The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-09-10
TIE sEEZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, SEPT. 10th, 1876
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Milton Whitney, Esq, II well-known
lawyer of Baltimore, died on Friday of last
week, ut Ashburnham, Mass, in his 52d
car.
The Democrats have gained decisive
victory in California, having elected the
Governor and an overwhelming majority in
the Legislature. In San Francisco the regu-
lar Democratic candidate for'mayor is also
elected
Twenty -scven car loads of cmigrants,
principally Germans and Russians, recently
left New York seeking homes in the West
A car load of children from the Chidren's
Aid Society, Of New York, were also sent
out ut the same time.
An aeronaut made an ascension at jack
son, Mich, last Saturday, in Il hot-air bal
loon, Mt the close of II circus performance,
and when some distance from the ground
jumped out, and falling into Il mill pond, was
drowned.
AT Olathe, Kansas, last Sunday night,
fourteen houses were entered by gang of
burglars Altogether the haul was a rich
one to the thieves. AT the last house visited
the burglars were fired upon and one woun.
ded. He was carried away by his comrades
and all escaped.
"A sauguinary conflict took place, last
Saturday afternoon, at Clinton, Miss, be-
tween the whites and blacks, in which five
or six white men and large number of ne
groes were killed. The fight commenced at
meeting, where some young white men
had bottle of whisky, which colored
marshal tried 10 take away from them.
"A compulsory school law is in force in
New Jersey, by which children between the
ages of five and eighteen must be sent to
school mt least twelve weeks in each school
year. Otherwise their parents or guardians
must forfeit and pay for the first ohense So;
and for each subsequent offence in the same
year So a week for not more than twelve
weeks.
On Thursday of last week, at the corner
of Jefferson and Caroline Streets Baltimore,
Lewis Faupel, aged IA, and Frederick Rapp,
aged eleven, became engaged in a fight
Faupcl knocked Rapp down and knct on his
breast. A sister of Rapp came TO his rescue,
and pushed Faupel away. AS he fell back
wards Rapp struck him on his left side and
he died from the effects ofthe blow in n few
minutes.
The Republicans of Cecil county have
nominated the following ticket: For the
House of Delcgates-John r. Bond, Henry
G. Ellison and Jno. A. Bunting For States
Attorncy-Georgc A. Blake. For Sheriff
Bcnoni Cooling. For County Commission
Grs-Aaron j. Kitchener, VIM. J. Wilson and
Wesley Clayton. For Judges ofthe Orphans
Court-Wm. Torbert, James A. Coulson and
Andrew Lyon.
Josiah Cobb, an old and wcll-known
citizen of Baltimore, died on Sunday morn
ing last, in his S0th year. He was u native
of Massachusetts, and learned the printing
business in Boston. In 1914 he enlisted on
board the privatecr Prince of Ncuichatel-
The vessel and all on board were captured,
and the prisoners sent to Dartmoor prison
Mr.. Cobb witnessed the massacre of the
prisoners there, but escaped unhurt. He
came to Baltimore in 1917 engaged in the
printing business, and subsequently in the
grocery trade.
Two little boys, aged respectively nine
and fourteen years, living near Paterson, N.
j., were playing soldiers with shot guns
which they found in Il closet. The elder boy
raised his gun, not thinking it was loaded,
and it went off, blowing his brothers head
completely off, only few fragments of the
scalp remaining attached to the spinal cord.
Louis Rehm, the teller of the Planters
National Bank of Louisville, Ky, one night
last week robbed the bank of$100,000, which
he hid under his house. The next morning
he pretended that he had been dragged from
his bed by robbers, taken to the bank, COM
PEELED to give up the keys, and then chloro-
formed and stabbed. His story was doubt
ed, and Rehm subsequently made confess
sion and told where he had hid the money,
the whole of which was recovered