Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-04-28
THE NEWS.

ard Oil Company gave notice Oh III a|V anu
:, ,,~,oe NJ two cents per barrel for Lima
,rnde This makes the price in the Wooo
,o,ntv field or northern district OF Onlo,
,ortv-eight cents per barrel and southern
district forty-six cents.--Hugo wager s
wonted in Toledo on the charge Of poisoning
hia wife for the purpose of getting the IN
.urance money.-The postofice at Lake
wood n J.. was entered by thieves. Iney
blew open the safe and took s2,5Oo worth Oh
stamps and about $500 in cash. Iney aiSo
took the postal note book, k,---Ihe BANK Oh
Naw straitsyille, Ohio, made an assignment
r. ia impossible to learn the exact amount oi
assets and liabilities, but conservative men
place the liabilities at from $4,000 to Soo''
aoo and the assests at nearly SIC, ,OOO.---ASS
Potter. the convicted president OF Nave
,,cL Rank In Boston, was sentenced TO siAty
days In jail and to pay fine OF u UuV.
The funeral exercises of Mrs. Almira nan
cock was held in New York and the oouy
shipped to st. Louis for interment.-rran ram
nuffv who shot and killed young Cunning
ham at Fort Hamilton on December 26tn iaSt,
was sentenced by Judge Cullom in New horA
to nine years and one month imprisonment
10 Sing Sing.
Rev IA. P. McGaw and Elder McClaren,
Of Toledo, we're elected delegates to the Pres
bvterian General Assembly, which VIII meet
in Washington, May IS. Both are pronounced
Briggs men.--Chihuahua advices says tnae
q mack train of bullion from Jesus Maria dis
trict was seized by therebels early and every
dollar confscaied The value OF the bullion
is estimated at $40 00.-Dan Adams col
ored. who was sentenced for seven years Tor
trying to kill Ray Shout, In Salina, Tex, was
lvnched by a mob.-Prof. Oakman 3.
Stearns. prominent Baptist clergyman, died
in Roston.-Two Americans are said TO
have killed a half-dozen Mexicans, Including
the sheriff. who was arresting them, and
members of the posse. IN the Uniteo STATES
Court Of Appeals. in st. Louis, decision III
the case OF the Edison Electric Light Com
pany against the Columbia lncandescenl
Lamp Company was given against the Edison
Company and in favor OF the Columbia 1n'
candescent Company. A. Sheas irut
commission house, on Bridge Square, Min
neapolis. was burned and the Jewell lodg-
inc-house, adjoining badly damaged. The
dodgers escaped in their night garments, ana
two men were almost unconscious Wnen they
were dragged from the third story. Total
loss. $50 900 Insurance. $4,000
Fire destroyed the building In Chicago 90.
cunied by Goodale Son, John Gleason and
Fl. J. Trumbull, commission merchants
A eerious wreck occurred Oh the Schuylkill
Valley division of the Pennsylvania Railroad
near Conshohocken, caused by coal trall
coliding with shifter. Some tweNe can
we're wrecked, and the tracks badly blocked
Brakeman VIM. =. Wernt7, OF Pottsvliie, wa
killed. and Conductor George L. Kirk, o
Pottsville, badly injured. An attack mao
on the prison at Tracy City, Tenn, oy al
armed body of men was repulsed, one OF IN
attacking party being killed and anothe
wounded. Charles B. Tappen died L
New York at the age of ninety-eight years
He was veteran Of the war OF 1sl2.-
While dummy engine on the Ohio Rive
Railroad was pushing coach over the pridg
over Twelve Pole Creek, in West virginia
struck derrick, which fell and threw 10
coach from the bridge. The conductor
brakeman and one passenger were killed. --
Col. VIM. McMichael, who was assistant a
torney-peneral under President Grant, WI
sound dead in bed In New York. The Lac
Ensley Coal, Iron and Railroad Company,
Alabama. went into the hands of receiv'
on the petition of unsecured creditors
T. Salisbury, Of Birmingham, was appolnV'
receiver.
A cyclone struck Usage City, Kansas, d
stroyed large number Of buildings 81
B caused the death Of two persons.
Theodore Semford Doolittle. died in M
Brunswick, N. J.--Matthew Johnson.
negro, was found guilty of murder in the FL
degree in the Court of Oyer and Terminer
New York. He was charged with killii
Emil Kuckelhorn in house on West Twent
fourth street, where, 1t is alleged, he we
for the purpose of robbery. David Ame
wealthy resident Of Upper Harmony, al
friends. A team of horses ran into them fro
: the rear, smashing their carriage and thro'
, ing out the occupants. The runaway hors
! dragged Mr.. Amey for two squares, causil
u injuries from which he died. Mrs. Amey
badly hurt. The deceased was seventy yea
of age.--The Pelican Saw Mill, in New O
= leans, was destroyed by fire, also milli'
feet of lumber, with no insurance. Thir
J cottages in the vicinity and pile-driyer al
burned. The total loss foots up hundr
8 thousand dollars. The cottages were occ
- pied by laboring people, who lost all the
> furniture. A letter received in st. Lot
> from a Methodist misister states that
; Bentley worthington, the so-called "apostl
. of Christian science faith who, In compai
e with Mrs. Plunkett disappeared from M
- York four years ago, has located in M
> Zealand and drawn together hundreds OF
levers in his faith.-A passenger train
= the Iron Mountain Railroad was derail
- near Victoria, Mo-, and two sleeping cars a
|, :, baggage and express car thrown over. I
- conductor, two passengers and trainm
Ys we're injured.