Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-05-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

upon the Little Miami road. From Corwin
to London, distance of forty miles, eight
bridges are gone, and the track is a series Of
small and great washouts.
The total value Of the exports of breadstuffs
during ten months ended April so, 1856, was
s95, 54s, 74s, against s135, 1881, 400 the same
time last year.
The Ohio Legsl ature passed the Dow liquor
tax bill, which is now a law There was a
large lobby present from Cincinnati and
other cities, asking an amendment to the
bill, so as to make the first payment under
the law come due in December instead of inns
me 1iately. They feiled to secure the amend,
ment. The bill, as passed, is a consolidation
of the old Scott law and Wilson bill, intro
duced some time ago. 1t provides that the
business of trafficking in Intoxicating liquors
shall be assessed yearly the sum Of $780, Or,
if only malt and vinous liquors are sold with
in the year, 800.
Since the last previous returns five new
eases Of cholera ami two deaths have been
reported Mt Venice and fourteen new cases
and four deaths at Bari.
The people of Nelson county, Iowa, are
excited over the development of the fact that
Henry Wright, a farmer, died Of poisoning
at the hands of his wife, and that the wife of
Daniel Allen was to be disposed of in the like
manner by her husband, as the result of ar
rangoment between the latter and Mrs
Wright, who had been unduly intimate with
Allen. Tney were arrested, and Mrs. Wright
made a confession.
BARLEY Campbell. the doctors at Bellevue
Hospital declare. after examination, is suffer-
ing from general paresis, and that fetel ter
mination is only question of weeks or
months. His case is similar to that of John
Mccullough 1t is stated that when Mr..
Campbell's debts are paid his wife's income
will scarcely be sufficient for her maintenance.
and unless friends come to her r lief her
husband must become charge on the pub
l;o
From London the news comes by cable that
an immense anti-home rule meeting was held
At st James Hall, presided over by E. Ash.
mead Bartlett. Among the speakers was
Lord Salisbury, who was especially bitter
against the Home Rulers and heartily de-
the political history of Ireland were charged
to the Irish. The speech received the unau-
iuous support of the Tories, who were pres,
in large numbers.
The strike at Pullman, l., came to an end,
The workers resuming at the old rate of
wages.
There was considerable frost in Eastern
Ohio Sunday night, but it is said to have done
very little damage.
The Opera House at Sheffield, Pa, and two
dwelling houses adjoining, burned Sunday
evonlng. The loss is $lG,0 900.
| The trking garment cutters in Philadel>
! phia ara all at work again in accordance with
| agreement made with employers Saturday.
The girls in the public schools of Brooklyn
are compelled to commit to memory the cons
stitution of the United States
! A two>year old son of Edwin Loar. of
Bourbon county, Kansas was struck by
lightning while lying in cradle, last Thurs
day, and instantly killed.
H. o. Bernard, Jr., of Westboro, Mass,
while insane during run of typhoid fever
jumped from his bed, grabbed revolver, an |
thre atened to shoot his mother. The revolver
was accidentally discharged, the ball entering
Bernards body, killing him instantly.
Mrs Coin committed suicide in Fredonia,
Kas., recently. In the morning she dressed
her children and sent them to a neighbours
telling them to return in few hours. When
they came home one of the little ones looked
in the we'll and discovered the mother, who
had taken that methol Of destroying herself.
She had cleaned the house up, prepared food
for the next day Sunday and left note
telling where her body would be found.
The hail storm at Harrington little town
in Kansas, was the worst ever known in that
region. The local papers say that hail lay
two feet thick over thousand acres in one
solid body, in the vicinity of the town, and
many of the hail stones were as large as the
double fist Of a full grown man. The heavy
rain which fell with the hail washed them
from the high ground into the valleys in
great ridges from four to six feet in height.
Every snear of Vegetation was completely
destroyed, as were also all fruit anil shade
i trees. Every window in Harrington was
broken out.
The Ohio Sinking Fund Commission has
effected one year loan of five hundred
thousand dollars with Albert Meter, of Gin
cinnati, at So per cent interest.
John Kobeck, arrested in Chicago for in
terferng with some workm9n in the lumber
district, was fined one hundred dollars by a
Police Justice and sent to the Brilewel'.
The President will leave Washington Sun
day evening, the 3lth inst, for ock'yn,
where he will review the Decoration Day
parade ths following morning, aud will re-
view the parade in New York city in the af-
ter1oon, if possible. At any rate he will at
tend the exercises at the Academy of Music.
He will return to Washington Tu ,siay
morning.
While cleaning windows in tho little viii
lage of Fetterman, near Beaver Falls, Pr.
Mrs. Thomas Edwards ran her arm through
a broken pane of glass, cutting an artery and
almost blee ling to death before assistance
could arrive. A neighbor, Mrs. Hill, tainted
at the sight of the blood as it gushed forth
from the woun led arm an an hour elapsed
before she was restored to Consciousness
Wi liam Elliott, Hyde and James K tier,
Bruce, Charles and George Worthan were
arrested at Newark, o., on the charge of
assaultinp and threatening Hiram III Me-