Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-12-20
THE NEWS.


Francis schlatter. the "healer,' Is blessing
bandkerchiefs and working "cures In towns
In New Mexico.-The steamer hanney,
from Chicago to Buffalo, with corn, was cut
bv ice while going down the Detroit River
and sunk. The crew reached shore In mex
bausted condition, several OF them eelng PAD
" frozen. n.--For the fiscal year ending NOV
ember 30 the output of the ll2 salt plants IN
Michigan was 3,675,75l barrels.---Whlle
hunting in Brunswick township, Medina
county, Ohio, A. P. Milled OF Cleve
land. accidentally shot and killed
Orrin Sherman. n.-George Rubright, weak
minded young man, while in church IL
Evansville, Ind, suddenly attacked MISE
Carrie Daum and stabbed her fatally.
Rubriobt was arrested. Governor ltgeid
haa ordered the State Board of Charities ol
Illinois to visit the Egin Insane Asylum and
investigate the charges OF ill-treatment Oh
natents.-E. Borden Castian aged seventy
Ave a prominent county merchant anu
farmer of Hamilton. Ala, was found in the
woods with his head split open and bloody
AK living beside him. The coroners jury
held Mrs. Castian. who is sixty-elght years
6ld.-Andrew J. Kimbles plant for the
manufacture Of carriage gears, in IanesVliei
Ohio. burned to the ground as the result OF
Are Of unknown origin. The loss Is S4e,oooi
with S25, 900 nsurance.--Angus u. Ul'oei'i
who murdered Alice Sterling, twelye-yeal
old Roxbury. Mass, girl, last spring, raa
been sentenced in Boston to be hanged OH
February q, 1896.-John Webb was Kliie1
and John Norton and two others mortaiiy
wounded by premature blast near Dig
Creek Gap, KY
The out bound Pittsburg express on the
Pennsylvania Railroad struck the caboose OF
an engine attached to freight train on the
outskirts OF Philadelphia. John Shienberger,
aged fifty years, of Philadelphia, engineer OF
the freight train. was so badly injured that
he died in the hospital few hours later. No
damage was done to either train. After
four DAYS session, the Northwestern Chair
Manufacturers Association concluded its
work in Chicago. H. D. Burkhardt, Of To-
ledo. O., was elected president, and A. Raa-
bic. of Chicago, secretary. The old price
list and rate of discount were practically re-
adonted. d.-Senator Wickham and Repre-
sentative Winston offered bills in the Nir-
ginia legislature providing for the entire re-
zeal of the Walton law, and the enactment oil
an entirely new method Of balloting'--A
large meeting was held in Gettysburg with
the object of forming.a local telephone COM
pany.-Max Goodrich in fit OF jealousy
shot his young wife, Bertha, and then COM
mitted suicide in their home in Philadelphia
Mrs. Charlotte Howell was acquitted OF
the murder Of Miss Libbie Knapp at Wells
boro. Pa.-Chin Hone. notorious Chinese
Highbinder, was hanged in Folsom, CAL, for
murder. Fire destroyed $780, 900 worth OF
business property in st. Paul, Mimi
Chinese witnesses in a case in Portland, Ore.
we're taken through the streets in irons.--
jim Nicols, colored, was hanged at Favette-
Vile w. Va, for murder. Oliver Ham
mond. his wiie and three children were
killed by train near Greenville. 0.
The schooner Elwood is supposed to have
gone down off the Alaskan coast with all on
board d.-Southern Pacific Railway conduc-
tors have been forced to give bond, and the
Surety Company will send out spoilers on
the road to watch them. m.-Mrs. H. E. Sitter
aged about seventy years and a nurse, and
Mary Harris, aged fifty, who was attending
her. were burned to death in fire which de-
stroyed the frame dwelling in which the
former resided, at Troy, N. Y. The. fire is
supposed to have been causedIby the explo-
sion of a kerosene oil lamp. Two Mormon
preachers from Utah endeavored to establish
a church at Inez, KY, but were ordered to
leave the place. DR.. Levi Keehn, late post
master of Milford, Ind, while returning home
in carriage with his wife, was struck by
train on the Baltimore and Ohio at Syracuse.
Ind, and instantly killed. Mrs keehn was
so badly injured that she cannot recover
Susan Ross, Of Belyidere, N. j., was robbed,
ravished and murdered. Her assailants are
not known William Burbank, aged elgh-
ty-three. while coasting with children at
Thompsonville, Ct, ran into horse and re-
ceived injuries which resulted in his death
shortly after the accident. The children es'
capped with slight bruises: Judge VooriS
of Akron. O., granted atemporsry injunction
restraining Daniel Babst from assuming the
duties of receiver of the New York. Pensyl-
yania and Ohio Railway, he having been ap-
pointed by the court at Marion, o.
A company Of Philadelphia and Rhode
Island capitalists was formed to build and
operate an electric railroad from Provi'
dence. r. l., to Taunton, Mass. .-Messrs.
Payne & Sharp, proprietors of Covington,
KY, pool room were heavily fined in Gin
cinnati court.-By the explosion of a
boiler In the sawmill of Ezra Post, about ten
miles from Greenville Pa, Engineer Frank
Perkins and Solomon Hastings were instant
Iy killed. and Stephen White and Curtis
Johnson fatally hurt. The other worxmen
had Just stepped from the mill and, there
fore. escaped. Rev. DIR. Samuel j. Mic
coils, pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church of St. Louis, declined the presidency
of the Lans Seminary Cincinnati, o.,
which was offered to him several weeks
ago.-The Supreme Court has issued an
order enjoining the Peterboro Savings Bank
Of Concord n. j., from receiving or paying
deposits. This action has been necessary by
reason of the steady Withdrawals by deposl-
tors. which. if continued, will necessitate
the sale of a portion Of its securities at a