Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-06-26
THE NEWS.

A train near Kendalsyille, Ind, broke IN
two. and two shopmen- Sam c. Henderson
and q. f. ilier, Of Fort Wayne-were run
over and killed. A windstorm in Repub-
lie City. \. b., did much damage and result
"a in the loss of life Unknown tramps
shot and killed John Paul g1l Jacob Hayes,
of Wyoming, MInn. Wilham 'hailner, OF
st. Paul, Mimi, shot at but missed bis Wife,
killing his twenty -year-old SOD. Ho
then shot himself An imposing monu-
ment has been erected in Boston to the
memory of John Boyle O'Reily. deputy
Sheriff Robert Short while Cunning near
Ceredo, W. Va, accidentally shot himself
Judges Grant and Golf, Of the United
States Court in Parkersburg, decided against
the Boston syndicate which claimed large
tract in West Virginia George Huber,
aged sixty years, Frederick Huber, his son,
aged thirty-two years. and Harry Hentale1
were killed at a grade crossing 10y their
wagon being struck ley an Atlantic City eX-
press train at Absecon. Many houses and
factories in Poughkcepsie, n y, were Un-
rooted 10y tcrrih wind storm, and the
Burril machine works were struck by light
ning.-Tho American Institute of Home
opathy, IN session in Detroit, elected officers
and selected Buffalo az the place for holding
their next annual meeting. At Bayou
Goola. La. Mrs. Landry, a widow, was
stabbed through the throat and killed, and
Miss Madeline Hebert, her adopted daugh-
ter. received two cashes across the face at
the hands of unknown persons.
Frank Shafer, the young cOlOred man
who was convicted Of murder in the fNst
degree in being one Of the gang charged
with blowing up Hungarian shanty with
dynamite. in Wilmington, in 1894, by which
four men were killed, was sentenced 20 be
hanged. Abner Iclingsworth, farmer,
who lived near WoOddale, Del, was MUIR
dered. Two Italian quaryGen, who lived
in th' Italian colony, near WOOddale, have
been arrested Josephine Lower was
drowned in quarry, near Gettysburg, Pa
Dora Donegan and Jennie Monroe, da-
mond thieves, werc arrested at the Planters
Hotel in st. Louis. Henry S. Blank,
merchant, of Ruther Glenn, Va committed
suicide The commencement exercises at
Washington AMI Lee University, in LeXng-
ton, Va, wcro concluded ---Eugcne Bern
ache, o young French Canadian, was ar
rested in Nanistee, ich., on tho charge OF
being imp icatod in the killing by criminal
operation Of Sophirance Beauregard.--
The Brotherhood of Railway Engineers
asked for plank in the Republican pat
form endorsing national arbitratiOn.-S
Vincents Sanitariun, in Sante Fe, N. NJ,
conducted 10y Sisters Of Charity, was burned
and the hospital annex was gutted by the
fire The loss amounts to 100000 Insur.
anoe, 5000. Both institutions were
crowded with guests and patients, but there
were no fatalities.
The jury in the case of Henry B. Beecher,
charged with forgery, brought in verdict
of not guilty. Beecher is son Of the late
Henry Ward Beecher, and was tried in New
York. Lieutenant Peary arrived at New
York from ST. Johns, n. T.. on the steamer
Portia While at ST. Johns Lieutenant Peary
made arrangements to 50 to the Artic re-
gions on the whaler Hope, and expects to
sail in q month The battleship Texas,
which has been undergoing repairs at the
Norfolk navy yard, is now ready TO take her
place in the North Atlantic S1uadron,--
Recent ba-st0rms in North Carolina and
Tidewater Virginia did great damage to the
peanut crcp.-Albelt VI. Woods and
Richard Menzil were killed by coming in
contact with a live electric wire at a concert
garden in Philadelphia. In the United
States Circuit Court, Chicago, there was en-
tered decree for the sale Of the Chicago
and Northern Pacific terminal system Octo-
Der l. An upset price Of SO, ,OOO,O 600 has been
fixed 10y the coI pany for the property. Tho
reorgauization committee Of bOndhOldeTs
now no Il % per cent. of the securiti s, and
it will undoubtedly be the purchaser of tho
rood. Daniel Robinson. who was to have
been hanged at Aiken, S. c., for the murder
of Bland Watson killed himself 10y cutting
his throat with corset steel. el.--Captain
Charles d. Dickman, of the steamer Laur-
ada. was arrested in Philadelphia charged
with being implicated in an alleged flibus
tcring expedition --Uni.ed States Minister
Taylor has b en- instructed to ask reparatioD
from the Spanish government for the in dig
uity offered Dr. jose Delgardo.
WRYLER' QUEER PLANS.