Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-09-08
THE NEWS.

causing loss OF $40, 600, upon which there
was but 5000 insurance The Johnson
block, with the two tenements, the post
Office, county house, and the hotel, G.. F.
Kibbe, proprietor, was entirely destroyed.
The business portion Of Depauw, Ind, 4,
a village Thirty miles west of New Albany
Ind. was destroyed by fire. The loss is es-
one business house is left standing. "A
band of brigands attacked the residence OF
Jose Sanchez, wealthy ranchman living
near Victoria, Mexico, their object being
bandits were killed. The house was pill
LACED Of all its valuables. .-Alonzo Clark,
a race horse owner, living in st. Louis, after
shooting and dangerously woundng bis
wife, committed suici e.--L. G.. Hum
phreys, township treasurer. OF Mount Vic
toria, O., is a defaulter 10 the tune Of $685.
Coca boiler In Probst & Sons furniture
factory at Pomeroy, o., blew up, killing
James Starkey, the engineer, and wrecking
the building
Afinancial statement showing the condition
of the Reading was given by the receivers.
The Mechanicsville, S. c., Alliance ap-
pealed to the governor to call an extra ses-
sion OF the legislature to pass a stay law
Fully 1900 people attended the third annual
picnic OF the Warren County Farmers Asso-
citation held in Belviiere, N. ]. The crowd
was an orderly one and listened atte1tively
to ex-Congressman Henry s. Harris speech.
Rev. VIM. H. Opdyke, state secretary OF the
New jersey Farmers Alliance. told the
farmers why they were poor.--Thc steamer
China from Hong Kong, brought to San
Francisco advices Of the prevalence OF chol-
era and famine In North China. The Nor
wegian bark Premier, loading at Metis, Que
bee, was driven ashore there during the gale
and is dismasted, She may be total loss.
The Premier is wooden vessel OF l, 127 tons
built at Bangor, Me-, in 1853, and is owned
in Norway. Justice Henry B. Brown, OF
the United States Sup eme Court, spoke at
Milwaukee before the Bar Association. The
disease anthrax has appeared among horses
and COWS near Delaware City, Del.-W.
J. T. unter hanged himself at Chester, Pa.
Anton Stover, landscape painter from
Brooklyn, diei In Holland. - The large life
insurance companies, bavlng their main OF.
fees in New YORK, will advance the rate OF
interest on bond and mortgage loans to si1
Dr.. Arthur P. Olnsy, a prominent physic-
ian, Of Middletown, n. Y, shot himself
through the head, dying instantly. He had
been In Ill health for several years.-The
sixteenth annual meeting ofthe American Bar
Association was held In Milwaukee. -
Howard Milligan, lad of six years. was
bitten by a mad dog, in Wilmington. THE
Moffett Hodgkins and Clarke Company OF
Watertown, N. Y, has applied for q receiver.
AT New Orleans Nathan Friedlander shot
his wife fatally and then killed himself. -
Constancio Valdivia was killed in the City OF
Mexico by Carlos Best, broker. Two
men were killed and several wounded IL
Philadelphia by scaffold giving away
T. A. Mccormick, postmaster of Rexville, N.
T., WAS killed by an Erie train at Bath, N. Y.
The Ford County Qll.) Bank Of Thomp-
son, Backstock & Co., has assigned for the
benefit of its creditors being unable to real
ize on notes and other outstanding paper.
The liabilities OF the firm are S99,500 assets
s154.O0O.
The storm destroyed great deal OF prep
erty in Savannah, and many Ives are re-
l1rk q
struction and so ne loss Of life, also, at Ty-
bee.-The De aware River was high, and
great damage was dono to the shipping. -
Great damage was done 10 the crops in the
Schuylkill region of ares OF
corn and tomatoes were destroyed in New
Jersey. At Long Branch, Asbury Park
and Ocean Grove the Loard-walks, payilions
and places OF amusement were wrecked. -
The three master Three Sisters was aban-
doned off Cape Fear. The captain and mate
were washed overheard "A woman, said
to be suffering from Asiatic cholera, was
taken from Jersey City house to the hospi-
tal.-Two men were killed in Philadelph a
by coming in contact with live wires blown
down by the storm. Fire destroyed several
hotels and other buildings at Rockaway
Beach, the flames being famed by the high
wind.-James Battin, q Newark, N. j.,
millionaire, died in faith-cure home at the
age of eighty-seven. Marie Prescott, the
actress. died in New York.-Joe Mitchell
was fatally shot in Fayette county, W. Va,
by constable, while resisting arrest.