Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-05-26
THE NEWS.


actress In Spokane, Wash, who recently ap-
nlied for divorce, committed suicide by
shooting himself In the police court, where
he had been arraigned on charges preferred
nv his wife.-George Lankford OF Mari
eta. O.. killed his wife AMI himself. Inc
hot personal campaign between ehey ana
proddus candidates for the clerkship oil
Page county, Va, has resulted In Inc with
drawal of tile former from the conte ana
a chal enge to Broddus topdblisb the threat
Ehed letters. Cheers greeted Rev. Dr. |
Talmage when he made the announcement
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle that the bull ing
was free from floating debt, ,---Etigene '.
Debbs. of Terre Haute, Ind, has be n IN
New York several day consulting lendS
and old time associates concerning the OF
ganization Of the American Railway Unlom
4 new labor order. Mr.. Debs was secretary
and treasurer of the Brotherhood OF Loco
motive Firemen for dozen years, pu'
though un inimously reelected last fall re-
sipned.-Many valuable blocks Of rJperty
in Saginaw, Mich, were destroyed by nrN
Loss over 81, 500 0OJ insurance OO,OOo.--
DIR. Theodore Hartridge, for many years
leading Florida planter, died at Jacksonville
The Pioneer Furnace, owned by the CieVe-
land Cliff Company, in Negaunee, Mich,
will close down permanently. This Is the
oldest furnace in the Lake Superior district
Ii has turned cut over $50, ,0)0,OOp worth OF
big iron. and been in operation forty-ohe
gears. Its closing down will leave only one
charcoal furnace Of nineteen in the upper
peninsula. The arrival Of the United
States ship dohican at Port Townsend, Ore
gon. completed the feet ordered for duty in
the Behring Sea.--John Wilson, while ao-
| ducting Myrtle Summers, his niece, from
Mulberry, Ark, was killed by the girls
father, who was discharged subsequently by
the coroner's jury.-GeorgeH Harris mother,
In Lansing, poisoned him to prevent hls
grow ne up to become q thief.-William ).
Burke was sentenced to life imprisonment
for numbering his mother, in Rockford, III.
Epstein's Dime Museum, in Chicago, was
damaged by fire to the extent OF $40, ,OOO.---
James B. Murdoch, the famous actor, dled
at his home. near Cincinnati at the age OF
eighty-three years.
william q. Lsnford, pioneer lawyer o.
the Northeast, died at Spokane washington
tie vas appointed associate justice OF the
cunrema Court of Washington Territory
during Cleveland's first administration
Lon French, who murdered Henry Fowieri
was taken from the jail in Seymour, lno.'
and lvnched. body of murderer Pal'
lister who escaped from Sing, was found
floating in the Hudson.-The machinlst'
emploved at he Grant Locomotive WORKS
Chicago, to the number of seventy live, wen'
out on strike rather than to comply with al
order of the firm that they would have tc
work by the piece E. X. warren
fea herbone whip factory at Three OaKs
, Mich. one of the largest concerns OF th'
kind in the country, was sold to syno cate
| of English capitalists. Judge Trip, o
South Dakota, recently appointed minister
to Austria, sailed from New York b T.
t Clarke. the real estate agent: is missing IRON
his Chicago home, and about twenty nVe o
! his creditors have instituted search 10 dls
cover his whereabouts Clarke made VOL
untary assignment May 1. Since that tiin'
he has not been seen in Chicago. An inves
, t:oation of his business methods is being con
= ducted bv the attorneys who represent var
U Ions creditors. and It is claimed that ne
= short over $50, ,O0O.-Two tramps ana
passenger were killed in wreck on the fai
y Gandle near FraEersburg, o.
rae schooner Pelican foundered of Ashta
6 Aala. Ohio. and three of her crew OF scve
nen were drowned Five men perished 3
4 she sinking Of a dredge In Lake Erie, nee
4 Oonneaut, GA boat belonging to the III
saving crew at Cleveland, Ohio, capsized
h Lake Erie, just outside the breakwater, an
q four men were drowned.
heavy rain storms caused floods at hume
q GUS points in Pennsylvania and Ohis.
Il Newcastle. Pa, several planning mills an
"a houses were washed away, and at Meadvill
% Pa, considerable damage was done.-
"a Iramps took possession OF a place on u
IL
q road. and held up the residents. pltcht
battle followed, which ended in the oaptu
OF three tramps William Cox, burgla
who escaped from the Hudson county pen
Il tentiary. at Snake Hill, N. j., tweve ye
% ago. was recaptured at jersey City, just
II he landed from steamship. an
W plosion In c. l. Popes glucose factory,
,e Geneva. Ill, six men were killed and o.
at seriously injured. d.-Mrs. Mcbride, OF Mel
G. phis. testified that Judge Duboise, tried
re- hug her.-A New York syndicate, back
7. by mil ions, has secured control OF the ban
l.. rupt Sheridan Coal Company, at Sherlda
ID O.. one mile above Ashland, KY, and W
Id reopen the mines at once.--The Sou
in Carolina Supreme Court has decided in fav
ir ofthe state in the Chester liquor case.
IN noints in the case did not touch upon t
"a constitutIonaity OF the law, but simply as
I, whether the CITY of Chester should not
If connelled to issue licenses for year,
r stead OF ak months. The decision is look
- upon, however, as practically settling
legality of the dispensary law. -Jud
Pardee. of TIE United States Circuit Coz
Of New Orleans, has appointed X. ). Lowe
vs. and H. NJ Conner receivers oil the 0"'ann
10 and Western Railroad.
e. es ATE HIS OWN DAUGHTER
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