The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-06-20
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, JUNE 20, 1879.
Condensed News.

was thohSu W uCutu Ny IL tTllIlb
john Randebush, aged 81, was accidental
shot dead while taking ball from his revolver
near PhGniNvillc, Pa, on Saturday.
Laura Baker, of Clarksburg, Ind, was fol
hidden by her parents to keep an appointment
with her lover; so she went out and hung her
self
Two boys of eight years went on the waite
in a boat, at Senickley, Pa. One fell overheard
the other plunged in to rescue him and both were
drowned.
-Four prisoners escaped from Camden IN. j.
Jail, last Sunday afternoon, by saving off bal
of their cell and getting into the yard, from
whence they got into the street.
AT Utica, n. Y, on Sunday, Mrs Kate Sher
man, while drunk, saw erlittle child on the rail
road track. To rescue it, she ran in front of an
engine and was killed; the child escaped unhurt
1t is generally accepted at Washington that
the President will veto the legislative and army
bills, and there is thought to be Mt least an even
chance that the legislative bill will meet the same
fate.
Mrs. Eliza Upham was fatally burned at
Worcester, Mass, Saturday night, by her
clothes catching fire from coal oil lamp, broken
i'll quarrel in which she was acting rs peace
maker
A correspondent tells of the killing of rat
tlesnakc few days since in Todd county, Ky.
When first discovered a little child was playing
with it, the snake meanwhile darling out its
tongue.
During rain storm along the Long Ridge
railroad, Connecticut, the entire road for dis
lance of so rods, swarmcd with millions ofyoung
frogs. They are supposed to have descended in
the rain
Albert Smith, wealthy farmer of Freak
ness Valley, Passaic County, N. j., was killed
by lightning at his residence on Sunday. His
son, who was with him, was stunned by the
same shock.
AT Minneapolis, thirteen little girls were
poisoned by eating castor beans. Some Of the
cases threatened to result fatally. The beans
were of a variety different from those used in
medical practice.
AT three o'clock Sunday morning an at
tempt was made to burn the City Livery Stable
of Thomas Lynch, on Front street, South Oil
City, Pa, and the building was nearly destroyed.
The horses were all removed.
Miss Sallie Sutton, aged so years, living in
Harrison county, KY, was frightened by bum
Bile bee which flew into the room, and attempt
ing to escape from it, fell 10 the floor, receiving
injuries from which she died.
Last Saturday, in Baltimore, Xachariah Cam
phor, colorcd, beat his sister to death. The
woman is represented to have been very quarrel
some Her brother is said to have been very
quiet SOBER Woodworking man.
"A watcrspout burst at Buffalo Gap Dakota,
on Thursday night, causing Il sudden rise and
overflow of Beaver creek, which drowned eleven
persons most Of them cmgrants on their way
To the Black Hills from Mills county, Iowa.
About ) o'clock Sunday afternoon, a German
named Charles Stcmkcn shot himself dead III
City Hall Park, New York, He was formerly
wrll-tO-do carriage builder, but failed in bust
ness, became poor, partially paralyzcd, and des
pOndcnt
A farmer living in the vicinity of Ilammon-
vile, KY, set a stump on fire in the same field
in which he was blowing, short time since and
a bombshcll-lodged in it during the war and
out Of sight-eXplodcd, scattering the splintcrs
all over the field.
AT Boswell, Ind, on Saturday afternoon, $50
persons gathered for shooting match, took
shelter in lumber shed from thunder storm.
Lightning struck the shed, killing Michael Wag-
anand Louis Shermes, and fatally injurng John
James and John Lane. Four Others were severe
ly injured.
Fourteen persons sal down TO dinner at Rob
ert McNceley's table, in Atlantic City, N. j., and
before the meal was over seven of them were
violently i'll. They had eaten bread from loaf
that contained arsenic enough to kill a hundred
men, and only the great size Of the doses prevent
ed fatal results.
