Perth Amboy, N. ] e, blow
the Jaw that killed him.--James Casheregs
alias George Wilson, was hanged in the led
eral jail at Fort Smith, Ark for numbering
man named Thack for the purpose OF rot
, berry. He protested his innocence on the ga
lows.--Andrew Todd, Of North Adams
, Mass. was arranged before United State
Commissioner Fiske in Boston on chare
:, of robbing a postal car at Newport, VT, an
was held for court.-W. G. Burt, OF An:
tin, Tex, murdered his wife and two iittl
children, and placed their deaf bodies in
cstern.--A number Of persons were kille
and injured in q railroad wreck at the eros!
ing of the w est Jersey and Atlantic City raj
roads on the meadows just outside Of Altar
D.. tic City.
I Fifty people were overcome by the heat
, st. Louis. OF these ten died.-Wm. FIJI
O OF Carlisle PA has been arrested in CT
e cago on charge of forgery Two mask'
v men shot George Hetzler, a saloonkeeper
[ Cincinnati who ref sed TO give up his mon
, One of the robbers was arrested. The A
J. cient and Honorable Company of A tile
e reached Boston, from their excursion
o England and France When the steam
s had reached her berth, a letter from May
u Quincy was handed to Colonel Walker,
i which the company was congratulated on
T safe return. Revised lists Of the dead a
y injured by the railroad wreck on the mea
Il oys near Atlantic CITY show that fOrty-Sev