Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-02-24
THE NEWS.

passing through his neck.-The arrest of
Hugh Porter and Charles Stone, lawyers. of
New York, was ordered by Chicag judge
for contempt in refusing to turn over the
books of the New England and Wesie ern In
vestment Company to. the receiver-A
dozen freight cars were demolished in a
wreck on the Norfolk and Western Railroad
near Suffolk, Va.--Mrs. Kate Painter was
acquitted by the grand jury of Greensburg,
Pa, of the charge Of poisoning her husband.
The Paragon Mills of Columbus, Ga,
which were sold under foreclosure Of mort
gage to H. H. Epping president of the
Chattahoochee National Bank for s25,0c0
have been resold to Major Louis Hamburger
representing the Hamburger Cotton Mills
Company, for $4,000. The two mills will
be consolidated Hugh O'Donnell was &C.
Quilted in Pittsburg OF the murder of Pin
kerton Detective 7. j. O'Ccnner.-An
American register was issued for Interna'
tional Company's steamship New York by
the collector of the port of Philadelphia.
The bodies of Mark and Mart Wilson
freighters, Employed in hauling ore in the
Cooks Peak Mining district, N NJ were
found frozen stiff The men had evidently
abandoned their teams dur ng the olizz ro,
and were frozen to death before they could
r.ach shelter. D. Overton Moore was
shot and instantly killed in Helena, Ark,
Dr. C. r Shinaut. Both OF the parties to
the trsgedy are young and well-known Phy-
sicians of that city.-Col. II. o. Yaeher,
ex.public administrator, and recorder OF
Grand Lodge A. o. U. W., quar.er-master
general of the Department of Montana, q.
A. R.. and Leading politician OF Helena,
Ark, was arrested on eight indictments,
charg ng malfeas nee in office, embezzle.
ment and failure to make reports as Iuolic
admin strator. Yaeger's embezzlement, SO
far as discovered, amounts to 5000 --Tbe
ool ce of New York we captured negro
who piyes his name as VIM. johnson, but
who is thought to bs VIM. Schrobia, who
murdered woman in tt enton in 1891, and
after icing arrested broke Jail and escaped.
Mrs. George Hopkins, Of La Plume, Pa,
after an Intellectual attempt to commit sui
eide by cutting her throat, succeeded in end
ing her life by hanging herself from an attic
rafter. Worry over business troubles and
the excessive use Of morphine are sad to
have led 10 the act.--Chief Harris, of Table
ouab. 1T, has been served with a writ OF
habeas ctr rpus, ordering him to deliver The
murderer Talton to the United States Court
at Fort Smith. The grounds for the writ
were that the Constitution Of the United
States as not complied with in the trial
The show window of Simper Bros jew.
elry store, in Cincinnati, was robbed CT
81. 900 worth Of diamonds. 5. &. Simper,
who was sitting on counter about twenty
feet from the door, was startled by the
crash Of the big plate glass window. Be
fore he could move four hands closed on o
tray of diamonds, and in twinklng it was
gone.-Two hunters stopped for shelter at
the farmhouse Of John Oesterman, near
Mahles, Ind. They knocked at the door,
and receiving no response forced their way
10. On the bed lay the bodies o. Oester-
man and his wife, who had evidently COM
mitted suicide by taking arsenic.--James
O'Shea, Wilson Ingram and VIM. Carmon
were instantly killed and several Others in.
jured by falling rock at mine Is, i'll Sebas-
tan county, Ark.--The house of James
Fra ,man, near Hartvjlle, Mo was burned
and two of his children, aged eight and
eleven years, we're consumed in the flames.
Freeman was so severely burned. The
United States Grand Jury at Deadwood, s.
D., found indictments against III Indians,
Marks and Too Too for murder. Fire de-
stroyed the Wagman block and two-story
brick building adjoining in Fort Smith,
Ark.
Col. Thomas Urimeson died at Westches,
ter, Pa, from blood poisoning. For years
he has filed the position of general revenue
officer for the United States government, and
was an aspirant for the state treuurership
in the coming election on the Republican
ticket.-A Phi adelphia syndicate will en-
ter the pork-packing field in competition
with Chicago-An Illinois Central train
ran into a sleigh at crossing near Water
loo. Iowa. Mr.. and Mrs. Fairchld, the occu-
pants of the sleigh, were found on the pilot
of the engine after the coils on. Mrs. Fair
child was fatally injured, and her husband
seriously hurt.-The Metropolitan Opera
House in New York was sold at auction to
James A. Roosevelt, the consideration being
Sl,425. 900. 1t was sold for the benefit Of the
second mortgage bond-holders, and pur-
! chased by Mr.. Roosevelt with the under
standing that he will resell it to the stock
holders for the price he paid.-Isaac Jacob
son was freed from the Eastern Penitentiary
in Pennsylvania after serving eighteen years
for murder committed on the high seas.
The statement Of the Philadelphia and
Erie Railroad for the year ending December
81 shows: Gross earnings, s6,S56,56l; in
crease, {55 100; operating expenses, S,74O'-
949; increase, J3,Os9; net earnings, sl,5l5.-
6O3; decrease s931s92.