Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-06-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A party from Oakland, Nd, one
day last week, caught 4l2 trout in
the Blackwater.
Tennessee will furnish a battalion
to compete for the prize offered by
the st. Louis Fair Association.
John Harper a colored man was &C
cldentally drowned on the 4th inst,
while fishing in the latapsco river.
One of the Salem, Mass. papers
talks about woman who was the
REGIMENT Of an over dose Of lauda-
mum.
1t will only take three more boys
to make round 500 that Mr.. Ross
has inspected in his search for Charl-
lie.
The Austin, Texas, Statesman says
the crop reports from ali over the
state promises with certainty the end
of hard times.
Rev. Zachariah Parker has beer
arrested in Dallas, Texas, for embez
zling pension money from his wards
in Huntsville, Alabama,
A twelve year old son of Michae
Griffin, Of Baltimore, was drowned
Sunday while bathing in Gwynn's
falls near that city.
The new republican city council o.
Cumberland has made reduction o.
IS, 800 on salaries Of city official!
compared with last year.
There were two elopments in Balti
moro city last week. All the partle.
Interested were married, and lief
their own families behind.
} George Munks, employed at Col
gates soap factory, Jersey city, feI
4 into a vat of boiling water, on Thurs
day afternoon, and was severely scald
ed
A coal train on the Erie Railroad
was thrown from the track near Pat
terson, N. j., last Thursday night, by
running over horse and the englnce
) killed.
The President has approved thu
act of Congress makirg appropriation
for The Military Academy for th'
next fiscal year.
John Parker, colored, who killed
+ George Franklin, colored, in a quar-
rel at Somerset, Ky, last March, wa
hanged Wednesday at that place.
General B. L. Bonneville, the old
est officer on the retired list in the
United States army, died at For
Smith yesterday week. lie was S;
years old.
Sitting Bull is reported quiet al
Belly river, but is moving eastward
after buffalo. Inspector Irvine left
Cypress Hills, May II, to interview
him.
Thomas Donaldson and son were
struck by lightning and killed near
Oil city, Pa, Wednesday last week
A man named Fink Was fatally in
jured.
While number of fremen were
putting out fire at "Cheap Johns"
auction house in New York Thursday
night the roof fell in burying dozen
among the ruins.
In Philadslp hia Thursday the
Grand Jury found a true bill against
General Gideon Clark, of Indictment,
for embezzIeing in 1874 money re-
ceived by him as register Of wills.
JIM. Oliver and John Sullivan
were arrested in Omaha on Friday
Oh the charge of counterfeiting.-
Counterfeit dies were found in their
possession.
A ballast train on the Occidental
railroad ran off at ThurSo, Canada,
Thursday night and ten cars were
wrecked. The engineer and fireman
were badly injured.
John Owens stabbed his son, aged
about twenty-five with butcher
knife, at Norfolk killing him Instant
| ". lie then attempted to commit
suicide. Owens was on drunken
spree.
The schooner Ida NJ. Eldridge
sailed from Philadelphia for Brazil
Thursday with large quantity OF
railroad iron and provisions for the
expedition now engaged in the con-
struoton Of the MADEIRA and Mamore
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