Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-06-13

900 and 1900 people and 243 |
dwellings and business houses.
There are under construction four
teen pretentious buildings, including
six two-story structures. Roads have
been built in all directions radiating
from the place; 20 miles of irrigating
trenches dug to supply the town with
water; 1000 shade trees, lamps erected
on all the principal business avenues,
and with all this work the town has
no charter and no government other
than provisional one.
ALL but about 100 hands have
given up the strike at the Renfrew
Mills at Adams, Mass, and have
returned to work at the reduced rates.
The trouble is estimated to have cost
the town not less than $4,000
because of money left out of Cir
culation, but local physician says
"the strike has been an excellent
thing for the good health of the en-
ployes at the mills. Many of them
had been steadily at work for ten years
without q vacation, and a month of
outdoor air and recreation had toned
them up wonderfully. He had not
known so little sickness among the
operatives in years"
In Norway it is believed that
wolves are frightened away by tele-
graph lines. While vote was pend
ing on grant to new line, men,
Der of the Storthing remarked, that,
while his constituents had no direct
interest in it, they would support the
grant, because the wires would drive
away the wolves. 1t is said that,
however hungry a wolf may be, he
will never 60 into spot that is en-
closed by ropes stretched on posts.
1t IS remarkable fact that since the
first Geographic line was established,
20 years ago, wolves have never APP
peared in its neighborhood.
Science NeWs.
The Victoria British Columbia)
Col0nist contains an account Of the
strike won by the men on the
Canadian Pacific Railroad, in the
Selkirk range of mountains. A
dispatch from the Eagle Pass in these
mountains tells how the determined
strikers got rid of any trouble
through whisky. Gas soon as work
had been universally stopped" says
the dispatch, 1880 men camped at
Beaver, and at once caused all the
! whisky saloons to be closed"
IT is estimated that between 1000
and 5000 men were thrown out of
employment by the shutting down of
the iron mills in Cincinnati the LIST
instant, the mill owners apparently
little disturbed by the situation.
They say they could not make money
if their men would work for nothing,
and there would be nothing but
| steady loss if they continued to run
under the scale demanded by the
men.
SOME ladies in Savannah, Ga, are
beginning movement to establish
in that city a home for the worthy
INDECENT Of both sexes. 1t is pro-
posed that the institution shall be
non-sectarian in its character, the
purpose being to afford a COM
Portable shelter for the aged and in
firm who are unable to support them
selves and to provide for their simple
wants, regardless Of their denomin-
ational beliefs.
A METEOR large as a -four barrel
was observed at Sherman and
Mckinney. Texas, about mid.
night last Friday night. 1t moved
in southwesterly direction, and the
sky was brilliantly illuminated by it
for several seconds. A loud ex-
plosion was heard a moment after its
disappearance, followed by sound
like the rumbllng of distant thunder.
WITHIN the past week on the farm
of saybrook farmer, a number of
apparently healthy cattle have fallen
dead i'll their tracks as if from heart
disease. The disease appears to be
contagious, but its nature Is not yet
clearly defined. 1t is creating great
anxiety among stock men.
The strike in the Goodyear Metal
lie Rubber Colnpany's factory in
Naugatuck is over. Representatives
of the company and a committee from
the strikers have consulted and arriv-
ed at ill understanding, the result of
which is that the strikers returned to
work this week.
The recent rains have bean very
beneficial to the crops, especially to
wheat, oats and corn, in Southside
Virginia. The cool weather which
which followed is bringing the
wheat out finely. The indications
are that the yield will be large.