Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-08-31
THE NEWS.

AZ. Spring, manager Of the Western Bank
in penetaaguishene, Ont, disappeared on
the occasion OF the visit OF the inspector. he
is said TO be short $25,OOO in his accounts
with the bank. Spring is supposed to be the
guest of friends in Buffalo. .-Benjamin Ker-
shaw and Robert Thomas, middle-aged men,
and Johnnie Kershaw, aged ten, were drowned
in the Charles River at Waltham, Mass, by
the overturning of a canoe. While the three
were paddling up the river the men attempted
to throw large dog overheard. In the effort
tho canoe was capsized, and all went down.
CITY Marshal Haley, editor ]. +. Egan
and Clerk Of the District Court Burke, cit-
zens of Rawlins, ,Wyo., charged with contempt
Of court in interfering with United States
marshals during the present strike, were held
in Cheyenne, No, by Judge Riner in $500 to
await the action OF the United States grand
iurv.-The residence OF Col. JohnA. Robin.
son in Martinsburg, was destroyed by fire.
= Newton Goodwin, agent for the New York
Life Insurance Company, shot and Killed
himself in the Great Northern Hote in Chic
ago. He is thought to have been temporarily
insane.-There Was further test OF the
Tavlor eight inch cast-steel shell at Indian
Head. this time with satisfactory results, the
shell piercing the four-inch armor-plate ana
being found broken up in the earth behind.
The American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, in session in Brooklyn,
elected officers, and decided to meet next
year in San Francisco. Henry Dangeraeld
committed suicide in Alexandria. .-Nilo
Fl. Davis, one of the city school trustees OF
Detroit, who was recently arrested, charged
with bribery, disappeared from the city, and
his relatives have since had no trace OF him.
He started ostensibly to visit relatives in this
state. but has not done so--The interstate
fair was opened at Martinsburg, W. va
The Delaware State Republican Convention
nominated Joshua II. Marvll for governor
and Jonathan S. Willis for Congress. Mrs.
Jullette Fournier and her lover, Julius Mar
Gus. committed suicide in Central Park, New
Yolk.-The Northwestern Electric Light
and Power Company, 60 AID 62 Customhouse
Place, Chicago, made an assignment. Assets
are estimated at $66, 45O, and liabilities at
S6C, S66. TO- The corporation was organized
in 1892 to supply light and power to private
consumers. .-Reuben II. Walters killed his
wife and himself at their home in Reading,
Pa.--Raphael Dc Pedro and Dominick
Paschelo. the latter blind man. were con-
victed in the United States Court at Phil
adelphia of passing counterfeit money, and
sentenced to state prison.-Dr William
Cecil Dabney, professor of medicine at the
University OF Virginia, died, at the ago OF
forty-nve years. s.-Dr. William Alexander
Frazier, prominent physician of Staunton,
va. died, at the age of forty-three years
.Dutch jake" a farm hand, killed himself
by hanging near Philadelphia. The boiler
of th1ashing engine on farm near La
mourn. N. D., exploded, instantly killing
John Lind and Louis Berg. Tho latter was
blown one hundred feet and frightfully man.
cled. Four men were more or less injured.
"A furnace filed with motion iron blew
nm Mt the Buckeye Iron and Brass works, III
DAYTON, o. A mass OF 1, 800 pounds oil metal
was thrown to the roof, breaking into fiery
rain. burning badly twelve moulders' -
Three miners we're drowned in drift in the
Glengarry mine near Butte, Mont.--Jamcs
Campbell. a st. Louis broker, had warrant
Issued for the arrest OF Philip Rohaa and his
son. of st. Louis, on the charges OF attempt
ing highway robbery and abduction. john
r. Callahan was convicted in New Orleans o.
demanding and receiving bribes while
member of the City Counci.-A mob trlec
TO lynch Tom Johnson, colored, who throw
his arms around Miss Daisy JACKSON on th'
street at Nashville, Tenn.-N. c. Evans
was nominated by the Tennessee Republican
State Convention for governor. "A thrash
ine machine in VIM. HaywarIs barn, I
Forest, Ont, broke the cylinder shaft an'
irrd the straw. Two men, named Searle an'
Greer, who were in the NOW, were burned t.
death.
By the fall OF big rock one miner wa:
killed and three others badly hurt at Macon
Missouri NJ. NJ. Mensfleld, formerly pro
fessor of languages in San Francisco, has beer
arrested for insanity ALL the coal miners
in Ray county, Mo-, are again out on strike
demanding four cents per bushel for mining
The International Typographical Cnioi
and the International Printing PressLaen!
Union have settled their difficulties. Hon
Christopher F. Fraser, ex-commissioner o
public works, OF Toronto, Ontario, died sud
denly of heart disease --1he Trust anC
Savings Bank of Illinois is acting for syndi
cate OF New York bankers and loaDing none.
to the Whiskey Trust. 1t is talked OF j.
railroad circles in Georgia that an effort vii
be made before the next Legislature to breal
up the Southern Railway combine, so far a
the East Tennessee road is concerned. -
, Robbers gagged and burned the feet OF viii
lam Swords at Kempylle, Ont, until he CAV
them $3.50. - Carl Lower, a Pole, who ha'
been discharged by Mehtretter Bros, il
Buffalo, shot one OF his former employers
in1icting serious wounds.
LTnuT WITH M00NSHINER