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

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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, farmer, was fatally
stabbed near Rock Island, Illinois,
Thursday, by being caught under a
sand bank.
While coupling cars at Calmar,
Iowa, Thursday, VIM. Van Hoover,
aged l6 years, was crushed to death
The British ship Fifeshire has been
totally lost while on a passage from
Madras to Liverpool. Twenty two
of the crew we're drowned.
In the double scull race at Orela
Ontario, Friday, between McKen and
Elliott, Of Toronto and the Gsndour
Of Orelia, the latter won by four
lengths,
Edward KIapp Aldrich, eyed 49,
a lawyer, suicilel 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 Har-
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
for Genoa. Three employees of the
bank were arrested on suspicion.
A party of prominent men from
the East aud a number Of leading
citizens Of St. Louis, left there Friday
night for an excursion on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad, through Colorado
and New Mexico.
Thos. NJ. Reinhardt, of New York,
was Thursday appointed a receiver Of
the Mcklllop, Spragne Il Co, mercan.
tile agency, on tae application Of Les.
ter NJ. Clark.
The latest advices from Nevada are
to the effect that Doggett, Republican,
has been elected to Congress by 800
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 a meeting and reception,
at its reopened reading rooms.
Thomas Owens, laborer and a
married man, had 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 $SO,lS 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 iutimated 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-
tain.g 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
the 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
which resulted in his election.