Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-05-11
THE NEWS.


Lancaster on a number of charges.-Ex-
limited states Minister to Australia John Jay
died at Hotel Savoy, New York. k.-The Cleve-
land Gas Fixture and Manufacturing Com
pany. J. D. Mathivet president. made all as
eionment to Harry n. Hill. Liabilities $780,
600: assets 500 Miss May Pierson, a
Young woman living near Iron Gate. Bote-
tourt county, Va, was violently assaulted by
an unknown white man. and forced to swal-
low pill containing some poisonous drug
R. Fl. Mcdonald, Jr.. vice president OF
the Peoples Home Savings Bank and the
Pacific Bank of San Francisco has been IN
dicted by the grand jury for felony and en-
bezzlement Western railroad officials say
that the Ohio coal operators cut the Wages OF
the miners to starvation point after accumu-
lating heavy stocks OF coal, knowing that the
men would strike and they would then be
able to unload their holdings OF coal at lam
inc prices. s.-Ex-Governor G.. Bradford
Prince. of New Mexico, delivered an address
before the American Ethnological Society
its annual meeting, in New York on "Great
Stone Lions of Cochita and Adjacent Pueblo
Antiquities The steamer La Champagne
went aground in New York harbor during
heavy fog.-Judge J. W. Green Smith COM
mitted suicide in Staunton, Va.-A hall
storm in Iowa City and vicinity did damage
to the extent of 100000
All efforts 10 sell the Exposition buildings
10; ;I,1 DraciJanf nOOnpg-
berger. of the South Park Board, has decided
T. dispose of them separately or in groups
VIM. WhaIen. the bogus stock fioater ,ha
bean convicted in st. Louis.--The state OF
Texas has not dollar in its treasury. y.-An
unfinished building was demolished by the
wind in Park Ridge, ILL., One man was killed
and three seriously injured Bishop Tuttle
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Mis-
souri,. has joined the auxiliary branch oil the
Salvation Army. "A man and two women
were drowned while skiff ridin at Keokuk,
Iowa. Go, 800 Cinnamon have been regis
tered in California. Fire nearly caused a
panic among the students in the Abbott Fe-
male Seminary at Andover Mass.-Ihe as
SCISSORS in the town of North Bridge have
decided to tax bicycles. oss Cullen and
Delmar FAIRIES are held in Brooklyn, n.
Y. for hammering a nail into Isadore Hem
mers body.-It is reported that Mayor
Hopkins will appoint Mrs. Potter Palmer
member of the Chicago Board of Education,
on August 1st, to succeed Mrs. Flowe r.
whose term then expires. Mrs Palmer Will
soon visit Japan.-Jake Brown was hanged
at Jefferson City, Mo-, for the murder OF
Frank Mackin --Barray Facks, of Phiadel-
phia. shot his mother in the head and then
killed himself The woman will recover. -
The House of Representatives Of Massa-
Jhusetts, agreed to the amendment to the
constitution, embracing the principles OF the
referendum by a vote of 156 to 2.
Nearly all of five boatloads Of hunters be
longing to the ship Retriever were lost at sea.
The carriage-body factory of Francis &
Smith, in Amesburg, Oregon, was burned
Mountain fires were reported to be raging at
Westport and Heating, Pa. destroying bridges
compelling the removal Of fences and neces-
stating a large force Of men to combat the
flames to save roperty.-Attoney General
Hancock gave a hearing to labor organiza-
tions petitioning him to begin proceedings
for the dissolution of the Standard Oil Com
pany.-Hugh Dougherty. an engineer, was
fatally cut by David Mark because he insisted
on going to bed.-Adam Fleischman, a
Poughkeepsie saloon-keeper committed sui
eide by getting in the way Of Central Hud-
son express train.-State Veterinary Sur
geon Gresswell, OF Colorado, started for the
western part Of the state, having been notified
by inspectors that thousands of diseased Utah
sheep were crossing the line into Mesa and
Routt counties. Governor Waite says ne viii
call out the militia to prevent the invasion, Il
necessary Virginia prison authorize;
have met with vigorous opposition in theiI
efforts to secure farm Oh which to put con-
victs to work k--The Hollander. Bradshaw
Folsom Company, which conducted large
DEPARTMENT store in Boston, made an assign
ment. The assets are $256, 600 and the liabil-
tiles Sal ,O0O.-The Danish consul at Chi
cago has received letter from Denmark
stating that Peter Anderson, one of Coxey's
army, is heir to large estate in that coun-
try.
Yauui Indians lured Mexican army into
an ambush in the Sierra Nevadas, and killed
200 of.5O0 men. Mr. Oscar Townsend, gen.
ersl manager Of the Cleveland, Lorain and
Wheeling Railroad. died at his residence at
Cleveland. The cause of his death was an
organic affection Of the liyer.-Henry c.
Young was found dead in the streets OF Erie,
Pa. His skull had been crushed with blud-
geon.-Mrs. Scott Blake shot and fatally
wounded Miss Viva Castle while that young
woman was in a room in Mr.. Bakes restaur-
ant. in Minneapolis. - Major General Miles
has announced that he will soon order a
court-martial to try Lieutenant Nancy. VINO
was recently tried killing Captain He'd
berg. The court-martlal will take cognlzance
only of Maneys conduct as an aiilcer -
The shops together with fire engines belong
ing to the Marietta and North Georgia Rail-
road were destroyed by fire. Fully insured
Lawrence Spiller, the negro who so prut-
ally murdered Lottie Rouse near Staunton
Va. was convicted of murder in the first de
gree. the Jury only being out three minutes
The Judge sentenced him to be hanged june
80. K. Lapham & Co.'s bark extract
works and beet sugar plant at Staunton. Va
were destroyed by hse. Loss, 800, ,OOO.-
Another mob of 5000 men, mostly Italians
and Poles smashed the windowsof iron mills