The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-03-27
THE NEWS.

The Emperor Williams nth birthday
was celebrated at Berlin, Prussia, on Sun
day.
Mr.. Robert Sinclair, the well known
manufacturer of agricultural implements,
died at his residence, near Baltimore, on the
10Th inst, in his GSth year.
The New Hampshire Legislature meets
in June. The Democrats have majority of
.1G on joint ballot which will secure the cleo
ton of Weston, their candidate for Governor.
AT Forest City, Ark, Judge Fox was
shot and killed by lawyer named Aldridge,
who had been fined and sent to prison for
ten days, by the Judge, for disorderly con-
duct in court.
The mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, has is
sued proclamation forbidding street dem =
onstrations, which will operate to prevent
the bands of praying women from holding
meetings on the sidewalk.
1t is stated that Charles II. McBlair, Ad-
jutant General of Maryland, will resign his
position in few days, and that Gen. Frank
A. Bond will be rendered the position by
Governor Groomc.
The sons of the Siamcsc twins have car
ried the bodies of their fathers back to North
Carolina for buriel, They deny the report
that the widows Of Chang and Eng parted
with the bodies for q money consideration.
"A destructive fire occurred at Cumbcr-
land, Md, on Sunday night. Two frame
houses and a fine brick building, the City
Hotel were destroyed, and the American
House damaged. Loss $4,000. Insurance
$4,000.
General Santa Anna, whose name during
the Mexican war was used to Brighten naugh-
ty children, has returned to Mexico and de-
sires TO settle there. His estates were confis-
Gated, and he now asks the Mexican govern
ment fora pension.
AT the special election in Baltimore
county, on the 18th inst, for delegate to
the Legislature to succeed the late Hon.
Robert Fowler, Andrew Banks, the DEM
ocratic candidate, received 1898 yot,s,
and F. S. Corkran, the Republican can
didate 9S6 votes. Majority for Banks, 0O7.
One day last week Il young man named
Joseph w. Higgins. was found lying on the
platform at President street Depot, Balt-
more, in an insensiblc condition, from the
effects Of laudanum which he had taken to
end his life. Efforts were made for his re-
covery, but he died the same night. His
wife was buried only the day before
In New York last week a young gym.
mast, named james Sylvester, undertook to
throw a somersaut from trapczc to a
single rope that hung at some distance off,
but miscalcuating the distance, threw him
self with terrible force against one of the
private boxes, injuring himself so severely
that he died in u short time.
Captain c. L. Brady, who assumed COM
mand of the steamship Pennsylvania, during
storm, after the captain of the vessel had
been washed overload, and brought her
safely into port, has refused 81 900 rendered
him by the owners OF the vessel and demands
salvage for bringing the vessel safely home
His claim is resisted Ivy the Company.
"A family Of five persons, consisting of
an old man aged 80 years, his son and daugh.
terin-law and two small children, living near
Centrcvile, ILL.,, were found murdered last
week. The Threats of the two men were cut
and the skulls of the woman and children
crushed in. A brother-in law of the murdered
woman has been arrested on the charge of
having committed the crime.