Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-08
THE NEWS.

John Mackin, who murdered his wife and
ber mother Mrs. Bridget Conners. In Jersey
City on February ~ was condemned to be
hanged June 18 in the court house OF Hud
son county, N. J.-The fast west-bounG
mail on the Northern Pacific met an east
hound cattle train near Livingston, Mon,
Srecking both trains. Engineer Tanning,
Of the cattle train, was killed, and his fire
man. P. Mcclellan; Engineer De Groat, Fire.
man McClairville, asleeping-car porter anG
several others were badly hurt. FRED
Douglass surrendered himself in Nelsonville
O.. where he had killed his brother-in-law
Dow Willum Insurance Commissioned
John C. Linehan, OF New Hampshire refused
to hermit the Iron Hall Of Baltimore to dc
business In that state. Guy Lindsey, ar
octor in Louis James company, was horse
whipped on the stage OF a theater in Colum
bus. o., infull.s view Of the audience, by n
woman named Georgia Kimball, OF st. Louis
The Southern New Jersey Railroads
owned by the Pennsylvania, were consoli
dated. d.-Adoph Comins, q travelling sales
man, employed by NJ. Cooper, mysteriousiJ
disappeared. Louis Drake. white, shoi
Albert Neal, colored, at the race track ne~
Louisville.
Charles Kuhu, the St Louis real estate
agent who embezzled Sl37,O 900 from his
clients, has left no clue to his whereabouts.
-Rainstorms in Wisconsin, Iowa and Ne
braska did considerable damage PROF.
Rowe, OF the Wesleyan Female College, OF
Macon, Ga, has been elected president OF
Martha Washington College, at Abingdon,
Va, Vice Prof Barker, resigned. William
Scarborough Joseph Heidclbranch, Mrs.
Lucinda Williamson and Charles Gran
berry were killed by a coudturst at Waldo,
O. Damage is reported in other quarters.
The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld
the validity OF the Maupln anti-racing law OF
tho state, but discharged from custody Lacey
whose case was brought to test the law on a
technical question Of jurisdiction. - Strik-
ing cloaknakers attacked non-unionists in
| Cleveland. "A cyclone struck North Da-
kota, wiping out the town of Epiphany, kill
ing n number of persons and destroying
much property. the case OF Scott jack
son, at trial at Newport. KY, for the murder
of Pearl Bryant, DR.. Edward Freeman testi-
fed that she had been decapitated while
alive. General r. P Hammond, Jr.,
brother of John Hays Hammond, was pros
| trated upon Learning in San Francisco Of his
brothers sentence. .-Jephtha d. Howe, the
lawyer who was indicted with Holmes for
conspiracy to defraud the Fidelity Mutual
Life Insurance Company, went free in Phil
adelphia on an agreed verdict of not guilty.
General Fitzhugh Lee qualified as con-
sui general to Cuba before Commissioner
| Adkins In Richmond. number OF dis
tingulshed guests will attend the banquet OF
the Sons OF the American Revolution In
Richmond. &C. V. Clash committed suicide
In Richmond. d.-Governo Hastings, OF
Pennsylvania, refused to grant a respite IL
the case OF Ii. Fl. Holmes.
1t Is claimed by electricians Of the Univer-
tity OF Missouri that rays kills the diph-
iberia bacteria. John L. CowaD, who dis
appeared from Pittsburg leaving debts to
the amount of $2OJ 900, was caught In
Guatemala.-A runaway team attached to
hack dashed into a crowd Of children who
werc emerging from st. Anthonys Church
School in Milwaukee. Twenty-Five OF the
little ones were prostratei, seven were badly
injured and two of them will probably die.
After sensational trial extending over
several weeks, the jury in the case of ex-
City Treasurer Bolln, of Omaha, Neb. was
discharged, being unable to agree. They
Wood nine for conviction and three for ac-
Quittal Henry Bolln was charged with mis-
.ppropriating 3115,O0O of Omaha funds
The body Of Dora Wagner was found In bed
In her room in st. Louis, Mo- The body
presented evidences that the woman had
been choked to death, and Ju Junk, O
Chinese gambler, with whom the woman
lived, is suspected of having committed the
Iced. He has been arrested William
ltanley and P. Smithe were seriously injured
by falling sixty feet from the basket of a
cable conveyor across the Eanawha River,
u Point Pleasant, W. Va
Louise Adams, aged thirty-6ve years and
Anna Shimp, aged fourteen years, were
drowned in the Delaware river, between
Philadelphia and Camden, N. j., by the cap
sizing Of a boat-The West Virginia G. A.
R. State Encampment concluded its session
at Clarksburg, and decided to rect next
year at Wheeling. The annual congress
of the National Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution convened at Richmond
ga-Scott Jackson testified in his own
behalf at his trial at Newport, Ky, for the
| murder of Pearl Bryant. nt.-Ex-Postmaster
General Thomas l.. james was married in
aiken, S. c.. to Mrs. Jeanne Freehurn Bar
den. Emanuel Ningcr, the countcrleiter
now in custody in New York, has had two
bills Of indictment found against him fol
making counterfeit money at Slagtowni
Somerset county, N. ]. The indictment
charges him with making bills OF $40 and s5(
denominations -Robert Campbell, OF Den
yer. shot himself because he lost all his pos
sessions by the fire at Cripple Creek. -
Helen Dauvray, formerly the wife of John
NJ. Ward. the ball player was married Ia
San Francisco to Lieutenant Albert G. Win
terhalte, of the cruiser Bennington. The
b. & O. cannon-ball express was derailed
near Washington, Pa. A fireman was killed
Bill Taylor. murderer OF the Meeks fam
fly, was hanged at Carrollton, Mo.-The
Illinois Republican convention instructed the