The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-11-22
GENERAL NEWS.


I J. g. johnson and her l5-year-old son
were found at home Wednesday last.
They had been dead over week.
The woman's husband went East a
year ago and had since that time
contributed nothing to her support.
Her son was not of strong mind and
unable to contribute anything. She
became weary ofthe fight with poy-
erty, shot her SON as he slept, and then
put bullet through her own brain.
In ST. Louis, Mo-, John c. Volt, the
Ascending book-keeper for Lanke-
meyer s. Sons planning mill, of Pitts
Penn, surrendered himself at the
Four Courts. OnApril "a last he
wound up brief career of reckless
ness by disappearing with $500. Re-
wards were offered, and he wandered
from place to place hunted man.
His wife and parents were there and
he was glad to return.
Five thousand dollars worth of GIN
seng was burned in drying-house
near Big Stone Gap, Va,Thu rsday
night.
An explosion of gas in an excava-
ton at the corner of Monroe and
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, blew out
nearly every window for three blocks
around.
Miss Nina Deming, one of the most
popular young ladies of Tioga, Pa.
committed suicide by shooting herself
Thursday night. She was is years of
age. Disappointment in love is sup
posed to be the cause of her suicide.
There occurred a disastrous head
end collision at Pleasant Hill, Mo-,
Thursday, between the southbound
mail and express train on the Lexing-
ton s. Southern branch of the Missouri
dCluC IldllIudu. Dolii LOCOMOTIVES
were comdletely wrecked, as were also
a number Of cars. j. L. Filing, mail
clerk, was caught under the wheels
ann internally injured, and cannot
live. Many Others were severely
hurt. ...
There was a conference at the
Southern Hotel, st. Louis, Thursday,
between three of the high officials of
the Louisville s. Nashville Railroad
Company and local gentlemen, with
reference to the probable removal of
the Louisville & Nashville general
offices from louisville ito St. Louis.
There is good grounds to believe that
the proposed removal is regarded |
favorably,iboth blythe railroad officials !
and St. Louisians.
tits probableithat the ten weeks
strike of the Monongahela River
miners will be at an end by next
Monday. Operators claim that ad-
vices from the second and third pools
are to the effect that the miners were
remaining out until after the election,
aud would then go to work. In affir-
nation of That statement large num-
Der Recommendations were exhibited |
by prominent operators from their
diggers, announcing their willingness
to return to work at the Scent rate.
The Ellis Island officials found |
Francis Videl, former foreman in
the Piltsburg Gas Works, in charge of
five immigrant glass blowers on the
Friesland, who had been brought over
on contract to take strikers places.
Labor Inspectors afterward discovered
twenty-four more glass blowers, under
contract, among the second cabin
passengers. The men were taken to
Ellis Island and accused of coming
here in violation of the alien contract
laws. If a good case is made out
against the owner of the glass factory
he will be prosecuted.
Harry Lawrence, tall, well-drecsed
young man, was d prisoner in the
Jefferson Market Police Court, New
York, Thursday, charged with the abb
duction of "Ivy" Roche, l5-year-old
girl, whose mother, the wife of man
at one time well-known in Cleveland,
o., politics, lives at No. 304 West
Thirty-first Street. Two women are
also implicated and locked up as ac-
The girl says she was de-
coyed by the two women under prom
Use of diamonds and money, to go with
them, and they took her to Yonkers.