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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Imprisoned Miners Rescued.

Digging frantically in shifts for over
twenty-four hours, rescue par
reached John Keske and Peter le'
CARA, miners, OF Summit Hill, entom
ed by a fall of coal at the Lehigh Corl
and Navigation company's No. cob
liery at Tamaqua, Pa.
Although it was thought that the
men had been killed, rescue party
of thirty began work Immediately ct.
ter the fall. They had not proceeded
far when they heard the imprisoned
men rapping on the barrier. The mon
had received only slight injuries and
suffer little from the experience.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Posse Kills Insane Man.

Samuel Goodwin, sixty years old, an
insane man, was shot and killed by q
posse after he had shot and probably
fatally wounded Sheriff Robert Cook
of Logan county, and barricadel him
self in his shanty in the woo s aeaI
Bellefontaine, Ohio.
The sheriff had gone to Cf"in's
home to arrest him on a c...rge oil
lunacy. When the officer coached
him Goodwin fired at him vii a rife
wounding him. in the shoulder an6
neck.
On the arrival of the officers, the
posse surrounded the house and began
firing. Goodwin returned the fire sew
eral times before he fell.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
U. S. EXPRESS co. TO QUIT
Directors Vote to Wind Up Its At
fairs.

fairs.
The directors of the United States
Express company voted in New YorA
city to wind up its affairs and have II
60 out of business.
Stockholders in the other big OK
press companies are already anxiou5l5
inquiring how long it viii. be before
they follow suit.
The first direct result of the govern
ment's competition and the reduction
of 16 per cent in express rates there
for will be to have thrown $4,000 EN-
ployes of this company out of worh
by the time its liquidation is com
pleted. Its yearly payroll is about s.;
100000.
"We could have stood the compe IT,
ton of the parcel post as originally
planned" said President ROBBERS
But we cannot stand it as at preseat
constituted, when it is carrying pan
cells of almost unlimited weight"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
HEAR OF S5O,OOO,OOO GIFT

Said Rockefeller Intends Bestowi1a
This Amount on Cleveland.
That Rockefeller is the genius be
hind the Cleveland Foundation, re
Gently launched by F. H. Golf, preai
dent of the Cleveland Trust company y
and that the "Oil King" plans to leave
not less than $5O00O,O0O to the trvst
fund, the income of which would be
used for improving Cleveland, was a
report among bankers.
It is said Rockefeller desires te
leave a memorial in Cleveland, where
his early life was spent, and he has
decided upon the foundation as thu
best method.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Gets Life Term For Assault.

Robert Rice, young colored man
charged with felonious assault upon
Lola Bailey, colored girl, was con
victed in the general sessions court in
Wilmington, Del, and sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
The penalty for the crime is death
and the life of the man was saved b!
Deputy Attorney General Chaytor
who stated that the state was satisfied
with a verdict of guilty with a recon
mendation to mercy.
The jury, without leaving the box
brought forth the verdict, after which
the youth was sentenced.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
FIGHT WITH WILD CAT
Man Kills Six-Foot Animal In Fierce
Encounter.

Man Kills Six-Foot Animal In Fierce
Encounter.
While inspecting fox trapsc in the
White Deer mountains, near Sun
bury, Pa, James Ikey, watchpan at
a reservoir on top of the mountains,
came upon a wildcat eating fox.
He fired at it, but missed. The cat
leaped upon him aind they rolled over
and over on the ground in death bat.
tie. Finally he got his knife out and
stabbed it.
The pain forced the wildcat to re,
lease its hold and he jumped up and
sent a bullet into its head. The ami
NAL weighed 100 pounds and was six
feet long. Ikey has deep scratches
across the back and his arm was torn
by its fangs.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Grants Eodyuuard Dead.

James Birchard, eighty-one years OF
age, who was bodyguard to General
Grant through the Civil War, died al
his home in Darien, Conn. He was OF
small stature, but a physical marvel.
and his strength and agility were ia
nous in war times.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Girl kidnapped" and Now Married.

