Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-03-13
THE NEWS.

| lev jumped the track and went over bridge
into ditch at Memphis, Tenn, and several
nersons were injured. steamer San
tiaco arrived at New York with the officer
and TWENTY-FIVE sailors Of the British steamer
Epworth, wrecked on Elbow Key, Abaco,
February 2O.-W. A. Cooke, jailer at Dan
vile. Va. was shot three times by George
Evans. a desperate negro awaiting transpor.
tation to the penitentiary for burglary
John O'Brien was stabbed In the heart dying
instantly, Joseph Sweeney was stabbed in
the kidneys, and fatally injured, and Charles
Fisher and Thomas Reaney were both fright
fully cut by eeloress ansn named George
Queen in front OF saloon In Philadelphia.
--W William Brockway, convicted in Tren-
ton, N. j., OF counterfeting, was given q
sentence Of ten years Imprisonment with a
thousand dollars fine; Mrs. Abbie Smith, four
years, and William Wagner, one year.
Two sensational ballots we're taken in the
legislature in Frankfort. KY, without result
Thomas S. Dayo. of the Riyerton Gun
Club. won the one-hundred yard bird handi-
cap at the grounds Of that club near Phila'
delphia. Judge Bell. in Hoilliaysburg,
refused to release Minnie Swanger, fourteen
years of age, accused Of murder. "A. Sallie
Watkins committed suicide in Richmond,
Va.
Mr. and Mrs. G.. Oldtouse, a carpenter,
and five children were burned to death In
Alma. Wis.--The courthouse at Wayne,
". Va. was burned; loss, $4,000. The
records were saved. Three green goods
men-Charles Herd, L. Grevias Vogle and
Frank Smith-were arrested in Chicago -
Lieutenant Barrett Of tho Royal Navy Re-
serves. has been appoin ed to the command
of the fleet of the Allen Line.-The United
Trust Company, of New York, entered suit
in Philadelphia agai S. the United States
Cordage Company and its receivers. .--Wm.
Etlinger. of Woodward, Pa, killed. himself
after a desperate fight with posse Of depu-
ties. who finally forced him from his house
by setting it on fire At Now Haven, Ct,
application was made for a receiver for the
Barnard & Sons COMPANY, OF Waterbury,
manufacturers of shears. The concern il
capitalized at $50 900. DR.. W. NJ i. Cop
lin. of Vanderbilt University, has been 'p-
pointed professor Of pathology and bacteri-
ology of Jefferson Medical College, Pnila-
deIphia. Compressed air has been intro
duced as q power in the Pullman palace car
| shops.-A gas we'll at Warrington, W. Va,
broke loose and caught fro with terrible re-
suits Pat Qninn was burne to deatH. J..
J. Mclaughlin fatally bgrned. Six others
were seriously burned.
Tie date Of the execution Of II. II. Holme'
convicted OF murderisg Benjamin T. Pltezel,
has been fixed for May THE Northwest
ern Normal School. with an enrolment o.
400 students from almost every state in the
Union. burned at Stansbury, Mo. Loss $50,
900; insurance $4,000. The students all es
caped. but lost their personal Effects
Hayden Compton, aged thirty-nve years
was killed by his uncle, James Stevens. a
Turkey Foot Church, West Virginia. An.
drew Wharton killed his wife in st. Louis
Eastern creditors of the Waldo Parl
Motor Railway Company of Kansas City have
asked that a receiver be appointed for tbs
property. The liabilities amount to abou
SIS. 900. more than half of which amount l.
represented by the complaining creditors
The Comptroller OF the Currency a
Washington has authorized the Second Ma
tional Bank OF Uniontown Pa, to begin bust
ness; capital $50, ,O00. A letter has been re-
ceived from Clara Barton saying she had re
ceived full permission from the Porte to g
into Armenia. The Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad will be reorganized. Cleve
land, Bushrod Kelch, who shot and killed hi
divorced wife last fall, was convicted of mur
der In the first degree. Il West
wholesale grocers at Fort Wayne, Ind, as
signed; liabilities $780, 600 to 800, 900; asset
500. 900 to $4,000. The firms indebtedness!
in Fort Wayne in paper is heavy. Vir
ginia legislature adjourned. Mabel Sulli
van, aged twenty-eight years, music teach
er. was murdered in Paterson. n. j.
Jokithl Uchida, japanese student at
Conell College, Mt. Vernon, committed sui
eide. Work is being hurrieds on the new
warships being built az the Cramps ship
yard. The barge Nile, OF New London,
was sunk, and Fred White, of Norfolk, was
drowned. The schooner Willie Ann was
wrecked on the Texas coast, and the cntir-
crew went down.-The will OF Mrs Eliza
beth W. Croft, containing many belues.s for
| lo1 in
The Illinois Supreme Court allowed tbs
Chicago Gas Trust to file petition for man
damus to compel the Secretary OF the State
10 issue it license to incorporate The wri
was made returnable in Ootober, but may be
brought up at this term OF court. THE
lhirty-thirI session Of the Washington An
nual Conference was begun in Charleston
W. Va. Governor MacCorkle male an ad
dress. Henry Shepherd. of near Shep
hcrdstowD. W. Va, was struck by freigh
train and died from the injuries received
Captain Oryin jerks, OF Morgantown, W
Va, slipped and fell, sustaining injuries t.
his spine. which resulted in his death. H
c. Flood. member OF the Virginia state Sen
ate, struck W. NJ. Flanagan, fellow mem
Der, with heavy walking stick. .-Thre
hundred tons of side armor were shipped b
Bethlehem Iron Company TO Russia. I'll
official dock trial OF the torpedo boat Erlcs
son was begun at New London, Ct.--Gen
cral William MoGfatt Reilly, who died il
Philadelphia last week, left fund for tn
erection OF statues to revolutionary heroes /