The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-08-14
NEWS in A NUTSHELL.
Items of Interest Gathsrsd FrosA All Pnrti
Of the World.

Of the World.
velerie Kern. an Invalid, was burned to
death at Bourbon, Ind.
A 5-year-old child named Plummer has
the smallpox at Atwood, Ind.
Tom Jackson, colored, was killed at
Henderson, KY, while coon hunting
Queen s. Company, the leading opticians
Of Philadelphia, have made an assign
ment.
Two strangers were stripped naked in
boxcar at Beaver Falls, o., by tranps and
robbed.
The National Negro Democratic league
will convene in indianapolis on the 14th
instant
Anew trial was refused at Georgetown,
five times to hang.
Albert Watkins, an artist at Ports
mouth, o., was caught pinching ladies in
Railways and dark streets.
David Hahn, "a, of Portsmouth o., who
drove coaches over the Alleghenies before
the advent of railroads, is dead.
Anderson, Ind, is rejoicing over the fact
that long distance telephone line will
soon connect her with Cincinnati.
Chester Brier, aged IL, of Lafayette,
Ind, was drowned while swimming in the
Wabash river. His body was recovered.
Grace Shepherd, IS, of Muncie, Ind, was
deserted at Marion, o., by Professor Del
| mont, an aeronaut, with whom she ran
away.
A case of smallpox has come to light
near Atwood, Ind The county board of
health has taken measures to prevent its
spread.
Lille and Lelli Burgess, aged and
8, respectively, We're ground TO pieces
while playing on the railroad track at At
Italia, Ala
The striking miners at Glen Campbell,
| Pa, have called the strike off, and the men
will return to work at the rates offered by
| the company.
George Duke and Mrs. Cheesebrow, liv-
| ing near Union Center, Wis, eloped and
were arrested at La Crosse. Both aban-
| doned large families
Duluth reports that the railroads have
! withdrawn their application blanks re-
quiring the statement that the applicant
| is not member of the American Railway
union.
Sheriff Ira Henderson of Smith county
| was shot and fatally wounded in battle
between his posse and the notorious Cap
Shaw gang Of outlaws near Middleton,
| Tennessee
| Three hundred miners at Mystic, Ia,
| went out on strike because the company
insisted upon holding back two or three
days wages when paying the men every
| two weeks
Pat Morrissey has been arrested at
Louisville, KY, for the murder of Frank
Murphy, porter at the Gait House, while
drunk. Morrissey slept with the corpse
after the murder
James Restin was quarreling with his
wife and stepdaughter at Chicago, and
Joseph SIobich interfered on behalf of the
women. Resin drew revolver and shot
him, and then attempted suicide.
One hundred witnesses will testify in the
, trial of Captain t. A. Goodman, Chesa-
peake and Ohio conductor, at Covington
| Va, for the murder of Colonel II. 9. Par
sons, proprietor of Natural Bridge hotel
At the Massachusetts convention of the
Federation of Labor it was voted (23 to TO-
not to include in the platform the 10th
plank Of the Chicago platform Of the
Federation of Labor which relates to so
cialism.
| Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt
has written letter to members of con
gress in which he denies report that the
commission was especially de: irous that
college-bred men enter the classified civil
service of the government.
The American Book company entered
suit against the Werner company of Chi.
cago for an injunction on a work entitled
''The Teacher in Literature" published
by the Werner company. Judge Grosscup
has decided in favor of the Werner com
pany.
A deplorable tragedy took place at Ope-
lika, Ala Rolla Love, Is years old, had
some trouble with Emmett Brooks, IA years
old. The result was young Brooks received
n load of buckshot in the stomach and is
fatally injured.
At Loveland, o., Clarence Michaels, the
6-year-old son OF Engineer Gus Michaels OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern rail
road, while stealing ride ON u freight
which was switching, fell under the cars,
his right leg being severed between the
knee and ankle.
David Black has been arrested at De,
troit suspected of the murder of c. A.
Blood, 70, of Marion City, who was visit
ing his mother. 1t was thought he died of
apopleXy, until the undertakers found a
bullet wound in his stomach
United States marshals have arrested
four more of the gang of counterfeitera
that have been working Oklahoma terri
tory. They consist of Mrs. Walker and
her two sons and John Curley. A large
number 0fsplates aud dies were found.
John Crum, the leader of the gang, who
was arrested a few days ago, turned states
evidence.