Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-04-10
THE NEWS.

At Eastland. Wis, the boiler IN the saw
mill blew up, killing Mr.. Eastland, his son,
and Mr.. Keith IA. G. Probert. mayor and
a wcll-known banker of Washburnc. Wis,
has bccn arrested on a charge Of embezzle-
ment preferred by Cashier Hutson, Of tho
Bank Of Lodi. He gave bonds in the sum OF
81 600 At Elizabeth, N. j., George Polct-
.hieck was fatally stabbed in a, drunken
fight with Michael Morris. Morris alleges
that he acted in self-defense. The Wei
land Port Flour Mills, In Welland Port, Ont,
we re burned to the ground, with their con-
fonts. Loss sl25,OOO; insurance small
Judge Baker, of the Supreme Court in Chi
cago, issued a stay in the case OF tine Meadow
croft brothers. who were convicted OF re-
ceiving deposits after they knew that theii
bank was insolyent THIS will result in
new trial.-R. S. Williams, clerk OF the
Circuit Court at Carthage, Tenn, shot and
seriously wounded Clarence W. Garrett, g
lawyer and Populist politician. .--Rudolph
Muller, a grocer of Louisville, KY. fired two
barrels Of shotgun into his wifes face be-
cause she had filed suit for divorce from him
She will die. Their three children witnessed
the shooting. Joseph Williams was ar
rested on the charse Of stealing copper bands
from the Ocean View Trolley road.--Tho
sawmi.l near Sax 5 Fostof1ice, Va, owned b.;
D. c. Jeremy, was destroyed by fire.
Three more persons are reported to have
lost their lives in Kentucky by the cloud
burst.
Five prisons were hurt ia a railroad
wreck, near Freeport, Pa.-By a boiler
explosion. near Cincinnati, W. r. Fitzwater
and Earnest Martin wero Killed and Fred
Groves Sam Fitzwater and Milla Fitzwater
we're badly injured. Carl Thorn. motor
ious outlaw, was killed at Dover, Oklahoma,
by a Ul;ted States deputy marshal. "A
man, thought to be Major b. Frank Hean,
of Lebanon county, Pa, was found dead
near Osbourne, Australia. Adam X.
Dietz, of Richmond, Ind, was arrested at
Lebanon, Pa, charged with embezzlement.
Fire partly destroyed the feed ware
house of Henry B. Casscl, Philadelphia.
The loss will be 500, 900 on stock and build
ing. James L Webb's adjoining coal yard
was damaged to the extent Of $1,000. Both
are insured. d.-Northern Wisconsin was
swept by terrible snowstorm. "A rain
storm did considerable damage in Tennessee
and Kentucky.--TLe castbOund cannon
ball train of the St. Louis and Frisco Rail
road was held up near Lebanon, Mo-, and
the Wells, Fargo & Co express ear robbed.
Two boilers in the Planters Oil Mill at
Greenvillc. Miss, exploded killing five men
and seriously injuring others.
Burke and Harry Bennett were fatally hurt
bv an explosion of gas at Sugar Notch, Pa.
Charles Carter, aged twenty, clerk in
store. was murdered IN Lancaster county
Virginia
Eight inches Of snow fell in Colorado ---
The big dam in he Lehigh River at White
Haven. Pa. burst, and property to the value
of 65 600 was destroyed Only seventy
one out of nincty-cight coal mine operator
in tbe Pittsburg district signed the uniform
rate agreement. and if it is not ratified there
will be reduction in wages at seVera
ooincs.-The CLARK Mile End Thrca'
Works. in Kearney, near Elizabeth, n. j.
shut down, because Of n strike OF the plecer'
and creelers. Alfred Hand was reported
to have teen murdered by Indians nea
Wilcox, Arizona. "A colony OF TURKS II
Quincy. H., is securing na'uralzatlol
roners-The Supreme Court Of Missouri
approyed the sentence of the Iayio
hrothers. convicted of numbering the Meek'
fa,nilv.-The Gutter Silk Manufacturing
COMPANY. of West Bethlehem, Pa, failed
Suit has been filed in the United State
Circuit Court in Denver, Col, by the inter
state Commerce Commission, invoking I'll
aid Of the law to enforce its orders agains
tnn Western railroads. 1t Is proposed L
comrel these common carriers to deslst Irol
determinations in freight rates between lon
and short hauls. Mrs. NJ A. Stockton
who was one Of the prominent figures In tn
recent scandal involving Rev. c. 0. Brown
Of the First Congregational Church, In Sa
Francisco has been expelled from Tn
church. Mrs. Olga Deuss killed hersel
and her three children in San Francisco.
Miss Chic Ruehlen, a wealthy orphan
Belefontainc, Ohio, disappeared from Der
yer suddenly-In row at Carro|ltol
Mo-. Ole Ecton was killed. Fire at Ori
kany Falls, n. Y, destroyed one busine
block The Opera House, Union School an
Sargent House were badly damaged. Los
$4,000 William Fleming was put in ia
at York on the charge of stealing hors
cart and harnes The store Of W.
Alther near Woodstock Va, was burne'
loss GG,OOO-A score or more Of The lea
Ing steel manufacturers met in New Iori
and formed IN asso :iation for protection {
their interests. Fire destroyed part
the business section of Brunswick, Ga
causing an estimated loss of SjO0,OOO,
which there is an insurance of about TlOo
900 M Annie Morton, assistant pos
mis- lrcss at West NewIleld, Maine, plead
guilty of embezzlng postofllco funds
Mrs. Emma f. Browne, aged fifty, W
killed by trolley car at Wheeling, w. '
At Montgomery, W Va, B. W. Moore,
LAWYER. and ex-Mayor H. C. Montgcmel
had duel in the street. Moore was sh
twice.