Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-02-10
THE NEWS.

aire John Huntingdon, which was fl ell in
Cleveland, leaves 81 SOD, 90 to educational
ami charitable purposes. a. U. Lakey,
diamo Id broker CT New Yolk, was arr eJtod
at Taylors Hotel, jersey City, on capias
issued by Judge Lipplncott, of the HnDson
county IN. j court as an alleged alscont-
ing deutor. IL is said that Lake, had OBJ
tanned credit to the amount of S25, 90 frotu
dauond dealers in Maiden Laue. Philip
Falrb- ok called upon Bessie p,ttman i'll In
lianapolis, and, finding a. other man in her
company, seized a revolver from the dresser
and shot the woman fatally. He tEen shot
himself through the heart, dying instantly
BY fall of slate in Princes coal mino at
Zalover, Ohio, four miles south oil IaResvil!e
four nj ners were crushed. George Walker
died shortly after being recovered No hopes
are entertained Of the others, who are in a
critical condition. The iron roller mill
be ongipg to Abraham aud Marks Harris
and Abrauam Gottlan, located at lrondale
lust outs de OF the norl heast limits of India
napolis, wa totally destro, ed by fire. Tho
inventory of the entire plant placed the
value at sl2O, C00 and the insurance is $780,
lOO. Tho company was working s6J men.
II Fire destroyed tie greater portion OF
business block on the corner of Crooks ave-
nue. and Third street, in Milwaukee,. The
hose froze, and the firemen were powerless
to stay the hames.-Six section hands on
the Central Hudson were run into by train
of whom three were killed and three injured.
An electric wire electrocuted and nearly
decapitated colcred man in Louisville,
ky.
The most disastrous fire that has occurred
since 1866. took rlace at Little Falls, N. I.
The fire started in C-nway'S saloon and de-
stroyed several buildings, including Inc
Hotel Rocklon, Ora d Central Hotel, and
the Metropolitan block. The total loss is
estimated at 500, COO No lives we're lost.
The house of u S. Brunson, at Ander-
son, Ind, was wrecked by an explosion OF
natur al gas, and five pers ,ns seriously hurt.
Fire partly destroyed the old Equitable
block at Des Mones, Iowa, one OF the prln-
cipal business aud Office buildings. Among
ther interests damaged was theofHce OF the
Oily News. The damage is great end es-
pecially by water, covered by insurance in
almost every instanca.--While Shamokin
and Suntury birds were in the pit in pub
lie hall, at Shamokin, Pa, the police made
descent upon the place. Five hundred
sprts jumped through the doors aud win
dows to escape. Many bruised heads and
broken limbs resulted. Numerous arrests
were m ,le.-The Diamond Match Com
pany, at meeting in Chicago, increased its
capital stock to 100000
irxtradition proceedings for the two MeHt
ran revolutionists were begun in San An
tonio.-Col. Phocion Howard, the veteran
journalists and Democratic politician, died
suddenly of heart disease in DanvIlle, ILL.,
Colonel Howard was read ng clerk Oh the
House of Representatives. Dr. Lancaster
Drew, secretary and treasurer of the Cen
trail Savings Fund, Trust and Safe Deposit
Company, of Philadelphia, left his Office for
the ostensibe purpose of getting his iunch'
con. He has not since returned, ana MS lei
low officials say his accounts are discovered
to be short some s10,OOO.--Owing to the
delay in allotiug space, three Of the leading
corset manufacturers of this country-War-
ner Bros; Langdon, Batcheller q Co., and
Roth &, Go!dschmidt, have decided not to
exhibit at the Columbian Exposition. Ihe
space was promi ed last September, but was
not allotted until last week, and then the
amount was cut down from one-half to two
thirds of that originally asked for.--Mar'
tin Fry, Jr., convicted of numbering his
mistress Henrietta Wilson, was sentenced
bv Judge Russell, in Ballston, N. Y, to be
electrocuted. George NJ Pullman, the
Chicago millionaire intends to erect large
aospital for Invalid chldren.-Robert J.
Beatty was cow icted of completely in the
poisoning Of non-union men at Homestead.
Two hundred men were thrown out OF
employment by the burning of big paper
mill at Xenia, Ohio. Loss $4,000
An explosion occurred In the Star Foun.
dry, in Worcester, Mass, which injured
fourteen men, one fatally.-A husban J.
wife and child were suffccated in tenc'
ment-house fire in New York others escap
fnR with burns.-The disastrous fire which
broke out in Huntsville, Ala, and which at
one time threatened ID destroy the busin ,ss
part of the city, was finally got under con.
troll with the loss Of one business block,
known as the Struve bl OK. The loss is esti-
mated at s50, ,0)0; only partly insured. -
The New Washington express via the Read.
ing and New York and New En- gland road,
eastbound, ran into the rear of the Norwich
boat express in Iont Of the station at East
Douglass, Mass, on thu New England road.
A woman passenger on the boat train was
killed and several others were injured
The Window-glass Trust organized in Mil
waukee by the election of officers. ALL
the mines of tho Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Company in the Lackawanna and
Wyoming Valleys, employing about 1S,OO)
persons, were put upon eight hours per day.
Pauline Newcombe, aged twenty years,
and Willard Woodwork, aged twenty
years, an engaged couple were drowned in
Feather River, Cal. by the capsizing OF