Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-01-26
THE NEWS.


iamin G. Faurot, president of the defunct
Lima (Ohio) National Bank, was arrested ON
the charge Of perjury. Nazaire Beaudoin,
of Winslow, sixty years old, while in a
Waterville (Me.) saloon got q cigar from
slot machine. lighted it and fell dead
Rev. Joseph J. Creed, who c'nims Newbury
port, Mass, as bis hcme was arrested on
the charge of en,bezz 'ement. From the
Cola aLoan Association and J. +. Cash
man he bad secured two mileage Looks
which he did not return Therefore, war
rant was issued for his arrest, and 1t was
served as be was leaving FOR Boston in train.
john j. Welsh, thirty-twc years old, is
under arrest in Boston, charged with caus
ing the death of his mether, &ssea SEVENTY.
John brutally assaulted the old lady on
Thursday and she died, it is alegel from
the effects OF the beating. .-George l.. S r.
gent. a prominent club and society nan. only
son OF the late ex-Chief Justice j. E crctt
Sargent, was killed while coasting at Con-
cord. N. H.-Troy Harp, OF Malv>rn, Ark,
lost both his eyes by the explosion OF a load
ed cigarette An attempt was mado TO
wreck a train on the Lake Erie aud Western
Railroad between Fostorla and Arcadia. The
noint where the attempt was made was at the
crossing of the Nickel Plate, about six miles
| west of Fostoria TX x-Assemblyman Jan es
s. Beckwith, n well-known figure in New
Jersey politics, disd in Atlantic City after an
illness OF several weeks. Brain trouble, ac-
tolerated by an attack Of the grip, was the
| cause Of his demise.
A sheriff was killed aud deputy sheriff
wounded in an attempt to capture two
brothers, named Mulin, in cabin in Mercer
county W. Va The brothers were wanted
on charges for completely in murder. Both
were shot dead In the fight with the sheriffs.
"A motion was made before Judge B lr-'
ret in New York for tine appointment of a
receiver for the property of the Thomson
Houston Electric Company. The govern
ment steamer Stanley. which keeps up win
ter communication between the mainland
and Prince Edward Island, is still fast in the
ice at Malignant Cove, fifteen miles east OF
Plctou Light During quarrel at Hous-
ton Texas, James McCane shot and killed
John F. Morris. The men were heads OF
rival detective agencies. s.--Charles Burns,
aged twenty light of Stafford Springs, a
prisoner in the county jail at Tolland, c.,
killed himself 4 few weeks ago he ct.
tempted suicide by stabbing himself in the
wrists and throat. Wednesday night he
tore the banda-e from his wrist and pune
tured the main artery bleeding to death. A
physician had recently decided that Burns
was not insane. Montreal Henry
Mercier. c. 0. Pelland and Paul Demartigny,
the three young men who attempted to blow
up the Nelson Monument, were fined twenty
I've dollars each Orange, N j., VIM.
Leimer, aged ten years, was instantly killed
at the Globe-street crossing OF the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
John Z. johnson, colored, murdered his
wife and two children in Birmingham, ia.
Charles John Wing, Chinese leper, who
had been awaiting relief from his sufferings
by death for the past two years, died in the
leper house, at the Municipal Hospital, in
Philadelphia. ia.-The Nova Scotia schooner
Lizzie B, Captain Howard, is believed to
have been lost. The boiler of locomo-
tive which was drawing freight train into
the Fig Four depot at Winchester Ind, cx-
ploded, killing the fireman and injur!ug the
engineer and brakeman. john s. Dodge,
veteran Of the late civil war, an ex-ser-
peant OF the Columbus Guards, and an al
legged sergeant of the bodyguard ofPresident
Lincoln. was before United States Commis-
sioner Hoyne, In Chicago, charged with pro-
curing pension by means % perjury. -
Executions aggregating S.CO] were issued
In Philadelphia against George A. Ruth u
Co. dealers in chinaware. e.-~W. H. Bon
field, of GAINESVILLE, o, was robbed and
beaten by colored men near West Grove, Pa. +,
and thrown upon the railroad tracks,
Three masked men broke into the large Star
Soap Factory of Schultz & Co., in Zanesvllle,
O., bound and gagged the night watchman.
lew open the office safe and secured "a, 900
IN morey and checks. The store and
dwelling OF Fred Houson, in Mills, Ken
lucky village, were destroyed by fire, and
hie wife and two iughters were burned to
Seath
Dave johnson and Mansfield Washington,
the self-coniessed Van Haafe murderers,
near Donaldsonville, La, aud who murdered
the levee contractor, Mike Kane, near Baton
Rouge last November, a week later, were
convicted. and will be han ed. John
Buchner, colored, who assaulted young
girl near Valley Park. Mo-, was lynched. -
Fire destroyed the plant of the American
Cereal Company, in Minneapolis, involving
loss Of about $50. 600 and throwing over one
hundred perscn ns out of employment "A
construction trail on the Northern Railroad
of New Jersey went through temporary
treste near Farview, N. j., falling on
twenty or thirty Italians who were under the
treste. Two of the men were crushed TO
death. and nearly every one OF the others
more or less Injured john Hardie and
Richard Manning were fatally injured by
the explosion OF n tank OF oil on ar at
Hammond on the Western Indiana Rail
road. The men were waiting for a train,
and TO "klll time Manning lifted the cap
of the tank, while Hardie threw lighted
match into the opening Both were hurled
twenty feet away by the explosion, and ter
rlbly burned. "A sensation was caused at
Lancaster, Pa, by the discovery OF dyna-
mite bomb which had been placed against
four story building on Grant street, adjoln-
ing the police station.