The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-08-17
THE sEGZN.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, AUGUST IL, 1877.
THE NEWS.

"A tornado at Coney Island, on Friday
evening, demolished mere than four hundred
bath houses, and did considerable damage to
other property.
AT mass meeting Of workingmen held
In Cincinnati on Saturday, full State ticket
was nominated, headed by l.. ii. Bond, of
Cincinnati, for Governor.
Thomas II. Ward, aged 60, was killed
near Crawford, N. j., on Friday night, while
trying to cross the railroad in wagon, in
front of an approaching train.
During Sunday school services in a
Swedish church at jamestown, N. Y, last
Sunday afternoon, lightning passed through
the building, killing boy, and Frustrating
an old lady and two girls. A dwelling in the
town was struck by lightning about the same
time, and a lady in it rendered insensible.
-Elkton Democrat: A new way to deal
with tramps has been developed in Elkton.
Last Monday morning, about thirty of them,
who were loungng lazaroni-like around the
depot, were enlisted in the Eighth Maryland
Regiment, by Lieutenant j. Emory Wilson,
and taken to Baltimore instanter. The kind
of soldiers they will make is problem yet
to be solved.
AT Carbondale, Pa, on Saturday, two
hundred and fifty striking miners compelled
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their work, and the mines are now flooding
They also detained train of loaded coal cars
in the Delaware & Hudson Company's yard
which was about to be sent to Nineveh.-
They also compelled stoppage of the
pumps at the Erie colliery. 1t is said the
Pittston miners have decided not to resume
work.
"A switchman on the Pan Handle railroad
named Schlutter was found lying senseless
near the round-house in Columbus, Ohio,
Sunday morning, with terrible bruise on
his right cheek and temple, which looked rs
if made by club. His face and head were
so swollen that it could not be ascertaned if
his skull was fractured, and his condition
was critical at last accounts. Schutter was
one of the men who remained at his post
during the strike.
"A colony of twenty five families includ-
ing about 140, has been enrolled to emigrate
from Baltimore to Kansas The movement
is headed by William B. Gregory, an ex-
soldier and mechanic. All the colonists are
working men, who say they recognize that
the cities are overcrowded with idle men, and
if they remain starvation or beggary will
overtake them. Some of.them are skilled
mechanics, few are farmers, but the major
ity are laborers and railroad hands. They
comprise excellent and orderly MATERIAL
Several of the families have eight children
and all the men are married and none are
over forty years of age the large majority
being thirty years old.
General Gibbon had a severe engagement
with the Nez Perez Indians, at Big Hole,
Montana, on the 9th instant. He attacked
the hostile camp and captured it, after fight
lasting all day, in which Captain Logan,
Lieutenants Bradley and Bostwich, seven
teen soldiers and five citizens were killed
The wounded were Gen. Gibbon, Captain
Williams, Lieutenants Coolidge, Woodruff
and English, Qhe latter seriously,) thirty-six
soldiers and four citizens. The Indians, who
fled at night, must have suffered terribly, as
forty of their dead were counted on half the
battle field. Gen. Howard reached the battle
field on the 18th, and was to pursue the In
dians as soon as his command arrived
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