Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-29
THE NEWS.

ished in the pllory ana at the whipping
post-A cloudburst IN the upper section
of the Kanawha Valley, W. Va. caused
floods which destroyed considerable proper
ty at Chesterfield and other places j. X.
Taggart, superintendent of the Virginia
Coal and Iron Company, and S S. Hardin
were killed by n blast at the company's
works, at Stone Gap, Va. The anti
Addicks Republicans, Of NV Castle county,
Del, defeated the Addicks men iD the prim-
aries for county officers. -Richard Little,
aged nfty-six, while insane, shot and killed
his nineteen year-old wife and himself at
Chico, Cal.---An investigation into the
mysterious disappearance Of Miss Henrietta
Clausen, Of Salt Lake City, has resulted in
the finding Of garter and belt buckles and
charred bones in the CRATE in the house Of
Rev Francis Hermann, by whom the young
woman was employed. warrant was
sworn ont fos the arrest Of Hermann.
Four Of a family were burned to death, and
two others seriously injured by the expos
ion Of a gasoline stove in a Chicago resi-
dence. The Kentucky Court Of Appeal,
held that benevo ent and educational insti-
tut0ns were exempt from taxation.
Three men named Fcnton, Meyers aud
Steady, who are at work at Cedar Beach,
Vt, left that place for Essex N. Y, in
small rowboat with an improyised sail. 1t
is believed that all three were lost &C. II.
Dow, president of the Commercial National
Bank Of Denver Col, has been indicted Oh
charges of misapproprating funds and max
Ing false reports. "A gas explosion in Cof-
feyville, Kan, wrecked ten buildings, killed
one man and fatally injured two others
Ellen LaPIant a young woman employed in
the weave-room of the Appleton Cotton Mill
at Lowell, Mass, was killed by the falling Of
q teninch steampipe. Two other young
women were seriously injured. james
Dewitt, wife murderer, was hanged in
Grayson, Ky.-David L. Snodgrass, chief
justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee,
was acquitted of the charge of shooting
John r. Beasley The boiler in tho
Davidson Brothers sawmil, near Marietta,
Ind. exploded with terrific force. Three
were fatally injured. Two suits for dam
ages were brought against the b. & o. Rail
road receivers in the Circuit Court at Park
ersburg, w. Va, by Mrs. Lucy Harmon, who
charges that a conductor forcibly elected her
children from train.
In Richmond, Mo, Judge Broadus up
held three Of the five indictments against
Dr. T.. ". IESra'.cr, the allege.i insurance
gwindler. but held that the venue should be.
made in Clay county The State at oace
took an appeal to the Supreme Court
Eleven bridges we're washed away und ten
miles of track are under water between
| Swarce and Holdenyille, on the ChOctaw,
! Oklahoma AID Gulf Road, rs a result OF the
| first nights heavy rains, and no train ran
| through The annual meeting OF the AS
goclatcd Press was held in Chicago, and the
reports of the Board Of Directors showed
steady growth in the membership OF the
great news service DR.. Thomas Rem
was shot and seriously injured by his vii"
| on the street in Chicago. James Stephens
was acquitted Of murder in Wheeling, W. Va.
--Charles Rintclew, an oier on the steam
shin Wvanoke, who was badly scalded at tho
time Of the collision with the cruiser Colum-
bia died at st. Nincent's Hospital In Norfolk.
An audit Of the accounts OF the city Mt
torney Of Pitlsburg shows $i25,OOO mao
counted fora freight train WAS wrecked
at Leaman Face. Pa.
The Democratic convention OF the Seventh
Ohio District offered the congressional noml-
nation TO John W. Bookwalter, who declined
it.--The trial Of Or. George w. Fraker, OF
Excelsior, Mo-, on the charge Of defraudinG
insurance companies out of S54, 900, was De-
gun in the Circuit Court of Ray county, Mo.
The buildings Of the Grove Shaft, Mid
lothian min9 coal pits, twenty-five miles from
Richmond, Va, were burned. d.-Tbomas NJ
Carlan, an attorney, disappeared from Phil
adclphia, and charge is made that he leaves
unsecured debts to the amount OF over SoO
000 Unsuccessful operations in real estate
are supposed to have involved him In dlll-
culties.--Fred Green and Joseph Williams
have b cen arrested at Waldo, Wis, by the
sheriff on the charge of having caused the
wreck of the freight train, in which three
men were killed and two injured. Tho
Usage Carbon Company had closed all OF Its
coal shafts in Usage City, Kan, excepting
one. throwing about 500 men out OF work.
Monday someone disabled the remaining
shaft, No. q, by exploding a charge OF dyna'
mite Ia the main entry. and 100 more men ara
out Of work james Dazzle, colored, WIS
taken from the jail in st. Bernard PARISH
La. and lynched lie was arrested lOr at
tempting to assau. white lady near Inc
Poydras plantation. "A Lake Shore last
freight train was wrecked at Toledo, o., by
the parting of the air hose. Frank Harris,
tramp. was killed, AMI six other tramps scrl
ously injured
News was received ut Vancouver, Is. c., ol
the wreck Of the British bark Cadrow Forest
j. L. Blanthcr is suspected of having
murdered Mrs. Philopena Langfeldt in Sar
Francisco. The large Touring mill and
grain elevators Of the Allianca Manufacture
ing Campany, situated at Torreor, Mexico
we're destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at $3.50, OOO The mills had recently been
equipped with new machinery, and were the
largest in Northern Mexico. o.-pestructivC
forest fires were reported in West Virginia
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Sever
were killed and n number injured by the
tornado that swept the town of Reserve in
Kansas. The Methodist Protestant Gen
eral Conference at Kansas City, Kansas. ap-
| pointed committee to make a revision oil
the catechsm and report to the next general
conference. Fire destroyed the Central
Opera House. the American House and tn,