Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-05-12
THE NEWS.

John Jones, aged seventy years, OF Potts-
town. Pa. was buncoed out of 50, 500 by book
agents. The Pecos Company has been In
corporated with capital of $5,OOO,OO Tor
the development and exploration OF the
AGRICULTURAL and mineral resources IN the
valley of the Pecos river in New Mexico and
Texas.-Failure of the air brakes to work
caused the wreck of passenger train on tne
Big Four, near Lafayette, Ind, and num-
Der of persons were killed and injured
The Iron Finishers Union met at Youngs-
town, O., but decided not to return to the
Amalgamated sociation.--Oharies ROW
lands machine shop, at Greenpoint, l.. l.,
was burned. Loss, $50, 0,O0O.-Herman and
Hugo Bohm, exhibitors of art goods In the
Vienna department of the Worlds Fair, was
arrested on the charge of selling articles in
their exhibit that had been admitted free OF
duty.-Mrs. Ida Hill, who eloped from her
husbands home, in Kingsland, N. j., with
William Taylor, died at the Putnam House,
IN New York.-A letter from Conception,
Chilli. saws that Frank Mathewsoh was killed
by Chilian mob.
A revolution has broken out in Nicaragua
and the insurgents have taken Grenada
E. L. Blakeslee, one of the ablest and most
prominent criminal lawyers in Northern
Pennsylvania, died suddenly of heart disease
at his home in MontrOse. se.--George G. Mil
Ter shot his wife and killed himself in Rocks
Springs. Wyo.-George Behrens, an Ohio
farmer, cut Amanda Miller to pieces and
killed himself. The Prince Edward
sohooners, Eddy and Ripley Ropes are given
up for lost with all on board. The Eddy
sailed from Pictou, April Is, and the Ripley
Ropes sailed just before the big gale of April
26th, and have never been heard of since
They should have reached their destination
the day after sailing.-Captain Monroe
Irving, well-known nll over the Eastern
- provinces in connection with the iceboat SER
vice between Prince Edward Islands and
the mainland, and three others were
drowned at Bells Point, Cape Traverj, by
the swamping CT their boat. The other
victims were Cap liz 1rving's son and men
named Myers and McDonald--Willla I
Winants Thomas diod in Elizabeth, N. J
where he was born in 1916. He was grand
son of Col. Edward Thomas, OF the First
Essex Regiment, of the New Jersey Rc-ola-
tionary army He was graduate of Colum-
bia College, and in 1910 was appraiser cft tie
port of New York. He was the only
surviving delegate to the national convention
that nominated VIM. Henry Harrison.
A mob of farmers took James Collins,
horse thief, from the deputy marshal at Sher-
man, KY, and lynched him.-A big strike
of cabinet makers is threatened in Cincin-
nati.-Albert Maxwell, the well-known
hotel man and proprietor of the Griswol0
House. died at the Russell House in Detroit
of heart failure. His age was flfty-eight
years. During his lifetime Mr.. Maxwell had
opened various hotels throughout the coun-
try.-Governor Flower refused the appeal
for executive clemency made on behalf Of
Carlyle Harris. The National Normal Uni
versity of Lebanon, Ohio, has made an as
signment to George A. Burr. Liabilities 9
timated at from $500 to 800, 900, and the
assets nominally about the same.-The vii
lage of Bailey, twenty-five miles northwest
of Grand Rapids, Mich, was almost totally
destroyed by fire. An overturned lamp in
the store of G.. Hirschberg started the blaze,
and the fire spread rapidly to the neighbor-
ing buildings. The stores of Lindley 4 Co.
and A. W. Fenton and the residence of j. W.
Bunker were totally destroyed and sever
others damaged. The loss will amount 10
about $20, 0O0.-Ex-U United States Senate
J. W. Patterson dropped dead in church et
Hanover. N. H.
Affairs in connection with the Sioux City
failures partake very much Of the color OF
crookedness. Near Mitchell, Ind, saw
mill boiler exploded, fatally wounding Fran
els Baker and seriously wounding three
others. The boiler was torn to atoms, throw
ing lumber for several rods.-The Central
Ohio Insurance Company, OF Toledo, o.,
went into the hands of a receiver, Edward
Chittenden being appointed. The Liabilities
are S1O0. 900 In excess of the assets.-The
first box of California cherries for 1898 was
shipped from Sacramento to the Duke OF
Veragua, care Of the managers OF the Cali
torria exhibit at the Worlds Fair.--ln
Harney Bros shoe shop, at Lynn, Mass, q
nair of kid button shoes were made complete
and hacked in a carton In fifteen minutes
and forty-fve seconds. The best previous
record was twenty-four minutes, The shoes
will be exhibited al the Worlds Fair.
The Grant Lottridge Company's brewery,
at Hamilton, Ontario, was entirely gutted by
fire. A large quantity OF stock was damaged
and the machinery rendered useless. The
total loss is about $50, 900; fully covered by
insurance. -Stonenasons in Easton, Pa,
went on strike,becauset they were asked to work
ten hours, receiving extra pay.-Mrs. Anna
Maria Young, aged ninety-nine years, and
the Oldest widow drawing a Revolutionary
war pension, died in Easton, Pa.-The
electric powerhouse in Louisville, KY, was
burned. The loss will aggregate $500, ,OOO.
with good insurance. Falling walls were sup
posed to have crushed a number OF persons,
but it proved to be mistake.-The Erie
Canal has been opened and grain blockade
at Buffalo arrested. &c. G. Care, OF Battle
Creek, Mich, inventor and patentee Of the
advanced thresher died at the Alma Sanitar-
ium, where he was receiving treatment for
paralysis. bandits held up passengers
on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas south
bound passenger train and robbed them o.
$4,000.