Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-03-06
MINING JOURNAL.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

"hIle Ouiy Ouo was fudue OH IfllulHS, anu HOW
ak Cd and IS csnts per oven. The recent
advance grant d allowed them So and 80
rents per oven.
Three pris oners, James La1g Ion, Thomas
Kennedy and James Bryant, broke cut of the
Nemaha county Jail, Kansas.
The House Comm ittee on Territories has
decided on an iverse report on bill to Or
ganize tn, entire Indian Territory into the
Territory of Oklahom,.
Phillip Pyle, we'll known citizen of Buena
Vista, ILL.,, has been mysteriou ly missing
from his home. An inquiry developed the
fact that he had eloped with young lady of
that city for parts unknown. He leaves
wife and three children.
A lawyer named William Makepeace, from
Dln'ap, Ia. together with a WON IN and two
oh ldren, were arrested at s. Joseph, Mo.
The charges against him are enbt zzlement,
stealing team of horses, carrying off mort
gagged property and running off with another
mans wife.
Jim Kan, on trial at Pittsburgh, for the
mur'er of John Write, colored, was con-
victed in tie second degree.
The House of Representatives was in ses-
sion on Saturday for general debate OIL,
Rees Davis returning from the west, was
struck by train and killed, aim ost in sight
of his home, at Akron, O.
Between three hundred ami t, ur hundred
men were summarily discharged by the
Champion Malleab!e Iron Comoa y, Ct
Springfield, O., for signing petition asking
for an increase of ten per cent. il wages.
Letters of administration on the estate of
General Winfield s. Hancock were applied
for by his widow, Mrs. Almira FL me tck At
her request James H. Tobiu, of the Surro-
gates office, accom- panied by General NJ, t n
L. Mcmahon, ca lei upon he: a. e vern,r',
Island an prepared the papers for her TO
to sign. In them it is set forth that G ,neral
Hancock di ut leave a VIII and that the
value of his srsonal property is not more
than one thousand ,llars
Inc issue or standard sllxer dollar, from
the minis during thu weak ended February
q was 305, GEO. The issue during the CORES
ponding period of last year was 1Sj, 497. The
shipments of fractional silver coin during the
month OF February amounted to SOB 1859.
At Evansville, Ind, Sunday night, Erwin
Oliver was killed at the Brush electric light
station. He was adjusting a screw in one of
dynamos with his right hand aud ac,i lently
touched the left hand to the machine, receiv-
lug the full current. He was % years old
and unmarried.
Erl1 Hau n .T,,hn a.
Knight Hart. of Big Flats, N. Y, on Sunday
afternoon attacked Mrs. Lewis, IS years of
age, with club, beat her into insensibility.
Nj. Knight Hart locked Haybeck in his
DOM for safe keeping, and yesterday morn-
ng he was found dead, having taken poison
He was evidently crazy. Mrs. Lewis will
probably die.
The Missouri prophet. Rev. c. H. Smith,
of whom mentioned was made few days
ago, has been arrested for swindlny. His
victims are numbered by the hundreds.
The Chinese have bee driven out of East
Portland and Albin,. They were attacked
by a mob of Masked ma at night, and made
no resistance. They numbered 80.
Rhoda Owens good looking young white
girl, causeda sensation at West Union, Dodd>
ridge county, W. "a, by elop ng with Ans
drew Hayes, colored man of that place.
y Halifax telegram says: Alex Mcdonald
wifeand child, while eros sing L k, Bras dor
Cap, Breton, broke through the ice and were
drowned.
The eight hour movement is assuming for
midab!e proportions in Chicago. The pro-
prietors of three leading breweries of Iudi>
annapolis have lessened the hours of labor
from IL to S.
Both houses of the Mississippi eg'slature
dollars or imprisonment for the distribution
of polygamous documents in the state or
nbetting the same in any way.
Henry Whee'er, prominent citizen of
Prosperity, S. C., was waylad and murdered
by George McNeary.
Michael McCabe, Patrick Condor and an
unknown man were found fir z,n to death in
the streets Of New York.
Abe Thompson, the negro who assaulted
Mrs Lancaster, near CHM Springs, S. c.,
was lyrcied at Soartansburs NJ IN lay after,
noon. He confessed the crime
The President has approved the acts re,
moving the disabilities of Alexander p
Stewart OF Missis ippi, f lward G. w. But
Ter, of MissCur, and Thomas l.. R9sser, of
Virginia.
s. X. Reynolds, a farmer, living twelve
miles east of Lamar, Mo-, was mortaily
wounded by ] N. West, notorious char
acter with whom he had quarrel about tic
ownership of land.
The snow-storm continues undated in the
North. The mails between SEQ land and
LONDON are behind twelve hours, and at leas.
twelve trains are at present emceldei in the
snow. Many vessels are detained in the har-
bors along the coasts. Numerous VIZ, cks ara
reported. A collision occurred on a railway in
L. lth 90 wshire owing to tn, cloygiug
Of the signals by snow. Ons person was
killed and several were injured.
Arctic weather prevails in Denmark. The
Cattegat, the Sound and the Grelt B,lt are
full of ice, and navig ,tion is impossible.
Eleven steamers are adrift off Fir, deriks
Haven. Most of them are in dapgeror.
positions.
STORM EUROPE.
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