The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-05-16
The News.

Il t NeNSs
Senator Sumner has been divorced from
his wife
Chief Justice Chase died suddenly in
New York on the 18th instant.
Judge Pierrepont of New York has been
appointed Minister 10 Russia, in place of
Mr. Orr, deceased
The coronation of Oscar II. and Sophie
Wilhclmine, as King and Queen Of Sweden
and Norway, took place at Stockholm on
Monday.
"A tornado passed over Belle Centre,
Ohio, on Friday last, blowing down church,
eight dwellings and four stores. Loss $40,-
900.
Lieutenant Harris, who was wounded in
the recent fight with the Modocs, is reported
to be sinking rapidly, and it is thought he
cannot recover
Hon. Cakes Ames, of Credit Mobilicr
fame, died at his residence, North Easton,
Mass, on Thursday morning, of an attack of
apoplexy complicated with pneumonia
The Modocs have fled from their Businesses
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ing" towards the Goose Lake country. They
resemble feas very much indeed When
Uncle Sam goes to put his hand on them
they are not there.
The splendid new Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Ascension in Baltimore, was
destroyed by fire on Monday night. 1t cost
whit furniture, $4,000, and was insured for
$4,000. 1t is supposed to have been on set
fire from the roof
"A clerk in the boot and shoe store of Perry,
Clark &; Co., of Baltimore laid package of
bank notes, containing $4,000, down on a
cake stand while he bought some cakes, and
when he took it up it contained nothing but
pieces of paper. The question is, how was
the mctamorphosis accomplished?
"A Russian army is advancing on the CAPT
tai of the Khan of Khiva. That individual,
it seems, has been capturing Russian mer-
chants, making slaves Of them, torturing
them, &c, besides otherwise interfering with
the rights of the subjects of the Gar. The
probabilities are that his Khanship will be
compelled to surrender his country, and may
esteem himself fortunate if his life is spared.
"A man named Erickson, in Kansas, was
tried on the charge Of committing rape on
the wife of man named Marquette and &C
quilted After the trial he went to Mar
quette's house and shot him dead. Then
taking Marquette's two children to neigh
bors he left them saying he had killed their
father and was going back to kill their moth
er. The wretch then returned to Marquettcs
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killed her and then killed himself
A den ofrobbers and murdercrs has been
discovered and broken up in Kansas The
premises were occupied by family named
Bender, who fled and have not yet been taken.
When the premises were examined number
of dead bodies were discovered sccretcd UNI
der and around the house. The greatest cx-
element was occasioned by the discovery,
and number of persons supposed to belong
to the gang have been arrested
The sovereignty of SANTANA Bay, on the
island of St. Domingo has been finally ceded
to company Of Americans who have pur-
chased it. Whether the island itself will
ever be added rs star to Columbia's diadcm
or not, we cannot say but this new acquisi-
ton of foreign property by American citizens
can not fail to be a thorn in the flesh to the
United States, from the trouble it is certain
to cause, some time, or other with st. Do
mingo.
Five Indians attacked the house of James
Harrison, eight miles from Wala Walla,
Oregon, because he refused to give them to-
bacco, and they knocked the door down.
Harrison defended himself and daughter with
a hatchet, knocked two OF the Indians down
and was struggling with the third when his
daughter came to the rescue and knocked
the Indian down with an axe. Neighbors
heard the cutlery, came to the relief of Harri-
son and his daughter, and captured three of
the Indians. The other two Indians escaped
News has been received at New York of
the failure of the Polaris Exploring Expedi-
ton, which sailed from Brooklyn Navy Yard,
June Goth, 1871, under command of Captain
Charles f. Hall, whose object was the dscov-
cry of the open Polar Sea. Captain Hall
died of apoplcxy, in November, 1871, after
having penetrated with his ship 200 miles
farther North than DR.. Kane went While the
ship was in winter quarters, she sprang alcak
and also commenced drifting. Nineteen of
the crew, with Captain Tyson, assistant navi.
gator, were separated from the ship and their
companions by the vessel breaking from her
moorings, and after drifting OH an ice foe
from the 10Th of August, 1879, to the 3Oth of
April last, the party were picked up by the
steamer Tigress near Wolf Island, 40 miles
from land. The rest Of the crew of the Po-
laris are supposed to have been lost with the
vessel.
AN OLD ESTABLISHED FIRM-The firm