Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-08-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ner TRIP SOUTHWARK.
The wrestling match between Mill
err and Bauer, at Elmira N. y, has
been declared u draw.
Three men named Flavier, Adams
and Leeds were drowned in Lake Ma
deau, Ont, Tuesday week.
A prize fight between Hinken and
Murray, well-known pugilists, is an
nounced to take place near Philadel-
phla, August 18th
Martin Donough, a boy twelve
years old, was killed near Wheeling
Wednesday, by a tree falling upon
and crushing his head.
United States Marshal Payn's pa
per mill, at Chatham village, N. Y,
was burned Thursday. Loss 100000
insured for $4,000.
The Utica and Black River rail
road company have just completed the
road between Morristown, n. Y, and
Ogdensburg, and the first train was
run over the road Thursday.
Seven steamships sailed from New
York Wednesday for European ports
carrying however, comparatively few
passengers as the tide Of travel is now
in a homeward direction.
In a New York tenement house
fight Wednesday, Mrs. Mary Conklln
threw two pitchers Of boiling water
upon Mrs. Mary Graham, scaldin2
her face and otherwise dlsGgurlng hel
for life.
James Redmond, aged %, wa,
drowned Wednesday while bathing
in the Hudson river at Dudley
Grove. He was married on Sunday
and accompanied the bride and hi
two sisters on the excursion OF the
Eureka Association.
The night passenger trains on tho
Chicago and Northwestern RalIroac
collided at Madison, Wisconsin Tues
day morning. The engines, bagga9 g
and express cars were smashed. One
Of the fremen had his ribs broken
/ No lives were lost.
Nellie Brennan, twenty-three year
old, Of No. 30S East Folty.hfth stree
New York, Wednesday became intoX'
ieated and went to the roof Of her res
idence. While leaning over the cor
nice her head became dizzy and she
fell to tie pavement and was fatally
injured.
The directors of the Montgomery
county Agricultural Society have
adopted an order which provides thai
no game Of chance or gambling ar
rangements Of any kind shall be ,ole.
rated on the fair grounds at the APP
preaching Fall fair.
On the night of the 3Otn Of July a
heavy northwest storm prevailed at
Batabano, in the southwestern portion
of Cuba. Nine vessels are reported
lost and six ashore. These are un,
doubtedlv coasters. TIE steamer City
of New York, from New York, has
arrived at Havana.
VIM. Mitchell, Of Philadelphia, who
fatally stabbed John Stephenson dur
ing quarrel Wednesday night q
week, was arrested the following
Thursday. He acknowledges the at.
tack upon Stephenson, but sad lie did
not intend to kill him, and that they
were both drunk.
Six ice houses Of the Passac ice
company were burned by an incendi'
airy fire Thursday morning, at Old,
ham, a suburb of Patterson, N. j.
They contained about $1,000 tons Of
ice-the companv's entire stock
valued at 100000 in the aggregate
The houses were worth about $4,000
| There was no insure nce.
Theodore Sutherland,a white youth
of II, recently eloped from Port To-
bacco, Charles county, with a dusk y
damsel named Dora Berry, and was
married to her in Washington. Re
turning to Port Tobacco, Sutherland
mother had him arrested and con
signed to the House Of Refuge.
The tugmen's war at Chicago con
tinued Tuesday, aud Tuesday nigh
some ninety fremen and cooks, and
thirty engineers struck. There wa:
however no violence, and it is be
lieved all differences between the as
sociations and the men will be recon
ciled.
Information has been received al
the Treasury Department that the
Mexican silver dollar is causing 8
good deal of trouble to certain sec.
lions of Kansas. Until recently thai
coin was received as a dollar, now :
number of merchants have set the eX
ample by not receiving it for more
than from 90 to 90 cents.
There was a youth of Is recently al
the Paris Reformatory Institution fol-
boys, who gave notice that if he was
not liberated at certain period he