The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-10-11

GENERAL NEWS.


J.B. Morehead. theatrical man
,ager, was found dead in his bed last
Monday, in New York, having COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the breast.
James Hughes, Master Workman
of the Garment Workers Assembly,
X. of L., has received sentence OF
one year for extortion, at Rochester,
NJ
Rev. Samuel Longfellow, brother
of the late poet, Henry w. Longfel-
low, died at Portland, Ore, last Mon
day, aged 70. He had been in feeble
health for some time.
u. S. Grant, nephew of General
Grant, and Correspondence Clerk of
the Sub-Treasury, was married last
Monday at East Orange, N. j.. to Miss
Alicia Sutherland.
Henry Albin, an elderly married
man Of Stamford, Conn, while visit
ing young widow at Longridge,
was taken from the house by neigh
bors and tarred and feathered and
sent home.
Quarreling as to the appointment
of an organist resulted in fist fight
in front of the pulpit in the Lutheran
Church at Bay Port, Mich, between
Herman Groesbeck and William
Steinitz.
Joseph Greaves and VIM. Camel,
Canadians, quarreled while at work
on scaffold over Niagara Falls,
painting the cantilever bridge, and
Camel laid open Greaves' scalp with
Ratchet.
Rome r. Richmond, of Decatur,
ILL.,, has established small pearl but
ton factory, and, with machinery
operated by an electric motor, he has
already made several gross of buttons
and put them on cards for the trade.
He uses imported shells principally,
but is doing something with shells
picked up along the Sangamon River.
John f. Newman, leader in the
switchmen's strike at Buffalo, is in
Jail, a raving maniac. Since the
strike he has been unable to obtain
employment, and constant brooding
over his misfortuncs led to the UNI
balancing of his mind. Last Monday
he attempted to cut his wife's throat
with piece of glass and afterward
cut his own.
A desperate fight with revolvers
between S. j. Ryan, saloon-keeper,
and Henry Coombs, a horseman, oc-
Cured early last Monday morning at
the house of T.. IF. Davis, near the
East ST. Louis race course. AS a re-
suit of the encounter, Ryan was shot
in the left arm and left shoulder,
'Coombs in the right hip, and Davis
in the left lung. Davis was danger
'ously wounded. ...... ....
''Everything goes,,' was the favorite
expression Of Col. w. B. Smith, ex-
Mayor of Philadelphia, and he forci-
bly, Illustrated it by departing for
some unknown locality with all he
had. Smith was known as "the dandy
Mayor" and was great entertainer.
He was COurt-martialed and removed
from the Colonelcy of the Third Regi-
mcnt of State Militia.
The bold scheme of several Iowa
farmers 10 change the course of the
Missouri River by ditching across the
narrow isthmus near Bellevue, Neb..
where the river describes three-fourths
of a circle, and thereby enrich them
selves by the law of accession because
of the land that would change to the
Iowa side when the river changed its
channel, has failed. B. p. Benjamin.
of Omaha, got an inkling of the work
and investigated. The result was an
injunction and sudden stoppage of
the work. Had the ditch been com
pleted, 1900 acres of land would have
changed owners, aud scores of fami-
lies living on the line would uudoubt-
edly have persisted when the river
rushed through.
The Yelled Prophet, "mystic guard
ian Of the Mound City," escorted by Il
magnificent pageant, made his fif-
teenth annual appearance at st. Louis
Tuesday night.
Jno. G. Bird and Edward futile.