Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-12-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Carl Messner, who was on-frial. in
New York, on the chargs Of killing
his brother, John, was acquitted
Wednesday.
Thos. Cooley was killed and Thos.
Thomas fatally injured by a perma-
ture explosion in coal mine in Rock
Island county, Iowa, Monday week.
At Wilkesbarrs, Pennsylvania last
week, the Jury in the case Of the
Scranton vigilants returned verdict
Of net guilty, after being out ten
minutes.
President Case, Of the N. Y. Sscu-
rity Insurance company, convicted of
perjury in swearing to false accounts,
was lately sentenced to FIVE years in
State prison at hard labor.
At Corning, New York Wednesday,
Jno. McNamAra, charged with shoot
ing Ellen Callinan, wHs found guilty
Of murder in the aecoid dsgree,. and.
sentenced ts hard labor. al, prisen- for
life. -'''.-> ''''. 49,, =,
John BARNARD, residing ut No. l57
Preston street, Baltimore, had. a dit.
iculty with his wife, last Wednesday
night, and siezinga pistol fired at her,
without effect, however. He was ar.
rested.
Two freight trains on the Grand
Trunk railroad came into collision
near Galveston. N. H.. on Tuesday
night. Both engines and several cars
were wrecked. A man who was rid
ing on one of the locomotives was
badly injured.
At Elizabeth, New York, Wednes-
day, Peter Eller aud other jurors &C.
cused Of arriving at verdict by play
ing game Of cards in the jury room
were tried and acquitted. The charge
come from over.hearing juror tell
an old story in saloon.
Gov. Robinson has pardoned Ex-
Customhouss Weigher Grace, who WAS
sent to the penitentiary for four
months for assaulting Surveyor
Sharp. Grace has already served two
mouths, and the governor thought
the sentence was excessive:
Thomas Stapleton, charged with ri.
citing in throwing a stone at the Uni
ted States troops on Pratt street, Bnl.
timore, during the labor troubles last
summer, was arrested last week on Il
bail piece, issued out by the Criminal
Court.
A negro named McGhee attempted
to outrage miss TempIeton, daugh.
ter of a Presbyterian clergyman, OF
Columbia, Tenn, last week. He Was
identified by the youug lady aud ia
ken to Jail. He was afterwards taken
from the Jail and ly nched.
On Saturday last, the wife Of Mfr.
Owens, Keeper Of tho Rome JAIL, New
York, was deprived Of the keys Of the
prison and Con Leary, Of Utica jail
breaker, released by stranger who
drove off in buggy, not only taking
the convict with him, but also the keys
Of the prison.
Gally Bond who stands charged
with the murder of L. S. Hill, an old
planter residing in Memphis, Tenn,
ia Decemb,r last, was arrested on Sat-
urday and incarcerated in De Soto JAIL
1t is alleged the murder was commit
ed on account Of Hill refusing to allow
Bond to marry his daughter.
The Sound steamer c. II. Northam,
lying at the foot of East Seventh
street, New York, was nearly destroy.
ed by FIRE Tuesday morning. Three
colored men were burned to death.
The boat was valned at $500, 900, and
the damage at $4,000, upon which
there was $4,000 Of insurance.
The Governors Of Tennessee, Ala.
bama. Kentuckev. Mississippi and
Ohio, have united in a call for a
convention Of people Of the Tennessee
Valley in Chattanooga, Dec. 5, to
take measures to urge upon. Congress
an appropriation for thu Improvement
of the Tennessee river: :,s "a:
A party Of emigraits':for Arkanaas
started from Pittsburg on Wednesday
on fat boat, intending to travel by
the river, but had hardly got into the
stream when by a collision with a feet
of coal boats their vessel broke up,
throwing them all into the river.
Five. persons were drowned, includ-
ing man, his wife and two children.
Laura Bannan, a young lady resid-
ing in Baltimore, on Sunday playfully
pointed loaded pistol at Mr.. James
Murphy, gentleman who had accom-
panied her to church and returned
home with her. The pistol went off
and the ball crashed into the unfor.
tunate young mans brain. The
wound was fatal.
~. II ia reported that aeyantaen hun.