Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-07-31
THE NEWS.

The striking tailors of New York city held
meetings and decided to ignore any attempt
to compromise. Twenty thousand people
are now idle on account of the strike
Roach and Hutchinson, young desperators
who escaped from the reformatory at Hunt
ingdon, Pa, are giving the authorities
lively chase. Ono was shot and wounded by
an officer. Both are hiding in the mountains
near Chambersburg. w Whilc crossing a
ra lroad track near Lancaster, Pa in
buggy, Enos N. Barge, aged twenty-one
wears. and Barbara Hershey, a young
woman, were struck by a train and the girl
instantly killed and the man fatally hurt.--
MANY lives we're lost in the floods that swept
down upon the town of Morrison and Golden
in the foothills near Denver, Col.-Firc
swept the lumber yards In Cheboygan, Mich.
Between five and six million feet OF lumber
was destroyed. The principal losers are
| Monroe Boyce & Co., Ward Bros, Theodore
Hine aud Swift Bros -Singl adyo-
Gates who have been imprisoned in the jail
at Dover, Del will bring suit against the
city for damages for alleged illegal impris-
onment.
Founders day was observed at Cleveland
which is now celebrating its centenary.--
Lea Horner and Miss Bessie Kane, Of Bur-
lngton, N. J while rowing were run down
and drowned. d.-Lawrence Murphy, feath-
erweight boxer of Saginaw, Mich was be-
headed by freight train.--Mrs. Moore, OF
New Martinsville w. Va, has been arrest
ed, charged with poisoning her stepson.-
Near Royston, Ga. Dave Bergman, while
drunk, killed his wife, three children and
self-Mrs. G. f. Cummings, OF Boston,
was given Knockout drops by woman in
Chicago and robbed. d.--Charles II. Edge,
who killed Henry w. Appleton, his former
acquitted on examining trial before Judge
Bullock.at Lexington, Ky. Col. Breckenridge
was his attorney, but the defense was SC
clearly established that no argument was
made.--Wm. NJ. Pawling OF Hagamau, N.
Y. a knit goods manufacturer, has made ar
assignment. .-George Lawrence, photo
grapher, was shot with his own pistol while
attempting the life of his wife.-Terrinc
transforms in West Virginia caused rivers
and creeks to overflow, and railroad and
other bridges were washed away A mum.
Der of towns were inundated.
Renorts comes from Pike county, Ky, that
In n flght between party OF revenue men,
under the command Of Kid Greer, Of Floyd
county. and moonshiners, on Elkhorn Creek,
three of the raiding party and two OF tho
moonshiners were shot, though how badly
is not known.-At Rockford, ILL.,, James
French. tailor, murdered his wife, and then
ottcmDted suicide Three men lost their
lives in the fire at the car barns oil the
Chicago Street Railway Company. The bo-
dies we're discovered in the ruins after day
ugbt t-Because her husband abused her,
Mrs Henry Millhouse, Of Chicago, tiled to
drown herself and her four children.-By
the EXPLOSION Of lantern in the oil-room, IN
the basement of the Henry A. Hale building,
n four-story brick block In Salem, Mass, e
fire was started which caused damage
amounting to $780, "A. ]. Call and Net
tie Call his daughter, were killed near Hunt
,ncton w Va. Eta Robbins is in JAIL ac-
cnsed Of the murder The President has
oomp,uted the death sentences imposed on
thraa Texans who were convicted Of mdrder
% lifs-irnnrisonment.- The gold reserve
went below the ninety million marx owing 70
withdrawals but no alarm is felt by treasury
officials who regard the drain as entirely
abnormal. besides, New York banks nave
ooreed to furnish the government with all
tho GOLD necessary.- The Park Theatre, the
barrett House and number OF other Duilo-
incs at Henderson, Ky, were burned. LOSS
about $1,000 900
In the United States Court at st. Paul,
Mimi. the Iowa anti-cigarette law was de-
clared unconstitutional, the grounds given
for the decision being the same as in the
liquor original package law.-John Bryde,
who murdered Andrew Peterson, was hanged
in Brainerd Minn.-Moses st. Clair, a
colored man, is charged by Arthur Peterson
sixteen-year-old boy, with inducing him to
leave st. Paul, Mimi, and assist in commit
ting robberies The Nova Scotia authori-
ties have consented to the return OF Captain
Nash's alleged murderers without recourse to
extradition proceedings. In Chicago Har-
ry Rudolph, aged eleven, struck Grover Han
SOD, aged nine, with his fist, and the latter
fell dead One workman was instantly
killed and another fatally injured by the fall
ing of dome in Chicago.--The flood along
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West
Virginia caused the tunnel mile east OF
Cairo to cave in. The other railroads also
lost heavily by bridges and trestles being
washed away In the towns OF Grafton and
Weston serious damage was done to business
houses by the ndation.-Eugene Volt
committed suicide in Alexandria by taking
paris green, n,-Theodor G. Gleason, father
OF "Kid' Gleason, was seriously hurt in Cam
den by freight car.
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