Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-07-11
NEWS OF The WEEK.

The Cumberland police are alter
the boy bathers and have already
bagged considerable number.
The Latin and Rand powder works
at Meades Bason, Paterson, N. D.,
blew up Tuesday afternoon week.
A newspaper canvasser shot a citi.
zen at Horsehead, N. Y, in the head
Tuesday week, and the result may be
fatal.
Sing Sing prison with an average
Of ,633 convicts, earned during June
$2O,257 against an expenditure of
$l6,33l.
John Williamson, a policeman Of
Middletown, N. Y, shot and killed
himself Tuesday week, to avoid ar
rest for confessed arson.
The store of Alexander Brothers.
3S7 Grand street, N. Y, was robbed
of 81 800 worth Of goods on Tuesday
night week.
The police committee Of Montreal
are taking measures to secure quiet IN
the city on the 10th inst, when the
Orangemen parade.
The butcher employed at the |enk
inson hotel, Long Branch, stabbed a
man named Finley Wednesday,
Death followed in five minutes.
Daniel O'Leary, the celebrated Pc
destrian, commenced a walk Of 275
miles in 55 hours, at the Exposition
buildings Chicago, on the lth.
William Poole, soldier of the war
of 1912, died at GAINESVILLE, Mont
gomery county, on Sunday last, aged
90 years and 5 months.
Chew johnson, employed on tive
farm Of Nathan Shaw, Montgomery
county, was overcome by the heat
while at work and died in a few
hours.
The rate Of taxation for county
purposes in Charles county fer the
current year has been fixed at ?S
cents on the flO0-l2 cents less than
last year.
Albert Fisher, a hotel keeper a:
Evansville, Indiana, beat John Scant,
lin, timer, with Il beer mallet
Thursday morning. Scantln died
Sunday morning.
In the Municipal court in Boston
Wednesday, William II. Smith, on a
charge of causing the ceath Of Amber
son Elder on Tuesday last week, was
held in $4,000 for examination on
Wednesday next.
Wales shirt factory, at Bridgeport,
Conn, Was damaged to the extent of
$4,000. One hundred and fifty hands
mostly women, are thrown out of en-
ployment.
Work on the Washington Monu-
ment at the National Capital has com
menced under Government directions
and will be prosecuted until the huge
shaft ia finished. 1t has long renamed
unfinished, disgrace to the nation.
The case of Gen. Fitz John Porter
court. martialed for disobedience of
the orders OF Gen. John Pope at the
second battle Of Manassas, in 1862, is
again being examined into by board
OF army officers.
Capt. Elijah Williamson, Of Caro-
line county, has caught within the
last two weeks, $50 turtles, weighing
in the aggregate $500 pounds, and
sold them readily in Philadelphia at
20 cents per pound.
Dispatches from Atchison, Kansas,
and St. Joseph, Missouri, say that the
Mi souri, is higher than it has been for
years. At the latter place considera-
Bile damage has been done to the iron
bridge spanning the river.
The War Department will push re-.
cruits TO the portion of the country
disturbed by Indians with all practl-
cable haste. The belief is almost uni
versal among army officers that there
will be general Indian war in the
Far Northwest.
The Sound steamer Massachusetts,,
from Boston to New York, Tuesday
morning, when off Captains island,
ran into and sank the schooner Hi
nois, bound from Hartford Tor New
York. The captain and crew were
saved.
Mr.. Jas. S. Bedlew, superintendent
of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, was drowned at Pine Point
Scarborough, Me, Tuesday morning
week, while rescuing his daughter.
A telegram from Rio de Janiero
says that a fearful hurricane is raging
on the Brazilian coast. The shipping
has suffered greatly and quite num-
Der Of lives have been reported lost.