The Elkton, Nd, dispatch that 10
seph Granese and Jennie Picard, oil
Norristown, Pa, had been married.
marks the climax of events followtn"
the abduction of the girl in Norris
town on Feb. 7.
Either Joseph Granese or his cousin
were believed to be responsible, but
nothing could be proved. 1t is SAID
that the marriage of the couple was
opposed by the girls father.
Jennie Picard, seventeen years o'd
was kidnapped after her young broth
er was frightened away from her side
on a road near Norristown.
When the boy told his father that
he recognized the wagon as belongins
to Granese, the father sought out the
man, who denied any knowledge OF
the whereabouts of the girl.
Picard stabbed him in the groin and
fed. He was captured by his victims
father, who pursued him with a shot
gun. Picard later was liberated on
bail.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
SHOOTS NEGRO PRISONER

Smyrna Chief of Police Later Takes
Him to Wilmington Hospital.
George Jones, a negro, was shot by
the Smyrna, Del, chief of police, Lee
T.. Cochran, after he had attacked and
beaten him.
Jones had resisted arrest for a
minor offense. Cochran, who had been
knocked down, believing his life to
be in danger, fired at the negro, the
ball entering his stomach. Cochran
then brought Jones to the Delaware
hcGpi,al.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20

Engineer Killed, Three Injured and
Three Thieves Captured.

Three Thieves Captured.
Arthur Fisher, a Chicago & North.
western freight engineer, was shot to
death by bandits in the cab of his en-
CINE at Manlius, Ill.,, forty-fve miles
north of Peoria, Ill.
The bandits were surprised while
stealing merchandise from the freight
train. A deputy sheriff was shot
through the head and may die. He
was pursuing the band. The station
agent at Langley, ILL.,, was shot in
the arm and the fireman on the freight
train was shot through the leg. Three
of the robbers were captured, but the
fourth escaped.
The conductor and brakeman of a
freight train on the Northwestern
railroad surprised the robbers while
they were pitching merchandise out
of a train near Manlius.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Pass Woman Suffrage Bill.

The proposed amendment to thu
constitution which would give womel
the right to vote passed the Massachu
setts senate by a vote of S'- TO ., will
one pair.
This is the first time that such al
amendment has ever passed eithe'
branch of the legislature. 1t now goe:
to the house, but before it can become
a law must be acted upon fayorablJ
by two successive legislatures and
then be accepted by the voters.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Gas Kills AGED Blind Woman.

Margaret Gardner, aged seventy-two
years, was found dead in her apalt
ments in Wilmington, Del. Indications
are that the woman, who was blinded
twelve years ago by lightning, at
tempted to light the gas stove, bat
was overcome by the gas before she
could ignite 1t.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
MINER, ENTOMBE;)
WITH BODY,FOUkj
He Lay Through Night with
Dead Companion !.
WERE PINNED UNDER COAL


Hours Are Rescued-cemetery En
quilted In Cave.ln and Bodies Disis
pear.
Lying unconscious near a gangT.U
in the Susquehanna Soal ccmra "a
Hickory Ridge colliery at Sha-2"h u
Pa, Paul Poplaski was found b
searching party.
Nearby was found the body of join
Moraski, killed when fall of coal
crushed him and his comrade as they
were quitting work. They had lain I'll
night entombed in the mine.
The two men had finished th2ir
work and were preparing to go home,
when the roof suddenly broke. Tla
men were pinned to the floor by
huge pile of coal which covered them
completely.
Not until morning did Poplaski e.
cover consciousness, and after re!c g.
ing himself and crawling about 'la
found his comrade dead. EIer"!s re
all his strength, Poplaski attem@te "a
remove the debris from the de" a,
after which he dragged the body .? N
the breast to the gangway.
When he tried to crawl to the Q" :.
way in the hope Of getting s'i ia
reached a heading and again la I'd
into Inconsistencies, in which c.:
tion he was found by rescuing par 7.
Some time later he revived and tcld
the fate of Moraski, whose body WAS
recovered. Poplaski was ta';en to
the state hospital, wher it was said
he would probably die.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20

Cardinal Gibbons to Visit the Pope.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, who
is now in New Orleans, La, will sail
in May for Italy to make a personal
visit to the pope, according to an an
nouncement here. 1t was explained
that this is the year for American pre-
lates to xisit the Vatican, and that
about one hundred will make personal
visits.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Body Found Frozen In Ice.

