The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-03-15
THE sEGZN.
BEL AIR. FRIDAY. MAR. Is, 1873.
THE NEWS,

THE NEWS.
"A steamer with $500 Circassians on
board took fire near Cape Ella, in the Aegean
sea, and 700 lives were lost.
The steamer Timor, loaded with twenty
six locomotives for the Russian Government,
sailed from Philadelphia on Saturday
The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, at
New Brunswick, N. j., was burned ON Satur-
day morning. loss estimated at $1OO,OOO.
One man was killed and two Others seri-
ously wounded by the explosion OF dynamite
cartridges, at Merriton, Ont on Saturday.
AT Richmond, Va, on Saturday, Dayton
Davis, ayoung man recently married, was in
stantly killed by saw-log rolling upon him.
-Sueman Pasha, Turkish minister, has
been drowned in the Bospho'u US, for the aleg-
ed contemplation of conspiracy to over
throw the Sultan.
In California, as in other parts of the
country the labor market is in depressed
condition, For the first time in its history
white men have just been hired at dollar a
day.
"A colored woman, charged with hiring
colored boy to burn barn in Rockingham
county, Va, was taken from the constable,
last Friday night, and hanged by masked
vigilance committee.
e H. Curtis, alias Edward Ray, has been
convicted, at Washington, for outrage upon
Ella Tydngs, an orphan girl when he lured
from her home in Baltimore, on pretence of
giving her situation.
John Bowers, a merchant at Skipton
Landing, Talbot county, Md, committed
head with pistol. He was an unmarried
man. No cause for the act could be ascer-
tanned.
Rev. John Baer one of the Oldest and
best known ministers of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, died at his residence in Balt-
more, ON Monday. He was in the Saith year
of his age and was for sixty-four years q
Methodist preacher.
w. M. McElnee' 8 house at Rochesterville,
Ont, was burned Sunday morning. After
leaving the house Mr.. McElnee returned for
the purpose of saving some valuable papers
and persisted. His daughter was severely
burned while attempting to save clothing.
Henry Schmidt, in New York, last Fri
day, poisoned his whole family, consisting of
his wife, her mother and their daughter, by
putting arsenic in the milk used for coffee
The girl will recover but it is thought
the wife and her mother will die from the
effects of the poison.
Two negroes are in Jail at New Castle,
Del, under sentence of death for an outrage
Gus crime committed last summer, upon
James Smith and his wife. Recently Smith
came under the influence of revivalists, and
has confessed that the woman was not his
wife and that they swore falsely at the trial
The negroes will doubtless be set at liberty
soon.
Bishop Pinkncy, of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, while getting out of street
car in Washington, last Thursday met with
serious accident by stumbling against
stone on the street and falling heavily for
ward, his face striking the curb. His face
was considerably cut and bruised by the fall
He afterwards held service in the Church of
the Ascension, where he was going when he
met with the accident.
Robert McAdams, 10 years old Charles
Welsh, of the same age, and several other
boys were playing in Philadelphia, ON Mon
day, when Welsh asked McAdams for some
candy. The latter denied having any, and
the former pulled out small revolver, and
said "1f you don't give me some I'll shoot
you" at the same time pointing the revolver
at his paymate's head. McAdams started to
run away and Welsh pulled the trigger,
shooting him in the head, causing death in
half an hour.
"A terrible tornado struck Atlanta,
Georgia, on Sunday, while the people were
in church. Tie officiating minister in the
Episcopal church, knowing the building was
insecure, with remarkable presence of mind
cried out to the congregation to throw them
selves under the seats. They had scarcely
done so, when the roof and walls fell in, bury
ing the entire congregation under the ruins.
Luckily the shelter afforded by the seats pro-
tected the great mass Of the congregation,
but eighteen were more or less seriously
wounded by the falling timbers. None of these,
however, have died of their injuries. Sew
eral other churches were seriously injured
and great damage was done to private resi-
dences and stores. The tornado lasted with
out rain for two hours.
DEATH OF COMMODORE VIM G. WHITTLE.
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