The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-11-05
THE NEWS.

"A fire at Sherman, Texas, Monday night,
destroyed three blocks of houses in the bust
ness part of the town.
An elevator, containing 40 600 bushels
Of grain, burst at BeleviIlc, Ont, on Sunday
morning. Loss heavy.
VIM. White, II workman in pl 1crmill
Mt Atlanta, Ga, on Monday morning was
caught IN the shniting and his brains dashed
out against the ground.
"A snow storm commenced on Sunday
evening in the western part of Pennsylvania
Six inches of snow and good slcighinr are
reported at Quebec. There was also snow
1T Boston early Tuesday morning
john Watkins, of Dedham, Mass being
quite i'll was taken to the polls on Tuesday
in carriage. On arriving home he fell dead
from Over excitement. His daughter was so
much affected that she is not expected to
recover.
The 35Sth anniversary of the great Re
formation in Germany occurred on Sunday,
October 3lst. Services appropriate to the
occasion were held in the Lutheran churches
of Baltimore on that day
On last Saturday night n street car of
the Canton line, ran over II colored man who,
it is supposed, way lying upon the track in
toXlcaied, nearly seyeIing his head from his
body, and killing him instantly.
In Rochester N. Y, saloon on Mon.
day night, one Henry Ghau was sent for To
eitle dispute about drinks. He brought
revolver with him. and us soon rs he cross.
ed the Threshold shot Joseph Smith dead.
Ghaul was arrested.
Ed. johnson, desperate negro, stabbed
two white men and two negroes ON a steam
er Monday, about twelve miles from Mem
phis, killing one negro instantly. The other
one was put ashore in II dying condition.
The desperate was Immediately arrested.
--Lemucl I. Abbot, garlencr;of Ossiper,
N. H., killed his wife on Tuesday, nearly sew
ering her head from the body with an axe.
The act was coEilted in the heat of passion
during quarrel, lie attempted to hang
himself, but was cut down. He was arrested
and confessed the deed
The L. S. District court at Salt Lake
City, having decided against Brigham Young
IN the matter OF alimony claimed by Ann
Eliza, one OF his numerous wives, Brigham
has accordingly been arrested and imprison-
ed until he shall pay the 50 600 alimony,
and the costs of the suit
The boiler of Il locomotive attached to n
gravel train on the Lchigh Valley Railroad,
near Round Brook, exploded ON Monday,
killing Thomas Copper, engineer two brake
men, and injuring about % luburcrs, two of
whom died shortly afterwards. Copper, it is
stated, was blown n thousand feet from the
locomotive and his body horribly man
glcd.
Elijah ii. seminar was fatally injured
last week by falling from Il chestnut tree on
the farm OF his uncle, Amos Alexander, in
Cecil county, near Strckervic. He attcmpt-
ed to climb the tree, and had got up some
twenty feet, when he probably grew diZZy
and fell, injuring himself so badly that he
lived but few hours. lie was twenty-five
years ofagc.
The Garrett County Herald says: Far.
mers from Accident and portions of Shclbvs.
port districts inform us that not more than
half their crops of corn maturCd before the
early lrosts. Wheat, rye, oats and buck
wheat and potatoes are much surcr crops in
Garrett county than corn, except on the river
bottoms"
"A fight took place, on Tuesday, of last
week, near Fort Hayes, between L. S troops
and band OF Cheyenne Indians, in which
the troops were defeated with loss of two
men killed. Fresh troops were sent to the
seat of war, but they were also driven back
by the Indians, with The loss of one man
killed and one wounded.
Large and destructive prairie fires are
raging in Southern Kansas along the line of
the Fort Scott railroad. AT one place in Che
rokee county the ties on three miles of track
were burned. The fire caught from loco mo-
tives and at last accounts had swcpt over
miles of country, destroying houses, fences
and barns.
AT Point Pleasant, New Jersey, on Fri
day oflast week, Robert IIarne, boy twelve
years old, was accidentally shot and killed by
his brother Abraham, aged fifteen. The lai-
ter was fastening through the house with n
gun to shoot at II flock of wild geese which
was flying over the place.
Isaac Singer, the inventor of the cclebra
ted Singer sewing machine, died leaving
property TO the amount of $4,000 600. He
was apparently II much married man, for
several women have come forward each one
claiming to be his widow, and their respcc-
tive children his legal heirs. His will is CON
sequently contested.
AS train on the Pan. Handle railroad
was approaching bridge, near Cambridge.
Ind, Friday night, during a terrific storm,
the engineer saw the bridge totter and fall.
He reversed the engine and jumped off and
saved his life The engine and four cars went
through, carrying the fireman, John Daley,
and head brakeman, Zegler, killing both. a
Last Friday, at Athens, Ohio, Il colorcd
named krumsley, with his wife and infant,
left three small children alone while they
started to town. In their absence the house
took fire, and the three children were burn,
ed to death. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by the oyerturnng Of a lamp.
AT Scranton. Pa, on Saturday night n
boy named Henry Kelly stabbed to the
heart and killed ayoung man named Anthony
Scanlon, Kelly was one of party of BOYS
who were indulging in the Halloween prac-
tice of stealing cabbages and pelling the resi-
dents doors with them. Upon Scanlon's re-
monstrating with them for assauIting his
house, Kelly approached him and committed
the murder. Kelly is at large.
"A little boy named Willie Saddle, dis
appeared from his fathers house. near Col
chester, n. " last Tuesday. Ii was feared
he had been kidnapped, and detectives were
sent for. The next day, however, the neigh
bors from ten miles around made final
search, forming a line Of men who walked
not more than six ic,t apart, which was a
mile and half long, and describing a circle
around the house. The child was tou. on
the extreme end of the line, by the side of II
log, dead. He had evidently persisted in the
storm of rain, slcet, and snow Oh the first
night in which he was missing.
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