The body of John c. Mahoney, aged
seVenty-two years, wealthy farmer
who disappeared last December aftel
checking his baggage to Binghamton
was found frozen in the ice In the
harbor al Buffalo, N. Y.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20

Oil and gas leases In Oklahoma, es'
timated to be worth from 5000, 100000
to $500,OO0,OOO, were rendered subject
to assessment and taxation by the de-
cision of the state supreme court up
holding the state board of equaliza-
tion's valuation of the Indian Terri
tory Illuminating Oil company's prop
erty for the year 1911.
Tax experts have calculated the
value of omitted lease properties since
1908 and have taken steps already to
place more than s100,00O,000 OH the
tax rolls in the oil counties on the
east side of the state.
Ownership by the state of the bed
of the Arkansas river to high water
mark was also declared by the stale
supreme court in an opinion by JUS.
tice R. H. Loufborrow.
The decision is worth millions Of
dollars to the schools of the state,
since the state land commission will
control the river beds for the benefit
of the permanent school fund.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
No Bodies In Monroe.

All bodies sunk with the Old Do
minion liner Monroe off the Virgini,
coast on Jan. 80 have been swept u
fthe wreck by strong submarine
current.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
To Cure Women Cigarette Habit.

To cure WOMEN CISaTette rIaDIl'
A clinic for women smokers has
been established by the Anti-Cigarctte
league in Chicago, which has been
successful in breaking OF the cigarette
habit of boys who have appeared in
the juvenile court. The treatment ii
simply spraying the threat with a. So
luton of nitrate of silver.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Beat and Rob Aued Couple.

Tie police of Pittston, Pa. have
arrested George Bennett, twenty-five
years of age, and he has confessed
that he went to the home of Peter
Learn, in Laceyville, and after fractur
ing the skull of Mrs. Learn, sixty-tive
years old, and beating her husband.
aixty-three, with a club, tied and bound
couple and robbed the house OF
Learn is now confined In a
at Sayre, lowering between
death, and her husband, who
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Man Swallows Rat Poison and Dies.

Man Swallows Rat Pois and Dies.
James Bressler, twenty-eight years
old, died at the general hospital IL
Lancaster, Pa, after he had swallowed
rat poison. The police say he commit
ted suicide. He got the poison at
drug store and took it at his home. NJ
cause is known.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
cave-In Enqulfs Bodies In Cemetery

A cave-in at the No. 2 mine OF
the Pennsylvania Coal company al
Pittston, Pa, permitted several bed
les, which rested in st. Johns cene'
terry, to drip into the mine. Just how
many bodies have Disappeared is not
known. John A. Collier, the cemetery
sexton, found the cave and was star
tied when he found several caskcts
protruding through the rough boxes.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
President Receives Shamrocks.

President Wilson received box oil
Irish moss and shamrocks from John
Redmond, Irish Nationalist leader. Mr.
Redmond has been sending shamrocks
to the White House for many years
for st. Patrick's Day.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
oil Company Fined $4,000 BY Court

OF Company FIheu pTf,uUU BY Court
The Waters-Pierce Oil company was
fined a total of $4,000 in the federal
court in Shreveport, La, after the
company had been found guilty of vic.
lating the Elkins law. The company
was charged with making rate conces
sions on oil shipments.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Girl Killed by Taxi.

Miss Jennie NewhoGse, twenty-seVeI
years old, was instantly killed by
taxicab as she alighted from a strea
car near her home in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Body Buried Three Years Not Fathers

Charles N. King, of Bittersville,
near York, Pa, left home three years
ago, leaving his wife and eight chill
dren.
Shortly afterwards word was receiv'
ed by the family that he had been
killed on the Pennsylvania railroad
near Harrisburg and that the body
had been inferred at Camp Hill.
Nine months afterwards his two
sons, Monroe c. King, cigar manu-
facturer, and Samuel G. King, had
the body exhumed and brought to Red
Lion from Camp Hill. 1t was taken to
Salem cemetery and buried.
On Wednesday Monroe C. King re
ceived word from Akron, Ohio, that
the father was alive and In that city.
A correspondence has been started,
and it is more than likely that the
father will return in short time.
Whose body was buried for that OF
Charles N. Killing is mystery.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Texas Mob Lynches Colored Mean.

