Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-10-16
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HOME AND FOREIGN,

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Thirty more employees OF the Government
Printing Ofiice have been discharged, among
them tn, Master Workman of the
Printers Assembly, K. of L., who is a Re-
publican.
1t is said that ex-Alderman Harry w.
Jaehne will make clean brest of his deal
ings with Jlcob Shsrp, of the Broad way
railroad, and thus obtain commutation of
sentence, if not pardon.
| President John Fitzgerald, of the Irish
National League of America, has contrlbui
i ed So, 600 to the anti-eviction fund and writ
ten lie ter asking that such fund be started
in every branch of the league.
| The Alabama Gold Life Insurance Com
pany, located at Mobile, has made an assign.
ment The paid up policies amount to 800.
| OO6 life policies to 81 .O09O and ontested
claims to 10000.
Rev. j. w. Pennel retired Methodist
Protestant minister, Is years old, committed
suicide at Salisbury Md, by throwing him>
self under railroad train.
William A. Ramsey, an old and respected
citizen of Fawn Grove, York county, Pa,
after several previous unsuccessful attempts
| committed su eide.
| Mrs. Elizabeth Farron, of Anderson, Ind -,
an invalid for fifteen years and whose case
was re yarded as hopel ,ss, is reported to have
been cured by prayer
William F. Hamilton, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Sly Paint Works, of Minne-
apolis, Mimi, has disappeared and is said to
be S., 900 short in his accounts.
A. NJ. Neeld. partner OF ]. c. Fergu,on
& Co.'S Chicago packing house, who has fed
to Canada, is said to have issued bogus ware
house receipts to the extent OF 100000.
| In Atlanta, G. after October GO, no lquor
except domestic wine and home made beer
can BIS lawfully sold in any quantity. The
saloons in towns near Atlanta are preparing
for increased patronage.
| A call has been issued for convention of
leading liquor manufacturers and dealers of
the country at Chicago on the 10Th instant
The object is to check the growth of public
sentiment hostile to the liquor business.
Vice. President Hoxie, of the Missouri
Pacific railroad has been lying seriously ill
at New York, the result of overwork in the
management Of the Southwest railway sys.
tenn. His condition has improved and he is
now regarded as out of danger. Jay G. ,uld,
his employer, was daily caller at his rooms
]. Gould is the leading spirit in the St.
Louis Consolidated Coal Company recently
organ zsd, with capital of S6,oO0,0OD. More
than seventy coal mines IN Illinois, within a
radius of fifty miles Of st Louis have been
purchased, and the control of transportation
the new combination.
w. W. Veroman, editor of the Labor Or.
ganizer was arrested at Kansas City Satur>
day night Or making an incendiary speech
in sympathy with the condemned Chicago
Anarchists to street crowd, and the result
was riotous demonstration. The angry as
semblage dispersed on being advised of the
release OF Neroman, for whom bail had been
entered
Neeld, the Chicago embezz er, is believed
to be in Canada. 1t is the general opinion
that he took very little money with him.
Just before the removal of the firm to Chi
cago there was fire at Indianapolis. and
the insurance companies paid losses aggre>
eating s3O,000. The companies paid the
losses promptly. 1t is now stated that the
goods were removed from the store before
the fire.
Thomas g. Snyder, a firm that has for sew
eral years been dealing extensively in fruits
4 md oIi mi,
are alleged to have swindied a number of
farmers out of large sums of money and alb
seconded. Warrants are out for their arrest
regular train overhauled special on
the Southern Pacific Railroad near San
Atomic. Brakeman Davis was killed; Baker
and Lucil, the engineer and fireman of the
regular train, were both badly hurt. The
engine and dcz IN cars of valuable freight
were wrecked.
The editor Of paper printed at Posen has
been sentenced to two years confinement in a
pris IN for printing an article lbeiing Prince
smarck,
number of sandwich men have been ar
rested i'll Paris for displaying playcards
On which were caricatures of Prince Bis
marck.
The damage to the Louisiana orange crops
! caused by frost, is not as great as stated
some time ago. There will be at least half
of the usual yield.
Ell Robinson, proprietor of the wooden
mill at Lafayette, Ind, forget notes on his
father and contracted debts aggregating
$4,000. He then absconded.
An open lake, ~ miles wide and of I'M
known length, has been discovered in north
ern Alaska.
The Prohibition movement is growing S,
fast in In Llama that both of the old parti, 8
are afraid of it.
Armour, the great pork-packer, says that
Chicago's supremacy as the center of that in
dustry is on the wAne, and that Kansas City
is taking its place.
The Collector of Customs at San Francisco
has informed the Trea IL y Department of
dlffculties encountered in the enforcement of
the Chinese restriction law. 1t appears that
seven Chinese in transportation from New
York to Hong Kong, and three others from
Hong Kong to H onoula, have not yet de-
parted from San Francisco although they
have had amp'e time to do So
Ex-Spaaker Randall has been seen at his
residence on Paoi Heights sitting up, but