Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-11-10
THE NEWS.

falling headforemost into jar OF water. -
Two Italian laborers were killed. and eleven
injured in the wreck of q gravel train near
Springfield, Ohio.--The strike on the Big
-Four Railroad Is extending The old lib
erty bell, accompanied by the mayor and
councilmen OF PniIadolphn arrived at that
ci from Chicago.----A burglar attempted
10 blow open the safe Id the store OF ex-
Sheriff T. b Gibbs, at Clementon, Camden
county, Va. The explosion wrecked the
front of the store, but the burglar was cap
tured as he jumped out OF window. --G.
G.. Symes, who served twice In Congress as
! Colorado's representative, was found dead
in his office at Denver. The General Con-
ference on Church Extension OF the Metho-
I dist Episcopal Church voted the total sum OF
$4,000, apportionei among the diff rent
! conferences for church extension. seven
, train robbers went through u train at
Olipbant, Ark w. p. McNally was xii ed in
a aght With the bandits --Henle & Co.,
! wholesale dry goods merchants, OF Louis
vile, KY. made an assignment. Liabilities
! over $2JO, 900 Lewis L. Wright, aged
eighteen years, now in an insane asylum.
who fred his employers building in Boston
last march, has confessed that he started the
fire that destroyed 100000 worth Of prop
erty IN tnat city last spring.
Col. Gilbert 8. Jennings, U. S. A., died Ia
Detroit. .-Hyman Il Co. dealers in pictures,
lie nj in Nam VOr.
closed by the sheriff Liabilities $40, ,000.--
The eastbound passenger train on the Inter-
national and Great Northern Railway was
wrecked mile and half west OF Hearle,
Texas, near the junction Of the Hearne and
Brazos Valley Railroad. IL was caused by
the spreading at the switches OF the Hearne
and Brazos Valley Railroad All the coaches
and the baggage car were overturned, tha
engine alone keeping the track. The largs
Sawmill just east OF Dixon, o. was destroyed
by fire. The fire spread to the lumber p lies,
extending one-eghth of mile, and the con-
hagration followed. Loss 81 0, COO. .-Beh-
lard Yawger, prominent farmer OF Lebanon,
N j., while on bis way from Stanton Station
was stopped by hghwaymen. One man held
the horses, while another, at the point OF
pistol robbed Yawger of his money.-A
San Francisco lawyer and Tracey was struck
and instantly killed by a train on the New
York. Now Haven and Hartford Railway at
ST. Annes avenue Morrisiana - Samuel
Blaidell & Co.. dealers in cotton and wool in
Chicopee, with various branches, failed. -
The remains of Sir Johu Abbott were buried
at the cemetery in Montreal. The meeting
was held in st. Paul, Minp., Of the general
committee Of the Board OF Church Extension
Of the M. E. Church. by boiler explos-
ion in New York six persons were killed and
others more or less injured. Arrangements
were completed for the transfer of the con-
trol OF the Ches peake, Ohio and Southwest
ern from c. P. Huntingdon TO the Louisville
and Nashville
Adolphus Blair, merchant, Of Richmond,
Va, is dead. .-Abner Redmond was taken
from his h )me in Charlotte county, Va, by
a vigilance party and lynched. John
Saville, lad of fifteen years, accidentally
shot and killed Miss Lacie Everett, aged
eighteen years, near Romney, W.va.-Guy
Colson and Miss Tillie Wilson, Of Dunkirk,
N.Y.,were killed by their buggy being struck
by train on the Lake Shore Road. The
Ewood Window Glass Works at Elwood,
Ind, was des, royed by fire. Loss $4,000
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany notified its section hands In the vicinity
OF Wheeling OF a reduction Of ten per cent
In wages. The certificate Of consolidation
of the Baltimc and Ohio Southwestern and
the Ohio and Mississippi Railroads was filed
with the Ohio Secretary OF State 10 Colum-
bus The steamer Foxhail arrived at New
Orleans, having on board Francis H. Weeks,
the embezzler, wanted in New York. The
prisoner was at once turned over 10 a New
York officer. j. K. Payne, a farmer, OF
Winston county, Ala, who had informed on
a number OF Illicit dstillers, was found dead
near his home, his body rddlel with buck
shot.
William Sheppard an iron moulder, Of
Perth Amboy, assaulted his wife during
jealous quarrel and struck her In The fore
head with a nachiDist's hammer, fracturing
her skull. An immense crowd attended
the funeral services over the remains OF the
late Very Rev. Edward Sorln, supreme gen.
eral OF the order OF the Holy Cross, an |
founder of Notre Dame University, at Notre
Dame, Ini.-Ths retrial of ex-Oetective
Dan Coughlin for the murder OF Dr. Cronin,
was begun in Chicago. At the Greenwood
Colliery, near Minooka Luzerne county, Pa,
John Dulinski was instantly killed and Peter
Slusky was terribly injured by fall of roof
rock. The men had just fired blast and
were preparing to load the coal when the
loosened roof c.ashed upon them-In.the
Circuit Court in Wilsburg, W. Va, the case
of the county of Brooks VS.. the bondsmen Of
x-Sheriff J. L. Curtis was begun. The ac-
tion is to recover the amount OF the shortage
something In the neighbolhood of $4,000. |
The criminal cases against Curtis have been
continued until next term of court. The
factory OF the British Columbia Jute and
Cooperage Company, at Vancouver, was de-
stroyed by fire. BY the explosion OF a
locomotive boiler on the Iron Mountain Road
three men were killed. The foundry and
machine shops of L. c. Wehrifritz were de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire in Little Rock,
Ark. His family residence, adjoining, was
also badly damaged. The loss is $4,000.
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