Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-03-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mrs. Mary Viii man was convicted at Lite
| Valley, N. Y, of poisoning her husband and
sentenced to be hanged April -.
at Eikion station Md, and Is jailed at Har.
riso,. burg, Va, to which place be- was taken
| to save him from a mob,
| The big snow storm in Maine packed the
principal streets in Dix mont with a drift
fifteen feet high, and so solid that horses
could be driven over it. The young m IN and
boys of ths village tu1nelled this drift, and
after two days work, made tunnel IT'S feet
long seven feet high and eight feet wide,
through which teams wee driven for sever
Il days.
DR.. Henry Collier, a Georgia dentist was
set upon the other night by four negroes
who demanded his money. Putting his ha d
in his pocket and saying "Well, suppose I'll
have to give it to you" DIR. Collier pulled a
pist j and did give it to them. He killed one,
wounded another, captured the third and
marched him to the lookup. The fouth foot
pad was lucky enough to get away.
The City of Pekin, which sailed from San
Francisco for China last week. took 400
Chinese. Many Of them were old, diseased,
| or ppled and poor and there were number
Of women and children. The Chinaman in
charge said that it was necessary TO send all
such home, because they feared trouble this
summer and wanted to get all out of the way
who might be a burden on tn ,se who remain
Most of them went at the expense of the
Chinese societies
Masked robbers on a r ,c; Island & Pc fic
west bound express, while the train was be-
tween joliet and Morris, H., secured admis-
sion to the express car where, after fright
full struggle with the M sseager, the lat er
W, overpowere and murdered and I'll car
robbed of about $o5, o. the work is SUP
posed to have been done hy some convicts
lat,y released from the Joliet Peni entiary
who boarded the train at that point
| The mills of the Toeio Lnsee Oh Com
pany, owEe! by Varney, Taylor g. Co, the
largest in the c;untry, were entirely de-
stroyed by fire. TIL rikin of the fire is un>
known, the the ~ of spon.an com US
ton AID that OF in 'e ldi lrism both ha, irg
supporters. Til, building W Ter, the frs
started was devoted to nsy process for ex.
tracing the oil from the cru she'd seel by per-
collation., naptba being the agent employed
| to effect this. Their. were over 100 barrels of
this dangerous ii ii | in the building. stored
in iron tanks, which exploded almost
simultaneously. The shock was like an
earthquake. Several persons were ili lred.
bnt none fatally. The loss is estimated at
sl3O, OOJ
Two ms re Of the passe gers i. jured in the
| railway coils on between Monte Carlo and
Mentone, have died making five deaths in all
Oie unsoriu iate passenger was made
lunatic by an injury on The head and by tn,
horrors o. tn, scene. H, was found last
night wandering among the h lis in stary
ing condition.
There is great distress among the inhabi-
tants Of small islands along the Western
coast of Ireland, and the people are allege
to be eating their seed potatoes to avoid star
vatlon. Men and women are living upon
moss and sea grass, and great many of the
fisherman have sold their last articles of
clothing for fool, while scores are dying
actual starvation.
II is stated that the hostile Apaches wish
to surrender. General Crook has gone to
meet them and arrange the terms.
A lamp exploded in the room of w. p.
Butler, in the Clarendon Hotel, in Port Jer-
Wis, N. Y. Mr.. Butler, who was an invalid
and unable to give any alarm, was burned to
death before assistance came.
The discussion in the Senate on the Ed
munds resolutions regarding executive
papers in removals is dwindling down to a
mere political harangue between the two
siles. The people who fl ;ck to the galleries
on all great or unusual occasions have dis
continued their visits, and only the or linary
number Of spectators to-day looked down
uNn the very tame and embarrassing pro
ceedines.
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