The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-09

William Murphy was killed near Sham
okn, Pa last week, by the iall of q mass Of
loose earth upon him in an unused coal pit.
A young woman in Lacrosse Jail COM
mited suicide by setting her clothes on fire
with ii live coal, iruin which she burned To
death.
While cleaning out well on Long Is.
land, N. Y, the sides caved in, and John
SIeider was buried alive. 1t was impossible
to rescue him.
d. E. Barrett, an attendant employed in
the MOI thampton Asylum, was found dead
Monday, having been murdered by some Of
the lunatics.
An accident occurred on the Tyrone
and Clemfield Railroad last week, by which
| Henry Fuis,!ey conduclor, was killed and
sixteen ca,s broken TO pieces.
! Mrs. Keller, of Moutour county, Pa,
committed suicide by hanging last week.
She had been u patient at the Danvie Asy-
llm, and was discharged as cured.
On Thursday, keeper at the Auburn,
N. Y, prison, was assaulted by convict,
and horribly mangled about the head, caus-
ing instant death
j. b. Caldwell, OF Principle, Cecil coun-
ty, Md, who had his leg crushed in attempt
ing to get aboard passing freight train, ii
sort time ago, died from his injuries.
President Grant has removed from office
j. II. Maddox the treasury agent, who dis
closed 50 much of the true inwartlness Of the
Louisiana nfamy. 1t was Il cheap revenge.
e. Il. II. Walter, indicted by grand
jury in Baltimore city rs accessory 10 the
Urging Ct check for $2.557 al, by MIS-
Mary Z. Ashton, has been admitted TO bail.
Mrs. Ashton is still in Jail.
AT Louisville, KY, few days ago,
Joanna Mccarthy, aged G5 years, was killed
by her SON, Timothy, aged 10, who cut her
head open with Il Ratchet. The young man
is believed TO be insane.
"A band Of desperadoes, organized for
robbery and murder, has been discovered in
Williamson county, Ill.,, and the leader,
james Moss, and James Jackson, Frank
Palmer and another, members of the gaug,
nave been arrested.
The performing elephant, Betsy" OF
f repaughs Circus, which is wintcring ut
Germantown, Pa, gave birth to baby elr-
plant eighteen inches high last Friday. Ii
was walking about by noon of that day.
This is said to be the only elephant ever born
in America. Its mother is eleven feet high.
AT Hensingcrsvile, Lehigh county, Pa,
on Monday, while workmen were digging
ore, the ground caved in on them burying
Henry Hersberger, Lewis Engle, Reese
Lewis and David Frederick under ter feet
of earth. The first three named were killed
and Frederick sustained very severe injuries,
but will probably recover.
AT Brooklyn, N. Y, early last Sunday
morning, james Flood II timer, having sus-
pected his wife of infdrity, went to the
house of neighbor. where he found his wife.
The woman fled, but he overlook and struck
her with tinsmih's reamer, a short pointed
instrument fourteen inches long The sharp
weapon penetrated her right breast, killing
her instantly.
AT Middlctown, Staten Island n. Y,
last Thursday, AZ insane man named Patrick
D. Wiling, beat his old mother of seventy to
death with stair rail, and also attempted to
murder his sister, who tried t. protect their
mother from his fury. The sis err fled to II
neighbours house, and the maniac pursued
and attacked the neighbor also, trying TO
murder him. Bowling was arrested, and
told the whole story in the most straightlOr.
ward manner.
Several wild turkeys were recently
caught in Cambria county, Pa The birds
were in n starving condition and it required
but little eXeriion TO outrun them, their To-
comolion being impeded by the snow. In
Upper Yoder II gentleman shot wild turkey
the other day, which, in proper season,
would have weighed ten or twelve pounds,
but it was SO emacialeG that he put it on the
scales and found the beam to tip ut just three
pounds.
The burning gas VOL in the Bradford
oil district, Pa, is in full blaze. The gas is
burned us it proceeds from the pipes, send
ing up II mass Of flame TO the height of 25 10
40 feet, with heat so intense as to make
summer weather in all its vicinity The
ground is warm and grass is growing within
q radius Of 100 feet The light is sufficiently
brilliant to enable person to read Il news
paper by it when half mile away, ard can
be seen On dark nights for n distance of TWEEN
ty miles, at the towns of Olean and Salaman-
ca, in New York