Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-12-27
THE NEWS.

was big blaze in the business section 0
Denver. letter received In Niles, Mich.
reports the collapse in Kobe, Japan, Q
Joseph Cook. Clark, Sawyer Co., bank
ers and brokers Of Boston, failed +Fitzsim
mons forfeit of $1,000 to meet Peter Maize
was deposited with r. X Fox in New York
Arrests made by secret service officer
within the last three daysin Kansas City
st. Louis and Panola. Kan, have resulted il
the seizure Of Sg1 900 in counterfeit ten dol
lar silver certificates. AMI is said to hav
broken up dangerous gang Ct counter
feiters, whose operations have EXTENDED
throughout the South and West The an
nual meeting of the Cincinnati, New Orleans
and Texas Pacific Railway was held.
A blanket mortgage for sl75,O0O, 900, giver
by the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad to the Farmers Loan and Trus
Company of New York, was filed at Newark
n. J.--Ran falling for nearly thirty hour!
in Chicago flooded several of the suburban
towns. The New York Court of Appeals
sustained the Judgment of the General Term
reversing the conviction Of Erastus Wiman
for forgery, and he is free man.--The
Virginia Agricultural Society adopted a reso-
luton to be presented to the legislature ask
ing the passage of bill to prohibit horse
racing in Virginia from November to May
1.-The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Company will erect new passenger station
| nd Ol f0d Vic oh IN
Richmond, Va, to cost $4,000, 600. In his
ante-mortem statement Harry Haywood, the
murderer. claimed to have killed five per-
sons. Rev. Alfred L. Moore, rector Of an
Episco pal Church at Akron, Ohio, was de-
posed from the ministry. Judge Thur
mans will was probated at Columbus, Ohio,
and shows that he was worth about 100000
"A number of persons were killed in an
expulsion in the Egypt coal mines at Cum
mock n C.
AZ. the street-car men in Philadelphia, with
the exception Of few of the non-u lon
motormen and conductors, went on strike. A
number OF disturbances occurred, the most
serious being on Chestnut street, in the
crowded business district, when a mob at
tackled several cars, forcing the conductors
and motormen to fly for their lives, and then
smashing the windows of the cars. At one
,rossing uptown women plugged the
switches and blocked the cars. The mayor
issued proclamation asking all good citi-
sens to assist in preserving order. At In
dependence, NO., Captain Arthur S. Coulter
of the Third Regiment, Missouri National
Guards pleaded guilty to the charge of en-
OezzIing large sum from the Edison Elec-
tric Light Company, for whom he was book
keeper.-Five creditors of Louis Brewer
man, the head of large jewelry house in
San Francisco have filed a petition asking
that he be declared an involuntary insolvent.
Although the claims represented by the petit
lioners amount only to $4,000, it is said that
Breverman's liabilities exceed $3.50, ,000-
The Opera House Percival and Hollis furni-
lure store, Browns racket store Singfuist's
Try goods store, the Masonic Hall, Grows
book store. and the residences of DR.. Taylor
and A. NJ. Fowler, in Richmond, No.. were
destroyed by fire. Loss 100000; insurance
about $50, 900. "A gang of six professional
car burglars was rounded up in Buffalo,
Samuel Marshal and Mrs. John Robinson
we're fatally shot in West Oneid, o. T., by
Vim. O'Neill.
Nelson Diggs, a famous counterfeiter OF
his time. died in Dayton, Ohio.-Li Hung
Chang sent word through Bishop r. E.
Hendrix that more missionaries were needed
in China. Joseph NJ. Jones, Philadek
phia printer, died of a trouble that resem-
bled hydrophobia. He had been bitten by
pet puppy.-Four workmen were fatally
Injured and nine others badly hurt at Mid
Valley Colliery, Shamokin. burglars blew
open the safe in Pdrman Brothers grain
warehouse at Franklin, Tenn, and the ex-
plosion, it is thought, knocked down a coal
oil stove, which fired the building. This
building, together with Parmal Brothers
mill, and second warehouse belonging to
them. and Atwood & Matthews warehouse,
we're destroyed. Loss, 53i,O0O insurance,
e24O0O. The burglars escaped. - The
Bethlehem Iron Company shipped quan-
tity Of ten-inch gun materials to Wateryleit
Arsenal at Troy, N. Y. The shipment
weighed 25 tons-The Western Flint Bot
tie Association met in Pittsburg with ninety
per cent of the members present.-It was
decided to shut down for two weeks during
January. and an advance Of five per cent
was ordered TO go into effect Cd the first of
the year.
Francis Schlatter the "healer.' IS blessing
handkerchiefs and working 'cures' in towns
in New Mexico.--The steamer Ranney,
from Chicago to Buffalo, with corn, was cut
by ice while going down the Detroit River
and sunk. The crew reached shore In an ex.
hausted condition, several of them Ecing bad
ly frozen. For the fiscal year ending Nov
ember 80 the output of the 112 salt plants in
Michigan was 9,675,75l barrels. ls.-While
hunting in Brunswick township, Medina
county, Ohio, A. P. Milled of Cleve
land, accidentally shot and killed
Orrin Sherman. George RubriSh ht, a weak.
minded young man, while in church in
Evansville, Ind, suddenly attacked Miss
Carrie Daum and stabbed her fatally.
was arrested. .-Governo A ltgeld
has ordered the State Board of Charities Of
Illinois to visit the Egin Insane Asylum and
investigate the charges of ill-treatment of
patents. Sc. Borden Castian aged seventy
five, a prominent county merchant and
farmer of Hamilton, Ala, was found in the
woods with his head split open and q bloody