The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-06-16
THE EGZ&.
pei AIR, FRIDAY, JUNE 1e, 1876.
THE NEWS.

were drowned.
Congress, according 10 the best opinion
that can be formed, will moi al ourn before
the first of August.
In the courts in Washington on Mon
day the trial of General Bahcock was set
down for the 10Th Of September.
-Four tramps were arrested ut Taunton
on Saturday for violating young girl on
the highway near Attlcboro', Massachusetts.
Frederick Paine, aged years, fell from
the top of his fathers house. lIobokcn, N.
j. last Thursday night, and WAS instantly
killed
Henry Ward Beecher's house in Brook
lyin was robbed of silverwarc valued at be-
tween 5000 and $780, early last Saturday
morning.
Dom Pedro went to Cincinnati on Sun
day to stay until the Republican convention
closed. He wanted to see how Presidents
are nominated.
Francisco Pcrato, the Mexican, accom-
plished the feat at Suffolk park last Saturday
of riding one hundred and fifty miles in seven
hours, using twenty-five mustang horses.
There was q torchlght procession in
Dublin last Saturday night in celebration of
the escape of the Fenian convicis from West
Australia, and Mr. Disrae was burned in
ehigy.
AT Reading, Pa, on Monday, Thomas
Elliott, John Edwards and George Elliott,
the latter colored, were overcome by the foul
vapor in a cess pool and falling into tie well
lost their lives.
In n violent thunder storm in llcmlucl
Hollow, Wayne county, Pa, last Friday,
William HUFF, while peeng bark, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed. Several
others were Frustrated.
AT Houtzdalc Pa, on Sunday the gal
lery and floor of the new but unfinished
Catholic church fell with tremendous crash,
killing ID. G. Nelson, contractor of the build
ing, and wounding thirty others, some
seriously.
Last Saturday Joseph Martin, boss miner
at Westenport, Md, while on his way home
was assaulted and thrown down an embank
ment of stones ten feet, and also beaten on
the head with rock The attack was made
by n miner named VIM. Burk.
1T is stated that the Centennial will
cause no increase in travel to and from
Europe. Foreigners do not seem disposed
to brave the stormy seas to witness show
like those they have already seen, and Ameri-
cans will make their customary trips to
Europe and visit the Centennial in cooler
weather
On Friday last Thomas Mcdonnell, re-
ayoung man named Michael Nolan, who
had been boarding with him. Angry words
were spoken, when Nolan advanced towards
Mcdonnell, who knocked him down and
kicked him on the head, causing death
short time afterwards.
On Saturday Mr.. Blaine appeared be-
fore the sub, judiciary committee, and in re-
spouse to a request of the chairman, refused
to surrender to the committee the famous
Mullgan letters, which lie read before the
House with such tragic air. 1t is probable
n formal complaint will be made against him
by the committee before the House.
The newsboys engaged in selling the
Baltimore Ecening Neaes, made strike on
Monday afternoon, on account of an increase
in price of that paper by its proprictors. The
boys congregated about the NeaCs office in
large numbers and threatened other boys
who desired to buy the papers at the adj
vanccd price. They were finally dispersed
by the police.
Milton Mitchell, Il boy of IL years, living
in Baltimore, on last Saturday filled glass
coal oil lamp with powder lit fuse and
sought place of safety. The lamp did not
explode as soon rs he thought it should, and
he went to it. While STOPPING over it, the
powder exploded with report like Il cannon,
blowing him some distance and cutting his
will be disfgured for life
"A tramp named VIM Harris on his way
from New York to Baltimore, stopped at the
house Of Mr.. Dubraul, on the Philadelphia
road, to ask for something TO eat. Upon en-
terlng The yard he was attacked by four
dogs, and terribly bitten and mutlalcd be.
fore the dogs could be driven off He con.
tinued his journey to the city and is being
cared for at the Washington University Hos.
ptal.
Peter Harris, blacksmith, living near
the Baltimore Cemetery, was bitten some
time ago by a wild hog, which resisted all
attempts to trap him. Mr.. Harris soon after
wards exhibited symptoms of hydrophoba
lie foamcd mt the mouth, became hystcrical,
smashed chairs, looking glasses nc Mca-
sures were taken 10 remove him 10 safe
quarters, when he mysteriously disappeared
IL is supposed he has died.
p. G. Shanks, city editor of the N. Y.
Tribune, testified before the committee on
Expenditures in the War Department, in re
lation to the charges against Speaker Kerr
that he had accepted Il bride to secure n GER
tain appointment, that Harvey, the man who
brought the charge told him distinctly on
May % that he did not say there was any
money in the matter, but that lie had social
relations with Mr.. Kerr which induced him
"A few days ago, while a party of emil
grants were encamped near Point of Rocks,
Wyoming, mountain lion carried off one of
their children, aged three years. The tracks
of the animal were followed, and the next
morning the little one was found on n pro-
jccting rock 200 feet high. lis clothes were
badly tom, but aside from n few scratches on
its face it was minjured. There is no doubt
the lion carried the child where it was found
and went after its cubs.
William Baker, n member Of the City
Council of Baltimore, and his brother Charles
A. Baker, have been arrested and lodged in
Jail on the charge Of forgery. They are mem
bers of the firm of Baker 81 Bros, wholesale
confeclioners and frutercrs Mr. VIM. Ba-
ker was elected to the City Council last year
rs Reformer, and gave volumnous tcsii
mOny in relation to The alleged election
riots. When his forgerics could be no lon.
ger concealed, he sent in his resignation as
member OF the City Council, which was not
accepted, but laid upon the table.
-Ex-Speakcr Blaine was stricken with
sudden illness while entering the Congrega.
tional Church at Washington, on Sunday in
company with his wife, He was conveyed
to his residence, where lie lay for five hours
in an unconscious state, after which he re.
covered consciousness, and was at last nc
counts in an improved condition. His illness
is attributed by his physicians to simple &C
rebral depression, produced primarily by
the great mental strain to which he has lately
been subjected, and sccoidarly by the action
of excessive heat.
OUTRAGE by A TRAMP.-A young girl,
about Is years ofagc, named Baubitz, was
OutrageOusly assaulted on SATURDAY. near