On Monday afternoon, near Boundary avenue
bridge, Baltimore, an infatuated steer, which had
become separated from drove, plunged at Lizzie
Blake, little girl who was passing, and tossed
her into the air with his horns, injuring her
severely. The steer was killed by county police
man Taylor with his revolver.
AS Mr. George Cornell and his iive-ycar old
son were taking walk, near New Windsor N.
Y, the father who was some distance ahead,
heard the boy scream Running back he found
that large black snake had coiled itself tightly
around the little fellows leg. Mr.. Cornell bat
tered the snakes head with stones until he killed
it.
AT Mahomct, ILL.,, Mrs. Lewelcn, wife of a
druggist, met her husband at the depot as he
stepped from the train, lcyclcd Il revolvcron him
and fired twice, neither the balls taking effect.
He escaped, and she followed, irving to shoot
him. Lcwellcn had just returned from a trip ON
which he had been accompanied by another
woman.
"A Berkshire Mass J man has been found who
worships idols eats snakes, toads and other rep
tiles, and boasts of an appetite for human flesh
"a habit he acquired during a long residence in
the South Sea Islands He once offered to work
six months raneighboring farmer, in exchange
for his daughter, a buXom young miss, upon
whom he wanted to feast.
Last week was q disastrous one to York
county, (Pa.) tobacco growers. The great hail
storm of Wednesday not only destroyed or great
ly damaged hundreds of thousands of plants that
had been already set out, but cut to pieces the
plant beds in many places, so that a scarcity of
plants exists, and it is now too late in the season
TO sow seed and raise new plants.
The mail from Panama brings full particu-
lars of the severe naval battle ofIquiquc, where
the CHILEAN ship Esmeralda was sunk with all on
board and the Peruvian iron-clad Independence
ran upon rock and was destroyed. Further
details are also given of the bombardment of Pr
sagua by the Chilians. A telegram from Rio ia
nerio also intimatcs that Buenos Ayres was like
ly to declare war against Chill.
In Cincinnati Edward jenkins, a tar roofer,
butchered his mistress most brutally, inilict-
ing four or five severe cuts across her face
and neck, cutting off her left ear and attempting
TO pierce her heart. lie left her for dead and
finding officers on his track made for the river,
reaching it with his pursucrs at his heels. He
plunged in and no more was seen of him. Ii is
believed he was drowned.
"A woman named NIarceine Guiot, 2G wears
of age has just been condemned to death by the
Court of Assize of the Nienne, in France for one
of the most abominable crimes on record. She
forced her stcpdaughter, little girl eight years
old, to take with her soup sixteen pins, two
needles and some pieces of wood, and the unfor-
tunate child expired in the most horrible tor
ments. There could be no recommendation to
mercy even from a French jury in 5 uch an afro.
cious case.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. G. Noonan, of Kansas City
were awakened by anoisc early Sunday morning
Surprising burglars were in the house NoonnT
took n revolver and went into the front room il
the darkness, followed by his wife. She becam,
frightened and threw her arms around her hus
bands neck. He supposing himself ASSAULTED
by burglars fired, killing her instantly. Tn,
tNooi''i'n "o Mt'l-lo-uo pcopi', VINO lHoNcu iron
milwaukee, few years ago, where Noonan was
prominent merchant lie is a graduate of Yal,
College.
The Ohio Legislature has just passed bill
for the punishment of tramps, which provide
that "any person, not being in the county il
which he usually lives or has his home, who il
found going about begging and asking subsist
cncc by charity, shall be taken and deemed to be
tramp" This act will be the means of keepin,
the poor ndimprovident of each county at home
rather than risk an imprisonment of one to thre
years, as the law provides. Women and blin
persons are exempted from the provisions of tn
act which is to be in full force on and after Jul
LIST.
While Mrs. Sanford, wife of Patrick Sand
ford, living near jackson, Tenn, was engage