Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-04-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Eighteenth United States in
lantry left Atlanta, Ga, for the north
west on Saturday,
Mishler won the 3O-hour walking
match at Reading, Pa. Saturday eve
ming last. Distance 10 miles.
A Turkish bath blew up at Lake
City, Mo-, Thursday, fatally scalding
Dr. Cell, proprietor.
Warren johnson was caught in
machinery and crushed to death at
Wllkesbarre, Pa, Thursday.
At Shohola, Pa, Wednesday, Geo
lTass cut his wife's throat in a terri
bic manner and then drowned him
sell.
J. p. Timberlatc was killed by a
boiler explosion at Goldsboro, n. c.
Thursday. Four other persons were
badly scaldcd.
Slack & Degruyters brewery, in
Charleston, W. Va, was burned Mon
day morning. Loss $4,000, insur,
ance $1,000.
A special dispatch says the planning
mill OF w. II. Rittenburg at Hobart,
Indiana, was burned on Saturday
night. Loss $4,000.
Among the passengers sailing from
Philadelphia Saturday in the steamer
Indiana was the Hon. Horace May
nard, United States Minister to Tur-
key.
A fire in the chamber OF commerce
building, Toledo, Ohio, Saturday,
caused damage to the e&tent Of
5000.
Isaac A. Barnes, treasurer Of the
Foxboro' Mass, savings bank, has
been removed Oh account Of petty IT.
regularitles.
Ira S. Remmey, an iLtemperat e
farmer living at Westtown, n. y,
was found dead from exposure, about
mile from his house last Friday
night.
Tharles S,iH,L D. Hardness, Frank
Murphy and other clerks of Marcus
Kran berg, Of Chicago, have been ar.
rested, charged with fraud involving
| $4,000.
About midnight Friday night last
Peter KeLl and Patrick Monday
were instantly killed by q fall Of Goa,
at the Monitor coliery, Locust Gap
| Pa.
VIM. V. Cole, farmer, aged thir.
| ty five years, living in Vantage, Sus
sex county, N. j., hanged himself tc
tree on Friday night. Financial
embarrassment was MS reason.
A laboring man named Weaver
living near Sabina, Ohio, was shot
and fatally wounded Thursday by
constable J. l.. Johnson, who was en-,
d,avoring to arrest him.
The rope of the elevator at the
Creamery Park hotel, n. Y, broke
Thursday and the elevator fell to the
basement crushing George Drochard
engineer OF the hotel.
Eighty cars filed with merchandise
and canned fruits were demolished ny
colltion at East Rah way, New Jer-
sey, early Thursday morning. A
brakeman was slightly injured.
The three days walking match at
WiIliamsport, Pa, between OIiv' r
James, of New York, aud W. Shed
man, Of WllamsE ort, was won on
Saturday night by Sheaman, who
scored 1873 miles against James l5l.
TIE safe of the provision and pork
packing establishment of Flgge X
Bro, Brooklyn, n, was blown open
by burglars early Saturday morning
and robbed Of 5000 in bill and silver
and 81 800 in bank stocks.
Louisa Wallace, colorel woman
oc Washington, who was last wee k
convicted Of murder in having caused
the death of her infant child in April
1878, was on Saturday sentenced to
be hanged on the Goth of June next
Samuel Gardner, of New Haven,
aged 46 years, was found dead in bed
by his wife Saturday, having commit
ted suicide by taking morphine. De-
ceased had been drinking and was de-
spondent at lack of work. He made
a similar attempt on his life last fall
A. Foster Elliott, OF New Orleans,
resident secretary Of the Liverpool
London and Globe insurance com
pany, and vice consul Of Brazil, fell
dead on the street Thursday after.
noon.
A MACS meeting of colored citizens
to express t. cir views on the exodus
of colored people to Kansas from the
South was held in New York last
Thursday night but owing to the in,
clemency of the weather was slimly
attended. A subscription was taken