Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-04-11
NEWS or THE WEEK.

town markethouse for the ensuing
year Melted $l,l3S
A cow of prolific propensities is re-
ported in Garrett county. She re-
Gently gave birth to nine calves.
The fisheries on the lower Potomac
are now in full operation, and the
catch is represented as unusually
large.
Farmer Thompson, who was shot
by Officer Smith in the recent affray
at Pine Plains, N. Y, died Saturday
An effort is being made to establish
a cheese factory, and organize a brass
band at Liberty, Frederick county.
Geo. L. Haddaway, editor Of the
St. Michaels Comet, has been appoint.
ed by the county commissioners col
lector of taxes for Talbot county.
0. w. Trundle, arrested at Point
of Rocks, this county, for using pos
tai card which had been cancelled, has
been discharged on payment Of costs.
A break in the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal about ten miles above
Georgetown. is reported, which will
delay The opening of the canal for
several weeks longer.
A Battleford special says Big Bear
collected his Indians so as to allow
tie buffalo to go north. He denies
any intention of joining Sitting Bull.
The Jail Of Talbot county is repre-
sentsd by the Easton Ledger to be in
so dilapidated a condition that pris-
toner's walk off without so much as
saying "by your leave to the Sheriff.
About | A. NJ. Sunday the insane
building connected with the Steuben-
county poorhouse, two miles north OF
Bath, New York, was fired BY l., G.
Ford, of Hornellsville, an inmate con-
fined in the institution with fits. The
Bath fire department was called to
the scene Of the conhagration too
late to be Of much service. The
building was OF brick, with iron.gra-
ted windows and doors, and the in
mates were unable to escape. l.. c.
Ford, David Curtiss, John Alvian,
John Messenger, Buel NJ. Page. Bet
sy Smith, Julia Davis, Rosa WEIGH,
Ann Ranger, Mary Stone, Chloe
Nude (coIoredD, Ann Shuts, Catha-
rine Sullivan, Jennie Mills, aged four,
and Mary Hewitt, aged one year were
burned.
About II o'clock Sunday night, the
citizens Of Wilmington, DEL, were
suddenly startled by rumors Of ter
rible tragedy. 1t was vaguely re-
ported that some man had killed his
wife and then cut his own throat
Investigation revealed the fact that
at about 8 o'clock blacksmith named
VIM. Thomas, living in Brownsville, a
western suburb Of this city, who had
been on a drunken spree since last
Tuesday night, came home and began
quarreling with his wife just AS she
was going to oed. They had three
little children, aged four, six and thir-
teen years, who slept in an adjoining
room. The oldest girl sad that her
father charged her mother with being
too intimate with another man and
threatened to kill her. The child
then ran for help 70 a neighbor named
Hawk, who was afraid to 60 over to
the house, but who hunted up two
police officers. When they arrived
they found that Thomas had hacked
his wife's head nearly off with raz-
or, killing her outright, and had then
cut his own throat with another razor
and was sitting in chair with the
blood gushing from the wound. In
the struggle the woman had got from
her own bedroom to the children S,
where she lay dead. The man was
brought into the police station and
the cash in his throat sewed up. 1t is
thought that he will survive. He is
about As years old, and an English
man. His wife was about 35. She
had drank come, but not for the past
three months, and bore good repu-
tation as far as can be learned
Thomas wounds were dressed, and he
will probably recover.
About 5 o'clock Saturday evening,
fty-horse-power boiler in the en-
CINE room Of the Boston stamping
mandatory Of Seavey & Co., Third
street, Cambridge exploded. Three
men were killed, another was fatally
injured, and six others more or less
severely wounded. The boiler was
hurled through The brick walls of the
engine room and the wooden walls of
the building enclosing it 100 feet
across the canal. Michael Moirland,
the engineer, was found crushed be-
tween the boiler and the granite
walls of the canal. James Anglin and
Nathan Burgess, at work in tie rivet-
ing room, in line with the course Of
the boiler, were taken from the canal
dead and mangled, having been swept
along by the boiler in its terrific
light. George Gerrity was taken
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