Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-01-24
THE NEWJ.


James Frazier, in Quicksand, Ky.-Ihe taN
rate in York county, Pa, was placed at four
mills.-A law was introduced in the Flr-
cinia legislature to protect the oyster ana
fishing grounds.-Charges OF immorallty
were brought against the teachers OF the
Deaf. Dumb and Blind Institution at Staun-
ton, Ya.-The Hotel bradford at Somers
Point. n. j., was destroyed by flre.--James
snider. farmer. living near Newburg Va,
became afflicted with rabies. communicated
to him by rabil culf.-Charles T. VIII
kinsop, d bank teller, was convicted ot en-
bczzlement in Huntington, W. Fa:--Uus-
tave Fox & Co., dealers in diamonds, In On
cinnati. assigned to Gus May. Liabilities
are placed at s95. 900, with assets about S25,-
600. Preferences for $1,000 were given,
the largest being $4,000 to Jennie Fox
Tho United States branch of tho Deep Water
wav Commission, In Detroit elected Presl-
dent ANGEL. Of the University Of Michigan,
as chairman, and Commissioner Russell, OF
Massachusetts, rs secretary. While the
Pennsvlvapia Bridge Company's men were
digging an excavation for the pier ola bridge
across the Brazos River at Martin. Texas,
landslide occurred in which i. A. Merritt
and Joe Garth were smothered.
Fire which origi ated in the livery stable
NJ T. p. Rue. in Red Bank. n. j., destroyed
nroperty of the value of $4,000. Eleven
borses were bHrned. The Bene iict Paper
Company. whole5ala paper dealers, IN haA-
ans CITY, Mo-. failed. with liabilities Of $50
A45 and assets a5out the same Chattel
mortgages conveying all Of the company
hronertv to seventy-odd creditors. mostly
Eastern concerns. have. been HE'D with the
rocorder of deeds. hile a freight train
was going through Golfers yard, In West
virginia. several cars jumped the track An
nast- bound passenger train was coming
along; and ran into the freight cars LII
pineer Rogers of East Liverpool, was In
stantlv killed and James Comboy 50 serl-
huslv hurt that he will de.-Coniesslon
of Judgment aggregating nearly $l5V'o0O
were entered in the Circuit Court OF Chica9o
AGAINST Kohn. Sohoenbrun q Co.. wholesale
clothiers. -Four horse ieves were killed
by ranchers in Oklahoma Territory h'
steamer Mariposa arrived at San Francisco
with advices of disafTection in Samoa -
Fourteen persons were poisoned while tax
ing dinner at the house Of T. J. Merryman
a farmer at Dixon Springs, Tenn. n.--Ih
Irish-American Bank of Minneapolis close'
its doors Preliminary steps for memor
ial to the late General Poe were taken at th
annual meeting of the Lake Carrier Assocl
alton in Detroit. One thousand miners a
the Morris Coal Company, in Ohio, went o.
a strike. Canadians won the internatlona
curling trophy defeating the Americans
Duluth, Minn.
The sealing schooner Kilmeny. twenty-tou
tons. NJ. Halgram, master, and carrying
crew Of four whites, is reported to nave 9oh
- ,,;o.os on the west coast Of British Colum
bia in the recent gale james Farley'
philadelnhia. Pa, was found dead In an are
4 in Newark. n. j. During the night he n''
[ fallen into the area, and, striking Oh IL
@ hood hrokc his neck .-P0stmaster JONI
!. son was held up ny masIei rooosr at IL
n dleton Ore, at the point Of PISTOL al
G comnelled to surrender 5000 of postal an
| money order funds. The government co"
I mission appointed to consider 7nd repo
# unon the questions regarding the propos
G tions for deep-water ways from the Ure'
q Lakes TO the Atlantic worked busily IN y
y troit over various charts Of The regions nece
G sarv to be traversed by the routes su9SeStc
|. Mr. John Patten, in IA lecture peloio u
q baltimore Section of the National AsIroh'
'c mical Association, attributed s1h spots
IL chemical action in the sun.
i The American ship Iceberg, Of New Yor
" was burned at Junin on November 2O.-
= Minneapolis the City Bank. one Of the small
- state institutions of the city, suspended Ia
y ment pending an examination by the sl'
y bank examiner The institution has pe
" known to be weak for some time. At VI
cago an application was made for recei'
~ for the Calumet Iron and Steel Company.
~ Alonzo Werst. of South Bend, Ind, XIII
80 himself 1t is thought he was insane
:, John b. Foraker was chosen United Sta'
~ senator by the Ohio legislature. III u
- cago the property of the August Hauss
= Company. furniture dealers, was Levied
~ by the sheriff to satisfy claim for S26'9
io made by the Milwaukee state Bank. l
- ascets arc $3.50. 900. and liabilities SlOo'
h. the principal creditor being the MliWauA
State Bank. Application was made IN
Court Of Chancery at Trenton n. j., for
receiver for the New Jersey Packing Co
pany. of Glasboro. The petition was illed
% n. Towe the treasurer. who says the
o' bllties are $33, 800 and the assets 81, OOV.-
y. Charles H. Schroeder, a miner, ageu lor
-. ~ five years and Andrew Sweniwich, his Ii
- - orer aged twenty-six, were killed by iall
W coal in the Delaware and Hudson colllery,
-: Plymouth. Pa IN drunken row aHio
-, number Of IIunSarians at Georgetown,
~ Joseph Kuprasaus was shot and killed Ie
~ Wassel and Frank Sickofchi were arrest
ao. charged with committing the crime. -
a yestgation shows that the penitentlary
~ Richmond, Va. is badly managed. Pick
81, 4 Co., oyster packers, q. Norfolk, assign
.nI Odd Fellows Day was celebrated
I,c York.
~ DEADLY DYNAMITE.