Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-09-25
THE NEWS.

The Peoria and St Louis Railroad Com
pany has filed with the recorder OF deeds
IN springleld, ILL.,, mortgage in favor OF
Robert Maclay and the Knlckerbocker Trust !
Company OF New York, to secure bonds to
the amount of 81 900 900, issuel in aid ofthe
road.-A broken axle eau ed bad freight |
wreck near the CoaestOga bridge, mile east
of Lancaster. Pa. Twenty-one cars were
wrecked, some Of them totally demolished,
and both tracks blocked -. P. Graf WIS
aroointed receiver OF the Ohio Southern
road, in Lima, o, vice J. r. Megrue, re
signed. -Four persons were killed ana
number hurt In wreck on the Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton, near Connersvllie'
Ind.-Miss Bettie E. Milton committed sui
eide in lexington, va.---Four men were
killed and humber of others Injured in
wreck on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton Railroad, near Connersvile, Ind.--Ihe
private banking house Of Gardner, Morrow
& Co OF Holiday Pa, made an as
signment.
In Mineral township, Ark, rwelye-year-
old Polish boy named Kucinski Killed four
vear-old child Of Andrew Zalosok by striking
II on the head with club. He then dug
shallow grave. buried his little companion
and then fed--W lliam Bowen, aSeu
eleven years, charges Joseph q. atson
with having murdered deteciire near FlcKs-
bure. Miss.--One workman was killed ana
three others we're perhaps fatally inJurel In
Chicago by the falling OF pile OF brieAs al
the site of the old Grand PAcitic Hotel, La
| salle and Jackson streets The battleship
Texas. while entering Newport harbor, ran
upon a rock opposite the to pedo statlon'-
The Peterson Lumber Companys m lis,
near Alcovc, Ala together with mlIiioD
feet OF lumber. was burned. This was an I'm
mense plant. costing $z0j,OM OM--8andi's
attacked the custom-hOuse in Las Paiom''' )
Mexico. The bandits were resisted, and In
the pitched battle that followed beth sides
lost in killed and wounded. james Aee-
nan. of Cleveland, O., has been accused by
Lis common law wife OF killing Annie King
In Buffalo two years agc.-~-The Mlehle
Printing Press and Manufacturing Company,
Of Chicago. has been closed 10y ihs sheriff on
judgments aggregating $4,000. 1t Is said
that the liabilities, outside OF the indeOtness
to the bank, arc small The company is on'
Of the largest concerns OF the kind in the
:itY. -,
Rev DR.. John A. Preston, OF Charlotte, N
c.. and steps N OF Mrs. Margaret >. Pres
ton, the poetess, died In Lexington, oil W
nhoid feyer.-Work will be commenced IL
a few days on the Monticello, e fine hotel tE
be erected in Norfolk by the Monticello
Realty Company of Hon. John 3
Wises engagements for speaking in virgins
have boen cancelled, as he will be engaged
IN the canvass in other States "A man ar
t-rived. IN New YorK, ,naving walked from sar
Francisco. DR.. Macarthur tninK'
ouns the best argument to use with Turkey
Coffin. Altemus Il Co., a large whoiesai'
drvpoods firm of Philadelphia, with branche
/, baltimore and other cities, made an as
e;gpmsnt-S Charles Russell, Lord Chic
Justice of England, arrived in Philadelphlf
on visit to Mr.. Frank Thomson, vice-presl
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The sale of the Ohio Southern Railroad
which ia in receiver hands, has been or
dared by the court in Lima, subject to :h'
first mortgage bonds. The sale will occur
. sora time this fall.-The Hickok Lumoe
Company plant at Ogemwa, Ark, one OF tE
largest in the State, was destroyed by IRE
1oss estimated at $75, ,C00.--Lawrence
Culver, who was Indicted at Logan, o., Jun
20 1892. charged with wrecking the People
pank Of which he was president and con
7 rertIpg to his own use $4,000 Of It's funds
has been captured in Terra Haute.-Ih
1rnited States Circuit Court In Rhode lslan
!, onnointed Robert Roach, OF Warwick, as r.
= cever for S. H. Green & Sons, manutactui
ers at Warwick Green & Sons are involve
+, the recent failure at Coffin, Altemus
@ 10 Philadelphia. Norfolk and Wes
y ern Railroad was sold at foreclosure at NO
u folk for SO, 900, 900, subject to mortgage
y 400 600 900 The property was bought
p the bondholders committee, represented
j. George Coppe, J. Kennedy Tod, W.
d c,vn AMI Victor Morawetz Two men al
l. wenty-Aye horses perished In fire IN Nj
l. waukee. Wis.