William Williams, colored, charged
with shooting and wounding j. R. Rob
ertson, a plantation manager, neal
Hearne, Texas, was captured by q
posse of citizens and hanged. Robert
son will probably recover.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
100000 Chinese Eggs Fer Cargo

The Cana'i ian Pa'ifc steamship the
Empress Of Asia arrived at Vancouver,
B. c., with 3,590,OOJ Chinese eggs com
signed 10 places in the United Stafa&
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20

Wa, tel: A girl or woman to
.nok in far:ijy of three. u"
,on.e for right az V. -,
Cliff Malheny
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
ORDER BY MAIL

If you are any distance from store ouslde OF the
tow limits or live On one Of the r F. D. routes you Will
find ordering by mail satisfactory means OF ordering
your goods as you could possibly think Of
We have great many customers on K I. D. routes
who use the mails exclusively We also have number
who having moved to ether towns buy from us by mail
Try our mail service once ard you will be another
mail buyer
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20

Fer SALE-A secondhand, Is
ors. power gasoline engine, in
geo. repair. For particulars apply
at this Office. 3-6-4t
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20

Get the Recorder and read the
railroad news. It will be to Yo' {
advantage to keep ZIP with new dc
veIopments nf the county.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
Gets Coffin by Parcel Post.

Undertaken Cornelius Grcenleaf. d
Hackensack, n. J., received a ON
by paret>,. post. The postage was oa1y
lS cents
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-03-20
NOTED INVENTOR
DIES IN NEW YORK
George Westinghouse Sue
CuInDS to Heart Trouble
HAD been Ill SOME TIME
Was President and Founder of Great
Electric Company and Inventor oi
Air Brake.

Electric Company and Inventor oi
Air Brake.
George Westinghouse, siXty-seVen
years old, president and founder ol
the Westinghouse Machine AMI Elec
trio company, with home offices IN
Pittsburgh, Fa., died in New fo:k. he
had been confined to lis bed fer some
time.
A member of Mr.. Westinhouses
staff said that he had been suffering
with a heart complaint for over three
months, Laterly it grew worse, and
on Monday last he had relapse, thai
left him weak.
Had George Westinghouse achieved
nothing more than the invention OIL
the airbrake, his name would nave
taken rank with those of great Amerl'
can inventors. But he has done more
much more-along the lines OF CON
trolling electrical current, utilizing
various natural forces for commercial
purposes, both generally and speclh'
cally, and has built up in the course
of long lifetime of intense activity
so vast business, here and in Eu'
rope, that his name is written indeil'
bly, on the worlds tablets of fame.
Westinghouse was born in Ceatral
Bridge, N. Y, Oct. 6, 1916, the son OIL
George Westinghous and Emmellne
Vedder Westinghouse. His father was
the proprietor of the New York Agrl'
cultural works, at Schenectady, ana
from almost the age of ten george
Jr., was an earnest and eager WORK
er" in his parents shops.
When the Civil War broke out young
Westinghouse enlisted in the United
States volunteers, with which he serV'
ed from June, 1863, to November
1864. He then became an assistant
engineer in the United States navy, IN
which capacity he served until August:
1865.
He experimental first with a rail
road frog, which turned out a success
The air-brake came next. 1t Is sald thr
idea dawned when he personally saw
two freight trains collide head-on, al
though this point is not definitely all
thenticaed.
Westinghouse next applied the com
pressed air principle to rallroaa
switches and then to signals with such
success that even the unwilling Com
modore Vanderbilt was forced TO re-
cognize the value of wind properly
applied.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-03-10

son Moseley, Murray, Robertson, W.
S. Rogers. Jr., Sapp, w. W. Scott,
Shirley, Summers, Walker, White
Whitehead, Wilburn, C. C. W'yche
Section Al Of the general appro-
priaticn bill reads:
Sec. 4. That, III anticipation of
the taxes hereinbefore levied, the gov
ernor and the State treasurer and
tae comptroller general be, and they
are hereby, empowered to borrow on
credit of tie State so much money
from time to time as may be needed
to meet promptly, at maturity. the
interest which Will mature on the
first day Of July and o. the first day
OF January of each year, on the valid
debt Of the State, and to pay the
current expenses Of the State govern
ment for the present fiscal year and
for pensions: Provided the sum so
borrowed shall not exceed the sum Of
100000.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-03-10
NO CLUE TO TRAIN ROBBERY
Southern Officials and Police Working
on Bandit Case.

