Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-09-01
The NEWS.

stirred up tEe uluSl9 III UOt NY h"OUV
Aftv of them. with guns. drilled in vacant
lots along the main street. Many OF the
strikers are armed with Winchesters, while
nearly ali the others have shotguns and re-
volyers. The boilermakers OF the entire
Brotherhood from ST. Paul to Great Falls,
Montana on the Grea. Noithern. have struck.
Tho trouble seems to be that the company's
foreman in GAINESVILLE, Mimi, has been hav-
ing helpers to do the work of the boi er-
makers. and because some Of the men re-
monstrated they were discharged. --lhe
employees Of the Louisville and Nashville
Road have decided to meet the company hai
way and accept the proposed reduction in
wages for a specified time, but not other
wise.-Henry Helmick was killed by high
waymen whils returning from Philot Chapel
10 DanvilIe. III. His wife escaped. d.--Harold
Mccormick, the son OF the reaper manufac-
turerwas arrested by detective for crook
Of the came name.
Robbers tortured ]. n. Bolles, Pu ask,
Tenn, farmer, until he delivered one thou
sand dollars be had withdrawn from bank.
j. G. Rhodes, proprietor of the Rbod IS
House. at Girard, Pa, while speeding his
Eorse was struck ty train and killed. The
horse, q valuable animal, was also killel. -
Mrs Argus 3. Weaver, Of Buffalo, was shot
ct Drumbo, Ont, ly burglars. Miss Mary
Bowen, Salvation Army leader, was ar
rested in Patterson, N. j., charged with a
brutal assault On little girl.--At Camp
Knox, KY, Mrs Martha Mahon poured coal
oil all over her dress and applied a match,
and was burned to death in a few minutes.
John Mccormick committed suicide at
his home in Albany, by cutting bis throat
with piece OF window glass. He was de-
epondent over his non-success in securing
work. was unmarried, and about thiriy-nine
years old.-State Bank Commissioner
Briedenthal, OF Kansas, has issued circular
notifying the lanks in bis jurisdiction that
such New York laDks rs refuse TO honor
drafts in cash are legally inso,vent. The
Ford County Bank, OF Paxton, Ill, with lia-
bilities OF sos, so, and assets Of Sl54,OO0,
assig1ed.
The Tucker Cv. Va.) county seat war Is
over for the present. William Goss, OF
Roaring Springs, Pa, got drunk at Luth-
eran reunion. was placed in a cell, set fire to
the prison and was fatally burned.-Mrs.
Rebecca Ferguson was struck by train III
Philadelphia Augustus Johnson, who tried
to save her, was seriously hurt. The steel
steam Yacht Columbia was launched at the
shipvard of the Charles Hillman Company,
Philadelphia At Waukegan, ILL.,, eleven
frame houses and five brick houses were de-
stroyed by fire. 1t was thought at one time
that the entire town would be destroyed, but
the fire was checked just in time.--Forest
fires are raging on all sides OF Woodville,
Wis. They caught from burning brush and
a passenger train. Four hundred men fought
it all dav.-L. Macintosh Ward, formerly
of the editorial staff of the Atlanta Constitu-
ton and the Macon Telegraph, died in
Elizabeth, N. ]. He was born in Savannah,
Ga, his father being John E. Ward, who
was United States minister to China during
President Buchanan's administration. -
Miss Tillie Mann, of Philadelphia, was
drowned in the Susquehanna river. .--Thos
G. O'Brien, of Bethlehem, died from too
much cigarette smoking. .-Nathaniel
Fromne, OF Duncannon, Pa, was killed by
circular -Heppenheimer Il Sons
large ithographic and printing shops in Jer-
sey City, n. j., were destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at about $1,000; fully in
sured
Dan Muaroe was killed near his store at
Danville postonlce, in Louisiana, by ]. G.
Jones.-Two tarns and several outbuild-
ings on the model farm Of Hon. James Focht
located in Panther Valley, three miles from
Cressona, Pa. was destroyed by fire. Twenty
three head of cattle, three mules, ten pigs
and several hundred fancy breed chickens
perished in the flames, and all the agricul-
tural implements, including steam thresber
were burned, as was the entire seasons crop.
Loss about $4,000; insurance light.-A
warrant was sworn out in Sioux City for the
arrest OF L. H. Donaldson, the fug tive presi-
dent of the Marine Bank, who established a
eastern bound Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe train which passed through Lajunta, Col,
was Wells Fargo express car containing
l,4OO, 90 in gold coin. The treasure was
watched by a number of heavily-armec
guards. The 9Th OF next month is the time
set for the execution of the nine Cboctaws
convicted at Wilberton in June. Private
advices from Washington state that they will
not be shot at all that Gen. Armstrong, who
has long been in the Indian service, will
visit the Cboctaw Naticn and look into the
affair. u,u
were burned to death in cabin near Char
lesion, Mo.-Prof. F. G. Anderson, al
aeIonaut, was fItaly injured by fall from
the top of Snoqpalmie Falls, Washington
George A. DAILY, the well-known Ameri-
can, who, while employed on the Mexican
Central Railroad as locomotive engineer
accidentally ran over and killed man near
the City OF Mexico four months ago, has
been released from prison by the Supreme
Court. t.-Three-fo fourths of the town Of Birds,
eye. Ind, was destroyed by f1re.-The ex-
tensive hardware house of Vim. Starts Son
g. Morrow, in Halifax, was destroyed by fire.
Loss. sl25OOO; insurance $4,000. Rufus
Heating, a fireman, fell from ladder and
was fatally injured. ed.-Treasurer Curpain is
reported to have absconded with a million
dollars given 10 him to pay the Choctaws.-
Judge Simonton, in the United States Cour