Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-05-08
NEWS OFTHE Week.

was killed by the explosion OF Dlast
near Richmond, Saturday.
In Philadelphia, Saturday, Jane
Welsh was sentenced to ten years i'm.
prisoumet for killing John Fletcher.
Mrs. Margaret Shaw, of Providence
R. l., was committed for trial, Satur-
day, for tho murder of her Eusban d,
few days since.
Three hundred colored immigrants
dropped down upon Atchison Kansas,
Saturday. The citizens soon supplied
their temporary wants.
Albert Salter, a newly arrived i'm
migrant from Ger many, aged 40 years
committed suicide in New York on
Saturday by shooting himself.
The trial of Ephraim Snyder for
the murder of Christiana Hartman in
Heidelberg township, York county,
Pa, in December last, was concluded
Friday in York, with verdict Of
mot guilty.
The boarding house attached to the
Industrial Institute, Sugar Grove, Iii.
was burned Saturday. Loss 81 800.
The Hagerstown female seminary,
numbering IS persons, made an ex-
cursion to Washington over the Balti,
more and Ohio railroad Oh Thursday
last.
Mrs. Admiral Dahlgreen, Of Wash
ington, las taken possession OF her
sum ner residence on the summit OF
South Mountain.
The Hagerstown Mail Gays that one
wren is worth "a penitentiary full Of
English sparrows. 1t says the spar
rows imported to that place are filthy
and destructive to gardens.
It's said that Wade Hampton'E son
aged &c. has not been seen since
April Goth, when lis brotaer sent
him to settle a livery bill.
The Chica5o and Pacific Railroad
sold by the master in Bishop thur
day afternoon. was purchased ty Johr
nearon for $6l6, 100.
Fritz Ulrich, a convict at the peni
Tertiary at Chester Ill.,. Was shot anc
badly wounded Thursday. by the Off
Ger on duty, while attempting to ss
cape.
A. NJ. Bailey, the Oldest printer
and publisher in Richmond, Va, dec
Wednesday, aged IS years. He wa
the first president Of the Richmond
Typographical Union.
Patrick Collins, Of Altoona, Pa, II
fit Of delirium jumped from thIre
story window, forty feet to the gronn'
at Whites hotel, fractured his skull
and died.
The Jail off at Chicago refuse
by the advise of physicians, permls
sion to visitors to see Mark Gray ano
eudeayor to keep him quiet until Ed
win Booth calls again.
1t is stated in special dispatch the
object Of the Vanderbilts visit to Chi,
ca 90 is to make trip of inspection
ever the Northwestern Railroad, over
which it is asserted, he has gained
control.
Rev. r. r. Calbert, a Baptist min
ister, at Pellville, Davies county
Ind, while in a state of menta aber-
ration committed suicide last week by
hanging.
Isaac Bristow, we'll known New
York merchant, was arrested Satnr-
day on the charge of embezzement.-
He is charged by Oscar Hoyt, with
having felonionsly appropriated and
converted to his own use, $1,000
worth Of trust property.
William f. Gilmore, musician and
music teacher, formerly leader Of Gil
more's Band in Pawtucket, dropped
dead in that place on Saturday, and
Prof. Augustus Apelles, member o,
the American Band, died suddenly in
Providence, R. |. Of apoplexy.
Bounty and pension frauds have
been carried on to considerable ex-
tent in New York. Three men, Har-
riott, Maxwell and Daily were arrest
ed there on Saturday, for such pract-
ice. 1t is alleged those culprlts be-
long to ring that has defrauded the
Government Of 100000,
A man calling himself f. L. Myers,
but having the aliases of DR.. Maren-
nike and DR.. Esperty, was arrested at
Pittsburg on Saturday, for stealing a
watch, diamond pin and some mon
ey, all amounting to 81 900 from DR..
Shuev of Boston, while he was in
New York.
Tie main building containing the
machine shop and pattern rooms Of
the Pacific Iron works at Bridgeport,
Conn, was destroyed by fire at an
early hour Saturday morning. TIE
loss is estimated at $4,000 insured
for $4,000. The property d 'stroyed
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