The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-07-04
The Egis and Intelligencer
BEL AIR, Nd, JULY 4, 1879.
Condensed News.

There is great distress in the West of lrelan'
on account of continued rains.
"A heavy thunder storm visited Paris Sunda.
night. Several persons were killed.
Henry Taylor, colored, was hanged for rap
ON last Friday afternoon in Forest City, Ark.
"A man has just died in Minnesota from thu
effect of swallowing a lot of pulvcrzcd glass fo
wager.
In Philadelphia last Friday, five persons were
killed by an exploding boiler. Several buildings
were destroyed.
j. f. Jaggard, resident of Biggs, Cal, was
stabbed and instantly killed ON Thursday of last
week, by II tramp, who was arrested.
The Ohio campaign will formally open
early in August with speeches by Mcssrs. Pen
dleton, Thurman, Ewing, Stccdman and others
Two boys, aged II and years, sons of Mr..
Neville, of Bryson, Quebec, drove Il horse to
water, Saturday, got into deep water and were
drowned
Lille Ducr who shot and killed Ella lIcarn,
at Pocomokc City, Md, has written love story
for the Philadelphia Times, and contemplatcs a
lecturing tour.
"A farmer living in Groesback county, Texas,
caught three young men in his orchard. He shot
one dead, MORALLY wounded another, and slight
ly wounded the third.
DR.. Spencer, a dentist ut Platte City, Mo-,
was shot and killed by man whose wife he had
ly under the influence of chlorotOrm.
lightning struck the spirc of the Episcopal
church, at Augusta, Nc, Sunday splintering it
from pinnacle to tower. Ii was set on fire, but
the flames were quickly eXtinguished.
AT Syracuse, N. Y, Saturday. a son of Charles
Rhinehart, aged fell in the canal while reaching
after II dog. His brother, aged g. went to his as
sstancc and both were drowned i'll each others
arms.
A German female teacher, Miss Theresa My
ers aged GO years, was found dead on one of the
suburban streets of New York, Saturday, having
committed suicide by taking poison because Of
poverty
AT Clarksburg, Ont, last Friday, two chill
dreu, eleven and nine years old, sons of Alfred
Stoutenburg, took shelter under Il tree from Il
passing storm and both were instantly killed by
falling limb.
Last Friday near Alton Junction, ILL.,, two
harvesters were met by two tramps who attemp-
ted to rob them. Resistance was made and one
of the haryestcrs was shot and killed and both
were robbed.
Anthony Sharp, of Boyertown, Pa, became
despairing because his sweetheart told him they
had better part company, and went out and fired
four shots into his body with n revolver He
was dying at last accounts.
Erwin c. Shattucll the youth who entered
his grandmother's house at Newport, and drug
ged her for the purpose of robbery, has been
his companion, got five years.
The Khedivc of Egypt goes ont of business
with pension of $25O,000 year to be paid out
of the Turkish treasury. The only unpleasant
feature about the matter is the chronic want of
funds in the Sultan's treasury.
-Tcvas meets out swift justice to murderers
once ina while. Henry Quarles, negro barber,
of Houston, killed his wife on the 18th of June.
BY the 23d he had been arrested, tried and con
viccd of murder in the first degree.
William Hill, n colored waiter in Peppers
Hotel, Baltimore, was found drowned in tub of
water, in his room, last Saturday morning. He
had either fallen or placed himself in the tub,
his head and shoulders being immersed in the
tub.
The Sultan of Turkey has deposcd the
Khedive of Egypt, and his son and heir, TewGk
Pasha, has taken his place. This step was forced
upon the Sultan by the English and other gov
crnmcnts, who were determined to establish good
administration in Egypt.
-Medford Waters, colored, who was convicted
in Cecil county court of the murder of his COM
rade Jenkins Whaey, has been sentenced by
Judge Stump to be hanged. Upon leaving the
court house, after the sentence, Waters remarked,
"That's business"
The residence of Mrs Rachel Hollis, wild
ow, residing in South Oil City, Pa, was entered
by burglar ut three o'clock Sunday morning
and robbed of 81 $50. The thief started fire in
five different rooms in the house, and the old
lady narrowly escaped being burned to death.
While the two little brothers of John Hay
ME and James Bell, colorcd, were fighting in
Caddo, near Arkadelphia, Ark John and James
took up the quarrel. John seized an old army
muskct and fired the whole charge in Bells
heart, killing him instantly. lIaynie is in Jail.
Mrs. Davis, the wife of Texas farmer, was
outraged by negro who fled, leaving her half
dead She managed to crawl to her house and
tell her husband, who, with number OF neigh
bors, followed and captured the fiend. lie was
taken back to the scene of his crime, and it is
believed was hanged.
james Palmer went into an undcrtakcr's
shop ut Riverton, Va, and got measured for II
coffin, which he said was for man exactly his
size. "Haye it ready this afternoon" he said,
"ior the corpse will be ready by that time"
Then he went to u railroad track near by, Law
down on it, and let the train run over him.
"A young woman in Newark N j. was re-
Gently married by telegraph to an old man in
San Francisco, and few days afterwards started
out to join her husband. He had intended com
ing for his bride, but was prevented by business
engagements, and the lady sought this means of
making the engagement u certainty, intending to
have the ceremony performed in the regular way
upon her arrival in California
"A strange occurrence is reported from We
tzlken, Canton Zurich, in Switzerland On June
Z the Commune was invaded by an immense
swarm ofbutterflies, two-thirds of a mile wide,
to pass. They were principally of the kind known
in Switzerland as DSte!tditer, which feed on net
ties and thistles They flew from ten to thirty
feet above the ground, and went off in north
westerly direction.
Five outlaws were hanged by n mob in Hen
ry county, KY, several years ago, and until late
ly that section was free of robbers A new gang
however, has proved its existence by particu-
larry liendsh crime. Raiding on farmers pre-
misses at night, they murdered three persons and
burned the buildings, for the sake of stealing
things worth less than $500. Gov McCreery
says, in proclamation offering a reward Ken
lucky cannot afford to let the criminals escape
"A railroad accident occurred near Wytheyillc.
Va, caused by the tire of the engine breaking
while crossing bridge. The engine and several
cars left the track and ran into the bed of the
creek below, distance of 96 feet The express
messenger young man named Langhorne from
Lynchburg, has not been found and is supposed
killed Conductor Raymond Fairfax and little
child of one of the passengers were serious, per-
haps fatally injured. Two mail agents and a
number of passengers were slightly hurt
The Americans lead the world i'm everything
and especially in fast eating this has made Dys-
pepsia our national disease, though now under
perfect control by the Use of Dr. Bulls Baltimore
Pulls. Sold every where. Price % cents.