Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Minister Grimaldi is visiting and succoring
the sufferers.
| The returns of the Parliamentary election
up to the present time indicate decided de-
feat for the Irish cause under Mr.. Glad~
stones leadership. An anti-administration
majority of LOG certainly places the Govern
ment of England in the hands Of those who
will not give ireland anything until they
have to.
Thomas Small, son of prominent farmer
near Carthage, Mo-. was found murdered on
the prairie sou h of that place.
Miguel Chacon who murdered his mistre S,
! Maria Williams, the wife Of a coored por-
ter was hanged at New York.
Samuel Archer, outlaw and murderer, was
hanged at Shoals, Ind His victim was
Samuel A Bunch, and the deed was commit
ted July II, 1882.
The President has vetoed a bill providing
for public building at Dayton o. The
President does not think the public business
Of the city is large enough to warrant tie
expenditure.
The grand jury at st. Joseph, Mo-, re-
urned 104 indictments, most of which are
against saloon men who are charged with
selling liquor without license AMI with vio-
i4ting the Sunday law.
The Manu- facturers' Record, in its semi-
annual interview of the industrial growth of
the South. shows that during the first SIX
months Ct 1856 the value of the manufactur-
ing and mining enterprises of the South
! have been increased by about 63,61S, 0l0.
Massac usetts Republicans of prominence
are opposed to touching the prohibition ques,
ton.
The President has approved the bill to
forfeit Ian grants made to several States to
aid in railroad construction, and the bill 10
tax railroad land grants.
Mrs Caroline Benedict, aged go wears, died
at her home in Mottville, N Y, on Wednes.
day night. after fast of fifty. three conse-
cutive days, during which time sc did not
take morsel of food, nor any water Nearly
every day she took part OF a cup of tea
and Few teaspoonfuls of whisky.
campmeetlng held near Hooktown,
Nicholas county, KY, Sunday, by the col.
broke up iii general row and hand to-hand
fight, in which negro namei i've Myng was
shot and killed and three other persons fatally
wounded There were over 40 shots fired.
Will am Knoch, "a years old, was shot at
Chicago on Sunday while on his way to Sum
day school by Jimmy Reynolds, young
tough, who was concerned recently in an
assault upon police officer. The wounded
lad cannot recover.
John Nelson, a wealthy land owner, who
lived near Co!dwater Kas, was shot and
killed while guarding a sum thicket on his
premises from bunch Of desperadoes ].
E. Rayner is supposed to have done the
Shooting,
The jury panel in the Chicago Anarchist
cases has not been completed, but there are
four jurors approved by the defense who are
held under advisement by States Attorney
GTinnell, and if these should be found salts
factory to the State there is no reason why
the taking of evidence should not commence.
The trial statistics show the following:
Number of jurors examined, 745; total ac-
cepted, s; held under consideration, 4: per-
emptory challenges exhausted by defense,
100; by the State, A
Collector Wax, of Abingdon Deputy
Marshall Viii oughby, and Special Deputies
Hugh Porter, Thomas Osborne and Lee Flan-
nerly left Jonesville, Va, for Harm county,
Kentucky, to arrest several moonshiners who
had been also operating in Virginia They
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fired on from ambush Porter and Willough,
by were wounded. The prisoners, three in
number, took advantage of the excitement
and tried to escape. O1e of them, Day, was
shot through and through, and died few
minutes sfterward The other two were re-
captured.
John A. Duvall, of Pittsburgh, the d.
vorced husband of pretty woman who was
married the same day the decree of separa-
ticH was granted, to J,cob H. Jones, took
terrible revenge on his rival He laid in ann
buScade for him near tho place which he had
selected for his new home with his bride on
Mt. Washington and threw cupful of wits
riol in his face. He watched for a while the
awful sufferings of his victim to seq that his
WORK was well done and then ran to the edge
of the hillside, WHARF, he draw a revolver and
Deliberately blew his brains out. He fell.
rolling down the mountain, distance Of over
800 feet. He was picked up lifeiess, man.
ged mass
1t is learned here that call will soon be
issued for national convention of the farm.
ing and laboring interests generally, to be
held at St. Paul on the 18th of August. Cir,
culars are being prepared now in this city
with instructions as to the election of dele,
gates. Delegates will be elected from every
Congressional dis riot. The movement look;
to permanent organization and has DO
htlcal object 1t is proposed to make rep
resentative Congress of farm and labor dele,
gates with headquarters in Washington The
avowed purpose is to concentrate these influ.
ences upon the Congress of the United State,
and also to elect representative labor men and
counterfeit nonopolies
The strike of the 200 convicts at the Dade
coal mines, in Tennessee, has assumed seri-
Gus proportions. The men are strongly for
titled, and say that they will not return to
work until they are assured of better treats
ment. The keepers and guards have thus far
been unable to force the men to return to
work, and it is feared that the remaining 800
will soon join the strikers.
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