Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-03-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

man. one hunltet and SIX years o.
who had been blind over eigi ty years. r,
Gently died in Georgetown. ID. C.
A lady in Southern California was bite
by tarantula recently, and died in twl
hours aftcrward, in great torture.
A large number Of cuts have recently died
in the vicinity of Richmond, Va, from what
is supposed to be trichina.
A merchant in Columbia, S. c., being af-
ficted with businJs1 troubles, committed
suicide, on Monday night of last week.
steamboat captain was shot dead. q
few days ago, at Point Pleasant. West
Virginia, bya German whom he had Of
Tended.
One night lately n single train took five
hundred thousand dollars in silver bars
from Virginia City to Reno, Nevada. The
bullion weighed over fifteen tons.
rich Pennsylvania farmer gave a poor
noighbor leave to cut down hollow old
apple tree for tire-wooi, which he did. and
i'll the hollow trunk he found hatful of
gold.
The house of Milo Ruggles, at Putin
Bay, Ohio, was burned on Monday of last
week. Mr.. Rugges was fatally injured.
and his mother, sister, and sisters child
were burned to death.
At Atchisoa, X lnsas, 4 few nights ago, q
sixtcen-ycAr-old girl broke into q billiard
hall, and pocketing all the bol.s, carried
thom off. her reason being that her father
spent all his spare money there.
Two Ioys wore chopp;ng wool in their
fa'hcr's loor-ytrl in Conncctcr t, on We'd
neslay OF last week, wh2n ono accidcntly
hit thu othrr on tn, head and spit his skull
oper inlctirg 4 fatal wound.
The catfish trade along the Patuxent
river. in Maryland, is becoming an im-
portant bus;n ,ss. Several families are re-
ported to have grown rich on it, and their
less fortunate nci -,hbors call them the cat
fshocncy.
Tnc works of a powder company, near
Paterson, N. j.. were blown up, one night
last week. and the conclusion was felt over
an area OF fifteen or twenty miles. and
was supposed to be the shock of Nh earth
quake.
At Rochester, New York, on Wednesday
evening, Mrs. Kane reproved one of her
children at supper, whercupon her husband,
who is believed to be insane, seized II poker
and struck her a blow which may result ia
tnlly. Kane surrcn le-.l himself to the au-
thoritics.
l.borer in Oglensburg, Sussex county,
New Jersey, murdered his wife few days
ago. by striking her in the head with an
axe, and then set fire to the house to cover
the crime. Two men. who happened to
pass, seeing the house on fire, burst open
the door, aud found the woman expiring
The husband WAS arrested and lodged in the
Jail at Newton.
By a collision on tn. Baltimore AMI Po-
tomac Railroad, near Washington, on
Thursday night of last wo4k. the nail and
express cars were overturned, set on fire
and burnt. The mail matter destroyed was
large in quantity, and seven hundred thou
sand dollars in national Lank-notes, legal.
tenders, and fractional currency was de-
Stroycd in the express-car.
Joseph b. North accused of having mur-
1ered George Jones year ago, was hanged
by mob at Wallace, Kansas. recently. He
was suspended from Il telegraph pole, bmt
the knot of the rope catching under his
chin, he remained alive for two hours, and
is believed to have finally died from being
frozen. He repeatedly .mplorcd his muir
dcrcrs to release him from his agony. but
his cntrcatics were received with jcers,
During II recent revolution in La Paz,
Bolivia. the troops all got drunk, and went
through the streets firing ut random, right
and left, Several young gentlemen were
killed in their houses, and = young lady
was shot through the lungs. Every house
closed It's doors, and such state OF terror
was mover before seen i'll the city.
The Japan News gives curre"cy to
stltemeu, on god aWra."itr s}ta5 Itptaas.
cri.4n,ai~ p,,lcr beng atr,1.sled to being
icclpittted. and that, too, on religious
grounds; the idea apparently being that so
long as the body is intact its resurrection
will be possible, but That when the head is
once separated tl>ya. TIE body it may never
be rcuui ell.