The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-21
THE GGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, JUNE 81, 1873.
TIE NEWS.

ing Service.
The schooner Eothen, with the Frank
lin-Arctic search party, sailed from New
York on Wednesday.
Two hundred and twenty Mormon'
sailed from Liverpool, Eng, on Saturday
bound for Salt Lake City.
"A steel strand on the Brooklyn Bridge
New York, snapped asunder, last Friday, in
stantly killing two men.
The Wadsworth grain elevator, Buffalo
New York, was burned on Saturday, togeth'
or with 10000 bushels of wheat.
"A lively sham battle took place at the
Naval Academy, Annapolis, on Monday, be
tween the marines and midshipmen,
Stephen Roney, young German baker
shot himself in despair, on Sunday, because
he was not allowed to marry his cousin.
Several families at Pittston, Pa, were
poisoned and made very sick by drinking the
milk of cow whose udder was bitten by a
snake.
-Thomas Wilkinson, of Locke, Cayuga
county, New York, murdered his wife on
Sunday because she would not live with him
and then committed suicide.
The labor trouble in Lancashire Eng
land, is approaching its close, the operatives
at their meetings generally conccding the re-
duction demanded by the employers.
The mail and stage line from Fort Worth,
Texas, TO Yuma, Arizona, was opened Sat,
urday. tits 1860 miles in length, the longest
stage line in the world.
The twelve year old daughter of Jacob
Sander, residing at Greentown, Stark county,
was burned to death on Saturday evening,
her dress catching fire from stove.
"A stable $50 feet long and containing 30
stalls, at the Pimlico race course, near Balti-
more, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. 1t
was the work of an incendiary. Loss $500.
For the four weeks ended with June II,
the beef supplies shipped from this country
to British markets exceeded $500 live bull
locks and 5000 dressed beeves-all prime
steers.
The weather in England continues I'M
favorable for the crops. On Monday it was
cold and unsettled, and there were heavy and
frequent rainfails in various localities during
Saturday and Sunday.
Last Saturday, near Sturgeon, Mo 3,
Stephen j. Moore and Albert Gentry quar-.
relied about Gcntry's dogs biting Moore's
hogs, and Moore shot Gentry in the abdomen,
inf1icting n mortal wound.
Two young men empanneled on a Balti-
more jury got drunk during an adjournment
of the court, and the judge publicly discharg-
ed them and declared them hereafter ineligi-
BILE to the position of n juror in that court.
On Friday night negro named Allen
LYLE took lodging at the house of n negress
named Jane Brown, at Washington, Mo. AT
about 10 o'clock another negro, named King,
entered Lyles room and shot him twice, kill
ing him instantly.
The estate of the late Thomas Winans
it is believed will foot up i'll the neighborhood
of twenty million dollars, Some handsome
legacies have been left to relatives and friends
The bulk OF his property is equally divided
between his two children
-EXtraordinary excitement prevails at
Pidras Ncgras, Mexico, on account of the
presence of Gen. Mackenzie on Mexican soil
The McXicans are volunteering and organic
ing to fight him, and the government has or
dered Gen Nunco to pursue him.
Captain John T CURE, n submarine di
yer of Cincinnati, has proposed, on u
wager of 100000 to walk under water, on the
bottom of the Ohio river, from Cincinnati to
Cairo in twenty-five days The distance is
something over five hundred miles, requiring
him to make over twenty miles day.
One thousand operatives at Wilimantic,
Connecticut, were paid off in gold on Satur-
day. Hundreds of employees never saw gold
coin before, and many were unable to count
it, A number requested bills instead, and
the appearance Of the strange money created
quite a sensation in the town.
AT Coal Creek, Indiana, on Saturday,
John Kelly, an examiner, shot and MORALLY
wounded Thomas Minis, Il colored miner,
and wounded two others. The coored mi
ners got their guns, pursued Kelly into a
house, fired into the building and surrounded
it. The sheriff and posse arrived and arrest
ed all hands
On Monday morning some evil disposed
person put arsenic in the food for the
breakfast of d. ii. Bailey and family, of
which the entire family and servants, twelve
in number, partook The quantity was so
great that it acted as an emetic, and thus all
were saved from death,
On Monday three bad boys, from ten to
twelve years of age, placed large paving
stone on the track of the elevated railroad,
New York, intending to wreck n train. The
train was full of passengers, but each car
jumped the obstruction, settled down on the
track and proceeded without injury.
Tom Thumbs "a great, big fellow now"
weighing eighty pounds, and fortyone years
old. He and his wife, with Gen. Grant, Jr.,
and his wife, live in marlborough, Mass.
Mrs. Grant is the dwarf known rs Minnie
Warren, and Barnum is authorithy for the
statement that she will soon be mother
Saturday night, at 10 o'clock, as two
German residents of Wheeling, w. Va, nam
ed Kraus and Boehm, were going home,
they were suddenly and without provocation
fired upon by an unknown party Of drunken
men. Kraus is fatally and Boehm seriously
wounded. The assallants escaped and are
unknown.
The wheat crop for the present year is
more than heretofore abundant. The area
is larger than ever but the yield is not in
proportion. From the results of the harvest
thus far it is fair to state from reliable data
that the crop will be four hundred millions
of bushels. For the last three years the
yield has been one-thrd larger than in the
three preceding years.
Last Sunday a sailboat containing six
boys was capsized, in the Patapsco river
William Bonhage and George Williams be
ing drowned. The others were aided il
reaching the upturned boat by Geo. Panier
the only one of the party who could SWIM
The four boys were taken off by rowboais
the accident having been witnessed by {
number of persons on shore.
"A woman named Mary Brown has beer
convicted in New York of manslaughter fo
having kicked Frederick Wigand, saloo1
keeper, in the abdomen, causing his DEATH
The woman went into the saloon and asked
aims, whereupon the saloon keeper ordered
her out She slammed the door as she wen
out and as Wigand went to close the doc
she kicked him. She was sent to the Peni
Tertiary for one year.
The extensive pork packing establish
ment of Charles II. North 81 Co., at Somer
vile, near Boston, covering an area Of fou
ncres, MNs DESTROYED by fire on Sunday night