Columbia, March ga full days
search for the bandit, who last night
robbed the mail car on the Southern
railway train No. II, just as it was
entering Columbia, has resulted in no
development. The Columbia police,
the sheriff's deputies and special
agents are at work on the case.
The amount of booty secured by the
robber is not yet known. Postal Off
cials say that no estimate of the value
Of the registered mail stolen can be OBJ
tanned for the present. They point out
that until the department has traced
every missing letter can the exact
amount be known. Tracers are now
out. They are unable even to approx
mate the amount.
The robber looted the mail car last
night just as the train was entering
the Columbia city limits and made his
escape before it reached the union
station.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-03-10
TELL OF TRAGEDY.
Witnesses Are Heard in Italian Hall
Panic Inquiry-Seek Horrors
Cause.

Calumet, Mich, Marcn A score
o. witnesses were examined today by
-Congressmen Taylor of Arkansas and
Casey of Pennsylvania of the con-
gressional committee investigating the
copper strike, in an effort TO ascertain
the cause of the Italian hail panic
in which 73 persons lost their lives.
Persons who were in the hall tes-
titled that a man stood in the door
way and yelled fire Some said the
mans coat lapel bore a Citizens AL
lance butten, but no one attempted
to identity him. Frank Schalz, boy,
declared he had seen the same man IN
a red jacket, several weeks before the
panic, carrying a club. Eric Ericsson
testified he saw two men wearing
Citizens alliance insignia in the door
way after the call of fire. The testi-
mony of these two has not been.
brought out at the coroners inquest.
Peter Maarchesi, who was in the
ticket room outside the main hall, said
he was inside the hall near the door
and declared he heard no one yell.
Eli Wuopia testified he was at the
bottom Of the steps when the rush
began, and heard no cry, although his
child with him told him somebody
hollered fire up there
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-03-10

of improvement until complications
unexpectedly arose. Previous to their
appearance no alarm had been felt for
his recovery and physicians said his
condition was improving. Mrs. Van
derbilt, wlo formerly was Miss Edith
Dresser, of New York, had been in con-
slant attendance. She was almost
prostrated by her husbands sudden
death. At the palatial residence, which
Mr.. Vanderbilt occupied here as his
winter residence, it was said tonight
no announcement would be made un-
til the wishes Of Mr. Vanderbilt's rela-
tiyes had been ascertained. It was
understood, however, that the funeral
arrangements would be announced
when Frederick Vanderbilt, brother,
will reach Washington.
MIR. Vanderbilt was born in the old
Vanderbilt home at New Dorp Staten
Island, November IA, 1862. In 1865 he
became interested in the mountain re-
gion of Western North Carolina and
by successive purchases he accumu-
lated an estate of 100000 acres on the
French Broad river and laid out there
vast park and erected buildings on
a scale which has seldom been equalled
in this country. Mr.. Vanderbilt de-
voted most Of his time to The personal
supervision of this estate. In the val
ley he built a model town and called
it BiItmore His farms were filled with
blooded stock and he devoted thou
sans Of dollars to the scientific con-
servation of the forests which cover
ed the greater part of his property.
George Vanderbilt's fortune was
never a factor in Wall street. He was
supposed, however, to be one of Amer
ica's wealthiest men. He had num-
Der of charities and he spent money
without stint upon the development of
his mountain estate. He seldom came
to New York, but spent part of his
summers at Bar Harbor, Maine, where
he had a handsome home.
In 1898 Mr.. Vanderbilt married Miss
Edith Stuyvesant Dresser. Mrs. Van
derbilt and one child, daughter. sur
vive him.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-03-10
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