The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-06-15
THE NEWS.

Thousands of people are dying from fam
inc in China.
"A Vermont farmer has set out one hun.
dred elm trees along the highway bordering
his land.
An italian rancher near Sutro, Nevada
has just finished an irrigating ditch five miles
long, costing $4,000.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, rightful
Vice President of the United States, is about
to sail for Europe with his wife,
-Musker Perry, youth, aged Is, fell dead
of heart disease in an Episcopal church at
Fredericksburg, Va, during prayers, last
Sunday.
The Danube is falling, and it is expected
the Russians will soon cross. There was
heavy bombarding on Saturday at Rust
chuck
BY the burning of large hat factory at
Bridgeport, Ct, last Thursday night, eleven
men were killed, and $25O,OOO worth of prop
erty destroyed.
"A great fire occurred at Galveston, Tex
as, last Friday morning, in which property
amounting to 81 $685. 900 was destroyed In
surance $1,299,0OO.
MIR. E. A. Clabaughs Maryland horse
Cloverbrook was the winner at Jerome Park
on Saturday of the mile and half dash for
threc-year ods, for purse of $4,000.
The body of Charlotte Herman aged 70,
was found in the woods at Port Orange, N.
Y, on Sunday. She was lost while search
ing for cows, and died from exhaustion and
exposure.
"A water spout fell few miles from
Clinton, Iowa, last Saturday and destroyed
fields of grain for miles around and swept
away houses, besides doing a vast amount of
other damage.
The wife of the Providence, r. l., post
office clerk, Broadbent, who was recently de-
tected in stealing letters, has attempted to
kill herself, being unable to endure the expo
sure OF her husbands crimes
Very heavy rains haye fallen in Western
Missouri and in Kansas, and great damage
has been done to railroads, crops and other
property. The water in the Missouri river
was higher than at any time since 1874.
"A little heroine was the ten-year-old
daughter of w. b. Waters, of Westfield, N.
b., who seeing the railroad sleepers in front
OF the house on fire, bravely went out with
bucket to quench the flames. Her clothes
caught fire, and the poor child was fatally
burned before her absent parents returned.
The little girl named Mary Masterson,
phia, last April, has been found at st. Louis
She was stolen by woman named Fannie
Brown, who made her beg in the streets and
sleep i'll soup houses at night. The child was
restored to her friends and the woman arrest
cd.
Charles Stringer was arrested in Phila-
delpha on Sunday, by an agent of the Socie-
ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
for placing his grandson upon hot stove
and burning him badly, also for assauting
his wife and another grandchild with
Ratchet and knife, and for setting fire to his
house.
"A Chicago dispatch says q confession
just made by two criminals, now confined in
the Ohio penitentiary if true, proves that the
wrong man has been hanged for the murder
Of young, girl named Mary Murray, who
was waylaid, outraged and murdered near
Pontiac, ILL.,, in the year 1869. A young man
named Wiley L. Morris was arrested, tried
and convicted Of the crime, but solemnly
swore to his innocence to his last moments
upon the scaftold.
AT CharlestowD, Mass, little boy nam
ed WEIGH, aged two and a-half years, picked
up fragment of a brick having a sharp edge,
and going up to playmate named Eager
storm, aged three years, struck him on the
head with IL just above the left eye, fraCtur-
ing his skull and killing him. Mrs Wech
had instructed her daughter to drive away
the Fagerstorm boy whenever he came there,
which doubtless made strong impression on
the mind of her own boy.
"A vagrom tramp asked Towsontown
lady for cup of coffee. She told him she
had no coffee, and that it was too much
trouble to make some fresh for him. At this
the fellow rrpw imap6npt nd ,,cnd ;oo,,lt;,c.
language to the lady, which was heard by
her son, who happened to be in the house.
The young man came out and ordered the
tramp off, and, upon his refusing to go he
picked up hoe lying near by and struck at
him. The tramp stepped back and drew
pistol, which caused the lady and her son to
beat hasty retreat into the house. The
tramp then leisurely withdrew and has not
since been seen.