Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-03-17
THE NEWS.

Two policemen discoVeroo t"o ouis'1's
IN tbe act of robbing safe in saloon In
West Oakland, Cal, and fired on them. The
burUlars returned the fire. One OF the bur"
glars was killed and one OF the policemen
mortally wounded. Glauser & Sons spoke
factory at Newville, Pa, was destroyed by
fire. Loss $4,000; insurance sl0,0JO'---
Lewis L. Dorter, aged sixty-two years,
wealthy lumber dealer in Ph ladelphia, COM
mitted suicide. - An express train on the
Atlantic Coast Line struck caboose stand.
ing on the main track, near Weldon N. T.,
and two men on the latter were injured
The parallel rod of locomotive drawing
passenser train, on the D laware, Lackn-
wanna and u estern Railroad, broke and
nisrced the b,iler and the engineer and IRE
man were nearly scalded to death y efcap'
ing steau.-ihe British steamer Wells
City, Of the Bristol line, stranded at Sea
bright. N. J. The crew were rescued oy
msans Of he breeches buoy. ars,
after forcing an entrance into tie First
National Bank ct Catawissa, Pa, were
frightened by the crew Of passing railroad
train, while they were in the act OF dr'iiins
q hole through the steel doors OF the vault
a general strike of workmen on tne
Worlds Fair grounds was averted oy ss1
clement of the diff erences with the electrical
workmen. Charles Taylor, q vet
eran telegrapher, and founder OF 1.-THE oid
Time Teegraphers' Union" died in Frank
ford, Ky,
Nev. DR.. Andrew D. Peabody, for fit.
vears connected with thefaculty OF Harvard
University, died.-The famous race horse
Monit;r died in his paddock at the farm OF
his owner, G.. orge Lorillard.-The British
lark Al ce M. Craig was wrecked at hesar'o
on the coast of Parans, an went down with
the captain his wife and eight OF the crew.
The schooner Kate V. Alden was
stranded near the north jetty, Charleston
harbor, and bandoned.-Henry Grouse, q
veal. by farmer living near Fort Plain, NJ
Y. was murdered by burglar. r.--snerman
Asn convicted of the murder Of VIM. rogue
near Cedar Bluff, Cherokee county, Ala
hama. was executed at sunrise. On the
soafPold he reiterated his confession that
p,rkhalter and LIE ,th, notorious moonshin>
ers. forced him 10 kill Pogue, because tne
latter secured indictments against them for
the i'll cit sale of whsle Mrs. j. ID.
K;sIc, started the kitchen fire at her homo
in Omaha by the aid Of kerosene, which e1'
ploded, severely, perhaps fatally, burning
herself, her husband and three children, be-
sides destroying the house and all Its con-
tents-The Illinois and Fox rivers are on
a rampage on account of the moving ice, and
the neople in the towns ! along their shores
are moving.-There was collision on the
Panhandle at Union City between a fast
frsight and a west-bound passenger train.
Locomotives and cars were demolished, and
several passengers injured.
John Lowell, an aged hermit and miser'
living three miles south of Lebanon, oregon
who YVES known 90 have considerable money
secre: ed in the house, was found mum Teo
in bed. Everything in the house was torr
to pieces, the walls being broken and tne
flo ,r torn up in search for money.-Anr
Nav Lesion, ffteen-year-old girl, living II
Chardon, Ohio, committed suicide by taxing
arsenic bee luse Of quarrel with her lover
lad of seventeen. succession OF sever'
earthquake shocks were felt in Umatiiia
Ore. Oh, spreading fear and consternatioi
among the citizens. Buildings we're violent
: ly rocked. has been made
felony in Oklahoma Territory. .-Presiden
: Harry Temple, of the First National BAnl
of Lexington, Neb., and wife are fatally Il
, the result OF eating poison, which their cnii'
= playfully placed on m eat afterward eaten b.
its parents.-Over tn 90 hundred familie
have been rendered homeless and destitut
In MIS- .issippi by thedestructive cyclone. -
:. Tn. bark Carrier Dave arrived from Homo
:. lou with advices. Admiral Slerritt reache
the Islands with exl licit instructions. In
4 Queen is not permitted to enter the palao'
:. The bar. acks are said to be prepared
3 check any uprising. So far none mas o.
= CURED. expl' sion occurred in an o
; we'll, at Marthaville, OIt. James Dunca
. and his engineer were killed, and anothf
A m n, named Mckenzie, fatally in1u ed -
:. Lee Multer, teller of the Farmers BANK,
q So, ipgfeld, N. Y, has abscondet and
a three thousand dollars short Ia his account
4 Multer was an exceedingly popular your
st man, and, apparently, atteIded strictly
|, his bank duties, and was implicitly truste
. Tt now appears, however, that he was an i
d veterats card player, and patron OF Il
Louisiana lottery, and lived high.
Henry A. White, the Ka-sas Populi
leader Is missing and his wife has ask
the police to assist her in searching for hi
ny The certificate holders Of the defur
sc Iron Hall are clamoring for a division
n the large fund in the ands Of the receive
1e The schooner Ella M. Watts, for Phi
III dephia, for Cardenas, struck ON Cape h'
US lop.n in snow storm.--A cyclone stru
OF the town of Marion, Miss, and did gre
ID damage in other neighboring towns. Ma
re ne ple were XII led and injured d-Seve
SO unfinished bu ldings OF the New York ST
60 Insane Asylum, at Point Airy, near Ogde
D burg was burned. Loss sl6o,Coo.--l
ay Mantle, Republican Mayor Of But g, was
sst nointed by Governor Richard, United Sta
la Senator from Montana.--Mrs. ber'
ne Hall was drugged in her room at Chico
Its Hotel and robled of $1,000 worth OF d
lly monds.-Hugh F. Dempsey and Robert
'e; Beatty we're each sentenced to seven ye
'tn in the peniteniiary for poisoning non'un
'a' workmen at Homestead. Gallager
as novidson received five and three years S