Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-15
THE NEWS.


ings we're burned Mt Sebree KY -T,Ihe TEX
tile mill Of Samuel Riddles Sons, at Glen
riddle Pa. was destroyed by fire. The loss
is s13O 900. insurance 10000. The depart
mepts DESTROYED we're the weave rooms, two
mule rooms, the card and picker rooms
boiler and dye houses and cloth room
Wilson Ely, a live stock dealer OF Chambers
burc Pa. committed suicide.--The 12o
anniversary of the American Sunday School
rrnion was celebrated at the United Congre-
cational Church, at New Haven, Conn.
Mad dogs at Palatine and Sistersyille,W W Va,
bit several persons. s.-Justice Garrison d.
rected the grand jury of Jersey City to take
mn the charges Of corruption against City
Treasurer Frank +. Michellon. n.-Henry
Rolls citv treasurer of Omaha, Neb., was
convicted OF embezzlement. Fire destroyed
valuable milling property in Ashland, WIS
Five thousand people saw Mike Rae,
colored. executed at Birmingham, Ala, 1or
the murder of Angus McSwean and his Wite'
An open switch caused freight train 10
run into a shifting engine at the Portsmouth,
Va. ward of the Seatoard Air Line.--A Nj
S. HiIgari. committed suicide In Spokane
Wash.-A terrific storm swept through
South Dakota. Annie Anderson was snot
by Joseph Graham in Trenton, NJ D., VINO
then killed himself.
Tho schooner Norma, bound from San
Francisco for the South Seas, is probably
lost.--George c. Haag, member OF sui
eide club. poisoned himself with stryehnine
in San Francisco. .- Patrick j. Sexton,
| Chicago millionaire, has been indicted by
the federal grand jury. The charge is con-
spiracv. Father Kolaszewski, OF the lnde-
pendent Catholic Church, of Cleveland, Is
ready to transfer the church property and
congregation TO the Methodist Church.
Rodgers. Il colored desperate, was shot and
fatally injured at Sybene, o., while burglar
izing the postolllce in J.. c. Crawford
store-Fred Crawford, sixteen years old,
did the shOoting.-Henry Feipel, an en-
ploye of the Lancast Pa, Caramel Com
panv. was crushed to death. The l,2O0-
ton foor-master schooner Daniel B. Fearing,
with q cargo Of coal went ashore about a
mile north of the Highland Light Station, In
Massachusetts. The crew of nine men were
saved 10y tho lte-savers. The vessel Will
problbly be a total loss. The Pennsyl-
vania and Cumberland Valley Railroads are
at work on the proposed extension into
the coal regions Pred Crawford sh)t and
killed Kintley Rogers, one OF two men who
was trying to burglarz) his store James
Juenc% and his wife were arrested in Wheel
irc. W. Va, on the charge of robbing the
Maxwell Mansion.
The Citizens Bank. one of tho oldest bank
in Union City, Ind, closed for want ot funus
The last dollar was paid out, and the audito
of state notified. Liabilities, $4,000; assets
sl35. 1000 Cause of failure, inability to col
lect and scarcity of money.-Gamble Broth
ers & Co.. extensive lumber dealers at High
land Park. KY, have assigned to the Fldelt
Trust Company. No statement of assets an
liabilities was made. Delk, leade
of a notorious gang OF outlaws, who has bee
wanted for several weeks for the murder q
the sheriff Of Pike County, Ga, was capture
near Senoa by Detective Looney, OF the Al
lanta police force. e.-Romulus Cotell, tn
self-confessed murderer of the Stone family
at Tallmadge, six weeks ago, was arraigne'
in Akron, O., before Common Pleas Judg
J. A. Kohler, and pleaded not guilty. In
Judge appointed Attorneys Z. F. Voris an
Harvey Musser to defend him. .-Melchoi
Heiser committed suicide in York, Pa
George Young. Of Bethlehem, Pa, blew on
his brains. The Methodist General Con
ference passed resolution opposing apprc
nriations to se:tarian Indian schools
Homer Judd. of the Chicago ana for
Worth Packing Company, was arrested L
Fort Worth. on the charge of violating III
Interstate Commerce law.-R. ID. Hupuar
the head Of the Linseed Oil Trust, has sue
ceeded. with the aid of the Pillsburys, in PEI
fecting great milers' combine -heV. L
D. Morris, the head OF the Lane Theoioe'c'
Seminary at Cincinnati will be succeeded .
Rev Henry Goodwin Smith, OF Freeholu'
J.-Davil Smith n retired missionary
committed suicide at Hamilton, n Y.--H
II. Holmes. the murderer, was hanged
Philadelphia The round houses an
twelve locomotives belonging to the Quee
and Crescent Railroad Company, at Somei
set. KY, were destroyed by fire; loss, Sjoo
O0O fully insured. During an electr
storm that passed over East Berlin, Thoma
Vile and Abbottstown. Pa, an unknown ma
was struck dead and several other person
stunned. "A. A. Stetson. Of Philadelphia
aged forty years. attempted suicide In
hotel at Cape Charles City. Ya.-The Cr
stal Lake Point Works. at Westmont, n )
owned by James Flynn & Co., were destroyt
by fire. The loss is estimated at from SlS
900 to $50 900. BY vote of 425 to 9S II
M.E. General Conference adopted the repo
of the committee on eligibility, and refers Il
woman question back to the annual conte
ences. to be voted on again.--A jury at I
lumbus. Ohio, In the case OF Ohio vs. eX-Sta
Senator John L. Geyer, OF Pauding, lndlct
for alleged solicitation of bribes, returned
verdict of not gulty.
ALL READY TO ADJOURN.