Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-08-21
VOL. TX.
THE NEWS

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Ca, tain John H. Blassingame was A'''U
az hi, home in Spartansburg, 3. u y!
colored burglar, who was arres'eo
number Of persons were killed in Virginia Us
lightning. THE steamer Oceanie@ anu 'n'
propeller Wi liam Chisolm cOllided IN L"AV
ST Clair and both were sunk. All eA-
nrcss ;rain on the Chesapeake and ONO
road was deraied by train-wrecKers at ma
vensworth. Va.-Select Councilman WIZ
liam Abbott Wilmar, Of Reading, Pa, was
arrested on q charge Of bribery 1.-Two eil-
gineers and fireman were killed ln " he"N-
cpd collision on the & o. Southwestern
near Parkersburg, va.-R-JOhn Athey was
sandbagged a d robbed while asleep III h'S
livery stable in Keyser, W. Va u ne "'"O
body of an unknown woman was louilu n'".
picbmon5 O Fire gutted the Woodruh
hook in Rockford, I'll causing loss VI
over s1O0 O0O L. Goldman, who conducteo
denc,tment store. is the principal loser
Five bic firms Of Chicago made assignments
train on the Lake Shore was ~reckeu
near Otis. Ind, and the engineer ana nre-
NON killed.-The Menhaerset Hotel, al
Shelter Island. N. Y, was destroyed by hro'
Miss Celia Rose, of Mansfield, o., is 10
tail charged with poisoning her fSmlly'
1ones W Smith. cashier Of the Liberty SaV
,rcs Rank. Of Bedford City, Va, was SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment W.
Thompson, of Warrington, W. va, COM
roittod .ni,ide.--Frank Hall was tatahy
ond bis two children seriously injured IN
Wnliamsnort. Pa. by the falling OF the
front wall of a new building. Halls nro'hel
moo Il. owned two weeks ago in the river.
"A food did good deal Of damage IN 'n0
district around Pittshurg, and many lives
were lost.
George M d Isaac Ferguson, aged ten anu
eioht yea S respectively, we're drowned wnne
wading in the swift Waikiki River at "'"-
dletown. n. J. Their father was unaole u
,,vim and saw both OF them drown. Ohe u
<hohodios was recovered. -Four men were
snffocated by suphuric acid gas while a
work at the chemical works on the outskrU
o,Comden y. J--Pauline Wagner die'
tr,,, the effects Of the heat in New AOrk
and her husband Immediately aiterW"ru
roisoned himself. Lightning killed Nv
man at Sandusky. O.-One tramp was XII
cd and another probably fatally injured IN
oo,lision between two sections OF Gran
Trnnk freight train at Lansing, Mich
Fifty Hunrsrians, employees Of John Cal
stick & Sons, proprietors OF the print hiiis
Montville. n. j., struck because OF reuu
,,on in their wages. The men we're pa
what money was due them, and toid not
rotorn The management OF the LUZ
Bros Pulp Mill. Of Davis, in Piedmont
Va notified the men Of a cut In wages fro
s14Oto $40 per day. The men nave "
work and tic plant will probably be compe
ed 10 close.
Harry Apender shot and killed Hiss Wal
Fielder and V. Crossette in the streStS Oh %
Jose. Cul. He then attempted suicide
Eleven Dersons lost their lives by the owe
turninr of pleasure boats in Michigan a
ulinois--Three woman and two men We
drowned in the Delaware.--A runaW
trollev car on the Columbia and Dones
Railway in Lancaster, Pa, killed seven pc
ple and injured fifty more.--Lightni
s.rnck the house Of c c. Reppeto at Noun
ollie W Va tearing down chimney q
one end Of the house. a. NJ. Brown,
San Francisco, was drowned in the LII
Korawha near Wheeling while in bath
with party of friends.--The Plpe Or'
Coal and Iron Company, corporation
lno business in Belmont county, w. va,
o ;~4o +he hands OF q receiver.
Michael vacquiralla fatally stabbed
uorie penzille in Cleveland. An explo'
occurred at SomerfOrd's saw MILL az Nc
,o+a Tex. The dead are: Jim Winners,
Johnson. William Henry; Ned johnson
fatally scalded while Frank Somerloru'
uo,-v and Ned Henry were seriously D
Ths explosion was caused by the water
the boiler getting to low.--Johu Aoza
Nebraska farmer, set fire to straw aoout
ond then shot himself.-A Montpe
1Aobo three masked men held up the
officials and stole $40, ,0CO. The reslu
and drug store of D. W. Bonnell at HuD
civ miles north of Youngstown, o., was
o,arized The thieves secure S4OO IN
o,rv and medal, won by his son, w.
Bonnell. a bicycle rider. There is no eli
the nerpetrators. Alice iVarney and
Ellsworth were killed at eros ing /
Johnsburv. Vt.--GeOrge BrownsKc
,riod 70 murder Amos Morley fireman.
ouarry near Berea, 0.