Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-12-22
The NEWS.

OF Texas cattle from Midland, Texas, to
Hart ord. Kansas, from the importation ol
which Texas fever was communicated to
Kansas cattle with disastrous effects. -
Five people we're killed and six injured In q
bri ige wreck on the Western New York and
Pennsylvania. near Dunkirk N Y.--John
Kenneawiy, retired merchant, Of Allegheny
Pa. who felt disgraced because be had been
arrested for drunkenness s, committed suicide.
p. Il HaIdeman, superintendent OF the
Franklin Coal Company, was sandbagged In
Franklin, VIVA and robbed Of about $4,000.
"A lone h;5hwaymau made Station A ;ent
! Thompson. at Belle Plain, Iowa, deliver all
the cash in his possession belonging to the
railroad and express companies "A coils
ion occurred on the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
at Packerton, Pa, during fog in which
three locomotives were badly battered though
not completely wrecked. -James Black. the
Prohibition party's first candidate for Presi-
dent died at his hom9 In Lancaster, Pa. -
Sam Robinson. one OF the Sand Cut train
sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen
years.
j. K. Armstrong. the embezzling treasurer
OF Upton county, Ind, was convicted and
sent up for one year "A Chinese ware
house in San Francisco, was destroyed by
fire. OF the dozen inmates In the place at
the lime four were burned to death and one
fatally burned -Sergeant F. Harris Bat
terry A. Fifth Artillery, stationed at Alcaroz,
Cal, committed sulcile by blowing out his
brains with rifle. He had been in the army
tTentyfour years, and came from the East
three years ago lie Blanc, who was con-
son, will not be hanged An order was re-
ceiyed at Winnepeg from Ottawa, commut-
ing the death sentence of fifteen years i'm
prisonnent.- Mr.. Gown, OF Boston, con-
tractor, was robbed of $1,000. Richarl
Robinson was hanged in Seoalia, Mo-, for
the murder Of Johanna Scholman. james
D. Hallen New York lawyer, Is accused
OF swlndling Mrs. Florence Caldwell, Of New
York, out of $23 800 by various means. She
has brought suit against him in the Supreme
Court, to recover that amount, and has OBJ.
tanned an attachment against his property.
The sheriff has seized bis horses, carriages,
etc-Davil Lenbor was convicted in the
Union County Court, in Elizlbeth, N. j., of
having set fire to his store on the night CT
November 5, when a dozen families barely
escaped with their lives. He was sentenced
TO fifteen years Imprisonment. Laura
Ann Higgins, the con,ic Ell pension fraud,
was sentenced In Norfolk TO five years i'm
prisonment, and to pay fine o: 5000.
Fire destroyed property to the value Of
SIS, 000 in Wabash, Ind At Jasper, Ala,
Judge F. A. Gamble was, On application, ap-
pointed receiver OF the Cordoya Coal Com
pany, corporation owning about 10000
acres Of valuable mineral lands and extcn-
sve coal mines around Cordova. "A. B.
Treadwell was sentenced to five years hard
labor in the penitentiary for attempting to
last summer. john Westgarth, the Lily
Lake farmer who issued circular calling
for ten thousand armed and mounted" men
to meet him on the lake front, In Chicago,
was adjudged insane at Geneva Ralph |
Crossmire was hanged a Smithport, Pa, for
his mother, who had refused to
allow bis mistress to live at the homestead !
J. Luckey was hanged In Brock
nnF for ho PJo Of fof ofo
ter and stepmother Angelo Zappa was
hanged in Pittsburg for murder. Upon |
The application Of William NJ. Norris, the |
Equitable Trust Comdany, of Philadelphia,
Morocco Company. 1t is stated that the
embarrassment is a result OF the
New York firm of Abe Stein h Co.-.The
is said to have arrived at some
ank exploded in Bgalke & Sons paint shop
n Jersey City, fatally injuring Charles
steiner, aged twenty eight years, an en-
,loye. Mr. Bigalke's wife and daughter, who
we're in the shop at the time Of the explosion
we're seriously burned, but their injuries are
lot fatal
Charles Barner and Enoch Morgan. while
Walking across the Susquehanna, near
on the ice, broke through and
we're drowned. Rev. Dr. w. H. Elliott
led at Lebanon, Pa. .-Isaac i. Rice fled
lis petition in the United States Court in
asking for the removal of the
tending receivers. The cottage of Mrs
larry Ann Jackson, professional nurse at
armington L. l., was found to be on fire.
'ith the remains of the woman. who had
cen murdered. The Dealers Distillinp
ompany's plant at Hammond, Ind. was
urned to the ground. The cause Of the fire
'as spontaneous combustion. Loss. $780,
20; insurance, $50, ,000-The mail train
outh on the Concord and Montreal Railroad
etween Fabyans and Wing Road, was
lrown from the track and badly wrecked
ear Bethlehem Hollow, N. H. Engineer
ndrew +. Pike, OF WoodsvlIe was injured
lternally, and, it is feared fatally. Fremen
Liller was scalded Vice President Steven.
IN and Secretary Herbert were among the
sitors at the exposition in Augusta. Ga
he governor in special message to the
gslature advocates tax on incomes and a
)llatera inheritance tax.-In the absence
his mother little boy named Williams
as burned to death in his home in Boston
The CanadianAustralian steamship ar
we'd at Vancouver, B. c., from Honolulu.
ringing advces that the Provisional govern