Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-02-02
THE NEWS.


fifteen passengers were injured.
The Philadelphia coroner's jury founa
four persons responsible for the death Oh
Miss May Bibighaus in the opium joint
The Canajoharie On. W National BANK
suspended, and e. j. Graham. natlonai oahA
examiner, was placed in charge.
Six hundred operatives at the American
Hide and Leather Company's tanneries III
Lowell, Mass, went on strike.
James and Amos Pierce were arrested III
Chester. Pa. on suspicion OF having muir
dured George B. Eyre. >.
Frederick Lempke a Christian scientist,
committed suicide by thrusting bis head in'o
red hot stove.
six thousand dollars worth OF diamonds
was stolen from Joseph X. Davidson q Son
in Philadelphia.
The third dynamite outrage in Leadville,
COL. wrecked the home OF A. v. Hunter,
the millionaire. a., a
Lewis Ravens, of Philadelphia, died sud-
denly In car at Lenoir, N. G.
A fire at Dawson City destroyed s4Oo,ooo
worth Of property.
Samuel Peter Meyers was hanged at SOM
erset. Pa.
R.H. Nicholas. native OF Baltimore, and
superintendent Of the New York, Philadel-
pbia and Norfolk Railroad, died in Philadel-
phia.
Brigadier General Charles W. Squires,
prominent Confederate during the Civil War,
died in st. Louis aged sixty.
Judge Wallace in the United States Court
at Albany. concurred with the lower court
in refusing to grant writ OF habeas corpus
in the case CT Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter,
convicted Of conspiracy against the gov
eminent.
Nav Bebehaus, aged nineteen, died In
PHILADELPHIA from the effects OF smoking
opium in den.
julius Bandmann, an old merchant OF San
Francisco Is dead.
John Klonthan died at Berryville, Va,
aged seventy-one.
Count Boni de CastelIane, with his wife,
Anna Gould. reached New York, and denied
absolutely that he had lost anything IN spec
ulations. declaring that he had never specu-
lated in his life.
A.P. T. Elder, formerly publisher in
Chicago, plead guilty in the United states
Court, that city, to having used the mails to
defraud.
Clarence W. Robinson was appointed COM
monwealth's attorney in Newport News. Va,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death Oh D.
X. NJ. Newton.
John Potter Stockton, formerly United
States senator, who was for years attorney
general OF New Jersey, died at the Hotel
Hanover, In New York.
William W. Patch, who during the war
saved General Sherman and his staff from
capture, died at his home in Galesburg, LII.
CAPTAIN William H. Gibson succeeded Cap
tain Sjgsbee as commander Of the battleshlp
Texas at the Brooklyn navy yard.
J. Edgar Walton was arrested In the onl-
cago National Bank on charge OF forgery.
David Murdoch, assistant roadmaster Oh
the MARYLAND division Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Gray's Ferry, Philadelphia, was
killed by train.
The loss by the fire at the winter quarters
Of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, at Bridge
mort Ct. is estimated at $125,o0O. Many
cars were destroyed.
CAPTAIN Frederick J. Mills. formerly
lieutenant governor OF Idaho, who killed j.
C. OMelveney, was acquitted OF murder IN
Salt Lake.
Edward Oswald was found guilty Of muir
dor in the first degree at Camden, N. j., Tor
billing his wife and six-year-old child.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and western
Company began shutting down its coal mines
in Pennsylvania.
WI. Mcconnell, the temperance advocate
Of Cleveland. died in Philadelphia from ex-
cessive use OF mOrphia.
John Brown, notorious chicken thief,
was sentenced, in Norfolk, to the penlten-
tiary for ten years.
As the result of a family row in New YORK
between the Collettis and the Spinelias three
Of the Collettis were killed and two Oh the
Spinellas were arrested, the third being O
fugitive.
The British steamer Sutton, with iron ore,
for Philadelphia, was stranded on FenwicK
Island Shoals, near Lewes, Del. Boats from
the revenue cutter Onondaga rescued the
crew.
Marshall Waggoner, an infdel who was
converted to Christianity, burned his col
lection OF books on infldelity in the furnace
Of the United Brethren Church at Toledo, U.
Rev. Charles Earl Preston. Of jamestown,
r. l.. who ran away from his wife, was ar
rested in Troy, N. Y, where he had gone
with a young lady Of his church.
Miss Kate Herbotscheimer, OF Princeton,
ILL.,. was acquitted of the murder OF Charles
Salzman. to whom she had been engaged TO
be married. =
Mrs. Bertha Ruprecnt, made respondent
nv the death of her husband In Batavia, N.
Y. made q desperate attempt to commit
suicide.
The will OF Father Chiniquy, the excom-
municated priest, who died In Montreal,
gives his property to his wife and daugh-
tiers.
Mrs. Anna George, the woman in the Sax
ton murder case in Cleveland, o., is now
cloak model in New York.
Seth Low president Of Columbia College,
was also elected president OF Barnard
College.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works is oui'o'
ing thirty locomotives for French railways
Areport comes from Chicago that as
result of the recent agreements OF the truns
line officials, separate city ticket offices will
be abandoned in Baltimore, Philadelphia
and other cities, and joint offices will b'
substituted.
The tobacco growers of North Corolinf
have agreed to sell none OF their product Il
the American Tobacco Company for fiv'
years.
A. S. Van Wickle & Co., coal miners
CoIeraine, Pa, have advanced the wages