Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-05-29
NEWS SUMMARY.


finished their labors. There time has been
almost given up to the investigation Of
charges of conspiracy against the late rail-
road strikers, fifty-nine Of whom were in
dicted Many Of them escaped before wa--
rants could be rived on them, and ouly four
have been arrested.
Bradstreet's estimate the loss Of wages by
strikes since May l has been three million
dollars, and the loss of business con luent
thereon has been nearly two million five
hundred thousand dollars.
Mrs. Alice Pendleton, wife of the Hon.
George H. Pendleton, Vt Ohio, our Minister
TO Germany, was thrown from carriage
and killed in Central Park, New York.
There are heavy freshets through Upper
South Carolina. The Peedes river was thirty>
six feet above low water and still rising.
The crops on the river are total loss. The
damage is beyond estimate. Considerable
injury was done to railroads and crops in
.he northern and western parts Of the State.
The New York Legislature adjourned at
neon, Friday.
Parsons, the fugitive Chicago Anarchist,
is supposed to be in Cuba.
The Governor of New York signed the bill
permitting women to practice law.
Lee Barnes was hanged at Dover, Ark,
for the murder of Charles Holman, gamb
Ter, in November, 1885.
The rainfall in North Carolina from Tues
day morning until Thursday night was eight
inches. There has been great destruction Of
crops.
Sam johnson (white), his wife, daughter,
w. Hall, and two negroes left their home a
few miles below Louisville, KY, for L'nors
on boat load of grain and pro luce. There
was swift current. The boat struck a rock
within twenty feet of the bank, and all but
johnson were drowned. No bodies have
been fO md.
An apparently successful test of the Keely
m otor was made at Philadelphia on Saturday.
By his machine weighing seventy five pounds
Mr.. Kelly in thirty seconds produced power
sufficient to elevate an iron ball weighing $50
p; unds-a pressure of Is, $50 pounds to the
square inch. The demonstration was made
in the presence of scientists, capitalists and
others who were entirely uuconuected with
the keely company.
Ire Knights of Labor, Mr.. Powderly says.
number 1877 District Assemblies with total
membership of about 100000. Last July
there were "a District Assemblies and at tic
meeting this week the assemblies since Or
mi, ad ha fc ptot
Ex-de'egates may attend, but will be allowed
no voice in the deliberations. The number
of delegates who attended the General AS
sembly last August was 100, and no more
than that number are entitled to participa-
ton in the convention which begins on Tues.
day.
Claulius B. Patten, Cashier of the State
bank at Boston for nineteen years. threw
himself in front of a train on the Old Colony
railroad and was killed. He has been avolu-
minous newspaper writer, mainly on finan-
cial topics. He was in bad health and his
mind was affected in consequence.
In street alteration at Houston, Tex. :,
Saturday night. James Ravell shot and
killed George Metcalf. The men had gone
outside of a saloon to settle a dispute with
their fists, when Ravell drew a revolver and
fred five shots Metcalf was unarmed. Dur
the excitement caused by the shooting Ravell
escaned.
At Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, New
York and other points, the Anarchists have
either subsidized entirely, so far as public dem
constructions aro concerned, or they have be-
come so subdued in tone a. not to warrant
anything more than police surveillance.
Mrs. Carl Kleman on Thursday last eloped
from her home in Chicago with Otto Brehm,
an Anarchist, going to st. Louis, and on Sat-
urday committed suicide in fit of remorse
]. K. Walton, one of the wealthiest men in
Union county, Illinois, was fonnd dead in
his barn, at Anna, ILL.,, shot through the
tramps.
Four alleged anarchists have been prose-
cuted for mlsdemeanor in st. Louis, they
having been pres emit at a meeting at which
resolutions were adopted indorsing the action
of the Chicago anarchists and recommending
the same treatment to the police every.
where.
John King, colored, aud his grandson were
burned to death while asleep in cabin loft
in Jefferson county, KY. Six or seven o her
occupants escaped without injury.
Joseph Paulis, Jr. the 17-year old fugitive
from Canton, o, justice, was fatally shot
Monday night by Marshal Sam Devaux, of
Louisville, near Harrisburg, o. Paulis was
wanted for completely in bloody saloon
row. When the officer approached Pau is
started on run, and was pursued by D,-
vaux Paulis gained rapidly, when Devaux
fred several warning shots without avail
He then shot Paulis in the back, ar the
spine, the bullet lodging in the abdominal
cavity with fatal effect.
The stage running from Melrose to Glen
dale, Mont, was "hsld up" on Saturday by a
road agent about nine miles from the former
town. The driver, George Ferguson, was
shot and killed. There were two mer, two
ladies and little girl in the stage at the time
of the attack AS soon as tho gun was fired
the team ran away. One of the passengers
who was riding on the second seat, stepped
over and caught the mail bag, which had
slinped from the coach and securing thf