Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-04-21
THE NEWS.

Nv the falling of part Of the roof In the
Champion Mine at Woods Run, Pa, James
Wilbrom. aged thirty-hve years, and Dell
Butler. aged nineteen, were Killed. line
investigation by Trustee Duss into the finan-
ciol condition of the Economic Society
shows that the liabilities are 5000, $3.50, and
assets 81, 500, 900. O.-Prairie fires in Hodg-
r,an county, Kan, destroyed farmhouses,
hornes and cattle.-The Brown segmental
wr,-wound gun was tested at Birdsboro, Pa,
and withstood pressure which would blow
any other gun to pieces. j. s. Harris
accepted the presidency of the Reading Rail-
road Company. G. Brastow, superln-
tendent of Jersey Central Railroad, died OF
pneumonia at Wilkesbare, Pa.-The Citi-
Eens' Industrial Alliance, composed OF dele
gates from labor organizations in Western
Pennsylvania, issued an address to labor or
Rsnizations throughout the cauntry asking
them to band together in political move
ment against monopolies. Hegah
Manufacturing Company's works at Louis
vile. KY, were partly burned, and four per-
sons injured by one of the walls being blown
out by an explosion of varnish. Loss $780,
oOO-Drunken Hungarlans and Poles en-
Gagged in q fight at Plymouth, Pa, as result
of which one man died Of fractured skull.
Millionaire Mackay lest suit to recover
one hundred thousand acres of land in the
vicinity OF Corpus Christi, Texas. strike
of the Ohio mine operators Is imminent,
their recent conference with the operators
having been unsatisfactory. steamer
Nellie BLY, blew up near Winomac, Ind, and
eight persons were iniured.-It was re-
ported in Chicago that the Leslie E. Kelley
Company will sell the bi-chloride of gold
cure for drunkenness to a New York syndl-
cate.
A young man named Mullins, OF Boston,
who represented the st. Louis branch OF the
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company,
was murdered at Hickman, KY, by d hack
man nan<ed Ford, who is possessed Of con-
siderable fortune and an ungoVernable tenn
per. The trouble grew out of n claim for
twenty-five cents for hack fare.-William
Latham, Brockton (Mass.) weaver, COM
mitted suicide in the presence Of his family.
Noble W. Clark, for many years hotel
proprietor in Sandy Hill, N. Y, and the last
of the stage-drivers on the route from White
hall to Albany before the introduction of
railroads, died Of apoplexy, aged seventy
hve years.-Fire destroyed 100000 worth
of property in st. Marys, O.-Anarchist
Otto Eckholt located the dynamite which had
been placed under r. V. Crandall's whiting
factory in Long Island Cty.-Henry Jones
the negro safe-cracker, who robbed the safe
Of the Baltimore and Ohio and chesapeake
and Ohio depot at Lexington, Va, March
81, was convicted OF the crime, and given
ten years in the penitentiary. group of
eighteen Russian anarchists was discovered
In Pittsburg. -"Charlie'' Salyards, who is
charged with the murder OF Policeman Mar
tin, and who was arrested at Winchester, Va,
was brought ia Carlisle, Pa, in irons, and
placed In the Cumberland county jail.
The Argentine Republic declined TO dc
lVer JdDtI CptuCc1 DdilOuii 4n' A''
zee from England to the British Govern
nent.-The A. s. Holmes oil refinery, Gov
.rine twelve acres OF ground on Seneca
erect Buffalo, was destroyed by fire to-
lether with twenty freight cars and a train
,f oil cars side-tracked near the WORKS
thirty thousand barrels of oil stored in the
Eorks were also burned. The fire was
tarted by an engine dropping coal in some
,il which was running on top of the water ID
little ditch.-Fred B. Lighthall, postal
,lerk whose run is between Syracuse ana
New York. was arrested by inspectors james
md Coates. charged with robbing the mails
On being accused he seemed dazed and'aiter
landing over ninety-one letters then In his
Docket made u confession.-Dr. Thaddeus
J. Gardner. a prominent physician and
nenker and treasurer of the Altoona Iron
Company. died at his residence in Holiday
nrQ. Pa, aged fifty four years. For many
gears he was connected with Phillips, Nimick
& Co.. the Pittsburg iron firm, and was sur
yson-maior of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania
Cavalry in the civil war, being the youngest
full surgeon in the Army OF the Potomac.
The passenger train on the Flint ana
pere Marquette Railroad ran into pile OIL
rees which had been blown across the
rack near Meredith, Mich. The engine was
dismantled and the baggage car and pas
IL, VVTQQEnn.