Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-08-25
THE NEWS

An attempt to wreck the Philadelphia and
Erie express was foied and the desperadoes
captured. - Health repres sntatives Of the
government. state and city, united in pro-
camation that there is no yellow fever IN
Pensacola "A fire in Bsnton Ill. destroyed
| seventeen business buildings, involving a
less of $3.50, ,OOO.- Seidles large spoke
works at Mechanicsburg, Pa. were destroyed
by fire. Loss $50, 600. 0.-Daniel c. Brinton,
OF Philadelphia, WIS elected president OF the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science at the meeting held in Dixon, WIS.
A cut of ten per cent. was made in the
wages of the employees OF the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul Railroad Company. -
The bonded warehouse Of Jacob Hartzeler,
at Rome Pa, was destroyed by fire, with oil
its contents, consisting of $50 barrels OF
whiskey. Loss, 10000; insurance, $4,000.
Origin believed incendiary. y.-Dr D. r..
Foster. surgeon OF the Fourteenth Regiment
N. G.. P, and one of the best known physic-
ans in Western Pennsylvania, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head at
his home, at Grafton, Pa. There is no known
reason for the dee1. He leaves VILE ana
two chiIGre1. The deceased was forty'three
years of age. Fire destroyed property to
the value Of $500 In Nashville Tenn. -
Fire in the main department of the Erie AS
sociation houses destroyed alarge amount OF
f, Oxen fish and appliances. The fishir OF
Annie Laurie Was also burned. Loss, s3O,-
600 insurance about one-half
Freight engine No. 107 eastbound, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad,
blew up near Rockabil, O., instantly killing
Engineer Basin, Fireman Roberts and Brake
man Quinn. The track was badly torn up by
the force Of the explosion. j. b. Can iler,
of Bos on and David s. Baker and John Z.
Gladung, OF Rhode Island, directors OF the
Boston and Nova Scotia Coal and Railway
Company, together with the local directors,
have been In Halifax several days endeavor-
Ing to secure from ,he Nova Scotia govern
ment subsidy .: So, 200 a mile toward the
construction OF their proposed railway from
their coal field at Broai Cove, thirty-fve
miles to Orangedale, where 1t would connect
with the Iutercolonal Trunk System. Fire
destroyed sixteen small frame dwellings on
Cooper street, Williamsburg. john w.
C,ssilear. n. A.. one OF the Oldest of Ameri-
can landscape painters, died at Saratoga
Springs of apoplexy at the age OF eighty-two
wears. "A mass-meeting was held in st.
Louis for the purpose Of organizing the
American Railway Union. Fire destroyed
a block of houses on Broad street, Texarkana,
involving q loss OF $40, ,000.- john +.
Ballantyne, a well-known journalist, died at
st. Luke's Hospital, in Chicago. The viii
lage Of Arlington, O., Is suffering from an
epidemic o: malignant diphtheria, all efforts
to subdue the disease having failed. The
whole town has teen quarantined by the
physicians and authorities.
The schooner Betty NJ. Lister, from Char
lesion, s. c., brought three cases OF yellow
fever to Philadelphia from Charleston.
A passenger train on the Atlantic and Dan
vile Railroad fell through bridge at Mi ton,
N. c., and five persons were killed and seven
injured The receiver of the Order OF
Unity, in Boston, states that certificate hold
ers will receive about twenty-five per cent. Of
what they put into the concern. Mr.. F. s.
J. Trabue the wife Of prominent retired
lawyer, otFrankfort, KY, was killed In
runaway accident near that city. The Car
negie Company, of Pittsburg, has ordered
reduction Of salaries applying to every
officer and employe excepting those working
under wage scales.-Eight thousand ma
chinists, pattern-makers and other workmen
in the Pittsburg district have been notified
of a reduction in wages. The Washington
banks have declined to receive on deposit
checks for large amounts drawn on New
York banks. The Union National Bank OF
Racine, Wis, closed its doors.-The an
nual encampment OF the Union Veterans
Union WIS held In Boston. Mrs Helen
Clough, OF Saratoga, N. Y, was held to the
grand jury, on charge of bigamy, three
husbands confronting her in court.
Angered beyond reason by the attentions
Antonio Andreassi way piyiug his wife, An
tonic Fourtuna:o in Philadelphia made o
most determined attempt to kill his rival,
shooting him twice. while the third bullet
landed in the leg of a bystander, Andrea
Goli-Albert Zeiglow, tbirty-four years
old, shot and killed himself in Elizabeth, N.
j., in the presence Of his wife. He was en-
ployed by New York firm and received
good wages, but gave up his position several
weeks ago to work out patent which failed
10 sell, and failure turned his mind.-Ty-
phoid fever is epidemic in st. Louis. The
officials OF the w. W. Thornton bank in
Shelbyville, ILL.,, were arrested On the charge
OF embezzlement Thieves in Delaware,
Wis, made Mrs. Philo r. King hand over her
jewels. destroyed the large ware
house of NJ. Fl. Rogers, in Bridgeport, CT.
The building contained large quantity OF
baled rags, and the loss is estimated at $685.
900, insurance $1,000. The fire was Of in
cendiary origin. DIR. Edward Goertz. q
dentist OF Sommeryille, N. j., committed
suicide by taking prussic acid. Recorder
Smith, in New York sentenced DR.. Bucsan
to be electrocuted during the week beginning
Monday, October 81. Julia E. Barringer,
the female money-lender, who, in New York
several months ago, was convicted of swind-
ling her bookkeeper, z. Spinoza, oU. OF $2,-
900, was sentenced to state prison for Iour
years by Recorder Smyth in the General
Sessions. Her council made motion for q
new trial which, was denied by the recorder