The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-11-21
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, NOVEMBER 81, 1879.
Condensed News.

The equestrian statue of Gen. George H.
Thomas was unveiled with imposing ceremonies,
at Washington, on Wednesday.
The former Confederate cruiser Shenandoah,
belonging to the Sultan of Zanzibar, has gone
down in the Indian ocean with nearly all on
board.
The teachers of Washington county have pc
titioned the school commissioners for an advance
of 20 per cent on their salaries as fixed by the
commissioners a few months ago.
The colorcd woman Eliza Pinkston, Of Lou
isana returning board notoriety, has been ar
rested on the charge of numbering her husband,
who died suddenly last Saturday.
When the Abyssinan war was over the lit
tie son of King Theodore was brought to Eng
land to be educated. He died Friday Mt Leeds
at the age of nineteen years.
"A dispatch from Syracuse, New York, says
that plan for the settlement of the Democratic
difficulties in New York, is under consideration.
Governor Seymour is to be made arbiter.
Last Saturday, Mr. Henry w. Worthington,
q bookkeeper for Goldsborough d johnson, of
Baltimore, while delirious from typhoid fever,
leaped from fourth story window, and was in
stantly killed
On Monday large fleet of scows was sunk
in storm on Lake Ontario, and all hands were
lost, except six, who were rescued by the tug.
Thirty-one persons, including three women and
one girl, were drowned.
A Denver, Colorado coach rolled down q
precipice Friday evening. Rev. w. Pickett,
who had just built church at Leadville, was
instantly killed and nine other passengers were
seriously injured.
"A large fouringmil on Gwynn's Falls, near
Baltimore, belonging to A. i. Webb d Son, was
destroyed by fire on Monday evening. The fire
is supposed to have been caused by heat evolved
by friction of some of the machinery.
Cats can not live in Leadville, Colorado
The lead dust floating in the air is deadly poi
tl,nt, I,,t l,t,,
efforts to keep their coats clean by licking them
the unfortunate felines imbbe the poison and
die
-Balthazar Burck q German tailor, living
in New York, went home drunk, last Saturday
night, and attackedhis wife witha pair ofshears
Her brother, Charles Riegar defended, her and
took the shears from the drunken man. The
latter turned furiously on Ricgar, who in selfdc-
fence stabbed and killed him with the shears.
"A commission is in session at the White
River agency, endeavoring to find out the In
dams concerned in the murder of Indian Agent
Meeker. The Utes who have been examined
have proved themselves to be the greatest liars
or the greatest ignoramuses in the world The
prospect of discovering the murderers is very
slight.
In photographic establishment in Phila-
delphia, on Friday, Jennie Hall, 10 years of age
wound q lock of her hair around shaft, while the
machinery was stopped, playfully remarlng
that she was going to curl her hair by machine
ry The shaft at the same moment was set in
motion, and her hair became firmly wound
around the shaft. Before the machinery could
be stopped the scalp was torn from the back of
her head to her brows. After intense suffering,
she died Saturday night
On Tuesday morning blast was let off g roo
feet from the mouth of n tunnel on the Narrow
Gauge Railroad from San Jose to Santa Cruz,
California. A violent explosion Of gases gener-
ated by the flltcrng of coal oil through the roof
and sides of the tunnel took place. Twcnty-one
Cinnamon and two white men were at work in
the tunnel at the time. About twenty more
Chinese Immediately rushed in to aid their COM
rades, and their torches caused second and
more terrible explosion. About 80 Chinese
were killed, and 10 Chinese and the two white
men seriously injured.
Colonel John Frederic VonWerder, soldier
of Napoleons Old Guard, died AZ the Aged Mems
Home, Baltimore, on Sunday, aged 80 years. He
was conscript in the German army, was cap
tured by the French entered the service of the
latter, became u colonel, was ade-de-camp to
Marshals Murat and Ney, and was in the retreat
from Moscow. He afterwards rejoined the Prus-
sian army, and fought agaiGyt Napoleon at Wa
terloo. subsequently he fought for the liberties
of Greece, then re-entcred the French army
served in Algicrs, and finally came to this coun-
try in 1913, with Carl Schurz now Secretary of
the Interior.
Last Saturday fire broke out in q black
shop in Frankfort, KY The shop was occupied
ny former convict, named wilson, ana man
named Dougherty. The shop and other proper
ty was destroyed. Wilson were arrested upon
suspicion that he had killed man named Gard
ner and way trying to burn up the body. When
the fire died down the body of child four or
five years Of aye was found in the debris. 1t
proved to be the son of NJ. A. Jones. Suspicion
then prevailed that the child had gone to the
shop and discovered Wilson setting fire to the
shop, when the child was killed and thrown into
the flames. 1t was feared that the excited crowds
which gathered would take Wilson from the
Jail and lynch him.