Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-12-15
TEE NEWS

Two engineers and one fireman was bClh
ed TO death in wreck following II head-o
collision on the Great Northern road at Ed
wall. Washin gton. Samuel Riddle Sons,
manufacturers OF cotton and wooden goods,
ut Glen Riddle, Delaware county, Penn,
notified their 800 employees of reduction oi
ten per cent in their wages All the
blacksmiths employed in the Pullman car
shops at Pullman went out on strlke
against cut from twenty-five TO forty per
cent. in the price paid for piece work -
Edward Newcomer, living near Abilen',
Kas shot and instantly killed his brother
Frank. The murderer was arrested and
claimed the trouble grew out OF family
quarrel, and that the shooting was III SELF
defense. ..-W William Sparks, the cannon ball
performer, died at Bloomington. lll--ln
the Small town OF Carmean, Texas, William
Collet called on his sweetheart and found
another suitor in possession. He pulled
dagger and stabbed himself three times, say
ing life was not worth living if his girl went
back on him.
The First National Bank, Of Kankakee, Ill +,
teopened. 1t closed its doors July 2S with
liabilities of $4,000 and assets Of 1926, coo.
The bank had been doing business for twenty
years. The crew OF the schooner Dread
naught were rescued on Lake Michigan alter
being four days and nights without sleep and
food. The wife Of John Davis and his
child were burned TO death in their tent Oh
the Cherokee Strip during prairie fire.
At Lnnsdon, Mcintyre township, Pa, fire
swept away six dwellings occupied by four
families. Jacob Gunnly's sx year old child
perished in the flames. Geo. w. Graedey,
one Of the best known legislators, lawyers
and educators In Vermont died at his home
in Versenues at the age OF eighty-one. .-->
The American lace works at Patcho5ue, L..
l., employing 500 hands, resumed operations
after three months idleness. Only two-tbirds
of the whole number of employees went to
work. Noah Miner was arrested in Savan-
nab, Ga, en- the charge of embezzling 81 ,4e)
from the Waverly House, Tannersville, N. Y.
Juan Guadaloupe, of Vera Cruz Mexico,
who beat bis son TO death few days ago be-
cause the boy would not drink cup Of cof-
fee has been shot by due process of law.
The crime occurred at Azultzugo, state Of
Vera Cruz, and was horrible affair. The
boy was lut three years old, and his head
was teaten into jelly.
Henry Collier, bookkeeper for the Har
wood Stove Factory in Little Rock, Ark,
was killed ty George McNamara,a "a bartender.
Both had been drinking, The home OF
Mrs. Lucy W. Wright, in Bessemer, Ala,
was burned. and her chafred body was found
in the ruins 1t is believed she was murdered
Gnl the house set on fire to conceal the crime
The frequency of incendiary fires in
Wheeling, W. Va, has caused the Mayor to
offer a reward for the arrest of the flrebugs.
The will of Judge Billings, of New Or
leans, contains a legacy of $4,000 to Yale.
The second trial of Rev. L. ederlck How
ard. alleged to be VIM. Lord Moore, charged
with conducting fraudulent legacy busi-
Less, began in Nashville, Tenn, George
T. Scott, of Kansas tity, Mo-, eloped with
Miss Belle Rich, his typewriter. Fire de-
stroyed a stone tuilding in the Norfolk Navy
Yard, causing loss OF probably S25OO00 -
A. B. Treadwel, who is wanted in Philadel-
phia. New York and several other cities for
robbery, has been convicted Of attempting to
rohthe Emporia postoffice last June, and
will be sentenced to the penitentiaiy in
Leayenworth. Kan.
There was a freight train wreck ct Stanton
ON the P. w. & 3. One tramp was killed
and another hurt. Mrs. VAIN, residing in
Monaco was fatally burnel by the bursting
of n can of water on the cook stove and
causing a lamp carried by the woman to ex
plode. Mrs Halliday, indicted for murder
tried to commit suicile in her cell in Mont.
cello. n. H.-Hon. Isaac &. Lewis, presi
dent ofthe Meriden, Ct, Britannia Company
and Meriden's wealthiest citizen, died at hi:
home OF apoplexy, aged eishty-one years
Mr. lewis began life without dollar, and
bv his own exettions accumulated large
fortune Young Tom Rodgers, who muir
dered his father and attempted TO kill hi:
mother. and sister in Chester, Pa. ,on January
14fh last. was sentenced by Judge Clayton tC
twenty-slxyears imprisonment ior MS crimes
The engine aud flre cars of the Pittsfeld
freight, bound north, on the Danbury and
Berkshire division of the Consolidated Rail
road, ran off an open switch at Bethel, Ct,
and were wrecked. - General Manager
Barlow. of the Elkton Coal and Coke Com.
pany. died at his home in Roanoke, Va -
Capt. J. J. Lawrence, who was the comman
der of the first steamboat OF the Mallory line
fell dead at his home in New York He was
about seventy years old, and retired Iron
active service several years ago. He had q
wife andtwo daughters. The fve-year-od
son of Mrs Healy, living in Middletown, Ct
WIS carrying lamp down stairs when h'
Tel, lrraking the lamp A piece of glass
penetrated his throat and severed the jugua
vein, tausing death almost instantly
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