Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-11-24
The NEWS

The United States cruiser Columbia on her
official trial trip averaged % 81 knots An
hour during four hours run, thus assuring
the Cramp Company, the builders, prem
INN Of s95 l.OOI. In q squirt the cruiser
achieved the remarkable speed OF 25.3 knots
m hour-Ida Lewis, of Allegheny, Pa, at
te, ed suicide by taking a two-ounce dose
of carbolic acid and laudnnum. Lewis
Peterson, ex-mayor OF Allegheny City, Pa,
died at the age OF slxty-Ave years. The
Carnegie Company will erect a large addi-
tion TO their works at Homestead Tor the
manufacture OF Harveyized steel.-Rev.
Charles +. Deems, D D., the noted preacher
and religious writer, died at his home, in
New York city, William Davis, who shot
and killed his son-in-law, Thomas Harlow,in
Cu!peper, Va. was convicted and sentenced
to twelve years in state prison, Union
Coal Company's col ieries at Shamokin, Pa,
shut down for an indefinite PERIOD and three
thousand men were thrown out OF work.
William Whitaker, his wife and little daugh-
ter. of Boone county, Ia, were killed while
crossing railroad track near Moingona.--
Fire DESTROYED the four-story brick building
of the Western Warehouse and Storage Com
many. at Kansas City, Mo-, involving loss
of about $4,000 worth OF property and the
serious. IL not fatal, injury OF three fremen.
The Jury in the suit OF Mrs. Eva Wetmore
Buffum. in Pittsburg, against her father-in-
law for false arrest disagreed. The Plant
OF the Windsor Wire and Spring Company,
in Joliet, Ill.,, was seized by the sheriff 10
satisfy claim OF Sl5, lO3. Inability to make
| collections Is the cause OF the failure
large number OF workmen are thrown out oil
employment.
Eugene H. Munday, poet, the publisher
of trade paper, the Proof Sheet and at one
tine prominent in Philadelphia affairs, died
aged sixty-lwo years. While standing be-
fore the dining-room stove, the clothing of
Miss Rena Kelly, pretty eighteen year-old
girl of Valley View. Ky, took fire, and before
assistance could reach her she was fatally
burned. Mine OF the fourteen inmates OF
the iail in Mount Vernon, Ill. escaped. They
were permitted to remain in the corridors of
the jail during the day and managed to bend
the iron bars in the upper windows sufficient
ly to permit them to escape.--A free-for-all
family fight took place in the suburbs oi
Chattanooga, Tenn, three men and as many
women being engaged. AS the result Frank
Pierce was mortally stabbed near the heart
by his brother -in-law, West Moreland, who
was jailed. The parties we're all drunk
J. W. Fuller, notorious bank swindler and
crook, was arrested in Richmond, Ind, by
Detective Charles Page. When arrested
= Fuller carried large pasteboard box flllet
with bank checks from as many as fifty ank'
thu oughout the country. He claims his home
is at Williamsport, Pa.-The Wisconsin
Minnesota and Pacific Railroad was disposed
sof at masters sale in Mankato, Minn., under
decree Of mortgage foreclosure.
The Overland stage was robbed five mile
north of Gkiah, Col. by a lone highwaymen
He wore blue overalls, hadSfrcotton mas'
and double -barreled shotgun. The amour
taken Is not known. The passengers wer
unmolested. The lody OF yeung man
we'll dressed, about nineteen years OLD, wa
found frozen stiff and hanging by the nee
in barn at Rochester, o. The first supposl
ton was that the young man had comml'te'
suicide. but the manner in which the hang
} ing was done, and other features OF the case
lead to the belief that murder was comml'
ted mo clue has been found to the murder
, er or murderers. Mrs. John peterson
who has been married about three months
was shot in the abdomen and arm, In Taco
ma. Wash, by Albert Lauren, former ao
mirer. Lauren then went into the wood
NEARBY and blew out his brains with pisto
"A disastrous wreck occurred just ou
side the city limits of Vincennes, lnd., o
the Baltimore and Southwestern Railroad
, Charles S. Neff, head brakeman, was killed
and seventeen freight cars, laden with mel
chandise shipped from Cincinnati to partl'
3 in the Southwest were totally destroyed
Ship Donovan, on trial for the murder
John Chew, pleaded guilty 10 manslaught'
and was sentenced to ten years imprlsol
ment in Freehold, N. J.-Ira Sandfor
Tate. charged with numbering Russell Ia
4 ker and poisoning his own wife, was causl
= and put in Jail at Unontown' Pa.
Hunsberger, discount clerk OF the Unio
: National Bank, in Norristown, Pa, was q
r rested for the embezzlement of 81, 25O OF II
h banks funds ,Sand held under bail for trial.