Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-07-27
THE NEWS.

town. on lemon extract and pop. Tho new
government was proclaimed in Honolulu on
the 4th, which was celebrated in American
stylc.-Two men were seriously injured.
and three others severely hurt, by an explo-
sion OF water gas in the Strout Building, on
Union street, in Lynn, Mass. The building.
which is six-story brick structure, was
badly damaged. and the loss will be about
$50. "A fireman on board the steamer
Scandia. from Hamburg, fell from the deck
into one Of the steamers coal bunkers, while
she was lying at New York quarantine. The
mans skull was fractured. and he died in Il
few moments The building In Birming-
/ ham. Ala, occupied by Perry L Mason and
Showers furniture establishment, and the ad-
joining Caldwell Hotel, were destroyed by
.-"GuiIty, with recommendation to
mercy" is the verdict reached after trial
lasting four days in the case OF Hugh Lynn,
charged with the murder of John Green and
Thomas Taylor, ranchers, living on Sayary
Islan1 B. c. Lynn, on his own behalf, ad-
mitted killing Green, but claimed it was done
in self-defense Lynn will be hanged August
24-Dr. H. H. Hart, prominent physician
of Philadelphia. was drowned in the Youghlo-
gheny River at Connellsville, Pa.-Thomas
Hanion cashier Of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company Of New York, committed suicide.
Republicans of North Dakota have nomin-
ated for governor Roger Allin.-The pot
tiers in East Liverpool, O., by an almost un-
anmous vote declared the strike of.-Bc-
tween ifty-nve and sixty indictments were
found by the United States District Court
in st. Paul-A number Of men applied at
the Pullman works for reinstatement -
The federal troops moved out Of Chicago
Resolutions demanding congressional in
vastigation Of Hon. Augustus J. Ricks. Judge
OF the United States Circuit Court, were
adopted by the Central Labor Union at its
meeting in Cleveland. O.-Thomas Geisel-
hart. of Midd .etown, N. Y, and his family
of four ate some blackberries which had
been picked among poison ivy vines. They
are all dangerously i'll, having apparently
been poisoned Tho bottom Of converter
at the Homestead Steel Works OF Carnegie 4
Co.. blew out, scattering $500 pounds Of
molten metal in every direction. Four work
men who were in the pit we're terribly burned
two OF them atally.--James Sullivan. q
school teacher. was poisoned in Shamokin
Pl.. by his lifelong friend, Thomas McCaffery
who gave him drink OF corrosive subli-
mate in mistake for whskey. Sullivan be-
came unconscious. and was totally paralzed
in ten minutes after he drank the poisonous
compound. He cannot recover.--Three
miners were killed and two injured in an &C"
cident at the Wiliamstown colliery. Mar
shal Ryan, of Eastpoint, Ca, was shot in the
breast, but not seriously, by negro whom
he had arrested Ryan shot the negro dead
and wounded another.
Mrs. Melinda Hayes, of Chicago was ar
rested on n charge OF poisoning her son-in-
law. Gertrude Elhinger, a patient of the
New York State Hospital was killed by Mary
Mcclellan, another lunatic.--A Brolom-
ski Poander. age thirty years, was in
I stantly killed ut Wilkesbarre, Pa. by the
falling of huge mass OF top rock in the
BIackman mines of the Lehigh Valley Ccai
Company, where he worked.--Lewis Rowan
and Adam Saganc, two miners employed by
the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nanti-
coke were caught under heavy fall OF coal
while at work, Rowan was instantly killed,
and Sugane is in a critical condition. 49,
While Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Tucker were 60
ing after warrant, in Wilmington, for the
arrest OF Jacob Lock. whom they had q
quarrel, Lock pursued them and fight en-
sued Lock drew pistol and in the strug-
gle it was discharged, the ball entering Mrs.
fuckers abdomen and inhicting a wound
that will prove fatal Lock was arrested. -
The young daughter OF John Riddell, OF st.
Augustine, Fla, was run over and fatally in
jured by an electric road motor-car in Sara
toga. Eugene V. Debs. George W. Howard,
L. w. Rogers and Sylvester Keleher, officers
of the A. r. u, were committed to jail by
United States Judge Seaman, for alleged
violation Of the Injunction Issued by Judges
Wood and Grosscup They refused to fur
nish bail for their appearance. United States
Judge Phillips, of Kansas City, instructed tho
United States marshal to employ deputies tC
preserve the peace and arrest all yiolators Of
the law.
At Lake Argo, COL, boy was killed by
lightning. At Colorado Springs boy was
made blind by lightning. g.-AtTope Kan.
Judge Foster. of the Federal Court, appointed
Waldo H. Howard, of Kansas City, and W.
s. Hinman, OF Boston, receivers Of the Com
monwealth Loan and Trust Company, OF
Kansas City, Kan. The company went into
voluntary liquidation about three years ago.
The army worm is doing much damage about
Marshfeld, Wisconsin. "A sextuple photo
graph telescope will shortly be placed in the
observatory Of Yale University. .-Thomas
H. German. editor OF the Ottawa Free Press,
died at Ottawa. OF heart trouble. He was
thirty-eight years old and had achieved con-
siderable reputation as writer for American
magazines. The Canadian government Is
investigating the ways Of obtaining and dis
tributing vaccine from the government farm.
There have so far occurred at Montreal three
deaths, under terrible suffering, from bad
vaccine. At Louisville Mrs. T. F. Meagher
killed her father. John Ashbacker, who was
beating her mother r-Forest fires near Egg
Harbor, N. j., have caused much damage.
The cornerstone of an Odd Fellows hall
was laid at Albany Whitecaps have been
operating in Brown county, Ind.-At Co.
lumbus, O., the Court OF Common Pleas re-
fused to annoint q raceiYer for the Fraternal