Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-07-27
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/, costs 81 Coo isy TO 'ruu" the Grand
[ MON Hotel. S,rA;oga
Daring = terrible ,huaiersinrm Saturday
night the Grand Trunk freight she'd At S.a'arlh
Ont. vas struck hv lightning AID huruel wiih
contents. Loss, Slo, geo.
The tao gambling houses Al Long Br,nch
are uuhappilr very vel pAFroaiEsl Lest
SATURDAY. il ia said that S5n Goa changed h nd.
at one Of them.
In drunken hraNl Al Br4AIorks "a m
SATURDAY. nigh, Michael N-Alfer an old man
kicked TO death by John Mrt;r,w anA
Mike marry.
Mr. Charles 6 R".nolis. the aok-krepsr in
the Office of the Boston City Treasury has held
his position fnr more Than forty years. IL i
now So years Of age.
4 subterr.nean forest seven fc~, below the
surface Of the ground has he"u Discovered In
Chsscv, Clinton COUNTY Y !. N,ns NJ the
trees are in an simir@hl. state OF preservation
Young J.rri. Fisher, q Reading. became
insane in the Effort tn commit 10 memory ever"
verse in the Bibls He sent To the state
asylum at Harrisburg where he died We,ines-
day Of apoplexr
\ six mule team. hauling large tnnnery
wagon from Gilpatowa. Clinton county. ran
over ,eyen-year-oli lai naml Stewart
Cl.irhton TO-DAY and killed him The wheels
passed over the lads bowels.
A lunatic woman. who recently escaped from
the Dsnphin COUNTY A'mshouse w,s iiscov.
cred in perfectly mud state. near Riagtswn
Sehuvkiu county. on Wednesday e,tinz raw
chicken. She made her escape before shs
could be captured
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century marked the grave Of Thomas Jefferson
has been given 20 President : : Laws. of the
Missouri State University who will place il in
the campus of that institution at Columba.
Gen. Stone. chief engineer of the Florii,
ship canal. who has returned TO New York
prouounces the canal feasible. and saws the en- g.
gineering problems involved are verv simple
The obstacles TO he overcome are fewer than
expected Satisfactory entrances have been
fouai on both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
A terrible accident occurred ct the bias, fur
mace in Grldes y z. Monday afternoon. bv
which eight men lost their lives They enter.
ed the furnace to construct a new lining. when
an old lining. consisting OF hundred tons Of
brick and mortar fell upon them The vic.
Tins were married, AMI had families.
severe storm ragged at Ashurv, n J., Mon.
violence. Tie Madison, Gsev and Howard
Houses were unroofed by the gale and six car
risges loaded with people were upset aud
wrecked. A number of tents were blown down
at Ocean Grove. An unknown colored man
was blown to sea in a boat and was drowned
Sunday evening Mary Burke. aged eighteen
residing at Green Point y Y and John Hous-
er. twentv-three years old. of the same place
were walking on the track of the Moniauk
Railroad, when they were struck by the west
ward bound express train and instantly killed
The engineer blew the whistle aud applied The
steam brake, but 10 no purpose, as they paid
no heed to the warning.
The total values of the exports of domestic
breadstuffs from the United States during the
month Of Jnne, 1888, and during the twelve
months ended June 80. 1893, os compared
with similar exports during the corresponding
months of the preceding year. were as follows ::
June, 1888 Sll ,545 937; June 1892. SO 27O,-
1876 Twelve months ended June 30, 1893
S202, oil ,49l; twelve months preceding, Sill
00l, 1896.
Four weeks ago Mrs Gensberg, aged 81
wears. of St. Clair, Pa, wandered from home
in fit of temporary alteration. Her husband
and friends made unremitting but fruitless
search for her. Yesterday her remains were
discovered in the woods near Schuylkill Haven
They were much decomposed, but were identi-
fed by ring and the clothing. She is sup
posed to have died of exhaustion.
A resident Of Wilmington, n. C. while bath
ing in the harbor, saw at little distance from
him what he supposed to be sturgeon playing
upon the surface of the water. He FASTENED
towards the object and succeeded in getting
hold of it, when, to the terror of the crowd,
the supposed sturgeon proved to be young
alligator about three feet long. The capturer
released his prisoner in a hurry, and scamper-
ed ashore
John Brownell, of Cambridge, N. Y. was ar
rested and taken before Justice Larmon of that
place, on a charge of fighting. The Justice
fined the prisoner, when the latter accused his
Honor of stealing chickens with him last win
ter and taking them to "a barber's shop, where
the fowls were cooked. Justice Harmon be-
came indignant, and sentenced the prisoner to
pay 6ne of $50 o. 90 to Jail for ninety days.