Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-06-05
NEWS OF The Week.

eide by drowning near trenton, IN. y
last Friday.
Henry Muller, a son of Danie1
Muller, in Norwich, Conn.,, was
drowned while bathing in the Thames
Sunday.
On Saturday an explosion of fire
damp occurred in Glendon colliery
Mahony city, Pa, instantly killing a
boy named Joseph Noakes, and Sc
verely burning five others.
Captain Boyton is i'll in bed at the
Fifth avenue Hotel, New York, suf-
feriag from the effects of his recent
terrible voyage down the Mississippi.
Taylor, Sliney g. Taylor, grocers Of
Meriden, Conn, have been arrested
for setting fire to their store last
Wednesday night, in order to obtain
$1,000 insurance.
Two men, Fillmore Dutton and Da-
vid Burger, We're killed by passing
train, while walking on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at Bailey's station
Wednesday morning.
Henry J. Cornell, of Petersham,
Mass, committed suicide by hanging
at Dana, on Monday. The cause was
domestic unbapPiness brought on by
his drinking habits.
Mill No. |, of the Monument mills,
Housatonic, Mass, was struck by
Saturday and damaged to
the extent Of $4,000.
Patrick Cullen, steward of the
schooner Florilla, Of IIarbor Grace,
N. F., was killed on the 25th inst,
during the passage to Sydney, G. B.,
by the jbb;ng Of the fore-boom.
Francis X. Kennedy was tried at
New City, New York, for the murder
of William Kingsland, at lIaverstrain
February 20,lS79, and convicted Of
murder in the second degree, and
sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
Mrs. Rose, wife of Joseph Butts,
who during a squabble Tuesday night
last in Boston, stabbed her husband
with knife, has been held in $4,000
bail to await the probable death Of the
wounded man.
Nearly the entire centre of Fulton
market, New York, was burned out
Saturday night. The flames were
extinguished after an hours hard
work. The loss will not exceed 3d.
900.
Masked burglars entered the saloon
of Carney Bros, Of the West Side,
Chicago, Friday night, and after
binding the proprietor hand and foot
rined the establishment Of about 5000.
Isaac H, Folger, the absconding ed
itor and proprietor of the Blockton
(Mass) Advance, whose debts aggre-
gated $40, 200, was arrested at Bos.
ton Saturday at the instance of credi-
tors, on a charge Of obtaining money
under false Iretenses.
Carlos Belts, the son Of farmer
living near Mt. Clemens, Mich, took
loaded revolver to show q friend
how another man had killed himself.
HIS illustration led to funeral as he
shot himself through the head.
Albert Dunn, aged Is, was drowned
in Black river at Port Huron, Michi-
gan, on the night of the 18th. He
had just saved his youngest brother
from watery grave, but in getting
out the braye little follow lost his
footing and was himself drowned.
James Logan, private detective,
who has spent much time on the Char.
lie Ross case, claims to have in his
possession positive evidence that the
missing boy Is alive and we'll at this
date, and predicts that the mystery Of
the abduction will soon be solved.
Edwin B. Harris was on Saturday
indicted and sentenced in Chicago, TO
seven years in the penitentiary for
the ENLIGHTENMENT Of 81 800 from NJ
Candy Yoe &. Co., of which firm he
was book keeper. HIS speculations
extended over a period Of four years.
Jacob Sleime, Of Plattekill, Ulster
county, N. Y, was crushed to death
Friday by a heavily loaded stone
wagon, while applying the brake as
the vehicle was going down steep
grade. He was thrown to the ground
the front wheel passing over his waist.
Police Captain Williams, Of club,
bling notoriety in New York, was him
self dubbed soundly Saturday after
moor by two men on Seventh avenue.
His assailants were arrested after des-
perate resistance, and subsequently
sentenced to six months imprison-
ment.
A dangerous maniac named Corbett
was arrested in New Orleans on
Thursday, because he threatened to
take the lives Of some of the principa]
dignitaries of the Roman Catholic
church He clainna TO be the brother