Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-08-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
HONE AND FOREIGN.

)ullulnSS, lnciuulnS Jne pOSVoine, D3nK, Two
newspaper offices and hotel.
John Smith was hanged at Glllantin, Mo-,
or the murder Of George Gsndson.
A IS year-o!d girl eloped with a young man
1t La Grange, Ga, and her mother haa him
arrested for kidnapping the child While the
olrties were in court the young people got
ogether again, and slipping out of side door
disappeared.
A No le county (Ohio) farmer named
Thomas Il gers quarreled with his sen Jacob
While both were intoxicated. The son at
:ecked his father with a pruning knife, dis
.mboweling him aud causing almost instant
ieath. Young Rogers is in Jail at Caldwell.
A cloud burst occurred Monday last near
Sort Keogh, Mont; which destroyed $40
,ead OF sheep. The cloud exploded at the
head of Dry Run creek, and came pouring
Town in solid wall 23 feet high, carrying
IF nearly the entire herd. and almost drown
rg herder. The carcasses OF the animals
we're strewn al ong the river for distance of
en- miles below the scene of the disaster.
The complaints are general from Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Indiana, Wisconsin aid Illinois o.
pastures drying up and failing.
AT negro picnic near Pevley, No, Ellis
Westover shot and killed Nelson Bowser in a
quarrel.
Joseph Richards and Griffith P. Thomas,
miners, were killed by falling coal in ,ston
mine, Plymouth, Pa.
At a special election at Alliance, O., on
the question Of closing saloons, the PROPOSE
ton was carried by 355 maj DIRTY.
Masked men entered Farmer Furber's
house, Pittsburg, ILL.,, bounl him hand and
foot and decamped with his va.uables.
Capt. Wallace W. II Ill, late of the United
States Secre. Service, was shot dead by his
wife at Chicago while intoxicated. Sc
claims it was accidental.
A. r johnson, recent camp meeting con
vert, was arrested at Springfield, o charged
with stealing watch and s641 in money
from an Indian doctor.
No private schools are to be allowed here !.
after iii Prussia unless the public ones are in
sufficient in localities, and certificates will
be required of priva.e teachers.
Thomas Hobbs and son, who murdered
two men Saturday near Birdseye, Ind, we e
captured by posse, who lynched them and
riddied their bodies with bullets.
The father of the priest, W. J. Sherman
who took unto himself wife recently at
New York, has become demented over the
matter He purchased pistol and declared
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mot fit to live.' A third woman whom Priest
Sherman deceived has been discovered, and
Sherman himself has disappeared.
There is still cool chan ce that Secretary
| Manning may return 10 active service in the
Treasury Department.
Rain in Michigan sub luel the forest fires
in some parts of the State. They are still
burning in the North, but no great damage
| is thought possible.
John Bochow, living six miles south Of
Stanton, Neb, shot and killed his step
daughter Mrs. William Hehncke. He then
went up stairs and bl,w his brains out with
a shotgun. The cause of the murder and
suicide was JEALOUSY.
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a. A. Whtmore had pronounced in the pu'-
pit in the Congregational Church the words:
1T is true, we have passed from death unto
life, he fell dead, presumably from heart
disease. He was GS ye:rs old.
Francis Hungerford, IS years old, living
near Little Rock, was jailed on the charge Of
counterfeiting. From all that can be learned
he is the Oldest coner in the Safe. When
arreste he was eng agel in farm work, but
spurious coins and a counterfeiting apparatus
were found in the house. HIS old wife tried
| to shoot the officers who entered the dwelling
to arrest her husband.
Tee boiler OF threshing engine ex olode I'D
on the Foster farm, near Jefferson, Wis
killing five persons instantly Anthony
Klein, the engineer, and his son, JOSEPH Les
ter and his ten.year old boy, and Joseph
Hass. Another of L estsr's sons, aged eight
years, and man named Fisher W ere fatally
scalded. Several others received scalds,
A Chicago paper charged August Spies
, the Anarchist, with having committed will
full perjury during his testimony on Monday.
The specific Gffense consists in Spies swearing
that a certain bomb had lain in the office of
the ArJeiter Ze'tung for three years when its
appearance indicated Enthusiastically that it
was of recent manufacture.
The spring wheat returns of the Depart
ment of agriculture for August l show an
Improvement in condition in Iowa
a small decline in Wisconsin Neb-
raska and heavy reduction in Dl.
kota. The cause of deterioration are drought
and chinch bug.
A meeting of the Prohibition City and
County Committee in New York Monday
evening it was announced that ex-Postmaster
General J ames has asked Horace Walters to
have his name enrolled as n member of the
/ Prohibition party of the Twenty first Assem-
by dstrict
Human remains have been discovered in q
vault on the premises of Joe Masarany, a
saloon keeper, in s.. Louis The police are
making an Investigation. Several persons
have been reported as missing in that negb-
borhood in the past few years. 1t is surmis
ed that they were murdered and their bod J
thrown into the vault.
The village of Big Suamico, Wis, has been
almost entirely abandoned by the inh .bitants
to escape perishing in the forest fire, which
at last accounts threatened the town with des-
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