Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-04-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Patrick Dunn, one of the dynamiters who
blew up he gas works at Glasgow, and who
was sentenced to seven years penal servitude
was released in London. His health is per-
manently shattered by his long imprison,
ment
President Cleveland and Miss Folsom are
to be married next summer, during the Pres
ident's vacation. This much is minated in
Mondays dispatches, and now it is confirmed
by the utilization Of the substance of Lett
ter from Miss Folson's mother, written from
Genoa, Italy.
There is serious outbreak of smallpox a,
Carmi, in white county. Ill The disease was
introduced by tramp who appeared in the
town early in March. Three deaths have
thus far occurred. One new case was re-
ported yesterday, and it is feared that there
are others in the surrounding country.
Alonzo P. Kendall. living with his wife in
cottage at Lockland, o. shot and killed q
burglar, who, with two others was entering
his room. Mr. Kendall is over 70 years old.
The Mayor will not arrest him.
A diver has ascerained it to be fact tina.
the wrecked steamer Oregon was broken in
two
Cholera ls reported at Brindisi port on
the Adriatic sea. The steamships Of the
Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Company
ply between it and Alexandria. The mails
from Western Europe to the East go via
Brindsl, and it is well posted for a rapid dis
semin alton Of the cholera into Italy and
Fra CO by rallied communications and to
Egypt by steamship communications. Quaran
tine has been promptly declared by the en-
dangered regions. but the outbreak gives
good reason to fear another cholera epidemic
this summer.
Two ladies standing in a doorway OF a
house eight miles from New Castle, Pa, were
struck by lightning and killed.
The Governor of New York has signed the
bill making twelve hours days work on
all horse-rail car lines in New York and
Brooklyn.
| Bob Smith, negro murderer, convicted of
Troy, KY, was hanged at Nicholasville
Saturday.
Insurance statistics show that all companies
in the United States raid during 1885, to 49,
245 families, more than SIS. 100000 on poll
| cies.
The total number of persons killed in the
tornado in Minnesota, as reported from St.
| Cloud, is seventy -four: injured, 2l4: property
loss, $4,000.
The explosion Of eight kegs of giant pow
der at Clintonville, Wis, killed Arthur Ed
wards. fatally injured James Ringwood and
George Storms and seriously injured four
others.
| E. E. Fulk, treasurer of jackson township
Mahoning county, Ohio, claims to have been
robbed of 1900 dollars, 900 dollars Of which
was township funds. The thieves picked it
| from under his window.
William and Dan Kent who insulted a
| young lady on the street in Wasson, Tenn
were followed by her brother with shotgun.
| Dan is MORALLY wounded and William " ill
lose his left arm. The brother is in Jail.
The most destructive storm since 1877
passed over Shreveport, La. Saturday
morning. Its path of destruction was half
mile wide and three miles long. Hail
stones covered the ground from depth of
| from four to twelve inches.
Gen. Louis Wagner, of Philadelphia, has
accepted the place of Inspector and examiner
of the Soldiers Orphan Schools Of Pennsyl>
vania, upon the conditions that his services
shall be rendered without salary and the
amount appropriated for that purpose turned
into the State Treasury.
John w. Jones, formerly editor of the..New>
port, Ark, Netcs, but for several months alb
| sent in Arizona as Indian School Commits
sioner, has been arrested on the charge of
embezzling several thousand dollars of the
Endowment Fund of the American Legion
of Honor, of which he was Secretary for Ar
kansas.
Prof. Foster, Of Leavenworth, Kan, says
that during the great storm period predicted
by him from April IS to 20, ahurricane will
organize on or near the gulf and sweep up
the southeast Atlantic coast, and that at
about the same time cold wave will appear
| in the northwest and run down into the
southern States, followed by heavy frosts as
far south as Tennessee and southern Kansas.
|
! Louis voted to subscribe f25 towards the sup
port Of Mrs Gray, OF New York, as re-
ward for the art she has taken in fighting
the Baker Union boycott
The Citizens Committee at st. Louis re-
ports its failure to bring about the much de-
sire ar itration between the managers of
the Gould railroads AMI the striking en-
ployes.
| Kettles Norman, a negro. last week dan
gerously beat and robbed Mike Malone, near
AK on, Va, and on Sunday night mob
hanged Moorman.
Eighteen or twenty Missouri Pacific strik>
ers have been indicted at Sedalia, charged
with injuring property and interfering with
trains.
| The Committee of the House of Represen-
tatives on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic by a
vote Of to ordered an adverse report on
the bill to provide that no person shall be
lcsrsed as a retail dealer in in oxicants by
the United States until he has first received
a license as such from the local authorities,
when it is propose to carry ON the business
of selling liquor.
John Carpenter, who murdered his wife
two years ago, and who has been confined in
the Tombs at New York, under sentence of
death, killed himself in his cell by cutting
open his jugular vein and the veins in his