Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-05-18
THE NEWS.


Towerman Frank Lamtell slept at his post
and allowed one freight train to crash ih.o
another in the Baltimore and ONO tupnei'
near Philadelphia. The engineer and nre-
man and two tramps were killed.
Philadelphia jury awarded to Mrs.
Elizabeth G.. Reading, OF Williamsport, IA,
$25. 900 damages for the alienation OF Inc
affections Of the plaintiffs husband.
1t is announced that construction OF the
Reading. Lancaster and Baltimore Railroad,
to connect at Perryville, Md, with the Bal
timore and Ohio will be made.
The Methodist General Conference, In ses-
sion in Chicago, discussed and acted upon
number OF proposed changes In the organic
law.
George J. Burgham was arrested In Ne"
York for embezzling $10,214 from the NC
Kinley Music Co. in New York.
The Board OF Foreign Missions reported
that it will close the fiscal year free from
debt and with balance of 81, 1897.
Two freight trains on the Lackawanna
collided, and Engineer William Eschenbach
was killed.
Twenty-Five hundred miners in Michigan
went on strike.
John Wanamaker gave out statement IN
which he makes the sensational charge that
A. L. English, director OF public safety in
Philadelphia, in an attempt to silence the
attacks of the North American upon the adj
ministration OF Mayor Ashbridge, threatened
to retaliate by publishing af1davits directed
against the personal character of Mr. Wana-
maker.
Charles Robinson. who killed John
O'Neill, who was about to elope with Robin
sons wife, was acquitted in Huntingdon,
Pa, the defense being emotional insanity.
Charles A. Towne, the Fusion Populists'
candidate for Vice President, says he will
not accept the Democratic nomination ex-
cept on 16.to-1 platform.
report that the Pennsylvania Railroad
had arranged to borrow SIS, 100000 is be.
lieyed to be true despite the emphatic de-
NAL of President Green.
James Baxter, of Wilmington. Del, who
killed Mrs. Ryan in Camden. n. j., was SEN
fenced to 20 years Imprisonment,
Philip C. Dresser, a New York policeman,
was killed by his wife.
Mrs. Annie Gumbert in New York killed
her child and herself.
Officers of the American Steel and Wire
Company have authorized the announce.
ment that John Lambert has resigned the
presidency and John W. Gate tie chairman.
ship of the board of directors Of the com
pany.
Governor Stephens. OF Missouri tried to
bring about arbitration of the s:reet-railway
strike In st. Louis, but the railway official:
said they had nothing to arbitrate. Cars
were run under police protection.
The Middle-o'-the-Road Populists, In con.
vention In Cincinnati. nominated Wharton
Barker. OF Pennsylvania, for president, anc
Ignatius Donnelly for vice-president.
Many Brotherhood carpenters in Philadel
phia were reported to be joining the Allied
Council, so that they may retain theil
places.
The body OF DR.. shearon r. Tabb, of the
United States Marine Hospital Service, was
found in a cemetery near Savannah.
This district attorney in Pennsylvania
abandoned the indictments in the cases
against Senator Quay and his son.
The National Chairmakers' Association
was organized in Detroit by seventy chair
makers from various sections.
Major General Wesley Merritt ended his
active career as an army officer and sailed
for Paris.
The Fusion Populists, in convention in
Sioux Falls, nominated William J. Bryan fol-
President.
George j. Miller, the Hermit of the Blue
Mountain, died in his cave, near Hamburg !
Pa.
The steamer Quito sailed from New York |
with supplies for the starving people oil
India.
Peter Mcintyre was killed by his thirteen |
year-old son In Toronto, Ontario.
Benz. E. Houseman was found dead in his |
room in Philadelphia
A number of plumbers struck at Newport |
News, Va.
Hon. A. NJ. Waddell, of North Carolina,
and Ex-Governor McCorkle, OF West Vir.
ginia, were the principal speakers at the
race-problem conference at Montgomery, |
Ala.
The announcement OF the engagement OF
Mr.. Alfred G. Vanderbilt 10 Miss Elsie
French, of Chicago, is made.
The st. Louis police were massed along
one line of cars that was kept open, the
others being idle.
There was riot at the Buttonwood mine,
near Wilkesbarre and the superintendent
was hurt
Mrs. Mary Weathers cut the throat of her
four-year-old daughter and tried TO kill her
self.
New York aldermen decided to extend an
official welcome to the peace delegates from
the Boer republics, who are en- route to this
country.
Edward G.. Clifford was hanged at Jersey
City, n. j., for the murder Of Division Su-
perintendent w. G. Watson, Of the West
Shore Railroad.
President Powell OF the Order Of Rail-
way Telegraphers. has discontinued the
telegraphers' strike on the Southern Rail-
way.
A legal move is to be made in New York
for dissolution Of tho American Ice Com.
pany on the ground that'it Is monopoly.
A new shell has been invented by an
American naval officer. which, in the recent
tests made at Indian Head, penetrated and
split every kind Of armor now manufactured
in any part of the world.
Figures at the Postoff1ce Department show
that there is apparently discrepancy OF
s61, 675 In the accounts OF Charles F. W.
Nicely, former postal treasurer Of Cuba.
Mrs Charles A. Dennison, a bride OF three
months, drowned herself in pond on a
farm, near Wellesley. Mass.
Senator Tillman made characteristic
speech in the Senate on the proposition tc
reduce the terms of naval cadets from six
10 four years. The terms were not short.
ened.