The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-07-17
THE NEWS.

Carolina, died on Saturday.
Major Havemeyer, of New York, has
been impeached for NAL administration of his
Office.
LOTUS, who recently murdered his wife
in Granesville, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to the State prison for life.
AT the local option election in Talbot
county, on Tuesday, Il decisive vote was cast
against the liquor traffic.
"A man named Lotus, in Wisconsin,
murdered his wife, his object being, he said,
ITO get rid of her on account of the trouble
she gave him."
Local option was defeated at the cleo
ton in Queen Anne's county, Md on Tues
day. by a majority of 22O. 1t carried in Tai
bot by majority of74.
Theodore Tilton promises to make full
statement and to furnish such facts as are
within his knowledge touching matters
which comprise the character of Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher.
On Monday, at Kissengen, Germany, \
young man named HUFFMAN attempted to as
sassnate Prince Bismarck, by firing at him
with pistol The ball grazed the Princes
wrist, but inflicted no injury
"A Mrs. Smith. while in an auction room
at RoXbury, Mass, was shot and killed by
her son, q boy nine years old, who had pick
ed up an old pistol, and in playing with it,
it was discharged.
The Brooklyn A1yus says that a dsa-
greement has resulted between Theodore
T'ilton and his wife, and that Mrs. Tilton has
left her husband, and is staying with friends
Of Mr.. Beecher.
The son of Admiral Jenkins, of the Ma.
Wy, became enraptured with ballet girl at
the Theatre ComiQue, Washington, and with
out asking the permission of his father, mar
ried her The young man is only twenty
years of age
Another flood in Hampshire county,
Mass, on Saturday night and Sunday, caused
by the breaking away of a reservoir at n fac
tory at Middlefield, swept away property
valued at $350,000. No lives were lost, we
are glad to state.
An insane mother, near Kansas City,
gave heavy doses of strychnine to her daugh-
ter, aged six years. and baby, aged four
months, and then took n large quantity her.
self The mother and baby died. but the
daughter will recover.
On last Thursday morning the body of
n man, in naked and decomposed state. was
found in a sink at Patterson Park, Baltimore
1t is supposed to be the body of F. G. Hall,
formerly an agent of the Howe Sewing Ma
chine Company
Last Friday at Harrisburg, Pa, M. Lew
is Rosenstine and John Moody, were hung,
for the murder, last November, of Abram
Benin, an old farmer living near Middletown,
Pa. They confessed their crime on the scat
fold.
In Windsor township, Pa, an old man
named Jacob Slime, while crossing stream
upon II log, slipped and fell astride the log,
with his head in the water, and was drown
ed 1t is supposed that in falling he struck
the log with his head and was knocked
senseless.
Near McConnelsburg, Pa early Sunday
morning, Mrs John Meats, whilst Temporal
rily insane, seized gun, and while her hus
band was still sleeping, shot and killed him.
She then cut the throat of one of her children,
and with pitchfork almost killed another.
The children are still in critical condition.
In retaliation for the murder and horri.
bic mutilation of two white women in the
Wind river valley, by the Sioux Indians,
General Sheridan ordered an attack on one
of their camps, the result being fifty Sioux
killed and wounded, and over 100 horses
captured. The troops lost two men killed
and Lieutenant Young and three men
wounded.
The Cheyenne and Kiowa Indians are
on the war-paih in New Mexico, and are
killing the settlers at all exposed points and
running off cattle. On the 4th, 300 war
riors attacked train of forty wagons near
Skilton creek, killing three men and burning
the wagons. Twenty-Five white settlers
made an attack on them subsequently, kill
ing eleven warriors and wOunding many
more.
On Long Island, N. Y, on Thursday last,
a school house was struck by lightning, and
Mrs j. M. Eggleston and Miss Smythc were
killed The same day, at Indianapolis, seven
boys, while crossing a fence under the telc-
graph wires, were struck by lightning and
one of them killed outright. The Others
were injured, but will recover AT Spring
field, Mass, also on the same day, VIM. Har-
ris, an old man, and Lizzie Martin, II young
woman, were struck by railroad train and
fatally injured
"A little boy, four years old, the son of
Christian r. Ross, Il dry goods merchant, of
Philadelphia, was decoyed into carriage by
two strange men, and CARED off no one knows
whittier. His parents have been on the verge
of distraction, and in response to an adyer-
tiscment in the Ledger the father was noti-
fled, in n like manner, that the parties who
iistt StOlcll HIS Dul NtIc lctttlN W HeSOlittc
for his return, upon the payment of S20,O 600.
The father is endcavoring to raise the amount.
The villains have informed him, through an
onymous letters, that if he does not comply
with their request, the blood of his child will
be upon the fathers head
PoLITICs IN MARYLAND-Thc Demo-
cratic State Central Committee met in Bnlti-
more on Wednesday, and recommended the
holding of Democratic district conventions
for the purpose of presenting candidates for
Congress to be voted for on the 3d of No
vember 1874.
The committee also passed resolution
that in the several conventions TO be held in
each congressional district the counties COM
posing such districts shall he entitled, res.
pectively, to cast vote equal to their repre-
scnation in the General Assembly, and that
the same relative proportion shall be adopted
as nearly rs possible in the case of Baltimore
county and the seventeenth ward in Balli.
more city.
Hartford county was represented in the
committee by the Hon John Carroll Walsh,
of this county
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