Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-07
THE NEWS.

Evidence Of a murder has been unearthed
,oar patoka. Ind. by tho finding OF q lot OF
,harred human bones. supposed to be those
# n man named Smith, a nephew OF Thomas
snith.-Fire destroyed the tannery of
Jacob stine & Co., in Dover, DEL together
with hides and furs valued at sl5,OOC Inc
ouildiDg was a frame structure, and was
worth $500. Insurance on building, S9oJ;
IN stock. 5000. The fire is supposed to bo
# incendiarv origin Charles Asimus,
hunchback. was hanged in KaIsma, WASH
for khe murder Of James Greenwood, last
ssptember.-A charge of dynamite ex-
oloded prematurely on Slope NO. 3 at the
Henry Ellen coal mines, in Birmingham, Ala,
and Evan Morgan, of Ohio, and George
Beard. of Alabama were aimrt instantly
killed. being badly mutiated. The accident
occurred thousand tsunderGround. ---
John Swoverland was killed in Plymouth,
Ind. by Samuel S. Stewart. II 4. Hughes
of Gainesville. Fla, committed suicide by
leaping from the deck Of the steamer Ialla-
hassee into the Delaware River. Hugh
Dempsey, the pardoned labor leader, con-
yicted of poisoning non-uniOn workers az
Homestead. was released from the penlten-
iary in Pittsburr. Lloyd B. Montgomery,
WHO had killed his father and mother and a
neghbor IN Albany, Oregon, was hanged.
julius Lelerman, a prominent tobacco
dealer of Lancaster, Pa, was arrested. His
warehouse had been burned, and investisa-
ton showed that 1t had been set on fire in
six places.--Tho steamer Egremont Castle
arrive | in Delaware Bay in disabled condi-
ton. and with nearly every member of her
crew injured from a terrible experience with
the storm.--The Union Shoe Manufacture
ING Company. of Chillicothe, Ohio, made al
assignment. Liabilities said to be heavier
than the assets, which are $4,000.
Herman /. Mueller, charged with cmboz
zIing :l4 900 from the Schlltz Brewing Com
panv. while acting as its bookkeepcr in Kan
sas City, has been acquitted. -Harve,
Page, wife aad two young sons, aged respec
tiveIv three years and three months, were
burned to death, near Marshall, Mich
Twenty-ono students have been cx
pellcd from th3 O.towa (kaasas) University
Tho gunboat Helena and a large stcame
for the Plant Line were launched at the yard
of the Newport News ShipbuidinS Company
in the presence Of large crowd. Charlie
and Edward Sheppard, agel rcspcctlyci
nineteen and fifteen years, were crossing tn
ice on Ridley creek, Pa. when the ice broS
and they were drowned.
twenty-five men from the steamer j. W
Hawkins, supposed to have been bound 10
Cuba with men and arms for the insurgents
were landed at Vineyard Haven by tn
schooner State. The Hawkins was wrecked Of
Long Island. d.-The Manufacturers Associa
ton of Plumbers Brass Goods, which wa
organized at Pittsburg last month, began it
first annual convention N Ptts5urS, Wit
representatives present from nearly all sec
tons of the country. Governor Evans de
cided to place a metropolitan police in tn
city of Charleston. S. c., and appOnte
James VI. Mason. Edward Anderson and
S. Wilbur police commissioners, who will a!
sumo office ut once This is the first time th
Governor has exercised his power in thi
matter. james n. Ta.em attempted
commit suicide in Camden, " J.-Ale Kan
der Jone. a colored desperate, shot and ktlle
Postmaster w. II. Strother, Of Elkhorn,
Va. while On a train, and was subsequent
lvnched. Crick Atmore and wills Masc
had duel with Winchesters at Shooters LAX
Texas. Both were killed. ed.-PinkertOn d.
tectiyes arrested Agent Knout and his fatht
in Colorado on charge Of robbing the Wei
Fargo Company.
The boiler at the lumber mill Of the Soutf
ern Pine Company at OTerman, Ga, e,
ploded wrecking tie mill ana killing fou
employees. Rev J. A. J. Williams, Metht
dist clergyman in Hollidaysburg, Pa, mad
an assignment large storage ware
house in Lancaster, was destroyed by fTC
which was of incendiary origin. New
was received from Centreyille, Ala, to tn
effect that two large boilers OF Hand Brotl
ers sawmill exploded fatally woundin
James Ely and Frank Henry.--Tho Tel
nessee Grand Lodge Of Masons issued cl
cuar to Masons throughout the country, as
! Ing them to use their influence in behalf
, peace. The Pennsylvania Board of Pa
dons recommended a pardon for Hug
Dempsey, the labor leader.-A Woo
!, stock. Va, Walter Haas a young man, sh
at Lucy McCann, and then shot himse
through the heart. Jealousy was the caus
He is probably fatally hurt.--Constab
Bros. dealers in mems furnishing goods
Richmond, Va, failed. Liabilities, $l5 90
, Two bills were offered in the Virgin
senate to encourage oyster-planting.- -
r George Porter killed Ernest Troy, whom
! caught in his stepdaughter's room, IN II