Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-10-02
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
HOME AND FOREIGN.

rive distinct earthquake shocks were felt
at Winfield, To-, Thursday night. No dam.
age was done, but considerable alarm was
felt.
The imports OF dry goods for the week
ending September %, at New York, were
s,5O4 packages, valued al s2 81 ,57S against
1877 packages, valued at g. 7s1, 400 for the
previous week.
Frost has been very severe during the last
few nights the country districts surround.
ing Quebec. Tender plants and flowers, and
cucumbers and tomato vides have bee killed
Frank S. Humphreys was hanged at Mil
ledgeville, Ga, for tho murder and assault OF
two ladies-Carrie Raines and L la Hum
phreys This kinswoman) on March 4, He
confessed his guilt to the Sheriff last night,
but made no statement ON the scaffold,
George NJ Fabler, City Marshal of LONG.
view, Tex, was killed in difficulty with l.
l.. and L. w. League, father and son, cit.
z'ns of Gregg county. The difficulty grew
out of the fact that Faber, while attemptinu
to arrest jeff League at Longview three
months ago, shot him dead
/ N
G., while sleeping upstairs in his store heard
some one breaking in. He came down and
saw two men. He was fired up IN and forty
buckshot took eff,c5 in his stomach. He
died in about an hour
| The L uisiana orange crop is reported To 10
complete failure this year. 1t usually ayers
ages 100000 to $4,000, 900 year, but will,
not be 1000, 900 this year owing to last win.
ter's severe freez,.
Gov. Larrabee, of Iowa, has issued proc.
lamation forbidding the importation from
the STATE of Illinois of any cattle, unless the
same be accompanied by certificate from
the State Veterinary that the stock are free
from contagion.
MIR. Richard Butler, Secretary of the Amer>
lean Committee on Blrtholdi's Statue Of
l. berty, announces that the 2S.h day of De-
tooer nexS has been decided upon by tho
Government and the American committee FOR
the inauguration Of the statue.
At Vicksburg, John Tivoni, well Known as
the proprietor of the st. Charles Oyster saa
loon, and formerly Chief of tho Fire Departs
ment, was shot and instantly Il by Dan
Keefe, lately bartenie. IN Tivoni's saloon.
The murderer was locked up.
Charles Kendall, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
stood before mirror in his sisters honse
and shot himself throu gh the head. He was
victim of dyspepsia.
VIM. E. Gould, the defau ting cashier OF
The Portland first National Bank, has been
committed to jail in default of $50, 900 bonds
to await the acton of the grand jury.
The Republican ate Convention of Ne,
Tada nominated c. c. Stevenson for G ",
ernor II. c. d wis for Lieutenant G. vernon
and L. d. Edwards for Judge of the Supreme
| Court.
| Returns made by railroad companies and
steamboat lines show that fully 125, 900 REQ
pie were taken to ST. Louis last week to
witness the display attendant upon the
knights Semplar conceive.
L.. ID. Farmer, station agent at Mutt, N
NJ, on the Santa Fs railroad, was robbed
and killed by two armed men on the 24I
inst. They were arrested and cofessed to
stage rob5ing and numerous other crimes
| The Forest City Rolling Mil, at Cleveland.
was destroyed by fire on Saturday, The mill
which is owned by VIM. Clark & Co., OF
Pi 'sburgh, had been idle for nearly two
years. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Pies dent has now been at home two
lays, and YET has evsnced no disposition to
lend helping hand to the sufferers at Char
lesion The que II sent csbie5ram Of con-
aolence and the President found tine to
answer it. Ae did not send a telegram of
coincidence or give one penny for tine aid OF
the sufferers, His absent mindeiness on this
subject of sympathy has causel much com.
ment. Charleston upheld the president,
civil service policy. F.om that place he
selected one Of is civil service commissioners
Mr.. Trenhlm, and afterward made him cor.
troller of the treasury.
Gov. Rusk, of Wise 1nsn, has usual a
proclamation forbidiiny the Importation of
cattle from Illinois, excep5 when accompan-
led by certificate of health.
Ere broke ou5 in D .land, Vou5ia county.
F.a., and destroyed thirty buildings in the
business part of tn, town, The loss is estiA
mated at $4,000.
Consul G aneral Williams, at H ,vAna, trans
mits report to the Sec 'etary of S ate which
shows that near y 81 PER cent. OF all the SD
gar-cane product of Cuba for thu first o1ar,
ter OF this year found Consuming markets in
the United States.
Tie issue of stan lard silver dollars from
the minis during tie week endei September
26, was 1872 .9DS. The is@ue during the COR
responding period last year was .G64, 43J The
shipments of fractional silver coin since Sep
TENDER amouat to $1,0l2 ,0l2
Vice Consul Touhay, at Turin, in conclud-
ing report to The Department of State upon
agriculture in Italy, says the grain-growers
in that district are reduced to desperate
condition by taxes, high rents, and, above
all, by competition from the United States.
The agrarian question in Italy," he says,
lis growing to be great na.ionll problem
and as for the last five or six years the cult,
walton of the soil has been conducted almost
without profit, and just now at a dead loss
the mutterings and discomfort in the rural
districts are growing alarming.
the Italian peasant is hopelessly ignorant
and although he possesses the right of being
represented In Parliament and insisting upon
sor'e legitimate measure of r.lief. such rs
the reduction Of the heavy taxation under
which he specially libors, he cannot extend
his vision beyond his fl Id, AMI his wrath is
particularly directed az inst the landed pro,