Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-04-20
THE NEWS.

clerk who got away from Bay City, Mich,
with something like $4,000 and fed to Los
Angeles. Cal, plead guilty, and was sentenced
to FIVE years in the Detroit House OF Correc-
tion.-George Lange and Milton Burkins
were fatally burned by the explosion OF some
cans of powder, near Mount Vernon, Ind
Jack Redding and David Harper, mine own
els in Old Mexico, shot each other. CALVIN
Morton. veteran, killed himself in North
west Territory. because some one had been
drawing his pension money.-Jacob Gold
man was arrested in Chicago, aud immedl-
atoIv after learned that he was heir to for
tune left him by an uncle in Germany
George Ashworth. who shot Mrs. Mason near
IndianoIa Iowa, killed himself when he
found escape impossible. Palmer,
q prominent horseman of Buffalo, n. y, Tell
dead on the street in Chicago. Carrie
Hatfield. aged sixteen years, was shot near
Illumination. W. Va. by Thomas Holbrook, a
suitor whom she had refused. Delegates
from the Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachu-
setts and Connecticut Societies Of the War OF
1919 met in Philadelphia, and formed a ma
tional society. y.-Tbe bodies OF Joseph {.
Heverin and Eastman Cotter, drowned dur
inothe storm. were recovered near Dover,
Del.
A conference Of the committees on the pro-
position for the federation of the various
Presbyterian churches in this country was held
in Philadelphia. immense plant OF the
American Glucose Company, in Buffalo, N.
Y. was destroyed by flre.--"GeneraP hellys
Commonweal Army captured Union Pacific
freight train near Ogden Utah, the crew OF
the train having been instructed by the road
superintendent to make no resistance, so that
the gang could get out of the territory
The lockout in the Chicago building trades
proved failure, as the principal contractors
and builders refused to follow the decision OF
the Central Building League, and. as con-
sequence but few hundred men were thrown
out of work. k.-1Iobs of strikers continued to
attack the men at work in the coke regions.
Hungarian women drove off the workmen at
Lemont. The schooner Susan H. Richie
was driven ashore at Point Pleasant N. j.,
but the crew were all saved by means OF the
breeches-buoy.-Mr. Wickham Taylor was
found dead in the bathroom of his residence
In Norfolk. Va.
Express Messenger Harmon defeated gang
OF train robbers near Pond Greek, Oklahoma
Territory, killing one and wounding others.
james H. Hudson, aged flfty-four, a
prominent English capitalist owning large
mining property in Mexico, was fatally hurt
in Denver while bicycle riding, by colllding
with hack. He leaves a family in England.
The Glamorgan Works, the largest manu-
featuring iron works in Lynchburg, Va, was
burned. Loss one hundred thousand dollars
insurance on building, machinery and stock,
sixty-lve thousand dollars. The machinery
and unfinished work is worth seventy-fiye
thousand dollars. Three hundred men are
thrown out of work.-John Snyder, Vf
Clearfeld, Pa, seventy years old, was burned
to crisp while sleeping on lounge, lamp
falling from the windowslll above him and
setting fire to his clothing. Snyder's wife
was so badly burnt in trying to put out the
FIRE that she will die.-The silk mill owned
bv Squire Hendervelt. at Midland Park, N
j.. was totally destroyed by fire. The build
ing was no doubt fired by tramps, as the
structure was used by tramps to sleep in. -
While workmen were rebuilding the shed ol
CHEESEMAN'S coal yard at Bath, Pa, the struc-
ture was blown down by the high wind which
prevailed. A number of men were caught un-
DER the falling timbers, and Peter F. Snyder,
the contractor who had charge of the work
was instantly killed
J.H. Sullivan, an upholsterer, was over
come by smoke during fire in Boston, and
died soon after Charles Wisdom, colored,
was hanged at st. Louis, for the murder
April "a, 1892, of Edward A. Drexler, whose
cigar store Wisdom entered to rob. prepared
to kill the proprietor, who slept there. The
schooner Jennie NJ. Carter drifted ashore at
Newburyport without a soul aboard. Her
crew of six are believed to have perished.--
The funeral of Mary Medany Grant, widow
eral U. S. Grant. took place from her late
residence in East Orange, N. Edward
Hurlburt, of Utica, N. Y, has been indicted
for taking money from widow for invest
ment while he was insolvent. The Cen
eral Council Of United Mine Workers in Ala
bama, has ordered general strike. e.-Henry
Heffner, Sioux City Merchant has secured
verdict for $1,000 damages against the
National Bank of Sioux City-B. T. Ed
monson, of Brooks county, Georgia, killed
his nephew, Yates Edmondson, because the
latter assaulted his wife, Dudley
Field died of pneumonia in New York. He
was eighty-nine years of age.
At Cameron, O., Bernhard Martin fatally
shot John Bolen, whom he caught leaving his
mother-in-law's barn after disnguring her
horses by cutting off their tails. The ex-
tensive paper mills Of Alex. Balfour d Sons,
at Port Richmond, Pa. will soon be running
night and day.-The big woolen mill at
Baltz & Brothers, on Mill Creek, short dis
tance from Ardmore, Montgomery county,
Pa. have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $685.
900; partly covered by insurance. team
of Irish cricketers will soon come to America.
The severe weather in Iowa has damaged
the grain and fruit crops.-Sarah Juk. an
aged widow, was found dead in her room, at
Kokomo, Ind. She had been dead five days.
The daughter of T. Buckish, Bohemian
of Cresco, Iowa, was buried alive--A con-
vict doing time in the AnamOsa penitentiary