Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-06-08
THE NEWS.


then selling at low figures for cash, pocket
inc the money-George Walker, book
keener for r. D. Cone Il Co., in Winona.
Mimi. confessed to having stolen $4,000
Henrv B. Cook. treasurer of the Court o.
Forrestera. in Elizabeth, n. j., was sentenced
TO five months imprisonment for embezzie-
ment The Mozart Academy OF Muse IN
Richmond. erected and furnished at cost oil
s42 900. has been bought az auction by Mr.
Lewis II. Blair. representing himself and
other boadholders. for $15 ,OOO.-At the
reoula- semi-annual sun dance OF the Sac
and Fox Indians. two bucks became inyo've1
in q quarrel over Winchester. Chiefs Astor,
Little Boy, Two Tails, No Head and Woif
Eyes were shot, the first two fatally
lanes Murray. an Illinois convict, committed
suicide by eating bar Of slye soap.-MlsS
Name Miles. a young lady of Vincennes, was
drowned while out sailing.=-Near Adrian.
Mimi. the body of Frederick Lucks was dis
covered with the side Of his head crushed in.
Mrs. Lizzie Luckner, OF ST. LOUIS, was
killed by her husband. He had been de-
spondent over their poverty. The Field
Columbian NJ useum was dedicated at Chi
cago.--Masked burglars robbed Elizabeth
and Kate Fox. of Brldgeton. N. j., Of 87Oo.
John Lavitch, a view photographer, was
arrested in New York on charge OF stealing
| jewelry and papers from hotel in Danyille.
| Va.
Maud Rubel. sixteen -yehr-old girl, was
fonnd dead in house in Omaha. Foul play
is suspectsd. d.-Rev. DR.. j. j. Lansing OF
Boston. charges the police Of that city with
being in col.usion with keepers OF dlsrepu-
table houses. Special Agent James Z.
| MAXWELL, of the Grand Trunk Railroad Com
nanv is under arrest, charged with being
concerned in the killing OF George O. New
c,mb of the West InJia Railroad Company.
lob A. Turner, formerly Boston banker
committed suicide at South Carver, Mass
Samuel Won Prang committed suicide III New
york.-The firm of Marsan & Brosseau, nay
shippers at Montreal. is in financial straHs'
They have suspended payment, and lne'r
liabilities will amount to over 800, ,OOO. some
of thcir creditors have sworn out capias Ior
their arrest. but they have not been iouno'
"A dynamite bomb was exploded undef
the house OF D. c. Wall. in Atlanta. Hurry
J,hnson confessed to the murder Of his little
daughter Bertha. which occurred IN Alien
town. Pa. on July 26 last. He threw her in-
to the T,ehigh River because he was tlreu Oh
sunporting her. Johnson was recently con-
vic,ed of the crime. William Camp1eld, u
wealthy liquor dealer OF Onedida, N. y, was
found dead in bed, with self-infilcted pulle'
wound in his head. at n relatives residence
in Cleveland, \. Y. Dependency over heavy
losses in speculatlng anda love afalr are SAN
10 have been the cduse Of his suiclds.-The
grand Jury in Philadei phia indicted Somerby
and number OF otter iron Hall ohlcials.
The Bank of Enterprise, Enterprise. Tex,
was closed by Bank Examiner Breidenlhai'
The bank has been in bad condition Tor soille
months onl the failure was not unexpected
An extensive land deal las been closed
in San Antonio, involving 2,5OO,O ,O)O acres ~
ina nm the Rio draude. in the Mexican states
of foahrila and chihuahua. The land was
,oid bv cx-Govsrnor Gonzales, OF Chlhua-
ma, to the Mexican Coffeoj Cotton anu
colonization Company. The Centrai 1ru''
Company. Of st. Louis, small ana newly,
,r,onized institution doing the business usuai
10 such companies, made an assignment u
W F. Leonard. its secretary ana treasurer
r;,hi,;ties 800 900; assets about the same.
l.. NJ Hail is president OF the concern -
Tho experts employed by the Dockery com.
r,ittae TO investigate the business me1noos Vi
thn New York Custom-house eomli'hco''
,.s,ri, The Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania
, derided that the city OF Phiiadelpn'a nas 'nc
Isosl right to issue s6,OoOCOO OF pon~S lH
mir tn raise money with which to prosecute
the work of putting the tracks ol lho n0''N'
inc Railroad Company below tho street sur
raoo and other municipal improvements
The Tinted States grand jury III Indiana
oolis returned an Indictment against L. "
ctonrord of Lawrence county, charging nil
! sth conspiracy in the Inlianapo'I NSElonA
t,.4t, trial in which staunard endcdvorea ''
= act as a 60 between the deiehdantSana ufol
Armstrong Armstrong was sentencou u
eichtcen months in the panitennAry' D'"H
ror, is MT 10 be found, and his BOND 0
! "a 600 has been declared forieItea'
The monument to the memory Of the pr
vate soldiers and sailors Of the Confederacl
: AZ Richmond, was dedicated in the presenc
of many thousand veterans from the Soutl
ern States. Generals Fl zhugh Lee. Wad
o HAMPTON and Bradley T. johnson were
: the procession. Speeches were made by Re-
G Robert G. Cave and General Rosser, II
former at the monument, and the latter
p tho cavalry reunion. THE Southern Int
state Immigration Congress opened in Al
: custa. Ga. Governor Northen welcomed IL
delegates. aad the governors OF North Car
n lima. South Carolina and West Virginia
d sponded. John Harsey, OF Baltimore,Whi
7. on bicvcle trip to Philadelphia, was a
|, tucked by n bull near Westchester, Pa. al
g the bull and the rider rolled over into dit'
y together. the bull breaking his neck, and q
bicyclist sustaining severe injuries. .--DaI
aging frosts in Connecticut and other pai
>. Of New England have discouraged the farI
d ers.-The oil combine is maturing scher
p by which Russia will supply the Western sc
ton OF this country Two boys, VIC
- bodies have been recovered, were drowned
~ Ducks Pond, Knightville, Me-, while saiiir
w Alexander Lindsay, Mrs. Ingram a
three children were drowned at Smiths Fal
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