Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-06-05
THE NEWS.


Six persons were killed and number of
ho.ses destroyed by tornado at Pawnee,
Okla.-Three lives were lost any many
persons hurt by the storm that passed
through Montgomery county, Pa.--The
new national committee of the Prohibition
party made arrangements for the campaign
Scott Jackson WAS sentenced to be
hanged June so IN tho United States
Court in Philadelphia Herman Kux was
found guilty OF smugg ing diamonds. -
ToHy Scarowettte in Cleveland, o., stGbEc@
Caroline Abbey and then killed himself
Assignee Irwin French has filed In Rockford,
ILL.,. schedule of the Rock ford Watch ON
pany for record in the county court. The
assets are s26j, 900. There is a real estate
mortgage on the factory to secure the bonds
of the company to the amount Of Sl5O,OO0
Lemuei c. Porter, engaged in the manuiac-
ture and sale of -four in Wintan, Mimi,
under the name of the L. c. PorteE EFOui
Company, made a voluntary assigr'l'n' ~
IT. c. Balcom. Estimated asses F-oo. ooo'
md liabilities same.-The diamond Match
Factory in Wilmington shat down. Archie
Brown. colorcd, was caught in the ropes oi
m ascending bal Don in Martinsyille, Va,
and killed THE schooner Mary G., from
st. Johns, n T., to Salon. Mass, was
wrecked on the Massachusetts coast
me city Of ST. Louis was swept by d To-
na6o. which demolished a number Of hotels
and other substantial buildings, and sunk
some excursion boats. The number ol dead
and Injured is estimated at one thousand
Six pcrsops were murdered by James
Dunham near st. Jose, Cal.--Ihe Nor
weigian bark Brodrene was wrecked half
milo from Whistle, n. S., and five Of tho
orc,v ,vns drowned. The Lutheran College
for the Southern States will be built at Char
lotte. n C.-At Victoria, b. c., an electro
car fell through a bridge. 1t is believed over
one hundred people wero killed. SiXty-)fe
were fourd Tho trial was begun in Phil
alcl2h of Herman Kcck, accused OF snug
Cling diamonds The authorities Of Salt
Lake have MT yet succeeded in lJcating Rev.
Francis Iiermans, suspected Of murder --
The third biennial congress of tho Central
Federation Of Women's Clubs WAS begun at
Louisvilc.--Fire at Sherman, Texas, caus-
ed Il 10 S of Sl35, ,OcO At Philadelphia Ira
Sanborne, thought to be insane. killed his
child and fatally beat his wfo--IIcnry {.
Cranston. banker and president of the Prov
idcnce (R. l.. Telephone Company, died in
that city, aged 7O.--Anna Cornella, OF En-
terprise, IA, aged four, died of hydro
lhobia.
NJ. Gump was arrested in Omaha, charged
with accepting bribcs as a juror to acquit
Henry Bolin. Omaha's ex-city treasurer,
who was convicted of stealing S11O, 900 from
the city. The first jury, of which Gump was
a member, disagreed The Guarantee
Loan and Trust Company of Seattle Wash,
made an assignment, naming Jacob Further,
President OF tho Puget Sound Aa!ionaLBank,
as assignee. 1t has been known for somo
time that tho bank would not last lnjudic-
ious loans on Washington property 10
blamed The bank was organized in 1857
with a capital Of $1,000
Samuel Holloway was robbed and MUIR
dered near Suffolk. Va, and his body placed
on the railroad track to conceal the crime
Martin Frost's wife and three children
we're murdered in their home near Harrison
onyille. Mo-
Tornadoes and heavy rain-storms con-
tlnue to destroy lifo and property in Iowa
and Michigan The aggregate number OF
killed will exceed two hundred persons, end
probably twice that number were more OF
less injured. THE steamer Katharine was
caught in a storm near Cairo, H., and
number OF the passenger and crew
drowned.
Alfred Won Meter fatally shot hs wife,
who had left him. in Philadelphia. and then
tried to commit suicide. Fire did damage
to the amount of $3.50, 900 in Deseronto'
Ont.-Edwin Bethel, who killed his wife,
died in the iail I'm Hartford Conn.