The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-07-23
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, JULY 90, 1880
Condensed News.

BEL AIR, Md, JULY 90, 1880
Condensed News.
Cecil county has two Democratic candidates
for congressional honors-Messrs w. s. Evans
and Albert Constable.
Alexander Mcknight, well-known citizen
of Elkton, Md, died Monday from the effects
ofthe heat.
"A caisson in the Hudson river tunnel, caved
In, last Wednesday. The water rushed in and
twenty workmen were drowned.
"A New York mother kept the corpse of her
babe In her room an entire week, on account of
her inability to raise funds to bury it.
Gen. Neal Dow, the great temperance lee
turer, has accepted the nomination for President
rendered him by the National Prohibition party
AT midnight Saturday, in Baltimore city,
police officer Charles Stunt CALAMITY captured
four burglars, who had robbed an unoccupied
house.
"A great plague of locusts having invaded
the Caucasus, the Russian army there has been
sent into the field to make war upon and destroy
them.
"A shark measuring over 0 feet was caught
recently off Cape May, by a party OF fishermen,
amongst whom was Mr.. W. +. McKewen, of Bal
timore.
Mrs. Mary Frye, of Keokuk, Iowa, was on
Friday declared insane, and with her infant,
Saturday she killed the child by hanging it to
the bed.
Mrs. Alio, who is in her 107th year, walked
from her son Johns, near Tylersburg, Clarion
county, to her son James Altos, on the 25th
OF May, distance of714 miles, and did not feel
fatigued.
-Dunnigan, who murdered Greigs, in Santa
Fe, N. NJ, few days ago, was taken from Jail
by maskers dragged by the neck with q rope
some distance, hanged to post, and his body
rdded with bullets.
Mrs Nesmith, of Philadelphia with two
children, while bathing last Monday in an unfrc-
quented and dangerous part of the beach, at
Atlantic City, N. D., were swept away by the
under-current and drowned
Robert j. Jump, a well-known lawyer of
Denton, Md, was assaulted and nearly killed,
with club, by James F. Melvin, Jr, on Tuesday
The assault grew out of the discovery of q num-
Der oflove letters written by Jump, who is
married man, to Melvin's young sister.
"A very severe storm visited Keyser, w. Va,
last Friday morning. The people had to cling
TO posts fences, trees, whatever they could get
to hold to. The hail fell with tremendous force
and was of considerable size, doing great deal
OF damage to garden truck and grain.
-Justus Hoffman, a German shoemaker of
Pittston, Pa, shot his wife and baby on Monday
instantly killing the baby and fatally woundng
his wife, who is now thought to be dying. He
had been drinking all day, and it is supposed
that this was the cause of his crime.
Successful experiments have been made by
Major I. b. Ferguson, U. s. fish commissioner,
in the artificial propagation of Spanish or bay
mackerel, and it is expected that next season
twenty or thirty millions ofyoung mackerel will
be added to the waters of the Chesapeake.
WIN. F. Darrah, an Annapolis naval cadet,
visiting Harrisburg, in fit of somnambulism
stepped out of a four-story window of hotel,
last Saturday night. He fell 35 feet into an open
cellar way smashing the steps and breaking
three of the iron supports. The only injury
he received was slight fracture of the wrist.
"A little girl at Oil City, Pa, was so deeply
affected by reproof from her parents for some
misconduct that she hanged herself. She was
discovered before it was too late, cut down and
revived. She now repents her foolish attempt
to take her own life.
Last Friday Jonathan Carey, of Frankford.
wealthy farmer, committed suicide by jump
ing down the we'll in his own yard He was
about W years of age and leaves q wife and
children and quite large landed estate. Tenn
porary hereditary insanity is supposed to be the
cause of the suicide.
AT Leadville, COL, Saturday, miner named
Baker entered a hardware store, and on being
refused q revolver pulled one out of his own
pocket and threatened to kill everybody pres
emit In attempts to overpower him he fatally
shot policemen Corbcll and Stewart He was
finally captured, and it is supposed has ere this
been lynched
Harry s. Orr, aged 35, of New York, at
tempted suicide at Bay View junction, near
Baltimore, on Sunday morning. When the
train stopped he leaped from the car to the
ground and with pocket knife cut number of
gashes in his throat. He also cut both wrists.
He failed TO sever any important blood vessel
He was taken to hospital.
The boiler of a steam saw mill near Barnes.
vile, Va, exploded on Saturday with terrific
effect, killing one colored man, fatally wounding
an employe named Bryant, and severely scald.
ing and wounding five others. The body of the
man who was killed was very much mangled,
and pieces thereof were scattered for distance
OF fifty yards around. The engine, weighing
5000 pounds, was blown twenty yards away
-Sambo Stephen Rosscl Brown, whose SEN
tence for killing youth in Frederick county,
Md, in 1865, was commnted from hanging to
imprisonment for life in the penitentiary has
been pardoned by Governor Hamilton. James
Maloney who in 1877 was sentenced to seven years
imprisonment for killing youth who was tres
passing on the property of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, has also been pardOned
by Governor Hamilton.
Andrew Wilson and Miss Schultz were bru-
tally murdered near Hillsborough Mo-, Friday
They were riding togethcrin wagon when they
were fired upon from the woods, the same ball
passing through Wilson's head and into Miss
Schutzs neck, killing her instantly and causing
Wilson's death soon after. 1t is supposed the
murder was prompted by jealousy, but no ar
rests have yet been made.
Amos Harrison and Philo Peters, while bath
ing in Arkansas river, 40 miles east of Pueblo
Col, found an iron pot containing SO, 900 in gold
and silver. An old letter found In buckskn
purse in the pot, dated April 10, 1860, said 81
stole the money in Chicago from farmer My
partner died in Kansas City, March Is. | am
going to New Mexico. If anybody finds this
pot they can keep the money. A. #. T."
AT Ellenville, Ulster county, N. Y, on Mon
day, Frederick Barnard, aged years, was
drowned in the canal. The boy rode q big New
foundland dog into the water and fell off. The
dog dived twice into the water for the boy, but
as the latter had no clothing, failed to rescue
him. The dog gave warning, and the body was
recovered. A few days before the dog had res
cued boy by Selling his hand with his mouth
-Sleepless nights and cherries days will be pre-
ventedif you use DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup to induce
sleep and composure for the Baby. Price Is cents.