The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-03-12
The I he l Mg is and and Intelligenccer
BEL AIR, Md, MARCH 12, 1880.
Condensed News.

Condensed News.
The Legislature has appropriated $1,000 IL
rcfurnish the Governors mansion.
AT the charter election at Middletown n
Y, Tuesday, five women were elected members
of the board of education over five men.
Charles Neberge, French tailor, died in
Chicago, last Friday of hydrophoba, having
been bitten by mad dog two weeks previous
ly.
Work is so brisk in New York that carpen.
ter brick LAYERS and other workmen are Kept
busy all night long, working in the glare ofelec-
trio lights.
COL Reuben Steerc, aged SO, height 9 feet and
10 inches, was married, at Rochester, New York,
last Sunday, to Miss Rebecca Meyer, aged 81,
height feet and 8 inches.
AN engine and IS coal cars were wrecked by
the giving way of trestle bridge at Little Lake,
Wash T., on Sunday. One man was killed and
several Others were injured.
A fly wheel at the Reading Iron Works cx-
ploded, on Tuesday, one Of the pieces striking
and instantly killing VIM. Yeager, boy twelve
years old, who was working near it.
Nearly $500 miners in the Clearield (Pa. coal
region have struck for higher wages, but the
mine owners refuse to accede to their demands
and the mines are closed in consequence.
Recent rains have swelled up the creek at
Clearfeld and the West branch of the Susque.
hanna into good rafting flood. Logs in large
lively rate.
On Thursday of last week. at Pittston, Pa,
little boy named Warren Schoolay was shot
in the streets by an unknown man. When he
was carried home his mother was so much over
come by the sight that she dropped dead. The
little fellow also died the next day
On the 9th of January terrific explosion
took place In the artillery barracks at Santiago
Chilli, killing twenty-four men, 1t is supposed
to have been caused by some of the workmcn
employed in the cartridge mandatory careless
ly dropping shell, which exploded.
"A negro barber, living in Norwak, Ohio
named Hawkins, attempted to kill his wife, his
stepfather and himself last Saturday He put
two balls in his wife's head shot his stepfather
through the arm, and then himself once in the
head and once in the breast Pure wifulness is
given as the only cause.
Last Saturday night twenty prisoners in the
Wheeling, w. Va, Workhouse, mutinicd, and
attacking the guard escaped from custody
One of the guards in seidefense fired at the pris-
oners, but missed his aim, the bullet striking
and instantly killing Patrick DAILY, prisoner
vino was taking no part in the fight
Two boys in the public school at Steuben-
vile, Ohio, during school hours, We're engaged
bargaining for the purchaseand sale of pistol.
The purchaser came into possession; but while
examining it, the weapon was discharged, the
ball passed through his hand and into the leg
below the knee The injuries are not serious.
"A girl, IL years ola, the daughter OF John
Webb, near Farmyille, Va, was burned to death
ON Sunday last, by attempting to kindle fire
with coal Oil There was no assistance near,
and she threw herself into a mud puddle in the
yard, which proved Intellectual She was nearly
dead when her parents returned, and expired
after four hours of terrible agony.
Martha Meyer girl Of lG, Was arrested in
New York on Sunday for arson. She had stolen
number of articles from her employer, and
after piling them on the floor saturated them
with Kerosene and set fire TO them. She intended
To escape with the stolen property during the
confusion, but was detected The fire was extin-
gushed with but little damage
AT Woynesvilc, Ohio, Daniel r. Anderson
was rearrested upon the charge ofmurdering his
divorced wife, Mrs. Halle, her sister, Mrs.
Wicks, and Myrtle Shaw, a daughter of the
latter. The victims were hacked to pieces with
4 hatchet and their bodies covered with quick
lime. After the discovery was first made An
derson was arrested but was discharged by the
justice.
The workngmcn in San Francisco are great
lyeXcited over the Chinese question. The Board
of Health has condemned the Chinese quarter of
the city as n nuisance and recommends its de-
struction. Serious riots are feared and, as a
matter of precaution upwards of 800 United
States regulars have been ordered TO San Fran
cisco to assist in preserving the peace.
Mr. Abraham Kaufman and his son-in-law
Dr. Samuel Kahn, of New York, pledged each
other that the one who died first should be ere
mated by the survivor. Accordingly il fell to
the lot of Mr.. Kaufman to cremae DR.. Kahn,
and the act was done on Tuesday night in DR..
lie Moync's furnace at Washington, Pa. The
ashes were forwarded to New York