Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-08-20
COUNTY NEWS.
n Famous Victory.


A baseball game on the Vale Farm
last Saturday turned out to be lively
affair. The game had just started
when Mine Inspector Frank J. Nc
Mahon hove in sight to pursue the
peaceful Office of spectator. Mickie
Finn, however, noticing the approach
of Mr. Men,, said:
Here comes the mine inspector;
line as good man as him, and can
lick anything on the ground"
The inspector asked a man chow
much the management was giving
Mickie to let him talk ?" Prolonged
laughter.
Some Of the players tnen wanted to
get Mickie off the ground, but Mickie
professed to be ''a coacher,n and
wouldn't go. He then got to talking
about bad air, to which the inspector
responded
Nobody is making this air bad, ex-
cept you,' at which the crowd again
laughed.
This brought from Mickie some bad
personalities.
The inspector went up then and sat
by Mickie and asked "Whether he
meant to apply the epithets to him ?"
At this moment Eddie Sharp, step
brother, interviewed with short, scaly
serpentine weapon known among
sports as a Chilly" and struck the in
spector about three times-twice on the
head, and once on his left arm. The
inspector, shutting the inspiration of
battle from his hurts. went in to
scatter and peel the combination and
clean it up by shifting the enemy hip
and thigh. His movements were
hampered by Jimmie Finn, who
caught him by the arm "to separate
them But Mcmahon, seeing chilly"
IN Mickie's hand, made fcrit, saying
"Mickle, I'm going to have that
billy" and he got 1t after Mickie got
tired of the inspectors method of en-
treaty. Meanwhile, Bill Kelly took
charge of Jim Finn, and McMahon's
son, James, entertained Sharp. The
latter, however, came very near
getting the Drop on the younger
Mcmahon, seeing which the inspector
turned from Mickie long enough to
swipe Sharp on the back of the head
with his cane, timely persuader
which sprawled Eddie with mouth and
hands wide open, he going one direc-
ton, the chilly" flying another.
Friends Of Finn got him home, Nc
Mahon going, as Finn thought, to
Frostburg with William Broderick.
Finn re-appeared on the field with
shot gun looking for his "billy." 1.-The
grand and glorious life-saving crew of
passenger No. on the Georges Creek
and Cumberland railroad" came along
at this time and, noticing Finn in arms
and declaring war, stopped the train
and captured his artillery.
Meanwhile, the ball game was Sc
riously impeded, and the pleasure of
the on lockers disturbed. AS luck
would have it, Mcmahon returned;
then peace reigned. But Mcmahon
told the boys he twas going again and
that Finn would be back" And so it
came to pass, saith the JOURNALS
chronicler,-''When McMahon was on
the ground, Finn henceforth was off,
and gice serSa." For those two men
could not breathe the same "bad air."
Tuesday Squire Thompson, of Cum
berland, heard the States side of the
case and a plea of guilty by the de.
PENDANTS. He then imposed a fine of
$2l, including costs, over 1888 each.
1t is thought by some that the State
is not YET satisfied.
The Inspector has Two pgly-looking
Commissions on his head and a slightly
discolored arm. Otherwise he is az
happy as was Col. Vinegar Bitters, of
Homecoming, at the Morantown apple
butter bilin' last week. He carries
one of the two captured "billies."
trophy he thinks of preserving rs a
memento of the victorious battle of
Vale Farm. For it is not often that
an army loses its organization, all its