Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-22
THE NEWS.

sets S4OO, ,OOO liabilities $11O, ,OOO.- At Ar
lington. Tenn, during the progress OF tes'
tiyal at colored Baptist church, general
row broke out. Ferrell Miller and VIII
Thompson had their throats cut, Sarah jar
rett was severely cut about the neck ana
arms. and number of others were seriously
injured All the parties were colored.-
Seven prisoners, companions OF Scott JACK
son. convicted Of the murder OF Pearl Bryan,
and Alonzo Walling, escaped from the jail az
Newport, KY, but Jackson and Walling re-
fused to 20 with them, fearing they would be
lynched if caught. t.-Henry Boiler was SEN
fenced in Omaha to nineteen years imprlson-
ment for embezzement. AT Patterson, NJ
j.. Herman Planten was released on Sl,OVV
bail on the charge OF setting fire to his sliE
milI.-Mrs. Philopena Langfelt was mur-
dered in San Francisco. Drake was
acquitted in Louisville, KY, OF the charge OF
having murdered Albert Derneal. .--Tramps
wrecked train on the Chicago, milwaukee,
and st. Paul Railway near Milwaukee,
Gertrude Taylor, accused of numbering her
father. was acquitted in Oregon, Mo-
Robert L. Edwards shot his wife and killed
himself in Chicago. Henry IL. FARMER,
postmaster at Hillsyille, Va, was sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary for roppihC
the mails &c. /. Russell aged seyenty-hVe,
cripple, while passing through tho ONO
River Railroad yards. at Sistersyille, W. va,
a ipo flV tiilpd hplnQ com
pletely cut In two.
Charles Brecker, known as the Prince OF
Fugess and James Creedan, his pal, were IN
dicted by the San Francisco grand jury -
William Newell, alias Kid Mccoy, fatally
shot Comedian Charles J. Stewart in saloon
in Denver. The bullet was intended Tor
another man.-At Columbus, Ga, Walter
Wright, young white man, shot and Killed
DR.. J. I. Blackwell, who, he alleged, had
insulted his sister. Wright surrendered to
the polite. Blackwell was young physic-
ian Of great promise. .-ReinhOltc Duns y
and Michael Eeider have been arrested at
Racine. Wis. on the charge OF placing ties
on the tracks OF the Chicago and North
western Road for the purpose Of wreck1ng
a train. Two painters, William Dowd and
Charles Lisker, of Boston, who were at work
on staging, were probab fatal y injured
by fa ling from the scaffo ding, which pre-
cipitatcd them distance of forty feet to the
rround.-James McGuire, of Ottawa, ILL.,,
hacked his wife to pieces and then attempted
! suicide Yrs Irene Leonard was con-
vcted. in Wichita, Kan, Of numbering her
husband to secure his insurance money -
| The First National Bank Of Ell Reno, .. l.,
ia C osed The officers claim this was dono
to forestall an impending run. They say
that depositors will be paid in full. Liabili-
ties and assets are not known, but are pre-
sumably about equal
A number of people were buried in Okla
homa by the cyclone levelng houses.--
Mrs. Henry Schwatka aud her six year old
daughter were shot and killed by Chinese
cook at Yreka, Cal. The Chinaman made
an attempt to kill an infant child, but failed
He then committed suicide. VIM. Deering,
of Chicago. has given $215, 900 to the North
western University of Eyanstown, ILL.,
James Allen Clark and his servant, Mary
Eismen, were asphyXiated in San Francisco.
The Secretary of State has issued a war
rant for the surrender to the German au-
thorities of Ernest Goscz, who has been held
in Philadelphia by Commissioner Edmunds
for forgery and uttering forged paper In
Hamburg. Goetz, who is bank clerk, Is
said to have made off with $4,000 obtainei
through the forgeries. scott Jackson wa
convicted at Newport KY, of the murder oil
Pearl Bryan. The jury fixed his penalty at
death.-Gus Purdy and Val Jehley, two
workmen. we're killed by falling weights In
Buffalo. n. Yrs Fitzpatrick, widow
II Ripley, O., hanged her four children ano
herself.-The Military Surgeons Associa'
ton. at its session in Philadelphia, elected
Medical Director A. L. Gibson president, anc
sci cted Columbus, o., as the next place o
meeting. g.-Lightning struck and set fire &c
q liz frame house on r. j. Cramer's farm
near Norfolk, Va. and an old colored mar
and boy perlshed. The Kings Daugh
ters' Hospital, at Martinsburg, W. Va, wa;
dedicated with appropriate ceremonies
A determined attempt was made to burr
down the mammoth Bunker Hill concentra
tor at Wardner Junction, Iowa. The con
centrator was fred with the aid of boxes
sacks and kerosene, and at the same nom
ent portion of the large lume was blow
up with dynamite, which shook the building
at Kellogg, nearly a mile distant. At Ca
diz, KY, during u severe rain and ha
storm. John J. Wallace a prominent farmer
and his three sons sought shelter under
large sycamore tree. The men hal no soOne
reached the tree when a bolt OF lightnln
struck it and killed all four of them instantly
The Sixth Annual Convention of the A
sociation of Military Surgeons was begun il
PHILADELPHIA R. Alexander wa
killed in Pars, Ky, by John Steers. .--Th
cruiser Brooklyn returned to the Cramps
shipyard after a successful trlaL--In
Southern Baptist Convention, in session
Chattanooga. concluded its work and aC
ourned.--Great stretches of 'Or3s.s on IL
North and South Mountains we're burnin
and the Cumberland Valley was filed wit
, smoke. Rain checked the fire in the reglo
about Clearleld Pa In Cape May cou.
tv. n. j.. fou1 dwellings and several barr
were burned.
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