Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-07-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

BILE and highly esteemed lady oil 'onoV
Hal, died a few days ago aged %.
Joseph Mason, of petroia, Pa, wa
arrested at Pittsburg Wednesday OF
a charge Of forging a rostal money
order.
Michael Mcbride thnmred his wifi
to death in Philadelphia Wednesday
and surrendered himself to the officers
like gentleman.
/ DR.. Livingston, late Indian agent
will sue the Chicago Tribune for libe
for charging him with fraud in con
nection with his conduct Of lndlar
affairs.
John Kelly, Jr., the missing con
tractor, who so mysteriously disap
peared from Montreal scme time ago
has been seen in London and Paris by
intimate friends.
John Tyler, collector Of the
port of Buffalo is charged by the
daughter of a prominent business man
of that city with seduction Tyler is
married.
Charles Schmidt, a painter, while
at work Wednesday, on a scallold at
No. 60 Henry street, New York, lost
his footing and fell to the street. Tie
was instantly killed.
About | o'clock Wednesday morn
ing, q fire broke out in kittaning, Pa
and owing to delay in applying water
gained great Roadway. The loss j,
about 100000 insurance $4,000.
The Newark, n. j., Opera House
was sold at sherifr's sale Wednesday
under mortgages of $4,000. 1t was
bought by b. J, Cotton, holder OF a
| $40, COO mortgage, for 81 200.
Henry Glutel, aged fifty attempted
suicide in New York Wednesday by
cutting both wrists with a table
knife. lie had been sick for several
years, and to this his act is inscribed
C. Reinhart, about 50 years old, q
travelling agent for a German newspa.
per published at Columbus, Ohio
was drowned ,whiIe bathing at Ferry
Bar, Baltimore Monday afternoon j
week.
Henry Gray 35 years old Henri
Johnson % years Old, and Henry
Forester, a youth, we,e accidentally
drowned during the past week at diff
ferent places in Baltimore waters.
Ida Black, young colored woman
was accidentally shot in the righ
temple one day last woek, in Ann,
Arundel county, b. Rose Stewart, an
Other colored woman, and died iron
her wounds on Friday.
Ellen Mccall, a young woman l.
years Of age, a variety actress, com
mittel suicide in New York Welnes
day at her residence by taking prus
sic acid. Love and dependency Were
the causes of the act.
The Supreme lodge of the Unite,
States, Independent Order Of Work
ingmen, convened at Louisville
Wednesday, Representatives frou
eleven states We're present, represent
| ing 10000 members.
| Benjamin Smith, who induced Lii
lie Lent to take laudaNum with him ;
month ago, because her parents oh
ectel to him as a lover, was Wednes
day acquitted in New York of tn,
charge Of attempting to take tho
young lady's life,
w. II. Morrison, well known car
penter and builder Of Pitt,burg, va
smotherel Monday by his coat whicl
be was using for . pillow while talk
ing a nap in the shop, getting owe
his mouth and nostrils and obstruct
ing his breathing,
Mrs. Timothy Lynch died in Sar
Francisco Wednesday from wound
inflicted with a jack .knife by her has
band on Saturday last while in a fl
Of drunken frenzy. Both parties ar,
scxagenafians. The murderer was b,
occupation a wood sawyer.
John +. Heating, indicted for kill
ing John Ryan in a saloon in Brook
lyn some time ago, was arraingel
Wednesday, and plead guilty Of man
slaughter in the fourth degree. IL
was remanded for sentence.
Patrick Okeefe, saloon keeper a
Taunton, Mass, was shot through tn,
heart Wednesday night, at a brothe
III that city. by son Of the proprie
trcss. The cause is supposed to be
jealousy. The murderer has been ar
rested.
A dispatch from Bismark, D. 7.
says: Last Friday 4 party Of Stand
ing Rock Indians caught the Indian
agent, Major Hughes, dragged hiu
down to the Missouri river, and trie,
to drown him. The commanding off
Ger, General Carlin, succeeded in res
cuing him.
Wednesday morning one of the old
est citizens OF E1ston, Pa, named An
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