Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-07-10
THE NEWS.

Two yawls going from shore at Cincinnati
to a steamer, capslzed at the foot OF Broad
way from the swell OF Il passing steamer,
and threw seven men into the river. Two OF
them were drowned-Louis Johnson and
another whose name Is wn.--William
Kelly, Of Utica. n T., was struck by vehicle
at Santa Barbara, Cal and fatally injured
=the jury In the case Of John D. Hart,
Captain John OBrieh, Mate Edward Muir
bhy and Colonel Emilio Nunez, OF the steam
ship Bermuda charged with violation OF the
neutrality laws, in aiding and abetting mil
itary expedition to Cuba, rendered a sealed
statement of disagreement to Judge Brown
In the United States Circuit Court at New
York. Sa ta Fe, n NJ, the jury in tho
case against James Addison Peraltn-Reayis,
charged with attempting to defraud the gov
ernment with an alleged Spanish grant COW
ering twelve acres of llnd in Arizona re.
turned a verdict Of guilty Five alleged
counterfeiterrs were arrested in st Louis by
secret service detectives.
Samuel A. Lansing, OF Bridgeport, N. j., has
been summarly removed for violating the
civil service laws, and will also be presented
criminally. Charles Williams, colored, at
tempted to murder his wife at Atlantic City
and them commi ted suicide He was slight
ly d9mented John i. Speering agent oj
the Adams Express Company at EastOn, Pa
I l.. l., ,~I,/ oolf In q
mouth with a revolver. He was fOrty-nine
years Of age and unmarried. Bad health is
supposed to be the cause.
Rev. Ronard D Worth, OF New York, vas
divorced in Oklahoma Territory from his
wife -Beniamn Huff, Of Bootjdck Ind,
shot bis daughter in.aw and killed HIN 3 ~
The five men comprising the Buck gar
gero executed at Fort Smith, Ark. "A. W.
Barro and others, accused in Tampa, Fla,
of nlibustering, were discharged. .-Crezon-
20 Merolo was executed mt Scranton, Pa,
or the murder OF Emanuel Loro. Natalie
Mayser. aged fourteen years, OF New York,
reader OF sensational literature, set fire to
,hurch"to see the flremen and horses 1t
s said that the Cla'k and Coates thread
Arms have decided to ANA gamate. The
" rk OF recovering the bodies OF the miners
IN the Pittston (Pa.) mine is progressing
rapidly. but 1t is not believed that any VIII
oe rescued alive William Jarshutz, con-
,icted Of manslaughter in shooting and kill
nc Robert Wilson, cOored, was sentenced
% four months Imprisonment to the Par
IONS county (W. Ya.) ail.-The business
men of Charlestown, w. Va, have organized
an association for the purpose o. inducing
manufacturing enterprises to locate there
Governor MacCorkle, Of West Virginia,
las announced himself as a candidate for
Wee President on the democratic ticket -
s[r. Garret A. Hobart, vice e-presdentSl
lominee, was the guest Of Presidential Con-
lidate Mckinley, at Canton, Ohio. Mr..
Albert Hager, republican, was renominated
,or Congress by Ginth Iowa district conyen-
ton
The history committee Of the United Con-
federate Veterans met in Richmond, and de-
cided to recommend that a monument be
erected to the women OF the South.--The
sheriff OF Wilmington, Del, seized the gas
plant owned by J. Edward Addlcks, in that
city. who has refused to pay taxes upon 1t
because 1t is not in operation Sadie
McKeen, OF New York, committed suicide in
Philadelphia hotel by shooting herself
through the heart.-An overcrowde0
pier at Marine Park, Boston, collapse J., and
thirty people were thrown into the water,
two of whom were drowned. "A number
of miners engaged in trying to reach the
hundred entombed men in the Twin Shaft,
at Pittston, narrowly escaped similar fate.
Water has begun to pour into the slope, and
old miners have abandoned all hope OF saw
inc their comrades who were caught in the
ye-in.--The rise in West Virginia rivers
did great damage to the fields Of grain in
the valleys. The schooner Norma, from
Kodiakata. arrived at Port Towns nd,
Wash. with thirty-hve stranded miners
aboard. who pronounced Cooks In ct min
ing boom hzzle. Over {, 500 miners are at
the inlet stranded and unable to obtain en-
ployment, and supplies are going rapidly.
At Newport, KY, Judge Helm overruled
the motion for a new trial for Alonzo wall
ing convicted as an an accompllce Of Scott
Jackson IN the murder of Pearl Bryan.
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