The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-06-29
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Jesse Marden, the well known scale manu-.
facturer, died in Baltimore last Saturday, at
the age Off.
General and Mrs. Grant were the quests
of Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle on
Monday.
Jane More, midde-aged woman, was
burned to death in Tivoli, N. Y, on Friday
night, by her clothes taking fire from pipe
The exhibitors of the Permanent Exhi
bition at Philadelphia have voted by ma
jority of 32G in favor of opening on Sunday
Fanny Bowen, the tramp who abducted
little Mary Masterson from Philadelphia was
sentenced to five years in the Penitentiary.
james Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the
New York Herald, and one of the principals
in the Bennet-May duel, has returned from
Europe.
The coroners jury in the Point of Rocks
disaster have been unable to agree upon
whom the responsibility for the accident
should properly rest.
The Democratic legislative ticket, con-
tanning the names of IA white and colored
citizens, was elected in Charleston, S. c., on
Tuesday, without serious opposition.
AN infant eighteen months DID, of VIM.
Murphy, of Cumberland, one day last week
fell into wash boiler filled with boiling wa
ter and was scalded from head to foot.
The silk weavers' strike at Patterson, N.
j., continues, and the strikers who demanded
ten per cent. increase, have been locked out
until they accept a reduction of 20 per cent.
"A tornado swept through the centre of
st. Joseph, Mo-, on Saturday night, unroof-
ing buildings and otherwise damaging prop
erty. Several persons were injured but not
seriously.
Mrs Hubbard, of Brooklyn, N. Y, shot
herself and child, in fit of insanity, at Sing
Sing, on Saturday night She had recently
arrived at Sing Sing to spend the summer
there
Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, has de-
signated the 10th of September for the hang
ing of Thomas p. Fisher, q Mollie Mcguire
convicted for completely in a murder COM
mitted six years ago.
"A sweeping and disastrous storm CT
wind and rain passed over Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio, on Monday, destroying many
buildings and other property. No lives are
reported lost.
The Russians have at last crossed the
Danube, at Galatz, in boats, and entrenched
themselves on the Turkish bank. They have
have also crossed at two other points.
The President, Mrs. Hayes, Attorney
General Devens, Postmaster General Kew
and Secretary of the Interior Schurz have
been paying visit to Massachusetts. The
President was received in Boston with omen
arms.
The 1sraelites all over the country have
held meetings and denounced the proscrip-
ton of their race by Judge Hilton, manager
of the A. Il. Stewart estate, who refuses to
permit lsraeltes to become guests at the
Grand Union Hotel Saratoga.
MIR. Adams, Clerk of the next House of
Representatives, has completed the list of
members, and will organize the House on
the 18th of next October. The Democrats
have eight majority, and there will be twelve
contested cases.
Mrs Burril the wife of John Burrill, n
real estate broker of New York, who lived
unhappily with her husband ended her earth
ly troubles, on Saturday, by shooting and
killing her daught r, aged 10 years, and then
shot herself
VIM. Tudor, 10 years old, was found on
Tuesday on the streets in Baltimore, foaming
at the mouth and uttering sharp, quick
sounds like the bark ola dog. A physician
pronounced it case of hydrophobia and
treated him accordingly.
John Van Wrinkle, aged 25, committed
suicide in Middletown, N. Y, on Friday, by
taking morphine. He had incurred debts
amounting to several hundred dollars, and
paid them off by forgeries, and the discovery
of his crime caused the suicide.
Mrs. Mary E. Ashton was arraieued il,
the Criminal Court of Baltimore city, on
Monday, on an Indictment charging the lar.
ceny of pocket book containing So 80 and
gold sapphire pin, valued at $40, the property
of Ernest Brinkley She pleaded not guilty,
and the case was postponed until next Sep
TENDER.
EARLY Monday N orning fire broke out
at Marblehead, Mass, and spread until fifteen
acres of buildings were destroyed The to-
tai loss is $534,000. The principal resources
of the place are cod-fishing and shoe making.
Three-iourths of the male and female work
crs have been thrown out of employment by
the fire.
Patrick Golden, eighty years of age, has
been brutally murdered in his own house at
Nicholson, Pa. He was sitting with his wife
in the parlor, when masked man entered
with double barrelled gun and fired two
shots at Golden, who died shortly afterwards.
The murderer made his escape. There ap-
pears to be no cause for the crime.
John Weldon, his widowed sister and
her daughter, were murdered, near Logan
Ohio, few days ago, by two men, one OF
whom, VIM. Terrell, has confessed, throwing
the blame on the other, Joseph King, who
denies any knowledge of the crime. Terrell
states that they met Weldon, and after shoot.
ing him and cleaving his head open with O
corn knife, they went to the house, brought
the old lady out and killed her with an axe
The young lady in attempting to escape was
felled by King, who sunk the axe to the han
die in her shoulder. then split her head wide
open with it, and finally nearly severed hel
head from her body. They then went into
the house to find money. The excitement
was intense and it was thought the mer
would be lynched.