The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-06-24
The Egis and Intelligencer
BEL AIR, Md, JUNE "a, 1881.
Current News.

An earthquake shock occurred in Massachu
sets early last Sunday morning.
Catherine llaviland died in New York, las
Saturday, aged 100 years and months.
-Iroquois won another victory Mt the Assoc
races, in England, on Thursday of last week.
Several people sat up all of Saturday nigh
watching for the anticipated end of the world
The Pennsylvania Legislature, before ad
journng, passed stringent law regulating
primary elections
The crops in the neighborhood of Quebec
we've badly damaged by frost on Wednesday ant
and Thursday nights.
Mrs LINER wife OF a butcher ol Montreal,
died on Thursday evening, of poisoning, caused
by a slight cut from knife.
The storm of wind and rain in Baltimore
city, Monday afternoon, was the most severe
one experienced this year.
Ralph 2. Westervelt, wholesale grocer OF
Paterson, New Jersy, died suddenly of heart dis
ease On Sunday morning while taking bath.
Theodore Ahrens, "a years old, committed
suicide in Baltimore, Sunday morning, by shoot
ing himself through the brain with pistol.
Mrs. w. Ii. Current died of fright in Paris,
KY, on Thursday, in consequence OF her brother,
James Offutt, attempting to kill her husband
Gen. LeDuc, commissioner OF agriculture,
has been pay ing Easton visit with the view OF
making Talbot his future home if he can find a
suitable farm
j r. Tufts, of Dunkirk, connected with the
Brooks Locomotive Works, committed suicide,
Il .
dose of rat poison.
A man and boy were killed and and three
persons were injured, one fatally, by collision
between a construction train and freight train
at Troy, Kansas, last Friday.
Rear Admiral John }. Almy has been reap
pointed by President Garfield visitor of the
Government Hospital for the insane at Wash
ington, the appointment lasting for six years.
"A Young man, named Noble was shot dead
while lying IN bed at Chsmyille, Ark, last Fri
Il, ,f,.,t rhn nrlp lie 10
thought his intention was to kill Mobiles father
A tailor, named Durand, was struck in
the head with a horse shoe and fatally injured
by Michael Cavanaugh, in Albany, on saturday.
Cavanaugh, who suffered from dehriam fIc"enS,
was arrested
John Killroy, Thomas bennington, Edward
Canyal, Edward Haney and Thomas Quinn,
whose ages ragged from to years, were ar
raigned IN Jersey City, last week, for rubbing Il
factory and were committed for trial.
Fritz Miller, a German, of Chicago, who had
met with reverscs of fortune lately, ended his
life on Saturday, by laying his neck on the track
in front of an approaching train. Ills head was
severed from his body. He leaves family
Hamilton Disston, n well-known manuiac-
turer, of Philadelphia, recently purchased four
million acres of land in Florida-being the larg-
est purchase Of land ever made by single III
dividual. Mr.. Disston intends to begin an cmi-
grafton scheme.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
for some time been making surveys fora road
to connect the Northern Central, Baltimore and
Potomac, and Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore railroads with Canton, thus forming
an opposition line TO the Union railroad
The anniversary of the battle ofBunkcr Hill
was celebrated last Saturday in Charleston,
Massachusetts,, bya civil and military parade;
the unwilling of statue of Colonel Prescott,
which stands on the grounds near the monu-
m in nrntipn Inv Hon Robert O. WiOtnrOn.