The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-11-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.


ed to do so by both National and State
COMMITTEES.
The total registration in California
for the election of 1892 is $4,000.
The total vote in the Presidential
election of 1883 was 251, 900.
Judge w. G. Andrews, judge of
Harris county, one of the best known
jurists In Texas, committed suicide
Tuesday night, during fit of temper
airy insanity.
The employees of the American Sugar
Refining Company (trust) in New
Orleans made demand Wednesday
for higher wages, and, it rot being
conceded, they struck.
At San francisco 1000 5-tael cans
of opium were seized by customs
officials on the steamer Oregon, from
Portland. The opium was valued at
oyer $4,000, and the duty thereon is
estimated at $4,000.
November 2, two freight trains
collided near Cabin Greek Station ON
Little Rock and Ft. Smith Road, Ark.
Engineer Jones and Fireman Darby
were killed. The accident was
caused by the carlessness of the tele-
graph operator at Cabin Greek.
An official of the River Miners
Union at Pittsburg denies emphatically
the report that some of the striking
miners had returned to work in the
Aliquippa mines. Withen the week
past they formally resolved to continue
the strike until spring if Unnecessary.
Notwithstanding the rain, nearly
$4,000 enthusiastic Democrats attend.
ed the great rally at the Charlestown,
Ind, fair grounds Wednesday. The
immense crowd was addressed by
Hon. Claude Matthews, Hon. James
scKenzie and Hon. Jason b. Brown
zion ficbael Copnolley, 10 years old,
l;0QgJ James Bowling, aged ii, we re
u 2 ged in Jail, charged with turning a
michigan Central railroad semaphore
in West Detroit, for the purpose of
wrecking trains. The passenger
trains were delayed half an hour, but
stopped in time to avoid accident.
William Miller, Albert Krumbach
and Warren Hill were crossing the
Schuylkill at Philadelphia when one
of them threw lighted match on the
water, igniting the oil on the surface.
They tried to swim ashore and Hill
was drowned. The other two reach
ed the shore badly burned. Shipping
valued at $4,000 was burned.
A general rain throughout the
Northwest last week gave the rail-
roads encouragement in their efforts
to raise the grain blockade and break
the general car famine They say
that it will make the roads bad, stop
farmers hauling in grain, and give
them chance TO get loaded cars out
of the way, and relieve the overflow
ing elevators.
Prof. Fanciulli succeeds John Philip
Sousa as leader of the Marine Band.
He was born in Tuscany, and educated
at the Conservatory of Music, Flor
ence. He has been in America fifteen
1 years, and has composed some very
popular operas and band music. He
left Monday to take charge of the
Marine Band at New York.
Pegram 81 Brother, dealers in grain
and agricultural implements in Lin
coin, ILL.,, with branches at Lawndale,
Bradwell, Burton View and Lake
Fork, have failed for $4,000. A
bill Of sale of all their personal prop
erty was filed in favor of E. E. Pc
gram, son of the senior member of the
firm.
Jane Elizabeth Kellogg, the mother
of Clara Louisa Kellogg-Strakosh, died
at the Clarendon Hotel, Brooklyn,
Wednesday night of heart failure.
Everybody connected with the mu-
steal profession in this country knew
Mrs. Kellogg. She was the sentinel
that stood between her daughter and
the outside world.
The United States Custom Depart
ment, at Detroit, Mich, has seized 1900
pounds of Struggled opium, valued at
$4,000, and arrested man giving his
name as j. A. Morrison. The stuff
was brought across the river in two
large trunks, and was being checked