The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-07-30
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, JULY 80, 1880
Condensed News.


"A despatch from Manila says another earth
quake shock occurred there on Saturday, doing
much damage. No details have been received
Early Monday morning, in Baltimore, Mich
ael Dyornacky killed John Shaca with an axe
out of revenge for Shaca's outraging his wife.
"A woman at Red Clay, Geo, laid her baby
in box at grist mill, forgot oil about 1t, and
wenthome The miller filled the box with meal
and unknowingly smothered the child
john A. Moore, travelling agent for w. T.
Dixon u Brother, of Baltimore, dropped dead in
the vestibule of the Brown House in Macon, Ca,
on Saturday night.
MIR. VIM. F. McKewen, formerly clerk of
the Criminal Court was on Saturday appointed
clerk of the City Court, to fill the uneXpired
term of the late Nathaniel e. Robertson.
"A large party ofimmigrants, including men,
women and children, filling two coaches, arriv-
ed at Petersburg, Va, on Monday morning
from Germany, en- route to Georgia.
John King an Irish laborer, ordered Paul
Smith, colored away from an unfrequented, street
In the suburbs of Cincinnati, Sunday afternoon.
A fight ensued, in which Smith actually choked
King to death.
-Stehman Deitrick, aged 20 years, of Lancaster
county, Pa, was instantly, killed by lightning
on the both instant while standing under tree,
beneath which he had taken shelter while out
cunning.
Mr.. Charles Ewing Easter, the nominal head
of the firm of Hamilton Easter " Sons, died in
Baltimore on Sunday morning last. He was
about SO years of age and leaves wife and two
children.
DR.. F. Williams, of Mechanicsburg, Miss,
was assassinated while riding home on Saturday
evening. negro was arrested on suspicion
and has since confessed his guilt. He says he
was paid to kill the doctor.
AT Easton seven children have been serious
" hurt within the last few days while playing
with toy pistols. One ofthem, George Davis, has
died in terrible agony from lockjaw. Symp-
toms of this disease have appcaredin two other
cases.
Constantine Herring, NJ. D., the founder of
homeopathic practice in this country, and
physician of great eminence both here and in
Europe, died suddenly on Friday evening ut his
residence in Philadelphia, in his eghty-tirst year
The ship Winchester, which sailed from
Manila in June last full laden with sugar for
Montreal, has been totally lost in the Strait OF
Macassar. Her cargo was valued at from $751;
600 to 5000, 900, which is covered by insurance.
A Chicago boy stole $3.50 from his employer
and started westward to fight the Indians. When
overtaken he was dressed in fringed buckskins
and across his shoulders was a rifle, while his
pockets we're stuffed with knives, pistols and
ammunition.
George Callahan, aged fifteen years. was
caught in the cogs of grist-mill, near Queens.
town, Md, last Thursday, and almost instantly
killed, his skull being crushed and his brains
scattered around. He was n son OF &. W. Gala
han.
A German named Martin Gruner, 81 years
of aye, of Baltimore, hanged himself with
small cord to his bed post, on Tuesday morning,
For three years he had been suffering with some
bodily affiiction, for which the only relief was
stimulants.
General u s. Grant has been elected Prcsi
dent of the San Pedro and Canon dc Lagua
Company, which OWLS 40, 600 acres of land in
New Mexico, including copper and gold mines.
Boston and New York capitalists are largely in
terested in the enterprise.
Cadet Engineer Llewelyn Fairfax Whittle,
aged 81, a son of Bishop Whittle, of Virginia,
died at the United States Naval Hospital, Phila-
delphia one day last week, ofinjuries received
by an accident in the machine shops at Annap
polls about q month ago.
"A pen containing eight sea lions, which
were one of the attractions at Coney Island, New
York, was broken to pieces by the waves and
the lions escaped into the sea. One of them was
shot and captured at New Brunswick, N. d.,
on Saturday night.
Pope Leo XIII. is thinking of series of
books for children to be used in the schools of
Rome, and is not unlikely to take the works Of
the Catholic Publication Society of New York
as their model. 1t will be wonderful thing
when Rome uses school books on the American
plan.
Allen Wright, negro, confined in the Jail
ut Dallas, Texas, who Is to be hung on the goth
of August, made desperate attempt at suicide
on Saturday. He saturated his head and cloth
ing with coal oil, and then set fire to the latter.
The jailers prevented the design, though not be-
fore he was slightly injured
"A dispatch from Dublin to the London
Daily Ne,gS says: 'Thc weather continues to
be very fine. Hay is being speedily cut and saw
ed. All the crops are maturing at unusual rap
idity In view of this some of the Mansion
House Relief Committee consider that their
labors ought to be ended Immediately"
Mrs. Hancock is regular attendant of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. The little church
ON Governors Island, which is supported by
Trinity parish, has been attended by Mrs. Han
cock during her residence at that station, and
she has, in fact, contributed to the service by
regularly playing the organ for the Sunday
gatherings there.
ASuARK CAPTURED-Messrs. John Tcppish and