The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-05-08
THE NEWS.

$t2,5O0.
Gen. John c. Breckenridge is seriously
ill with hemorrhage of the lungs at Licking.
ton, Ky.
"A boiler explosion at a paper mill in New
York State last Saturday evening killed sew
en- persons.
"A famine prevails in Asia Minor. In the
town of Angora alone it is said that 100 per-
sons die daily from starvation.
The tobacco factory of Burks, Son &
Wright, at Lynchburg, Va, was destroyedby
fire on Monday night. Loss $4,000.
John Foy committed suicide at Russell
vile, Chester county, Pa, on the Goth April,
by blowing out his brains with revolver
Three trotting horses, valued at $4,000,
were burned up in a fire at Evergreen Trot-
ting Park, New Bedford, Mass, last week
AT q trotting race lin San Francisco Lady
Mack trotted five miles in 13:09!, which time
has, it is said never been beaten but once in
the United States
hhSAi' 1tS'S'iSOii AWFUL, vi Nnul Iulltl,
has introduced bill in Congress to prevent
"hazing," or the playing of dangerous practi-
cal jokes at the Naval Academy.
1T is believed that the peach crop of Del.
aware has escaped any severe injury from
the freeze which followed the snow storm
last week.
In the village of Newport near Will
mirgton, Del, last week Alexander Craw-
ford committed suicide by cutting his throat
from car to ear with razor.
"A convocation of Roman Catholic arch
week, to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of increas-
ing the number of archbishops.
"A lax collector in Scott county, Va, was
shot while levying on COW, but lived long
enough to write handful offering 800 re-
ward for the capture of his murderer.
AT Shawnee, Ohio, an unlicensed dentist
caused the death of ii lady patient by admin
p isterng to her eighty grains of bromide of
choral He fled and has not been arrested.
Five railroad cars were thrown from the
track, and smashed up, near Plymouth, Indi-
ana, last Saturday, by misplaced switch.
Six persons were injured, but no one killed.
"A man in New York went home one
evening last week, and not finding his sup
per ready he attempted to commit suicide by
jumping from a fourth story window. He
was seriously injured
"A young lady pupil at Millersville, Pa.,)
State Normal School attempted to commit
suicide by cutting her throat with pen-knife,
The act is attributed to deranged mind
caused by home sickness.
Ann Hunt, colored was hanged at Eber-
ton, Ga, last Friday, for the murder of Eliza
Brawner. Both murderer and victim We're
colored. The crime was committed by poi
soning with arsenic. Cause jealousy.
AT Bangor Maine, last Saturday, an in
sane boy named Davis killed his father by
splitting his skull open with an axe. When
asked why he had committed the crime, lie
replied, Washington ordered me to do it."
AT Elkton, on Monday, two Democrats
and four Republicans were elected town COM
missoners, as follows: r. G. Reese and j.
p Merritt, Democrats; VIM. ]. Jones, r. II.
Tuft, George Gray, and r. Marshbank, Re-
publicans.
"A boy 10 years of age named Christian
Geise had difficulty with another boy, and
struck him over the head with a potato
mashcr. He was arrested, but released on
bail, when he committed suicide by taking
arsenic.
Great suffering still exists in the flooded
district along the Mississippi The negroes
who have been washed out refuse to work at
any price for the white planters, saying
that the government is to furnish them with
rations, and they do not want to work.
On Saturday night sanguinary ARRAY
took place in Baltimore between the mate of
an Italian vessel and an Italian sailor, in
which the latter was shot and killed Knives
and pistol were freely used, the survivor
having been terribly slashed with knife
AT Catskill, N Y, Joseph Waltz, con-
victed of the murder of scissor grinder, and
under sentence of death, made a savage at
tack upon one of the keepers who occupied
the cell with him, striking him on the head
and killing him. A mob collected who were
with difficulty persuaded from lynching the
double murderer Waltz was hung last Fri
day.
On Thursday night of last week, in Milf
fin township, on the Monongahela river six
miles from Pittsburg, Pa, Mr.. John Hamnett
well to do farmer, his wife, their child, two
and a-halfyears old, a daughter, and an adopt
ed son named Robert Smith, were butchered
with an axe or Ratchet, and afterward the
house was fired and completely destroyed
A man named Love, in the employ of Ham
nett, was arrested and confessed that the
bloody deed was committed by him, and that
his object was plunder. He says lie secured
only SIS.
The war between the rival carpet bag
governors in Arkansas is waxing hot An
engagement took place last week at New
Gascony, in which eleven negroes of the
Brooks party were killed and twenty wound
ed, and twenty prisoners taken by Bakers
forces, commanded by General White
Baxter seems to be strengthened by the de-
cision of all the courts in his favor. The
New York Journal Of Commerce says it is on
ly a contest for plumber between Republicans
Of different shades, and that it is entirely
within the Republican lines The Democrats
seem to be divided in sympathy between the
two, having, perhaps, nothing TO expect from
either.