The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-03-14
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Nd, MARCH IA, 1879.
Condensed News.

Mr.. VIM. P. Preston, the wcll-known Balti-
more lawyer, is very ill.
Five persons were burned to death in st.
Louis by an incendiary fire
Michael Maginnis, being drunk was killed
by falling down stairs in Boston, on Saturday
night.
AT Summit Station, in the Sierra Nevada, the
snow was sixteen feet deep, and still falling, on
Sunday.
Allen Mcdonald, a wealthy citizen of Glen
wood, near Scranton, committed suicide on Sun
day, by cutting his throat. Ii is said he was in
sane.
-Elihu Buritt, the ''lcaned blacksmith :.
died last Friday, at New Britain, Conn, aged 80
years.
Miss Rosna Thomas was fatally burned by
her clothes catching fire from a stove, at Tama-
qua, Pa, on Saturday.
Samuel Reed, a carpenter in New York, has
been arrested for killing his wife. He beat her
in fit of jealousy.
"A debt of $4,000 on the Presbyterian church
of Paterson, n. j., has just been paid. One firm
subscribed $1,000 of the amount.
John Hale was burned to death at Ncwbury-
port, Mass. He was incorporate, and probably
set the house on fire through carelcssncss.
Joseph Himmel, an old German, residing in
Cincinnati, leaves for London, next Thursday, to
recover 81 5000 to which his wife is said to be
heircss.
In Gloucester Mass, apprehension exists
that the entire fishing fleet of that port comprs-
ing fifteen vessels, has been lost last month with
all on board.
Eight stables were destroyed by incendarics
in Columbus, o., on Saturday night, and the
alarm was so great that the police force has been
largely increased
William NJ. Rutherford, ofOXford, Pa, who
was convalescent from severe spell of pncumo-
mia, dropped dead on Sunday morning while 20
ing to the breakfast table
Thomas Gratten, aged nine years, has been
arrested in New York for highway robbery. He
is charged with stopping and forcibly taking
$3.50 from little girl eight years old.
At a town meeting at North Berwick, Maine,
on Monday, the floor fell in and 150pcrsons were
precipitatcd to the floor below. No one was kill
ed, but Il number were seriously injured
Robert Bunting, the Cocrainc farmer, near
the Chester county line, who cut his throat in
what was TO him very unsatisfactory manner,
has died, after lingering for two weeks
Last Saturday night at Georgetown, ID. G.,
four small colored children were smothcrcd to
death by the bed on which they slept taking fire
from stove, while their parents were out.
The commission appointed by the Pennsyl-
vana Legislature in 1870 has awarded S253, 900 to
York county to pay the losses sustained during
The war. Five per cent. is to be paid immediate
ly.
The Brooklyn Prcsbytery is engaged in try
ing hcN. l. Dew lll lullnlGc, inc sensational
preacher for visiting places of evil resort, and
preaching sermons describing the wicllcdncss he
saw.
Augustus Gowen, an old man of seventy
was found dead in his house at Odtown, Me, on
Monday, with his throat cut in two places and
his forehead crushed in. A pocket book contain
ing bank notes was found on his person untouch-
ed.
w. II. Richardson, justice of the peace
at Mount Washington, Baltimore county,
ON Monday of last week, stabbed John Tun-
merry eleven times in the body and face with
pocket knife niicting serious wounds. Rich
ardson was arrested, but released on bail.
Charles and William Gcssely and Ambrose
Rubright boys, stole ride on coal train from
Auburn to Hamburg, in Schuyllil county, ON
Saturday. They jumped oil the train while in
motion, at Hamburg, and Charles Gcsscly was
killed. The others were injured, Rubri"ht
riously.
Charles Hill, the young man who set fire to
his neighbours barn, Nlliamsport, Pa, entirely
destroying it, ON the night of February l4th
was sentenced, ON Saturday, topay fine of 500,
costs of prosecution, and undergo Imprisonment
of solitary confinement in the State pcnitentiary
for ten years.
"A bogus dispatch, signed james r. Kccnc
was sent to Chicago, last week, ordering the
sale Of three million bushels of wheat on Mr.
Kecne's account. The wheat was sold AT 81
cents and had the effect of unsettng the mar
kets all over the country. Mr.. Kccne has Offered
a large reward for the discovery of the persons
engaged in this fraudulent transaction.
John p. NJ. Richards, of New York, on Sun
day night surprised Dargon and Casey, two burg
lars, al work III his house. lie fired at Casey three
times with revolver, when the latter turned
and rushed toward him, but was stopped by the
fourth shot, which killed him instantly. The
other man was captured by Mr.. Richards, who
turned him over to the police Both were we'll
known thieves. The man who was killed being
only % wears of are