Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-07-06
THE NEWS.

AT meeting Of Knights Of Labor in Phiia-
delphia. it was decided to ask the order 10
have the secretary-treasurer's books exam
ined. Charges have been preferred
TJlvsso, Hay len. IL negro murderer, was lyn-
oho1 noor Monet. Mo.--At Sulphur Springs
Tevas John williams shot and Killed Mr.
AMI MIS- A. Walz. Ho was captured soon
afterwards and hung pr. Henry Car
rincton Alexander, late professor in Union
Theological Seminary, ampden-Sidney, Va,
is dead.-Frank Enrich boy oil sixteen,
who was hiding from the police in New York
in a cellar. died from heart disease, caused
Inv fr.cAt.-Harry Jones and John Glars
murderer3 OF Ma lame Wright, were hanged
in Indcpend. nc Mo. and Kansas City, No.
rosnectiyely.--GusW Weisbrodt deiaulting
ex.citv treasurer Of lIiddletown, o., pleaded
guilty of embezzing over $25,OOO public
money. Jude GrifIln sentenced him to the
nepitcntiary fox three years and to pay 81
00) fine al cos.s. - Th9 great strike invol-
VIM the American Railway Union on the one
bonJ AMI the Pullman and the railroad com
nanips on the other which use Pullman cars
was opened in earnest. The general mana
psrs' association held Il mecsin :, AMI deter
mined to fight to the end. Mr.. Pullman
made statement, characterizinS sthe strike
as anarchy AMI President Debs, of the Amer
lean Railway Union issued an address eX'
messing confidence in the ultimate success
of the str.ke.-lIr. John Purcell died in
Richmond. al the age Of seventy six.-The
striki1 , miners in the Cumberland district
submitted anl agreed to resume work at
forty-ninc cents.
A cyclone in nc vicinity Of Sleepy Eye
Mimi. demolished n number Of houses kill
Ing the inmates. james Allen, farmer,
living six miles north of Grecncastle, Ind,
shot and killed his wife, and then blew out
his own brains. Allen left note saying
that his wife's in1delity caused the deed. .--
John Murrcy. of POttsvillc. Fa..w instantly
killed. and Wolf Selig, Of Philadelphia, and
George Bear. Of Hamburg, were seriously in
iured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road on the bend above Reading. Pas.
NJ. Clark. editor of the Gate City, was nomi-
mated for Congress by the Republican Con-
vention Of the First District of Iowa, at Mount
Pleasant. tn the United States Circuit
Court in Boston, Judge Colt granted the
petitjon of the receivers of the New York and
Now England Railroad for permission to
borrow $500 900 to be used in paying the i'll
terest which fell due last January. PRO-.
Benz. II. SimsOn, assistant professor OF the
systematic theology in Chicago University
Divinity School, died suddenly.--Richard
Worthington has been arrested by the sheriff
In New York in an action brought against
him by Joseph J. Little receiver ofthe Worth
ngton Publishing Company, to recover vl9,-
O0O which it is alleged he converted 10 hH
own use while acting as treasurer
The company. Three female experts, Dr5
Sarah Hackett Stevenson Harriet Alexander
md Florence n. Hunt, were witnesses in the
Prendergast insanity hearing in Chicago
They testified that the prisoner is an nimbeoiI
and that his brain is not developed.
"tenerar' George A. Sweetland. leader Of
the Connecticut division Of the Army OF the
CommOnwea, who was arrested for march
ing a body of men through New York with
out n permit. was discharged in General ses-
sions. Sweetand has been in the TOmbs for
month. and Judge MARITIME who discharged
him. said he had already suffered sufficiently
for his oflensc. "A train on the Savannah
Florida and Western Railroad was held up
at bonneville. in Georgia. john Egan,
cx-spcaker of the New Jersey Assembly, died
at his home in Elizabeth after a long illness.
Mr. Egan. who was iity-one years OF age,
figured prominently in politics for many
years. Caleb Cooley, a mulatto, was
hanged by mob at Bowling Green, Ky.
after admitting that he had made an attempt
to assault the wife Of his employer, Mr.. W..
p. Coleman.-Edward j. Christopher, OF
II Clinton avenue. auditor Of the Prudential
Insurance Company, in Newark, n. j., was
arrested on the charge Of embezzling $4,000
from the comrany.-The four-story brick
building occupied by Wheeler Howe, whole
sale dealers in coal and grain, in Bridgeport
Ct. was Quilted by fire. Will Judd, fire.
man. fell from n ladder and now lies in the
hospital with a broken rib, and suffering with
conclusion Of the brain. n.--Thomas {. Plat
and Marsden J. Perry, receivers of the New
York and New England Railway, appeared in
the United States Circuit Court in Boston and
petitioned for permission to issue S5O0,OOC
More bonds to pay the interest on the first
iortgage bonds due january, 1S94.-Mis:
Nav Holmes, of Atwood, Ind, was stung tC
death by locust
william Arthur Parsons, -.gcd twenty
wears. son OF Samuel Parsons, traveiin; au-
ditor of the Grand Trunk Railroad COMPANY
and Frank B. Skeeles, aged nineteen, were
drowned by the upsetting Of their canoo il
the lake about one mile from the mouth o
the Toronto harbor. r.-Secretary Warner, ol
the Miners Union. has received word that
two hundred families in company houses al
the Panhandle mines, Painters Run, have
been eyicted. The firm refuses to sign the
scale. to recognize pit committee, or to pay
! the price. john Nash, wealthy New
Yorker, aged seyenty-three, died suddenly o.
Brisht's Disease at Saratoga. He was dI
rector in the Park National Bank, and Was
formerly member OF the firm OF Nash
Beadeston & Woerse, Of New York city.
widow and three children survive him.
Captain Clark, Of the coal and iron police
was beaten by women at Punxsutawn'y.'-