Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-09-25
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
HOMIE AND FOREIGN,

Henry Barnes, colored, was lynched al
Millen, Ga. for assaultiug whit, lady at
Rogers stat on on the Central railroad. A
party of masked men did the lynching.
Barnes was taken from train near Millen
| an 4 ridlled with bullets.
John Wyatt and Dsmps Loftin were neigh
bors in NJ .fshan county; KY, who had not
spoken for years. L,ftin spoke to Wyatt ia
a funeral and the litter knocked him down
with n rock Loftin then drew knife aid
killed Wy att, stab5ing him several times
Secretary Whitney has closed the Govern
ment's account with ,hn Ro ,che's assignees
for the Dolphin by paying $4,000.
General Thomas j. Brady is writing a
book about what he knows of the Florida
Commission of 1876 aud the Star Route
scandal. Autograph letters will illustrat
it.
The damage to property in the vicinity Of
joliet, Ill, by Saturdays storm is estimated
at s75,oo0
| Seventy-flve union plumbers of Kansas
City have struck, demanding shorter hours
and higher wages.
Nelson Carpenter, a notorious outlaw,
was ambushed and kille in Jackson county,
KY, by unknown parties.
There is still a scarcity of skilled brick.
layers and plasterers at Charleston, aud
earthquake prices prevail.
Mayor William B. Smith, Of Philadelphia
has been impeachsd for "maladmlnistration
and msdemeanor in Office"
| c. s. Hayes editor of the Traverse (Cal. }
7fdings, was shot and instantly killed suns
day night while sitting with his bretrothed,
Miss Lula Smith. A rival lover has been ar
rested on susI icion.
| Dispatches from many points in Northern
Illinois report great damage done to farm
property and residences by Saturday nights
storm. At D ekalb e. L. Woods stock barn
was struck by lightning and burned The
loss was $4,000. S,me stock was killed,
but as yet no loss of hu nan life is reported
Martin Irons, the leader Of the Knights
of Labor strike on the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road last spring, has been arrested again at
Kansas City to answer to the Oh arg IS found
against m in the indictment for compile
ity in tapping the private telegraph wires
running into Wee President Hox:es resi-
dence.
Lieut. Schwatka and his party who are ex-
ploring Alaska have discovered large river
and have climbed a spur Of Mount st. Elias
to point go feet above the level of per-
petual snow. Except along the course of the
Yukon river little is known of the interior of
Alaska and L'uet Schwatka, if he penetrates
the interior, may have something more in
teresting to give the public than records o
| mountain climbing.
Four hundred men and boys were thrown
| out Of work by q cave>in at the Gilberton
Pa, colliery, Moniay.
| Seven schooners were driven ashore and
| wrecked, off Nova Scotia, in Sunday nights
| gale. Nol)ss of life is reported.
| Secretary Bayard is repre- ented as viewing
the in ormation obtained by MIR. Sed gwick
as complete vindication of the course he
pursued in the Cutting case.
The total amount of money received for
public land sales during the fiscal year was
| Ol,
The number of acres sold was 2o,93l SOL.
severe frost occurred at Concord, N II.
Monday nig.t. The ground was frczen, ice
| formed, and vegetation almost completely
destroyed. At Hanover there was also q
killing frost during the night, and the corn
is greatly injured.
| Frank Graft, of Rockville, Pa, made q
wager that he could eat plate OF
| ice cream in thirty seconds and three large
| ginger cakes in one minute. The fl st part
| of the agreement was accomplished, bu
while engaged in eating the cakes he COM
m need choking, and died few minutes
later.
Commissioner Coleman, of the Department
| of Agriculture. has been notified that the
p!euro- pneumonia has again broken out il
Illinois, and he has dispatched d Salmon
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, t.
Chicago, the seat of the disease, to examin,
and report to the department whether it il
really pleuro-pneumonia.
Jerome Brown. of the banking firm of Lee
g. Brown, Sarnac, Mich, has disappeared
| Inc liabilities Oh Inc Dduk HTe pldceu
OOO with no assets, all the firms property
having been disposed of. The depositor
sere principally farmers and wcrkingmen
who knew of the banks shaky condition, bu
were unable to get their money. Brown i
supposed to be in Canada.
There were three shocks of earthquake il
Charleston Monday night and early Tue 'day
morning, the shock at $50 A. NJ. being quit
sharp, and causing houses to rattle quite un
comfortably. There was no general alarm
out good many persons ran out of thel
houses into the streets and remained there
At Summerville there were three shock
between % AMI 6 81 o'clock, there being
rather violent shock at $50
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