Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-02-27
NEWS SUMMARY
HOME AND FOREIGN.

Tine Moscow police have discovered Mini,
list cir' ular announcing that several Russian
notables will soon be put to death,
Teller Henderson, Of the In Cross, Nation,
al bank, has discovered cognterfeit silver do!
lar that is pronounce by al bank people in the
city absolutely the most dangerous ever seen.
1t is standard silver dollar of tn, coinage of
1881. The outside is silver, and the die in
every substantial particular as clear as the
original. 1t stands all microscopic tests. The
only possible means of detection is by weight
it being exactly AZ grains short of the stand,
ard and estimated about 43 grains short of
the average
Eight sheep hearders on the ranch of Solo
mon Luna, Valekcia county, New Mexic,
near the Arizona line, had fight with
Apaches. All the herders were killed. Tho
Luna Bros, with two forces of mounted men
have gone to the scene of the fight.
James Henry Paine, grandson of Robert
treat Paine, signer of the declaration of In.
dependence, died recently in New York CITY
in squalor AMI abject wretchedness, although
he is supposed to have been worth nearly SO
100000.
David Wilson, steel worker, of Pitts
burgh, went home Sunday evening and,
after Guarreling with his wife shot and
killed Eer, and then fired bullet through
his head, which inflicted wound from which
he cannot recover.
Baltimore Street car men are organizing,
and will probably join the Knights of Las
Dor. They want shorter hours.
In the suit of Burdiot against DIR. Free
man, Smithport, Pa, for alternating his wife's
objections, $4,000 was awarded.
Marian Hawkins and William Caddie have
been arrested for an attempt to destroy
saloon in West Pennington, o., with dye
Mantle.
phia, O., at depth of one thousand feet.
and an extraordinary flow o. salt water was
the result.
st. John, N. b., was visited on Saturday
by u tidal wave which submerged all the
wharves t. depth of from one to four feet
A family of nine people near Akron, Ohio,
are afflicted with trichinosis The disease
was contracted by eating raw pork. 1t is
not thought any of the cases will prove
fatal.
The Golfers of the Pottsville, Shamokin
and Shenandoah districts have organized
preparatory to making an united demand on
May /, for the enforcement of the eight-hour,
system.
Henry johnson, bachelor and hermit,
about fifty years of age, living in East PERI
kionen, Pa, died leaving considerable real
estat, and money. Johnson was 50 mlserly
that he would not allow himself the neces>
sary comforts Of LIE. During the recent
cold weather his feet were SO badly frozen
that the soles of them became mortified and
fell off Other portions Of his body were
also badly frozen.
Although the coke operators granted the
demands of the strikers the difficulty is not
altogether settled, and more trouble may be
expected. The Huns at Norwood, Standard
and other works seem determined not to re-
sumo work until all their coHntrymen are
liberated from Jail.
VIM. Smith and George Bryant, colorea
and John Kelley, white, of Independence, o :.
were arrested on suspicion of having perpeo
trated number of robberies in that neighbor-
hood. A large quantity of the stolen pro-
perty was found in their possession. They
narrowly ESCAPED lynching.
The Treasury has paid out about $780,,
00O so fer this month on account OF pensions.
l. is believed, however, that this heavy pay
ment will not have very serious effect on
the public debt, as the revenues OF the
Government have been unusually large tn S
month. A special increase has occurred in
the receipts from customs.
There is a deadlock in the proceedings Of
the Senatorial Investigating Committee now
in session in Cincinnati, irql;ring into the
frauds of the October election. 1t arose on
the application of the Republ can Senators to
have the Fourth ward, A, returns photo
graphed.
A fatal encounter took place near Pineville,
Ky, between a man named Lime and five
men named Turner. There was an old feud
existing between them. The Turner's are
celebrated as roughs and bad men. They
were in ambush, hiding behind trees when
Lime came along the road, and they all fired
upon him. Lane saw one OF the Turner's step
from behind tree and sho. h m deal AL
NEST Immediately afterward LINE fell, his
body being pierced by several bullets.
The corner stone Of a Confederate moru'
m7nt was laid at Baton Rouge, La, with inn
posing ceremonies.
Andrew Holman, Treasurer Of Nelson
county, Oak, has disappeared, and it has
beer developed tbas he is short in his accounts
$114]O.
The celebration of the anniversary of
Wash 'nyton's birthday was rat er mere gen>
eral than Of recent years.
The bodies of the four men drowned in the
Su quehanna river, opposite New Cumber-
land, have not yet been recovered.
Ray Aggecson, was fatally sh t by Jonn
Brasher, near Nevada Mo. They had gone
TO school house to attend prayer netting,
and at the c,ose of tn, services, a feud of
several weeks standing between them was
brou ,ht up for adjustment with the result
stated.
The proprietors of the Palma Mills, in Wor-
on..o,, Mace baua rafucoI tho 4 r,ap6s of