Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-01-19
TIE NEWS.

Patrick Collins, who killed his wife in the
Kindergarten School In San Francisco, was
convicted of murder In the first degree. -
The house Of Thomas Johnson, an Indian,
at Walpole Island, Ontario, was destroyed
by fire. aud three of his children burned 10
n, crisp and another fatally injured The
remainder Of the Iamily had q narrow ca
cape.-Fite destroyed 100000 worth OF
business property ID Ipswich, Mass. Geo.
scbmous was convicted Of murder In the
frat degree at Pitsburg. He killed bis wife
and two children .--fhe WOODEN mill ot
VIM. Tinkham & Co., at Harrisville, r. l.,
was completely burned. .-E& President
keeney and Directors Robinson Gill and Ell
bert snedeker; of The defunct Commercial
Bank OF Brooklyn we're arrested on charges
of crookedness. Robert L. Cutting, sr.,
of New York, the millionaire clubman, died
suddenly. "A number OF persons In len-
nessee and Mississippi, have been swindieo
by investing. In lots in Cherokee City,
mythical city in Oklahoma. The report oi
the executive comm ttee OF awards OF the
Worlds Fair shows that medals were award
ed to %, ,757 exhibitors, Sc per cent. OF the
whole ntmber catalogued.
Fire engine No. 25, which was run down
By a switch engine while going to a fire at
q nesee street and the New York Central
crossing, in Buffalo, Driver Michael O'Brien
was fatally injured Engineer William " halep
and Fireman Robert Sands cut and ! III sed.
| C'Brieh. whose skull was fracture and both
legs ltoken, d'ed later. T FIRE engine was
demolished and the horses killed. - Fire
DESTROYED the wholesale house of the PEBBLES
Grocery Company in Chattanooga Tenn,
causing a loss of SIS 00.-President An
drews. OF Brown University, has te'egraphed
to Chicago his unqualified declination OF The
offer to become CO. president OF the univer-
sity there. Henry Potter, alias "Coloner
Joseph Potter, who passed himself off as 4
Grand ARMY NAB, and fieeced many business
neh In New Yotk, by means Of forged checks
WIS sentenced By Recorder Smith to si1
years and eleven months In state prison.
Louis Redwine, the defaulting assistant CASH
Ter of the Gate City National Bank of At
lanta, was sentenced TO six yearsin the peni'
Tertiary. Judge Clayton, In Chester, Pa,
decided that Professor s. c. Shorlidge must
stand trial for the murder OF his vile.
Mrs. Mary Van Rossum, aged seveniy-ont
years. was struck ty IA locomotive and in
stantly Kill ed at the Franklin street crossing
Of the Erie Railroad, in Paterson. N. J.
Hippolyte Vigil. Mexican, was killed IL
New Mexico by sheriff while resisting ar
rest. His friends became much excited, anC
threatened trouble The Bank OF For
Washington. v is., o. D. Bjourouist Son
nroprletors, has discontinued business, being
unable to secure sufficient patronage to war
rant continuance. AT Springfield thf
GEOLOGICAL Garden went Into the hands OF al
assignee. The venture was undertaken bJ
leading citizens and about s75, W was ex
hnnded on grounds and animals. The as
signment is subject TO mortgages ana cept
sygregating $4,000. John Carl Lovoasol
and Charles o. Davis, boys, were drowned
Tecona. WASH, while skating. -Twelv
hands ON the steamer State OF Kansas wer
badly burned at Omega Landing Alabama
by sulphuric acid.-Isaoc Bancroft, age
sixty. was killed by train at ladus Mh'S
r. Lieutenant Colonel George H. Burton
,vbo has represented the Secretary OF War II
nm investigation OF the killing OF Cap'a'
Hedberg by Lieutenant Nancy at Fort Snerl
Nd frf
dan. has completed aborS at Cnicaso
Frank Joyce and Tim Grow met at Par
City. Utah, and Joyc, opened fire on Crow
) mistaking him for man against whom b
had q grudge. Grow returned the are, fata
ly woundlng Joyce. Crow was shot In tn
breast and cannot live The men wei
strangers TO each other. - James Kelly.Jr
OF West Grove, Pa, hcccughed himself
death. -Cbatles P. Willard, OF Chicago
propri, tor OF an iron foundry and boat-buil'
{ ing establishment assigned. Assets sche'
ued at sl00,C0J liabilities $50, %. -
blizzard struck Manitoba. William NJ
Cauley, an insane man, entered the Farmer
Bank OF Wilmington and demanded SlSO
OOo. He was persuaded to leave without
+ Michael Yendetts was killed and 20
Warren fatally injured at Forest City, Su
quehapna county, Pa, by the running aw
OF a car Oh the culm plane OF the Erie &C
liery. They were caught under the chut
OF the breaker, and was unable to get out
: the way OF the car. The accident was caus
by the breaking OF cable Atkins Brc
glass factory at Scranton, Pa, resumed wi
. non union workmen. The boiler OF q
locomotive "Starr King on the Belmo
branch OF the Concord and Montreal RIA
! road, Lurst at Belmont, N. H. veral M
were Injured and residences IN the neighbt
hood damaged.
9 Colonel Rice, OF the Columbian Guard
expressed the opinion that The fire at t
Worlds Fair grounds was OF incendiary o.
: ein.-Edward H. Duryee was appoint
r receiver for the firm of j. Alsdorf Co,
g Newark, the largest bicycle, piano and se'
: ing machine dealers in New Jersey. The
q pointment was made Ey Vice Chancell
Green. and the bonds were placed at s"5 .O(
Herman Screnco and Ida Gatelstein we
d arrested In st. Louis on suspicion of bel
leaders of a and OF counterIeiters. II
;: st. Paul and Kansas City express jump
. the track at Missouri Valley Ia, and T.
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