Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-08-07
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
HOME AND FOREIGN.

| The theater at Tinnevelley. British India,
has been destroyed by fire. Ole hundred
! Hindoos were killed AMI many we're in
jlred.
Connec.icut's State Prohibition ticket is as
fellows: For Governor, R,v. S. S, Farbs, of
Rockville; Lieutenant G overnor, p NJ Augur
Of Middef, sid: Secretary of Stlte, j. A.
Rock well, of Norwich; Treasurer, Joseph A.
Lewis, of WIllimantic.
| At Penzance man named Hawke shot and
killed his sister, her husband, another woman
and himself, and a filth person, who was
present, narrowly escaping. Hawke was
fro n Australia, and was man of temperate
habits an. social disposition. NJ motive can
be assigned for the crime. He was chatting
pleasantly with his relatives when he sud-
denly drew his revolver and feed, with the
above result.
| Being discharge from court on the charge
of attempted su eide, Steve Rrodle, the jump
err from Bfooklyn bridge, Was required in the
New York Toombs Cour6 to give s50J bail to
answer an indictment charging tn 1t he had
INSTRUCTED a bridge police OH .4r In the dis
charge of his duty, ani also was guilty OF a
IN sleuleanor in using the south roadway Of
the bridge, intended Tor vehicles only, for
pedestrian purposes,
At jasper, Tenn, two negroes, named Ben
Hicks and Tom Hays got into a quarrel
cor corning their wives. H .ys attack ID Hicks
with razor, waereup pom II czs drew a large
pruning knife an cut II iys co pieces, cutting
his throat and seve ing the limbs from the
body.
Since the Souda1 tribes conquered Khar-
toum and killed Gordon, they have been
Lighting among them. elves for lack OF other
TO- s to q sht. Khar;oum has been raZ.d to
the ground and the defeated purity would be
alsd to see the Khedive's authority again
extended over that region.
Jas. Wilfor was kilie1 by a man named
Reeves, near Mt. Vernon, Ark. His head
was nearly severe from his body with an ak.
Family trouble was the cause
At Jersey Shore and Lswisburg Lycoming
county, Pa. The worst storms experienced
in 80 years prevailed and they were damag>
ing to crops.
The boiler Of a saw mill la Gated at Tchula
Miss, on the Yazoo division of the Illinois
Central Railroad, belonging to Colonel
Graves, exploded, killing six persons AM in-
turing several others. Colonel Graves was
among the injured.
The Greenbackers in convention ut Essex
Junction, VT, nominated the following State
candidates: For Governor, 7. B. Smith,
Lieutenant Governor, T. W. Brown. Treas
ures; F. Tarbaur, Secretary of State, A. N.
Merrill.
A distemper which recently appeared
among the horses around Oxford, Pa. has
oecome epidemic and fatal.
A a. year-old daughter Of hn Pfeiffer,
residing two miles from Washington c. 81 g,
O., committed suicide by hanging herself in
the barn. No cause is known, and some of
tbs neiehbors suspect that she was murdered.
Heavy rains have fallen throughout great
portion of Karsas. It ensures large corn
crop throughout the Central portion OF the
State. Recent rains have put the ground in
excellent condition for fall wheat, for which
farmers are busy plowiing, an increased
acreage being sown.
A Toledo, s.. L 'uis and Kansas City mar
row guaga freight train went through a
bridge over the Wabash river, at Button,
killed; John Siple, engineer, was fatally
MANNED and scalded John Williams, fireman,
badly scalded: Joe Fankboner; brakeman,
probably fatally injlrei. The locomotive
and six cars went down.
A severe storm passed over Central Ohio
Friday afternoon, d4magng large num- or
of houses and leve!ing trees and fences. A
| portion of the roof at the Union depot al
! Columbus was blown eff, and the Columtu'
Rolling Mill building was blown down. Sev~
eral persons were injured but none killed,
so far as learned.
| The President has signed the oleomarga.
r;ne bill.
! Prohibitiousts are holding an immense
camp meeting near Lincoln, ILL.,, to continus
several days. A number of prominent people
are in attendance.
Halt the business part .. Ellettsville, Ind
was DESTROYED by an incendiary fire Sunday
night. The principal losers are Shoder
Faulkner, wagoumakers.
| The Administration seems to be doing ali
that can be reasonably ex )ected il regard to
| the maltreatment Of American citizsns in
| Mexico. The trouble down thars seems TO be
tho prevalence of State sovereignty. Tue
sovereign State of Chihuahua refuses to com.
| Fly with the demands of the Mexican G ".
| eminent.
The dead AMI horribly mutilated body OF
an unknown boy was found lying alongside
the IA lroai track near Birmingham Tower
! not far from Tyrone, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, Sunday. His right arm, which
WAS found SO fe away, was torn from tn:
shoulder, his left leg was cut Off alb we the
knee, his left arm was broken and his head
and face covered with deep gAshes There
was nothing found upon him to give a clue
! to his identity. Hs was about IS years ol
age, about s feet in height, and weighed pro-
badly 145 pounds. He haa evidently beer
stealing ride.
The cotton crop Of Western India Is ex-
pected to be the largest ever recorded.
The Manchester England master cotton
spinners have resolved that reduction Of
the number Of the working hours is desirable
The National League has ordered it.
branches in County Kerry, Ireland, to pre-