Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-12

and to hold office as trustees or members of
Boards OF Education, has become law.
At Circleville, Ohio the Cincinnati and
Muskingum Valley Railroad depot was
struck by lightning on Friday last and the
building with contents burned to the ground
Loss $4,000; insurance small.
Mayor Kaloch, of San Francisco, has
complained to the courts that Charles De
Young, of the Chronicle, his assailant, in
tends to Jump" his BAIL and asked the
court to increase De Young's bonds.
A female swindler has been collecting
money in the interior towns of New York
by means of letters forged in the names of
Rev. DR.. Houghton and Sister Ellen, StBar-
nabas' Home in the city of New York.
A man named Washer was assaulted by
three boys on Sunday at Newton, Sussex
county, N. j., who beat him on the head with
a stone, fracturing his skull. He died soon
afterwards The murderers were arrested.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, has
fixed April I'd as the day for the execution
of Charles Webster, who was convicted of an
outrage on little Frances Otte in October.
Anderson, the wife murderer, will be hanged
on the same day.
Frank Gudofski, of Wilkesbarre Pa, who
pleaded guilty of the murder Of John Blumm
and left the decision with the court, has
been adjudged guilty in the second degree
by Judge Woodward, and sentenced TO eight
years imprisonment.
The trial of William Conkle for the at
tempted murder Of Rufus Ralston and
Conkle's own family on last Thanksgiving
night at Parkersburg, w. Va resulted in a
verdict Of guilty, and he was sentenced to
four years in the penitentiary.
Mr. b. Cortrite of Norwalk, Ohio, captured
burger in his own house on Friday by
the ringing Of the alarm, and kept him locked
up in the bathroom until the police arrived.
The next day he was tried, convicted and
sentenced to three years in the penitentiary.
In the Queens County, N. Y. Court Thurs
day last the case Of John Schmitter, charged
with killing George Rhinehardt, at Blissville,
on the nth of December last, the jury failed
to agree, after being out four hours. The
prisoner was admitted to bail in the sum of
81 800.
jeremiah Webster and John Gutliff, farm
ers living near Chillicothe, ILL.,, have long
disputed about the division lein between
their farms. On Tuesday Webster started
to build fence on the disputed lien, and
Gutliff shot him. Webster died. Gutlf
was arrested
The boiler in the saw-mill at Milo, Maine,
exploded on Thursday 4th inst, while II
party of ladies and gentlemen were visiting
it. Fife Young, II years of age, was blown
140 feet INTO the lake, and was killed. An
other young lady and man will die of in
juries received.
Edward Clark and Frank Pool, at Nash
vile, had quarrel in a saloon but settled it
amicably. While Clark was on his way home
he heard Frank and John Pool following
him, and, believing that they meant mischief,
he stepped aside and as they passed shot
Frank fatally. Clark was arrested.
The Circuit Court in session at Macon,
| Mississippi, during its second week sent
twelve criminals to the penitentiary; three
men were sentenced for execution, and a
fourth gets respite by a jury being unable
to decide whether man who killed his
child was guilty of murder or manslaughter.
The grain elevator of Munger, Markell g.
! Co., at Duluth, Mimi, was burned on Satur-
| day last. 1t cost $4,000 in 1872, and was
insured for $4,000. 1t contained about
| 100000 bushels of grain. The insurance on
| grain is about $95,000, of which $4,000 is
on grain owned by David Dowds, and $685.,
900 on grain owned by Barnes & Finney
William Waring Schooley aged IA years,
son of Jos. Schooey, a prominent citizen of
Pittston, Pa, was found in the outskirts late
last Thursday in an unconscious condition.
lie had been shot, and probably fatally
wounded by some unknown person. When
he was carried into the house his mother
| dropped dead. Great excitement prevails.
The Ladies of the Presbyterian Church of
New York have made an appeal for aid in
behalf of the starving Christians and Mussul-
mans Of the mission at Oroomiah, Persia.
| The suffering will continue for six months
yet, or until the harvest. A father sold his
son for bread, and mother left her child to
die in the mosque, while she went in the
streets to beg.
On the application of Annie Donohue,
Jadge McCue, of the Brooklyn city court, on
the 4th inst, granted writ of hd6eds corpus,
directing Margaret Burke, of $40 Myrtle av-
enue, Brooklyn, To produce in court on Fri
day last, the petitioners child, Mary Frances
Conroy, who, it is claimed, Mrs. Burke holds
us security for two years board of the child,
which Annie Donohne has failed to pay.
Patrick Lanigan of Pittsburgh, Pa, was
killed there ON Saturday last. lie was driv-
ing across the Pennsylvania railroad track
| when the Cincinnati express, west, running
mt the rate of 40 miles an hour, struck the
wagon, hurting il and the horse some fifteen
feet distant Lanigan was carried sixty or
seventy feet under the headlight before the
train could be stopped. lie died in a short
time.
The New York papers state that Mrs.
Jennie Collins Tyler, a niece OF OK President
Tyler, died in great poverty in Brooklyn,
Tuesday, and that unless some assistance Is
rendered she will he buried in potter's field.
II is said the deceased was once II rcigning
belle in Washington and possessed of com
Portable fortune, which was spent by her
first husband who then deserted her The
second husband, Collins, is very poor and
without work.