Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-06-01
THE NEWS.


:, rrorrosdale Pa.-Fraud has been un-
earthed in San Francisco which may leau !"
.ho tr,stration of a scheme to land foreign
t,orn chinese.-Jacob Walnitz, convicted
- the murder of Deputy Prison-Keeper LIP
n,ncott while trying to escape from the Ne"
Jersey state prison, has been sentenced 10 U0
banped.-A riot occurred at La sane, III,
otvveen striking miners and the sheriff ana
his deputies. The latter were badly hurt'--
ryo Of the Southwest City bank robbers at
roirland T r.. have been captured. d.--There
boa been another earthquake in Cape Glraro-
eau Mo.-Hamilton e. Baker, eA-posE
master at Rollo No., has been arrested Oh
charges of embezzlement and forgery. --lne
American Congressof Liberal Religious Socle-
t,oa in session in Chicago adopted a perm%
nent organization, and elected officers.
The coAventioc of the Supreme Lodge OF
Knights OF Honor has authorized thesupreme
dictator to act in disciplininS cases OF drunk
cnness ignored by the local lodges. Tine
steamship Monowal arrived at Aukland WIN
adyices showing that an outbreak was IKely
at Samoa when the steamer rsailed.--James
Middleton. Sinclair Middleton and X. ShacKle-
ford were shot and killed in Harlan county,
XIV in a fight with Gilbert Saylor and Bert
and Noble Hensley. The difficulty is said TO
have occurred over the wife ofone OF the men.
REV. DR.. Murkland. Of Baltimore, repre-
senting the Presbyterian Alliance. III an au-
dress to the Northern Assembly, advocating
the reuniting the Northern and Southern
Churches, and DIR. Mutchmore.t the moderator
In reply. said it was crime to be separated
any longer. Frank Materazzo, French
cook at Middletown, NY, shot and seriously
wounded Joseph Lynch and Cornelius Bresln-
ham in n quarrel. in which two girls were in
volved -Seventy-fve Of Galvin's Common
wealers arrived at York, Pa.-Offlcers oil
the Supreme Lodge Knigh s OF Pytnias erect
cd n settlement with the bondsmen OF .. >.
WILEY. of Wilmington. Del. formerly master
Of excheouer of the Supreme Lodge for the
amount of the bonds, 95O,OOO.-Frye's In
dustrals. four hundred strong, marched into
Cincinnati and pitched their tents on alot ad-
Joining tho baseball park. The striking
miners in .he Clearfeld and Beech Creek dis
tricts declare thatthey will not permit non
union men to take their places in the mines
pbIlodeInhia Councils Committee on Com
merce and Navigation reported iavoraoIy IN
annropriation OF $1,000 for preliminary
survev of the Jersey Ship CanaL--Ihe
Southern Methodist Ep scopal General Ooh-
ference finally adjourned at Memphis, ana
will not moet again until 189o.-Peter Cruso
attempted to kill Annie Bronza IN Fhi'auei-
NH, bv shooting her in the mouth, and tnen
committed suicide.-The floods nave sup-
sided in the towns along the Upper Susque'
hanna Delaware and Junia rivers, and tne
estimates OF losses run up into millions
There is suffering among the poor people OF
Williamsport, Lock Haven, Marietta ano
t other towns. their little homes being washeo
} ont and their furniture ruined mas
fallen to the depth OF five inches on the len
roceee mountains. The tracks OF the west
ern New York and Pennsylvania haiiroa1
were washed away at Avon, N. Y, and al
travel WAS stopped damage ma
o been done to milling property and the ran
0 roads along the banks OF the SchuylKili' lron
Potts own to Philadelphia. hia.--Extra Goa
: train No. 1872 was wrecked at West Palmyra
on the Amboy division of the PennsyiVah.
RaiIroad The wreck was caused by wasr
r ont. The engine and number OF cars "er
- demolished. Engineer Fine, OF Camden, wa
10 seriously injured.
evIx mid
" New York did immense damage to propert
but. fortunately. few lives were lost. IL
- susouehanna and Juniata Rivers rose high
, ~ than during the great freshet in 1889. w
Vi Transport and Lock Haven appear to ha
suffered the most In the Conemaugh Vail
/. considerable damage was done, and the pc
IN nle OF Johnstown were badly frightened
st the rising waters. The Pennsylvania al
II Reading Railroads lose heavily. repC
~ looking to closer relations with the Associa
20 Reformed Church was adopted at the Genel
nt Assembly ofthe Southern Presbyterian Chur
lis General Sweetland, Of the COnnectiC
contingent of the Commonweal Army, g
peared before Judge Fitzgerald, In New 1o
nd TO pIead to the indictment for parading
men through the streets OF Morrisania wi
nt out O. permit The general pleaded notguil
The presidential hunting party arrived
TX BODIES Island to shoot snipe and marsh bir
he Nearly all the plants in the Connellsvi
coke region wero in operation with increas
Ia Ia forces OF men.
,as Nellie Weaver. sixteen years old, COMES
having put poison in the meal OF the ian
of ID. A. Walmer, Of Montpelier, Ind
lld aour mill operated by Louis II. Hyde,
w. Joliet ILL.,. was burned to the ground.
'hu buildjng was owned by the Economy III
10 and Power Company.-The Bank ofIen
Tempe. Ariz.. has suspended and assigned
the n Abrams OF Phoenix. The PhG
National Bank is the heaviest creditor. 1
ear Dagps. the president, says the assets Will
ed? ceed the liabilities, and that depositors
get be Maid dollar for dollar.-Lewis tlehl,
III! was convicted of murder in the secono
ID gree in Bridgeton, N j., for the KILN
get Christian Lalss, was sent0n''N y 1,,,
an, to twenty years in the state prison. Thi
the full extent OF the law.-At the NEE
me. Of the American Baptist Missionary Soc
ana in Saratoga, papers were read on tie prog
SnO of the work among the various races
~ Agnes Irwin, OF Philadelphia, has aece
the deanship of Radcliffe College,
Neely. q prominent lawyer OF Adams COZ
Pa. is dead.-The twenty-first annual