The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-09-27
Condensed News.

The hotels and boarding houses at Knox.
vile are full of refugees, flying from the
fever.
Mrs. Mary Wheeler, a white woman said
to be 10 years old, died in Baltimore on
Tuesday.
Rev. DR.. Stanley, Dean of Westminster,
England, is on visit to this country, and
preached in Boston last Sunday.
Savannah has raised for the sufferers by
fever $12 200. A dispatch from Memphis
says all the Savannah physicians and nurses
there are well.
The people of Decatur, Alabama, STAN
peded the town on Friday, on account of five
yellow fever cases, one of which proved fatal
All business has been suspended.
DR. VIM. Walker, a veterinary surgeon,
at Easton, Pa, on Friday morning was kick I'd
by mule and had his right leg broken. He
fell under the mule, which trampled him in n
fearful manner, causing his death.
Mammoth green sea-turtes have been
stranding themselves on the Jersey beach
during the past week. A 1,000-pound fellow,
eight feet in length and five and a-half in
width, astonished Holdskom, at Brigan-
tine.
George Draper and John Wilson, two
colored men at Middletown, Del, quarrelled,
on Sunday morning, about piece of fence,
and Draper struck Wilson in the breast with
an axe, severing his collar bone and an ar
terry, causing almost instant death.
Last Saturday night from rs to 100 men
rode into Athens Alabama, and, forcing the
jailor to deliver the keys of the jail, took
therefrom Daniel Mcbride, negro, who
murdered white man near Athens, on the
night of the 18th. The crowd hung him to a
tree on the spot where the murder was COM
mitted.
The barn of Mrs. Theodosia Moore, near
Darby Station, Pa, was destroyed by fire late
Saturday night, with quantity of valuable
contents. 1t is supposed to have been fired
by tramps. Miss Reynolds, an aged lady of
IS years, a sister of Mrs. Moore, was so fright
ened and excited that she fell into what was
supposed to be swoon. Restoratiyes were
applied but instead of being in a swoon she
was dead.
Extraordinary cases of hydrophobia are
reported from New York and Indiana, AT
bitten early in July last, died on Sunday with
unmstakablc symptoms of the dread disease
and on Friday, at Smithland near Shelby
vile, in the latter State, man named Pyles
was attacked with hydrophObia, which he
ascrihed to the bite of II mad dog, received
twelve years ago.
The Merchants shot tower, 216 feet high
on the corner of Front and Fayette streets
Baltimore, was completely burned out, last
Saturday night, leaving nothing but the walls
standing. The flames burst from the windows
and from the top shot far into the air, afford
ing most magnificent spectacle 1t was
built in 1928, the foundation being ten fee,
thick, and the brick nearly five feet thick al
the base diminishing to IS inches at the top
On Tuesday of last week, in broad day.
light, the National Bank of Baltimore was
robbed of $4,000 in cash and $29850 in
bonds The cash belonged to the bank bu
the bonds were the property of Col. VIM. M
Boone, President of the Mount Vernon Cot
ton Mills, and director of the bank. 1t il
supposed the two boxes containing the money
and bonds were taken by sneak thief who
slipped into the vault while his companions
engaged the attention of the officers in thu
room containing the vault.