Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-02-17
THE NEWS.

man service, and lost his position berause
the hotel clerk failed 10 call him in time to
take his car.--Will Howard was sentenced
to death by Judge Blank, in the Circuit
Court of st. Louis Howard is a noted Ken
lucky desperate, who has, perhaps killed
dozen men. He was badly wanted in his
native state when arrested in Maries county,
Mo-, for numbering Thomas McMichaels,
deaf mute.-There was a run on the
Economic Bank at Beaver Falls, but all
were promptly paid.--Bauer and Mold,
who were accused OF Icing accessories OIL
Anarchist Berkman in his attack on Chair
man Frick, were convicted in Pittsburg.--
An unknown man, supposed 10 be T. ID.
McCabe. of New Brunswick, N. j., was
crushed to death at the Pennsylvania Rail-
road crossing in Washington street, Jersey
City.
Four men we're killed in a snow avalanche
in Colorado. County Judge B. F. Copen'
haver and Thomas Nevitt, of st. Clair
county. Mo-, were sent to Jail by the United
States Court, for re Using to order to5
levy.-A bill was filed at Beaver, Pa, ask
ing for the appointment Of o receiver for
the Economic Community. de
stroyed saloon near the Philadelphia Smeit-
ing and Refining Works, in Bessemer, q
suburb Of Pueblo, COL John Crogan, the
proprietor of the salocn, and John Morrissey
were burned to death. George Silvey,
assistant postmaster in Spokane, killed him.
self, by sending bullet through his brain.
He was short in his accounts, 81, 100. He
YVES under $1,000 bonds. In
spector Baird placed under arrest Assistant
Postmaster T. B. Thurman, of Griffin, Ca,
who is charged with extracting money from
registered packages. For some time money
bad teen missed from packages Passing
through the office. e.-Collingwood & Co.,
lumber manufacturer and dealers, Of
Wayne and Pike counties, Pa, failed. The
liabilities are placed at SlO0, 900, and the as
sets al s o, 5,000-Seven Of the New Jersey
ballot.box suffers were set ut liberty, hay
Ing served their terms.
General E. K. Stinson, an ex-deputy
United States marshal and a prominent
man, is on trial before The United States
Court in Denver for theft. Stimson 10
charged by the United States Marshal with
having stolen several cases of opium from
the Office, which he disposed Of TO local
parties. s.-Rev Theodore Lyman, a Unitar-
ian Clergyman of Cold Springs, New York,
became suddenly insane in street car
The boiler of passenger locomotive blew
up at the railroad station in Taylor, Tex.
Ths Fireman Jules Raspberry was instantly
killed Engineer Bert Wheeler was slightly
and helper Michael McHan was fatally in.
jured. The boiler was hurled two hundred
feet-Fire destroyed the NJ and M. Hos
pital buil1ing in Menominee, Mich, which
was used as a boarding house. The inmates
barely escaped with their lives. One of the
boarders had his leg broken, and many
others were seriously cut and bruiee by
jumping from the windows.-Fire destroy
ed the large six-story warehouse in Boston oc-
cupied by T. r. Renwick & Co. for the s'or-
age of cotton and wooden waste, and the
Bartholomay Brewing Company. Loss $780,
000-A fatal fire occurred at Chapel
Grove Fishing Station, about fifty miles
from St. John, N. B. While Patrick Sulli-
van was endeavoring to rescue his eleven
children from the burning dwelling he per-
shei in the flames, together with four of
his children
Dispatches from many towns in Western
Pennsylvania and Eas ern Ohio report high
water in the creeks and rivers, and serious
damage is feared at several places. At Du-
bois the water in the Sinnemahoning Rive
is at fl BOD hei hit, ami R,novo and other
towns along the stream are preparing for
food. d.-The captain AMI two IN IN of the
British schooner Annie Marie wers rescued
just before the vessel sanS.-The car sheds
of the street car syndicate in New Orleans,
with contents, were destroyed by fl g; loss
S75, ,0C0. Affection, Ls., Henry B. Thomp-
son and Samuel Burton were ASA sina' ed
by parties unknown.-The ninth annual
session of the Master House Painters and
Decorators Association met in Army and
Navy Hall, in Philadelphia. Nearly $50
members we're present. The presidents an
nual report was delivered, in which he ex-
planned the action taken in regard to the
New Jersey associat on.--James G. Smell,
who was chief CLERK in Adjutant General
Wickham's office under Gov. Francis, of
Missouri, has preferred charges of m'sap-
preparation of funds against Adjutant Gen.
eral Wickham. "A freight ran into pas
senger train on the Old Colony Road, near
Leominster, Mass, injuring a number Of
passengers.
Yt is understood that The rallroa workers
will strike al out the time Of the opening OF
the Worlds Fair. Three deputy marshals
in Indian Territory were killed by an Iudian
desperado named Bill Pdgeon. 1.-THE Sioux
Indians are prepa' ing for racket OF some
sort.-At Challeta, Mexico, Ireneo Con
zales. who created disturbance, was assoed
and then lynched. d.-1he sale of the Pan
Americ an Railway did not take pace, and
all claims have been settled to the satlsfac'
tion Of ell concerned. No statement is given
as to the future plan, of the road, but def
mite information Is promised soon.--H. W.
! Weir, chief justice Of Idaho during Cleve'
lands administration, died at B Use, Idaho, ol
apoplexy, aged seventy.-Will Butler, col
ored, stepsou OF Henry Smith, the negro
who was tortured to death In Paris, Texas
was lynched near that city.-Mrs. Alorech
sixty years old, was killed by an electric cal
IN Newark, N. J. She was crossing the