Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-07
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and NIiddIestates.

TERRIFIC wind and snow storm prevailed
on Mount Washington. New Hampshire,
the wind reaching a velocity OF 100 miles.
Wire communication with the Glen House
and the Summit was cut off aud trains could
not get down the mountain on account OF
snow and ice.
AS the result Of quarrel about t75 Fred
erick Mellenburg. a ssptuagenarian, MUIR
dered his wife, seriously shot his stepdaugh-
ter and committed suicide at Paterson,
n. J.
GOVERNOR RUSSELL was renominated at
the Massachusetts, Democratic State Con-
vention at Boston.
The New York Peoples Party State Con-
vent;on was called TO order at Syracuse.
Nominations were made as follows: For
Chief Judge OF the Court of Appeals, Law
renee J. McParliu, of L0ckport; for the
electoral delegates at large-Thaddeus b.
Wakeman, of New York City, and |. 4.
Dean, of Honeoye Falls.
CHIEF POSTAL INSPECTOR EDGARToN ar
reste1 at Philadelphia, Penn, six conspira-
tors who have succeeded in robbing the mails
of over $4,000 worth Of articles OF all sorts.
The men were drivers in the employment OF
the Union Transfer Company, engaged in
driving the mail wagons between the Post
ONCE ana the rallrOao stations.
Mrs. J. b. TONER and her six-year-o,d
daughter, Annie, were burned 10 death IN
their home in Westbury, Long Island, n. Y.
The wooden mill of Sayles & jerks at
Warren. Mass, and the buildings attached
were burned. The loss is estimated at
1900, 200. The large plant OF the Singer
Manufacturing Company, at Elizabethport,
n. j., was for the second time within two
years partly destroyed by fire. Loss, estl-
mated at $3.50, 001.
THREE men were drowned in an attempt
to run the rapids in the Connecticut River
few miles above Turner's Falls, Mass.
The freight steamer H. NJ. Whitney, of
the Metropolitan Line was sunk by collis-
ion with the steamer Ottoman, OF the War
rem Line. in Boston lMassl Harbor. That
same day the steamer Watertown was
burned in Boston Harbor; a woman was
fatally injured.
TIE dedication OF the Matthew Thornton
monument erected by the State OF New
Hampshire and the town o. Merrimac TO the
memory OF Matthew Thornton, one OF tbs
signers of the Declaration Of Independence,
took place at Merrimac
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, of Ithaca, y. Y.
has sold TO the Chippewa Logging Company
1OA 900 acres OF pine land for a consideration
of $s4I. 70j. The lands are situated in Price,
TAYLOR, Chippewa. Barron AMI Ashland
Counties. Wisconsin, aud have been priz,
long sought by lumbermsn.
Two men were killed AMI five injurei at
bonneville, Penn, bT the premature dis
charge of a blast. Two men were fatally
burned by an explosion OF gas at the e igar
Thompson steel works, Pittsburg.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass,
opened it's 256th year with the largest atten-
dance in its history.
A PUsHER engine was blown to fragments
by the explosion OF the boiler while stlni-
ing on a side track near Grove Summit,
Penn. Engineer Wise and Fireman Flynn
were literally blown to pieces.
GENERAL T. NORRIS CHESTER, colored,
died at the home OF his parents in Harris
burg, Penn, Il few days ago at the age oil
fifty-eight years.
CHIEF JUSTICE PAxES, of the fennsyl-
yania State Supreme Court, issued warrants
for the arrest OF every member OF tho fa.
NOUS Advisory Board Of the Homestea1
strikers on a charge of high treason.
Ek-PREsrDEYT CLEVELAND, accompa
bv Daniel G.. Griffin, Of the Democ
State Committee, and Richard w
Glider. editor of the Century MagazII
rived IN New York City from Gray
ON the Fall River steamboat Pilgrim a,
held conferences with many Of the NatI g
and State leaders.