Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-06-15
THE NEWS.

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trict president insisted that the result OF the
con ference would have to be referred TO
President Mcbride, and the operators nad
understood that in this district the miners
had been authorized to act for themselves.
STRIKERS destroyed with dynamite bridge
on the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Rail
road. near Martins Ferry, Ohio.--A 1re
that broke out in blacksmith shop at Plum
Vile. Pa. destroyed eleven houses. Loss
aoO 0Oo. The strike Of the Iowa coal min
ers was settled. Striking miners caused
considerable trouble in the B. & o. freight
wards at Boggs Run, near Wheeling, ". va,
and the troops had difficulty in dispensing
them and removing distractions from the
track Judge Goff. of the United States Dis
trict Court, West Virginia, on application Oh
q h O. counsel. granted restraining orders
acalnst the strikers. Five. hundred strlKerS
mostly Huns and Italians, attacked tne ne"
miners Of the Silver Brook Colliery, near
uazleton. Pa. They were driven back by
the police, with fourteen OF their NUMBER
wounded. "A bill was filed in the United
States Court at Dubuque, Iowa, In which
Eastern stockholders asked that receiver
he anpointel for the American Investment
Company of Emmettsburs. Iowa. The com
pIainants charge the company with insol-
vency and its officers with mismanagement-
Two farmers in Eaufala, I. 7. are dead
from locust eggs which had been deposited
on mulberries. The st. Louis, Chicago and
st. Paul Railroad better known as the Bluff
line, has been sold by the county collector for
non-payment Of taxes In Madison county,
ul.-M. v B. Weighel, tobacco dealer in
Cincinnati. has assigned to J. D. Marsh. AS
sets, Sl25 900; Liabilities, $50, 900 preferences
s2O. OOO.-An incendiary tried to burn the
house of George E. Gale, in Amesbury, Mass,
but failed. Joseph X. Bole president OF
the American Steel Casting Company, at
Chester. Pa. died of apoplexy at Thurlow,
Pa. aged forty-seven years. He was a SUI
ferer from Bright's disease. se.-Edward
Kreischer, OF Richmond, s. l., committed
suicide. The Canadian propeller Ocean is
a total wreck, and will be blown up with
dynamite. Albert F. Woodruff and Henry
e. Nitchie. surviving partners Of Edward B.
Bartlett. deceased. who compose the partner
! ship firm Of Z. B. Bartlett & Co., doing busi-
ness as warehousemen in New York, made
/ IN assignment. Liabilities not yet known,
but will probably be large. An attach
ment for $780, 900 has been issued to the
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state of TIE Fort Wayne Electric Company, an
Indiana corporation, in favor of the General
Electric Company.
A crowd of sinking miners blocked a train
on the Vandalia Road, near Brazil, Ind.,
killed William Barr the engineer, by striking
him on the head with a stone, and seriously
wounded A. J. Hardmah, brakeman'--
The lake steamers and railroads in the West
are seriously hampered By the scarcity Of soft
coal. The rolling mills at Newburg, o.,
closed down for want Of fuel, throwing over
thousand men out Of work The striking
miners OF Cripple Creek, Col, refused TO sIr-
render to the sheriA, but expressed their
willingness TO give up to the state troops,
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Governor Mckinley ordered twelve hum
dred state troops to the mining districts III
Belmont aud Guernsey counties, o., where
the miners were rioting. The executive
board of the Miners Union and the district
presidents have agreed to waive the point
that settlement should be made through them
provided the operators and miners OF the re-
spectiye districts can agree upon something
Nike uniform wa Thirty men were in-
iured during thc rIoting at the National Tube
Works. at McKeesport, Pa. The company
has closed down tho works entirely. Inc
strikers destroyed number Of coal tlpples
uear McKeesport. Rev. John W. Woin
one of the oldest members OF the Baltimore
Conference Of the NJ. E. Church South, died
in Hampshire county, W. Va.-The eleVa-
tor men OF Chicago have declared war on the
Board OF Trade of that city.
Some unknown person threw dynamite
bomb into Charles Noffz's saloon in Chlcago;
wreckinz it and injuring Nofz and his bar
tender.-Judge Barr, OF the United states
Circuit Court in Owensboro, KY, decided the
senarate coach law to be unconstitutional
The steamer Sealy, which arrived at
New York from Buenelds, reported all quiet
at that port at the time OF leaving Inc
Irnited state cruisers San Francisco and
New York and the British gunboat Magicl-
enne were outside the harbor.-lt has been
discovered that Joseph A. Sawyer, Mon
mouth county (Me.) farmer, who was mys-
teriously murdered two weeks ago, nao al
the time of his death about twelve thousand
dollars in cash. notes and bank notes secret
ed in various places about bis house.--Misa
Sarah L. Timing, OF South Amboy, N Y, 80
cured verdict OF 5000 against julius d
BARTLETT. a Haczensack builder, for betrayal
under promise OF marriage 4he new
limited States cruiser Minneapolis lei
Cramu' shipyard. Philadelphia, on her trial
trip.
Rsv. Myron W. Reed one OF the most popu
lar ministers OF Denver, resigned from tn
pastorate of the First Congregational Church
The step is taken because OF exceptions takel
to his remarks male in the pulpit, in Wllc
he criticised the Cripple Creek mine owners
Edward Jones. aged seventy was ma
ried in st. Louis to Mrs. Sarah Higgins, age
the onc-hundreo
year-old chief Of the Chippewas, died on th
Cloouet reservation. As early as 1926 n
, concluded the first treaty with the Sioux an
Chippswas. for which he was presented wit
q rooda1 hv Generol Cass In this the suprt