Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-11-14
NEWS OF TINE WEEK.

Francis Murphy begins his temper
ance work in New York next Sunday
Henry George, the supposed MUIR
derer OF officer Race, WAS brought to
Chicago from St. Paul Thursday.
The training ship Minnesota, at
Newport, has been ordered to the
New York Navy Yard for the winter,
Peter Hahn, a farmer, was fatally
stabbed near Rork Island, Illinois,
Thursday, by being caught under a
sand bank.
While coupling cars at Calmar,
Iowa, Thursday, VIM. Van Hoover,
aged JIG years, was crushed to death
The British ship Fifesllire has been
totally lost while on passa re from
Madras TO Liverpool. twenty-five
of the crew we're dro" ned.
In the double scull race at Orelia
Ontario, Friday, between McKen and
Elliott, of Toronto and the Gandour
Of Orelia, the latter won by four
lengths,
Edward Knapp Aldrich, eyed 80,
a lawyer, suiclded at his residence,
twenty second street, New York,
Friday, by taking morphine. No
cause IS assigned.
Andrew McLane, who has been on
trial in the Court Of General Sessions,
New York, for killing Michael IIar.
den during an election brawl Was
Friday acquitted.
The sum OF 100000 francs belon.
ging to the National Bank of Ancona,
was recently stolen while in transitu
Cor Genoa. Three employees Of the
bank We're arrested on suspicion.
A party Of prominent men from
the East and humber of leading
citizens Of st. Louis, left there Friday
night for an excursion en- the Missouri
Pacific Railroad, through Colorado
and New Mexico.
Thos. M. Reinhardt, of New York,
was Thursday appointed a receiver Of
the McKlllop, Sprague 4 Co. mercan,
tile agency, on the application Of Les
ter NJ. Clark.
The latest advices from Nevada are
to the effect that Doggett, Republican,
has been elected to Congress by 1901
majority. The whole Republican tic,
ket is elected.
The Young Mems Christian Asso
citation of Chicago, Thursday evening
celebrated their Twenty-frst Ami,
versary, by meeting and reception,
at its reopened reading rooms.
Thomas Owens, a laborer and a
married man, hal his right foot cut
off Thursday morning, in Cincinnati,
while attempting to board a train
near the depot Of the Little Miami
Railroad Company.
Secretary Thompson Thursday NOR.
ming received draft for SSO,iS con-
tributed by the officers and crew of
the United States steamer Supply, at
Havre, France, for the yellow fever
sufferers.
Delegations from Louisville, New
Albany, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Co
lumbus, Greenville, Topeka and other
places, will be at the Commercial
Convention which is to be held in
Chicago next week.
A special cable dispatch from Lon
don says: Their Royal Highness, the
Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of
Connaught. have intimated their de-
sire tor service, should England be
unfortunately driven into war,
Governor Bishop, of Ohio, has par
doned James L. Mccoy alias Richard
Roe, a notorious bank burglar, who
was serving out a sentence Of ten
years. Roe was of good family and
was recently left large estate by the
death Of his father
There is no truth in the report cir
culated Thursday that the books con-
tanning the result Of the election had
been stolen from the office of the Blu,
reau of Elections in New York. The
books referred to are under lock and
key in the office of the chief clerk of
tho Bureau of Elections.
Alex. Smith, Republican candidate
for Congress in the Twelfth District
of New York, died suddenly at his
home Tuesday evening before the
close Of the counting Of the votes