Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-08-18
THE NEWS.

mated Association who were employed III Tue
Carnegie mills at Pittsburgh, and went on
otrike in sympathy with the Homestead
strikers, have petiIionel the Carnegie oin
jals TO give them work again. Ills no"u
ing Company's officers conferred WIN DanA
off1cjals in the coal mining district IN reler-
ence to getting currency with wnlcn u PaJ
tho ,rogas OF the miners The warsnip
Minneapolis was successfully launcnea u. INC
Cane shipyard, Philadelphia Miss Lizzie
NJ Washburn. d dau ,htet Of the Minnesota
SENATOR performing the christening ee'e'
mony yice-President Stevenson, secretary
If the Navy Herbert and number OF otner
officials from Was ington were present
Brlck and iron smokest lcks Ill NanlceAe,
Pa. were blown down in windstorn, anu
one man crushed to death, and several IN
iured President Cleveland arrived at
Grov Gables and will remain there until
sentember Thomas H. Thornton, pro-
nrietor J. T. Herrick, stockholder y. u
Bilett. cashier and W. W. Thornton, eA-
cosbier Of tho Thornton Bank, oil Shelpy-
vile. ILL.,. which failed last week, were az
rested on the charge OF embeEzlement Oh 'ne
funds deposited. The complaint was ina''
by Charles Nixon, depositor.
The foundry, ,corehouse and machine shops
of the Eureka Cast Steel Company, in Ches-
ter. Pa, were do toyed by fire. Loss esti-
mated at $40, 900 covered by insurance.
1he directors Of the Lehgh Valley Railroad
dissolved the lease OF the roa to the Head
Ing and reassumed possession OF the prop
ertv.-John A. McCeavil, OF Pine Bun,
Ark. committed suicide in his room at the
Union Hotel, in Chicago, by shoJ oJtlng him-
se,f in the head. He was known to be
rambler, aud it is thought he committed the
net in n fit OF dependency. The Fort
Pitt Tanneries, belonging to Owen Sheek q
Co., and the offices and warehouses OF the
Consolidated Iron Company, at Rankin
Stati n. Pa. were totally destroyed b. hre
Over /. 500 cords OF bark and large quantities
of ather and hides in the tannery were de-
s,royed, while in the wire works l2.OO0 rec
Of barbed wire, 5000 kegs Of nails and
large quantity OF merchant wire, staples ana
: like product we're melted together. The loss
will reach S 25. 900. Fred A. Hoffman
iumped from The roof OF his uncles house,
No. 8 Granville street. in Pittsburs, and died
r almo,t instantly. He was native Of Butler
and had just left the insane asylum aitel
S eight weeks treatment. 1t was thought NJ
was entirely we'll. Engaged in farming h'
some time ago got into business difficulties
! which effected his mini. Religious melan
cholia was the form il took and at Butler h
+ tried TO drswn himself. He lcav a widow
I and two children. ,.s,,o,
! Governor Jones, OF Aapama, Issueo
; nroelamation establishing q quaranun
S AGAINST Florida on account Of yellow ieve
t prevailing there George Shlras, iather
b the Supreme Court justice, died in P'ttsoure
u Mr.. George C. Thomas has resigned as
" director of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, o
account of the great pressure OF business
# Drexel & c., which now absorbs his III a
tention, owing to the death OF the late M
d Drexel. The directors have accepted u
resignation with regret. Fire caused lo'
l. of about s25, 900 in Irwin & Stinson's carp'
II mill tuilding, at Mascher and Putnam street
= Philadelphia. The manufacturers VINO su
taiued damage are g. W. Lord, Hugh'
" Manufacturing Company, Robinson Ha
ID and E. Magram. Eight hundred mine
n employed by the Kansas Coal Company
le Ardnore, Mo-, went out on sympathet
~ strike. The freight steamer Grover Ciev
- an was burned 10 the waters edge at Ne
ID Orleans. She was valued at Sl2 Ooc. --Jac'
Y. Bond, president OF the defunct BanS OF Col
st land, Neb, was arrested, charged with
Id ceiying deposits after the bank was known
VI be insolVent.