The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-05-12
THE NGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, MAY 70, 1875.
THE NEWS.

AT Boston, jeremiah O'Donnell, in care
lessly handling pistol. accidently discharg-
ed it, the ball striking and killing his wife.
Judge Black of Pennsylvania, has writ.
ten letter, asking that his name should be
entirely dropped from the list of possible
Democratic candidates.
"A son ofThomas J. Turpin of Randolph,
Mass, aged II years, hanged himself on a
tree in front of his fathers house last Tues
day. No cause can be assigned for the act.
Gov. Richard Coke, Democrat, has been
elected United States Senator from Texas, to
succeed Hon. M. G. Hamilton, Republican.
He is Il lawyer by profession and a native of
Williamsburg, Va. ....r. ..-.....
The Kissinger and Pickerell herd of
short horns was sold at Springfield ILL.,, last
week. The average prices Tor hefers was
$1,000 and for bulls, $1,54G. The total
amount was nearly $4,000.
"A riot occurred at Salonica, European
Turkey, between Christians and Mahome-
dams about Christian girl who desired to
be Mahomedan, during which the French
and German consuls were assassinated.
The vote of Worcester county, Md, on
the question of license or no license, on the
25th ult resulted in 1926 votes for, and
996 against, majority of $50 for liquor
Wicomico county voted on local option on
the Gath ut, and the license ticket was car
ried by majority OF between three and four
hundred.
A terrible tornado visited Lcavenworlh
Kansas, carly Sunday morning. damaging Is
large buildings and unroofing or blowing
down 80 smaller buildings The city of Chi
cago was also visited by tornado on Satur-
day afternoon, inflicting damage to the
amount of $250,000. Little loss of life is re-
ported.
Last Saturday q terrific explosion of
giant powder and glycerine took place at the
magazine Of the Delaware Lackawanna and
Western railroad, on the Jersey City pail.
sndes, killing one man, and SCATTERING the
windows in hundreds of houses for two miles
around. 1t is wonderful there was no more
loss of life.
"A disastrous fire occurred at Williams
port, Pa, on Saturday, consuming the lum-
Der yards of the Beaver Mills Company Bar
row & Co Taylor & Co. and Hebbard &
Smith, and was the most extensive fire ever
had there. The lumber burned occupied
about twenty-five acres. 1t was the work
of an incendiary.
"A supposed ncendiary fire at York, Pa,
last evening destroyed Farquhar large brick
machine shops, and seriously damaged n
warehouse adjoining, the st. Charles Hotel,
and number of brick and frame buildings.
One hundred and sixty working people are
thrown out of employment. Total loss
probably $4,000, insurance $2S, 900.
AT Beach Ridge, N. Y, last Saturday,
James Morgan had an alteration with James
O'Halen, the keeper of an unlicensed bar
room. Morgan, who is cripple, struck
O'Hallen with his crutch. O'Hallen seized
the crutch and knocked Morgan down with
it. OHallen soon afterward left the house,
but came back, and, striking Morgan again,
killed him. O'Halen has been arrested.
AT Warsaw, H., on the night of the 4th,
Ben. French and wife, who had been arrested
for poisoning an old and wealthy colored
man named Jacob Jones, were taken from
the county Jail by mob of masked men and
hanged to limb of a tree about two miles
from town. 1t appears that the Frenchs had
invited Jones to tea, and while eating he was
seized with symptoms Of arsenic poisoning
and died shortly afterward. Their object, it
is supposed, was to get possession Of some
property belonging to the old man.