The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-21
LOCAL NEW S..
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Senator II. G. Davis was in at
tendance at court last week.
There are still a number of guests
at Mr.. Tillson's Wing-and- Wing ho-
tel, Deer Park.
The citizens of Cumberland have
sent near seven hundred dollars to
the yellow fever sufferers.
Mrs. A. G. Sturgiss and Miss
Ada Tower are visiting at Morgan
town, w. Va.
Everybody should hear Presi-
dent Thompson's lecture on Satur-
day night.
j. M. Jarboe has improved his
Liberty street property by new
side walk.
Mr.. Bush is erecting a stoue
wall in front of his Fourth street
property near the court house.
Mr.. Samuel Lawton, proprietor
of the Oakland Wooden Mills,
moved into his new residence last
week.
james Brown, of Hutton's
Switch, was killed at Portland Fri
day evening of last week, by one of
the east bound freight trains.
-"This house and lot for sale"
was made to read by the boys, "This
house and lot for ale." Many house
and lot has gone in that way.
Sheriff Coddington started for
the Maryland Penitentiary Thursday
night, with the two prisoners senten-
ced to that institution at the present
term of court.
Died, in GrantsviIIe district, on
Sunday, Sept. Sth, Daniel burst,
aged rs years. Also, in the same
district, September 9th, Mrs. Amelia
burst, wife of David burst, Jr.. aged
81 years.
The the 14th inst. Edward Sharp,
a miner in the Aston Coal Mine at
POmpey Smash, near Cumberland,
was seriously injured by the fall of
mass of coal which he was cutting
under at the time. He is forty-five
years old and has family.
Saturday was payday at the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and
the Pennsylvania Railroad in Mary
land. which made business very brisk
in Cumberland. At the rolling mill
alone four hundred and twenty men
were paid over $4,000
The man who had his hands cut
off in South Cumberland on the 9TH
inst. by railroad train while intoXi-
Gated proves to be "A deaf mute. He
was mistaken for another person by
his appearance. 1t is a sad case, deaf
and dumb, and now deprived of his
hands so that he had no way of com.
municating even his name.
William j, Brady, formerly OF
Cumberland, attempted to commit
suicide in Wheeling, w. Va, by
cutting his throat, but succeeded only
in il t1ictlng two small gashes that
are not considered serious wounds.
The Register says that Brady had
been Respondent for several days. be.
ing financially embarrassed.
On Saturday we noted the c0sn-
mitment of John NJ. Lancaster, of
Midlothian mines, to Jail ca the
charge of outraging his daughter,
girl of 16. Yesterday another COM
plant was lodged against him before
Justice Jones, charging him with
committing similar offence upon his
younger daughter, aged IA. He was
also committed on the latter charge,
so that there are two cases of the same
crime against him. Cuna6. Ne,os.
On Saturday evening last moon.
light picnic was held on DaVidson's
Island, Connellsville. Among those
present was young man named J.
j. Cluthers, fireman of freight engioe
No. 1877 on the Pittsburg Division of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
He was dancing, when he suddenly
fell from the platform, and when
picked up by his friends he was dis
covered to be totally blind. He,
however, has since recovered his
sight.
Monday Morning Mime Nor
gan, carpenter of Grafton, West
Virginia, while engaged in repairing
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
bridge ct that place, accidently fell
into the Taggart's Valley Fork be-
low, a distance of at least sixty feet.
The water at that point is only three
or four inches deep and his fall was
not broken. He sustained serious,
and probably fatal internal injuries,
and fracture of the right arm near
the elbow and of the right leg near
the ankle.
"A tramp giving the name of
George Seibold was arrested at Cum