Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-02-23
The NEWS.

s.xteen houses were burned at Bay st.
Io,is Miss. ---Wrs Cornelia Paddock,
widow. aged Atty years, was burned to death
in Cheshire, Ct.#Four men charged with
counterfeiting coin we're arrested in Al
tooua. Pa, by secret service officers 1t is
believed that Captain John Hector Smith and
Tho entiro crew OF the schooner Edward L.
Morrison, wrecked on Pace Point, neal
Gloucester, have perished. - Captain VIM.
A Graves, prominent shipbuilder OF Nor
folk. Va, died at the age OF seventy-four
wears. The Popuisis OF Kansas have or
conized theatrical company to assist in the
state campaign, by producing plays depict
inc the ills of the working classes.
Ant-pooIr, ON bill that passed the Kentucky
Hoase OF Representatives was defeated in
,bs state Senate. "A lasgo wine cellar,
owned by @. bFCrane, and rented by John
NJ McPike, at 81, Helena, CAL, was burned.
Two hundred thousand gallons OF wine we're
hes,roved. The loss is estimated at 600.
The Chesapeake aud Ohio Railroad Com
pauv has agreed whhthe Chicago and North
western Company to have the grain trans
norted by the latter company to go to New
mort News for shipment TO Europe.
Rev John Dingledey, superintendent OF
tbe Wernie Orphans Home. at Richmond
Ind has been fined fer cruelty to the III
notes and has been removed. .-Bradstreet
,anorts the number OF failures this week as
oee ocoinst 1856 the week before. Dir Eu-
Gene r. West. at San Francisco, was found
cuil,v OF the murder OF Addie Gilmore,
miI,iner. Her body was mangled and thrown
into the bay, and only portions OF 1t were
over found. Knoxville College at Knox
Vile. Tenn, one OF the most noted educa-
tional institutions for colored people In the
United states. suffered damages OF $40, OoD
,,v fre-Rey. John F. Pingry, Ph. d.,
founder and dsan OF the Pingry School, dies
ot El.zal eth, Il J. F., aged seventy-six years.
Murderer james f. Stone was hanged in
,he Indiana penitentary, at Je1ersonVliie
His crime was the murder OF the Wrutten
familv. consisting Of six persons. -Ihe
wLolesaIe drug house OF Fanand, William d
Co in Detroit, was destroyed by fire. Loss
s1oo OC0.- Fire at Rushville, Ind. destroyed
the City Hotel, a vi liable livery stable anu
two dwellings. William Evans, proprietor
Of tto hotel. fell dead from excitement.
John Ricnarcs, about forty years OF age
Philadelphia. who has been an inmate oi the
hospital for the insane in Norristown since
$780, cscaped from that institution, and was
found frozen to death In an clubhouse. -
Conductor Henry Lohman, Of Fall Brook. N.
! Y. fell between two railroad ears at Ken
! dall's Station. and was cut to pieces. -
John Nauehton, OF Dickson. City, was jolted
from the elevator in the Richmond shalt IL
Scranton. Pa, by its sudden catching upon
an accumulation OF ice, and was hurled tc
the bottom, distance Of $50 feet. He was
instantly killed. Angus us I. Herne,
shirt manufacturer, committed suicide at hl'
homo in Philadelphia, ly firing rifle bal
into his heart. Tho American Natona
BanS Of Springfield, Mo, was clio Ell by or
der OF the Comptroller OF the Currency III
caTita stock is 50 O,OOO, but it is not an i'm
portant bank IFS deposits being less thar
50 600. The entire west side OF sqnar'
In Sarcoxie, the Oldest town in Jaspe
county, Mo-, was destroyed by fire. Los
100000; insurance small. Hon. j. )
Carvel lieutenant governor OF the royinct
OF Prince Edward Island, died suddenly a
Charlottetown, aged eighty-one year. ID
had retired in his usual heath.
The failure OF Phil Stlmmel % Co., see
dealers in Omaha, has brought nearly ever
farmer in Western Douglass county 10 Tn
verge OF bankruptcy. They mortgaged 'nel
farns and their live stock and Implement
TO raise seed for Stimmel and now they ar
nenniless Carlo Theman, who was dol
ribly mangled by lions in Col Boone'S areh
at the Mid-winter Fair San francisco
died from the effect Of bis wounds. II
Yale Literary Medal for 1894, has Dee
awarded to Lindsay Dennison, '95, OF Nasi
inoton. d. c. The subject Of his essay wa
"Ophelia and the sons Of Germania
Norfolk Cereal Companys mill was d
stroyed by fire. Loss about twenty thousah
dollars: insurance 81 ght. j. A. Bryan
captain of Company No. !, and Firema
Ricard Eastwood were injured, the 1o'm'
seriously. Major J. Harrison heiy' o'
OF the California forty miners, and Tor maj
vears editor Of Virginia Herald, died
Fredericksburg, aged seventy-three year
"A warrant was sworn out for the ARE
Of Mrs. Michael Maer, on the charge OF pu
ting poison in the soup given to her form