Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-21
THE NEWS.

William H. Hughitt, son Of President Mar
vim Hughitt. of the Chicago and Northwest
ern Railroad, committed suicide. by an
explosion of gasoline in Pullman sleeping
car lying in the Pennsylvania yards, at Plt's-
burg. three persons were badly hurt. .-tour
men we're killed and four injured by an accl-
dent in the Republic mine, at Republic
Mch.-The big oilcloth plant Of Farr
Bailey, Mt Camden, \. j., was burned Loss
$40. O.OOO partly insured.-The Reading roll
ing mill at Reading, Pa, resumed operation
after six months ideness, and furnishes en-
poyment to four hundred men. through
the arrest of Captain Loesewitz' OF the
steamer Rhynland, at Phiiadelphla, LOT 'hs
alleged smuggling Of diamonds valued at
10000 the authorities of that city believe
they have discovered big di&H2 ond SNUG
Cling scheme. y. L. Burns spice mill Id
Philadelphia, was partly destroyed by lre'
Loss. 335. .OO0. George Jones killed MS
sweetheart. Leah Martin, her mother ana
himself in Centerville, as. c. Millard
reported in Los Angeles, that the party eX-
plorng the island of Tiburon, in the GulI OF
California found an odd race Of wild lndiana.
Henry J. Hearn was arrested in Mobile,
Ala. on charge Of poisoning his wife---Ger-
!rude Charlotte Pianka, the lion tanner was
nearly killed by the lion Nero, in Minneapo-
lis
Charles H. Dreher, who killed Bertha
Hunick, his sweetheart, in st Louis, Mo, on
January 81. 1894. has been found guilty Of
murder In the first degree by "a jury in Crimi-
nal Court No. 2. Dreher affected tho insan-
ity dodge, but it failed to help him. Fire
DESTROYED the three top stories of tho build
ing occupied by the Nebraska Dry Goods
Company in Omaha. Less $4l ,OO0 insur-
ance 437 900. The business blocks occu-
pied by Purdy Sons. hardware dealers, and
the Fair Dry Goods Emporium in Carbon
dale. Pa, were destroyed by fire. Brunnans
livery stable was saved from total destruc-
ton with great ditlic Ilty. The loss will
reach about S50, ,OOO Miss Annie Maud
Brewer, of Salem, Mass, was sentenced to
seven years in the House OF Correction for
xii ing Gideon W. Lattimer. Jr., to whom
she had been betrothed. The safe OF the
Leesburg Bank, at Leesburg, O.. was blown
open, and $4,000 stolen. In collision be-
tween two mixed freight and passenger
trains at Dongola, ILL.,, five men were killed
At Newton, Ia, Chas. PhareS shot r. T..
Smith, a jswcler, and his wife, and then COM
mitted suicide Sergeant Cassius r. Car
ter. U. S. A., retired, was found asphyxiated
in a hotel In Chicago. The bursting OF
water main just west of the Cuyahcga river
caused an inundation In Cleveland, and ons
MomHu was drowned.
At Llncaster. Pa, Julius Lederman
charged with burning his tobacco ware
house or the evening Of January %, was held
IN 81. 900 bail for court. Lederman was form
.rlv in business in New York, and is well
kn ,wn among tobacco dealers.--A. G..
Blair. of Toledo, was elected president Of the
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Company.
-Fire caused loss of 100000 at Water
loo. Ind.-Harry and Minnie Derschner
two children. were burned to death in Wilkes
barre during the absence OF their parents
The master of the schooner NayarnO re-
ported on the ships arrival at Lewes that hi!
vessel had been boarded on coming out ol
Manzanila by officers from Spanish cruise
-Rev. J. IT, Hunicult, a Baptist minister
has been arrested at Morrillton, Ark. ,chargeC
with killing chld.-The government ol
Nicaragua has published a degree announc
ing that it has returned to the supremacy G
the civil laws, and, therefore, martial law
once more set aside.---Clinton J. Gitt, die
1t Hanover, Pa, after eating over doze
eggs
Judge W. T. Morrow's home at Frankfort
Ky.. was entered by thieves. and box cor
tanning notes and bonds valued at $3.50
stolen. jacob yogel & Sons. pork packer
Cincinnati. made an assignment. Fran
J. Miller. butler in the employ OF }.
Franklin of San Francisco, in a fight wit
burglars. shot and killed John Anderson an
was dangerously wounded himself. ---
committee of safety was formed in Chicas
to secure municipal reform. The Unit'
States steamer Marian put in at CalIao wit
the valve gear of her engines broken dow
George Gray shot and killed Len Har
sock during quarrel in the depot in Blu
field. W. Va.-JefTerson Smith and his WI
in Dallas, Texas. were fatally injured by
burglar. was charged that Postmast
Clinton J. Git. Of Hanover, Pa. died tro
) the effects of drugs administered by DIR.
+. Sprenkle.-France Lee Price, YOU
I man from Joppa. Md. was drowned in Gre
, Egg Harbor Bay. near Atlantic City, viii
returning from duck-shootng trip.