Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-12-01
1HE NEWS.

| Frederick Tucker, charged with murder IN
causing the death OF four persons by wreck
ing Santa Fe train. Mary Tower, aged
one hundred years and four months, died
at Lorraine, suburb OF New Jersey. She
was born in Elizabeth, and was the daughter
Of Samuel Sayre, one of the first carpenters
In the borough john Hensie and Michael
Moreskie we're run down by the Philadelphia
EXPRESS train between Shamokin, Pa, and
Alaska. Heusie was instantly killed and
his companion died two hours later. They
were miners on their way to work. There
was fire in the house of Patrick Andrews in
Pittson, Pa. and his wife peri-hed in the
flames At Durant, /. T., Sandy Folsom
engaged in duel with Will Durant and
killed him in short order. Bud Durant, n
brother OF VIII, then, 1t appears, drew his
revolver and killed Folsom. The trouble, 1t
seems was due to an old feud between the
families. Some weeks ago Folsom, now de-
ceased, shot and killed Key Durant 10 fight
Mt Caddo. The Sheriff took charge Of the
stock of S. h j. Manheimer, dealers in mir
rors and fancy goods, in New York. Liabll-
tiles between $4,000 and 10000. Assets
between $4,000 and s6o,fOO.
Justice O'Brien, OF the Supreme Court,
New York, upheld the demurrer Of John d.
Rockefeller and other directors OF the gtand-
ard Oil Trust to the complaint OF George
Rice a certiicate-holder, in which he sought
a judicial dissolution of the trust nnd an ac-
counting. The trust is being dissolved vol
unfairly. Mulloy committed suicide
while aboard the steamer Fremont, when off
| Cape Porpoise, Me. He lived in Boston,
| The drug house Of Samuel |. Jones & Co., In
| Wilkesbarre, Pa, was closed by the sheriff.
i. A. Hilliard, who embrzzled a large
sum of money from the Chicago Tribune
while acting as cashier for that paper, was
sentenced to four years in the penitentiary.
Tho body of Wm. II. Paryin aged fifty
five years, president of the Eastland National
| Bank, at Eastand, Texas, was found in aroom
at a hotel in Fort Worth, with bullet hole
In the right temple. He had been dead nearly
twenty-four hours During a quarrel in
a saloon in Chicago, John Mckay was fatally
stabbed by "Duke" Delaney. Delaney fled
and so far has escaped capture. Mckay died
at the county hospital IN. B. Haynes &
Co., wholesale milliners In Chicago, have
failed. 1t was one OF the oldest houses in
Chicago. voluntary assignment was made
to protect the interest OF all creditors. -
The Williams block In Muskegon, Mich. was
destroyed by fre.-Jesse f. Smith, killed
his divorced wife in Kankakee, ILL.,, and her
companion, and then committed suicine.
Fire destroyed the carriage furnishing and
hardware house OF Paddock & Hawley, in
St Louis. involving loss OF 5000, 0O0 Two
flremen were hurt The officers OF the
State Farmers and Merchants Bank, of Min
neapolis, were indicted for malfeasance. -
A desperate and fatal cutting affray took
mace in front of the main entrance to the
Grand Opera House, at Meridian, Mss, be-
tween Herbert A. Rhodes, furniture dealer,
and VIM. Wilson, an employe of the Queen
and Crescent Railroad. Rhodes may recover,
but Wilson's wound will prove fatal. -
Chateau Larned accidentally killed G. Hardy
Kittridge at Barnegat Cottage N j., and on
the following day killed himself- Solomon
s. Guthrie, a prominent business man OF
Buffalo, died there. The National Grange,
in session in Syracuse, n Y, called upon
President Cleveland to dismiss Secretary
Morton. police of Providence, R. l.,
are looking for Dr. Charles Ha!leyick, re-
Gently practising in that city. His wife and
three children have just arrived from a Ger
man province. He had sent for them; and
they expected to meet him, but he dlsap-
cared.-The minister OF the United States
at St. Petersburg reports that he has received
from the nobility of that capital an address
of thanks of the Russian people for the ala
sent them from the United States during the
famine periods of the last two years.
Prendergast, the murderer OF Carter Har.
rison, has quarreled with his lawyers, be.
cause they want to make him out insane -
Ex- Chief Weigber Henry S. Cochran, OF the
Philadelphia Mint, was found guilty In TIE
United States Court OF the larceny OF $3.50,
600 worth OF gold bars from the mint. BY
an explosion OF natural gas in the fiattenpe
department OF the win low glass factory neal
Greensburg, Pa. james Picketts and William
Reeves were terribly burned. Their recoy
ery is doubtful. The furnaces was consider
ably damaged by the force of the upheaval,
and quantity OF stock was destroyed
Three men we're roasted to death at fire IN
Newberne, Tenn, while trying to save prop
ertv.--A collision on the Missouri Pacific
Railway near Upton, Mo-, will probably re-
suit In the death oftwo men.-H. NJ. Eator
twenty-five years OF age, night operator fol
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, was
shot and killed while on duty in bis office, al
Davisvllle, Cal.-Typhoid fever is epidemic
In st. Louis. "A verdict Of not guilty In the
murder trial OF E. W. Harris, editor of the
Greenvlle (Tex.) Herald, was rendered altel
long trial. Harris killed DR.. Yowell at
Denison. Tex. for slandering his wife.
In South Louisville, KY, Jefferson Gordon
shot and fatally wounded William Shumate
his brother-in-law Gordon had been ar
rested for abuse Of his family, and was teini
taken to a Justices Office, when Shumat
opened fire on him. Gordon drew a reyolve
and returned the Are, one bullet goinl
through Shumate's head and another takinj
effect in the left shoulder. The tug Charlie
R. Stone sank at Pier |, North River, Ney
York. Two men on it were drowned. The
we're Harry R. Rogers, the nineteen -year-ol
son of Robert Rogers, Of GA Barrow street