Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-02-22
THE NEWS.

cb caoo. decided to raise the migrant fare
betwesn New York and Chicago from S19 to
st5-James Frazier AMI A. B. McQulstion
were killed by the explosion OF boiler at an
oil well near Roxford. Pa.--Eigh'een young |
men and boys OF Chicago. while skating on |
1ate Michigan, were nearly carried out into
tbe open lake on an Ice foe. The Rose
Valley Cotton and Woolen Mill, near Media,
Pa. was placed In the hands oil the sheriff |
On AN execution issued on a judgment for
90, ool james Connorton, farmer near
I,odd. ILL.,, was found frozen to death in
snowdrift ft-Lsvi Davis, founder and for
long time proprietor Of the Gazette, at Daven-
mort. Iowa, died at the age OF seventy-fve
Receiver, OF the Des Moines Union
Building and Savings Association reported 10
the court that the liabilities OF the defunet
concern are Sl99,34 and the assets s60, 419.
II was asserted that the association was
wrecked by mismanagement. W. S. Richmond,
who was connected with the ass oclaijon re-
tajns some Of the books, and has refused to
nroduce them even on order OF court
The house OF Frank Jones, near Drennon
Springs Kentucky, was Turned, and Jones
wife and two children were burned to death.
zones was 80 ba1Iy burned that ne Will no
,ooovor.-Thrce employees OF the True
American. an A. P. A. newspaper at st.
Louis. we're handcuffed b. masked men ano
the subscription book, OF the paper soien'
AT Burlington, Wis, the FOllz and Buell.
p,ock was burned; loss to T. W. Buell., hard
ware and @. T. Foltl, dry goods, go Ooo.-
J.s Donohue, engineer was badly hurt IN
railroad wreck near Rhneelih, N. y
rbeodo;e Pencil and John MacS were IN
stantlv killed by the explosion OF boiler ID
oohb's sawmill, il Towanl 10, a.--Peter
Nov negro farm laborer, shot and Killed
W B. Lyle, the overseer OF the south Chtis
Tan farm of w. s. Cheatham, near AopKln'
vile, KY.
Nlcolas We! er had his neck broken at
fire ut Lynn, Mass.--Harold NJ. CGyelie,
who was charged with being matrimonial
swiudler, has disappeared from Chicago
At Springfield, Ill Carrie McGregory and
George HarpoIe, OF Fairfield. Ill, were found
dead in bed at the Brunswick Hotel They
blew out the gas.-In collision between
locomotives on the Caste Shannon Railroad
in tunnel, near Pittsburg, five trainmen
we're hurt and a locomotive and number OF
cars demolished .-Counse, fer the defence
made the opening statement in the trial OIL
Harry HAYWARD, and showed that an at
tempt woul be made to prove that Blixt hau
another confederate whose ilontity lie was
trying 10 conceal. "A bill was introduced
in the New York legis ature to prohibit the
formation of ools, trusts and combines -
Walter Gedney, aged twenty-five years, oi
Washington, shot and killed himseltir Phil"-
delphia. An Allentown, Pa, fire damaged
the furniture store Of the G. A. Dorney Fur
niture Company to the extent oil SS),OOO
fully insured.
Walter A. Scott, aged twenty-nine years, ,oi
W ston. Mass, confessed 10 the murder ol
James Samin, coachman at the Back Bay,
Boston. on December 5.-The eninth annual
convention of the National Brick Manufac-
tnroTS ASSOCldIlOH Was uClA III NAOfOiuAN1 VI
between three and Iour hundred delegate
Icing in attendance. The United Mine
Workers of America met in Columbus, o.
Bill Cook, the noto ious Western outlaw, wa:
sentenced to ;orty-nve years in the peniten'
tiary at Albany, N. Y-Judge Gros'cup,
in the United States Court, Chicago, post
poned tho Debs trial until the first Monday
IN May having discharged the jury. on &C
count OF the serious illness OF one OF thcm
The majority OF the jury were In Debs' favor
Joseph Averick, triple murderer, wa
caught in Columbia, s. c., and will be take
TO Savannah for trial. There were reward
aggregating $1,2)O for his capture. -Th'
big hotel at Browns Mills JIM the Pines. nea
Mount Holley, n. j., owned by the Fores
Spring Hotel Company. was burned. Loss
s15O. .OOO--Fire at Blueheld, W. Va, de
stroyed a number of store-houses, causing
loss Of $40, OO.-The Elgiu National Watc
Company and the Waltham WatchACompan
are reported to have been sold to an EnGlisl
syndicate.
Miss Lizzie Laird, teacher at the Lake
view, N j.. public school. was struck by
train and killed. 1.-The car barns of th
Lincoln avenue cable line In Chicago we
burned out, the loss amounting 10 $3.50, OOt
Federal Judge Hanford has ordered tn
Northern Pacific receivers to pay bills a-grC
eating 5000, presented by s;orekeepsrs, li'
ervmen AMI others bstween Tacoma, Cen
tralia AMI Sp okane Falls for supplies lolg
ing. board. etc., furnished the deputy mai
shals during last summers strike.-Th
ntempt rule against George NJ Pullman /
the Debs case was dismi. sed by Judge Gro7
cup in the United States Court, Chicago, N
Pullman explaining that he meant no di'rI
spect to the court by his trip East. --At'
meeting OF oil producers In Plttsbur, 1t wa
decided to form charte ed company to
known as the Pure o Company, with cap
tal stock OF 81, 900, ,0)0-By an explosion
natural gas at Meadville Pa, two building
were wrecked, one person killed and severf
injured. The annual meeting OF the Asst
ciated Press members was held In Chicago
and the Eastern members gave banquet
the Western members. three maste
schooner Rose Es:erbrook sank of apletor
L. soon ter her crew had been taken Of
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