Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-03-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
HOME AND FOREIGN.

hundred tnCuSdn1 dollars direct, U1ree nuns
| bred thousand dollars indirect, and their
| nominal assets are good. Tse cause of the
assignment is the general dul ness of the bus
mess in which the ftgm is engaged.
There was fifty thou and dollar wreck on
, tho Grand Trunk Railway, near Bslleville,
Ont, caused by an exy ress train jumping the
rails while crossing the bridge. Conductor
Morris was badly Turned, and afterwards
, frozen, while rescuing lady passengers. Mr..
Irwin, commercial traveller, of Toronto,
was fatally injured.
| In the New Jersey Senate BIZ has been
passed granting hundred dollars annually
to every soldier or his unmarried widow who
served in the war of l>12
| John McFadden was instantly killed and
several others were seriously injured by the
explosion of fifty pounds of dy amite at the
new aqleduct at Yonkers, y. Y,
| John Pearson. a salesman, travelling TO-. a
/ number OF New York firms, was founn Head
in he in st. Louis, at the Iindell hotel. 4
small bottle partly fillel with morphine pill
was found in his room, but it is generally
causes.
The Fitz John Porter bill will re reporte /
back to the Senate as soon as the ma jority
and min ~rity reports can BIO prepared. Sen.
ators Cameron end Sewell join with the
Democratic members of the Military commit
tee in the maj ,rity report in favor of the
unamended House bill. The divsion was six
70 four.
The strike at Nc Cormick's aaper Works.
Chicago, is considered at an end. Fully 800
men are at work
Nat H Kline! shot and lied Andrew j
Cogburn, at Oak Grove Church, fancy
county, Mo-, last Sunday evening. Kinney
and his boy, Payne, role up to the school
house, where Rev. H. c. Dennison was hold
ing meeting, and commanded Cogburn,
who was standing near the door, to throw up
his hands, and meeting his refusal, shot him
down, killing him at once.
Nearly 900 miners employed by the Sus>
quehanna Coal Company, held mass meet
| ing to protest against the company's suspen-
sion of work to recover the bodies of twenty
six men and boys entombed in slope No. l.
r. B. Swankin, residing in North Manches-
ter. Ind, for shamefully abusing his child,
was driven out of the town by the citizens.
numerically horsewhppsd and then let go
on the promise that he would never return to
the place.
The business portion of Wel,sburg. Erie
county, Pa, was destroyed by fire.
One hundred and twenty five Chinese
| wood choppers have been driven from an
Oregon town.
Tho miners at Rosco coal mine, near
Youngstown, O., are on strike for an al
vance of ten cents in wages
fire in Mont ,omery, Alabama, destroyed
warehouses and cotton to the value of $780,
900, which is covered by insurance,
An Illicit distillery has been seiz near
Bench City, Stark county, Ohio, on the farm
of a man named Camp, who, with his wife,
was arrested.
The House committee on Commerce agreed
by vote of to to report favorably with
amendments the Reagan Interstate Com.
merce bill.
In Glouchester, N. j., Charles c. Marble
shot his daughter, mistaking her for burg
lar. She was seriously wounded.
The friends of Tom Davis threaten that
Jim Holland shall not leave New York alive
Holland laughs at the threat.
Capt. Bogardus, in match at Jackson,
vile, ILL.,, with ]. A Stice, won the Ameri>
can field cup and $3.50 The score was ninety
| thres to ninety.
A relative Of Alexander Stewart, claiming
to be an heir of A. 7. Steward, tn, New
York millionaire, has instituted suit
against Ju lge Hilton and Mrs. Stewart t.
recover $2CO,NO.
A negro named Samuel johnson bru'aIy
assaulted Miss Angeline Herbert in Eaton
town, N. j., and was the same night taken
from the lookup and fearfully b.aten and
then hanged.
The d namits factory Of Dittmer, Hexter
Il Co., at Ray Chester. near New York, was
blown up Friday night. 1t confirmed 200
pounds Of dynamite and two tanks of nitric
acid and sulphuric acid. The Waterman,
Heinrich Heinmar, has not been found
At Kingston, Texas, w. b. Howard, after
having charged Marshal A. B. Russell with
being a gambler AMI in league with saloon
keepers and, receiving physcll chastise-
ment therefor, deliberately shot Russell on
the street and left the town.
Bob Scott, charged with killing Hungar-
ian, near Uniontcwn, Pa, was found guilty.
of murder in the second degree on Satur-
day.
The new board Of editors Of the Washing
ton and jefferson college paper, the JeDer
sonian, Washington, Pa are: H. L. Alex
ander, st. Clairsville, Ohio, editor in chief
j. G. Long, Miflintown, Pa, literary; H. T
Stewart, Allegheny, LEGAL, and j. w. Reed,
| Washington. exchange.
The action of the knights of labor OF
| Decatur, ll,s., in forming n new roliticl'
party is attract ne much attention in that
section. They declare their platform: ave
nave formed a new national pol teal party,
70 he known as the United Labor Party of
Am RIGA, for the purpose of 'r,an Eng and
directing the grea, political organ'z,ti n;
nd we will cast our ballots n TO one who
vii not pledge himself to stand firmly by
ur principles. They declare that the
alarming Developments aud e ,ressivene o