Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-01
THE NEWS.

X. III
new battleship Massachusetts averaged 16 10
knots an hour on her trial trip, and her
builders, the Messrs. Cramp, win bonus OF
ann oOO. Charles Williams has confessed
10 the Norfolk police that he killed George
Pess on the schooner Caroline, but says that
he struck him In self-defense. Fire de-
stroyed property valued at nearly a million
dollars in Cripple Greek, Col. Several wo-
men we're badly burned. Buildings wero
blown up by dynamite to stay the progress
of the fire. BY the explosion Of boiler in
q sawmill at Flyton, Clsarneld county, Pa
three men were killed and several wounded,
I'm duel on the street in Huntsville
Ain. between Frank Coleman. editor OF the
Argus, and h. L. Spraggins, during which a
dozen shots we're exchanged, Coleman was
badly wounded. The Huntington (W.Fa.)
Glass Manufacturing Company went into tho
hands Of receiver. W. r. McGregor was
named as receiver 1t is the largest factory
in the state Mimic Allen, aged thirty
wears. serving a sentence in a Wisconsin
prson for burglary, has confessed that sho
shot and killed Montgomery Gibbs, lawyer,
on Arril 26, 1891, at Buffalo, n. y, for whose
murder Clarence Robinson and his wife are
now serving life sentences. Eight persons
wero seriously injured in collision between
two electric street cars at Bay City, Mich.
Charles Holmes, assistant cashier OF the
Merchants Bank at Lake City, Mimi, Is un-
der arrest in Worcester, Mass, awaiting the
arrival of an officer from Minnesota. He Is
charged with being fugitive from justice.
It Is alleged that he and his uncle, who was
cashier Of the bank, embezzled about $50, 900
Of the bank s funds. The uncle was arrested.
Captain T. D. Slattery, the well-known
elevator and general business man OF It.
Louis, was drowned at Kings Lake, on the
Keokuk and Great Western Railroad,
whittier he had gone on a fishing excursion
with a party OF friends. Patrick Breitigan,
a brakeman on the Reading and Columbia
Railroad, was instantly killed in wreck at
Mannheim, Pa, and Freight Conductor John
son received a broken arm AMI other severe
injuries. .-Linford G. Biles, sixty-four
years old, of Philadelphia, was instantly
killed by coming in contact with an electric
wire which crossed the roof Of his house,
aad his son was probably fatally injured
A skiff with nine men in it upset in tho river
near Charleston, W. Va, and three were
drowned. Thrty-three persons in Pitts
burg were poisoned by eating impure food
All have recovered. Mrs. Edward
Miller. living near Alliance, o., was fright
ened to death during a storm. Bob Ken"
nedy, sheriff of Dallas county, Ala, shot and
Killed Percy Wood OF Montgomery.
Owing to the depressed condition Of the
metal market and the light demand for spei-
ter, the Cherokee-L -Lanyon Spelter Company,
which controls majority of the great zinc
smeiters Of the country, will shut down
twelve or fifteen furnaces in Kansas and Mis-
souri,. Dob Chambers, a desperate negro,
who robbed q house and burned barn at
Bellevue farm, near Cranberry, N. c., was
taken from officers at Knoxville, Tenn, tied
to a tree and shot to death. The safe OF
Madison, Ohio, bank was blown open with
dynamite. The tools used were taken from
the railroad station-house. Six men were
seen to leave the bank Immediately after the
explosion. C. o. Brown, pastor oi
the First Congregational Church, of San
Francisco, has been suspended by the Bay
Conference until he shall have proved his In
nocence Green Bentley's wholesale
store the bank building adjoining, Lacey
building and Strasberger's dry goods store
in Oskaloosa, Iowa, were burned. Loss
$50, 900; insurance, $40, ,OO0 "A gift of 300, =
900 was received at Harvard from an un'
known donor for tho establishment of de-
partment of comparative pathology. tom
ductor Hixenbaugh was arrested in Mounds
VILE, W. Va, on tho charge of causing thu
death of Adam J. Fisher, by knocking hin
from a train.
James Gillespie, son OF minister OF Hamp-
ton, w. Va, was attacked while on his way
home from church by an unknown negro and
stabbed to death. In view of the proposed
Confederate veteran reunion In Richmond
In May n number of new Confederate veteran
organizations are being formed in Virginia
The Pennsylvania Company for Insuran
ces on Lives and Granting Annuities applied
to the United States Court in Philadelphia
for a decree for the sale Of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad upon foreclosure 0
the general mortgage. Barney Nelll wa
sentenced to eighteen years hard labor fo
murderousy assaulting Mr.. and Miss Davis
at thei- cottage in Atlantic City, N. i'll
Greer county, o. T., Il. T. Anderson, lntel
from Belleville, H., quarreled with his EN-
ployer, H O. Buckley, and fatally wounded
him. Anderson fled to the woods, and whel
O posse went after him, he shot Constab
Ferris and kept the crowd at bay for hours
He was finally captured. BY the collision
of two trains on the Pittsburg division Of th
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad at Galitzin tunnel
three men were badly injured and anumbe
Of cars we're destroyed, the wreck takin
fre.--Firo at Manchester, Ct. destroye
property valued Mt 100000. The heayies
loss was on the tobacco warehouses of Hark
man Brothers (s35,OO0.) The origin of tn
Gre is believed to hayebeen incendiary.
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ELEOTROOUTBD ON HIS ROOF.
Foreman of the Jury Which Convicted Holmes Ir