The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-06-10
The Egis and Intelligencer
BEL AIR, Md, JUNE 10, 1881.
Current News.

On Wednesday of last week stroke {
lightning killed five hogs in one pen in Ell
Neck, Cecil county.
-Gen Mahone's Readjuster Convention o
Friday last nominated for Governor Col. Wm
Il. Cameron; for Lieutenant Governor John
Lewis, and for Attorney General Frank S
Blair.
Frank Winkler, a coal-digger of Canton
Ohio, is one of the heirs to $45, 000, 600 estat
In England. The estate was left by his brother
who became rich dealing in diamonds at Cap
Town, Africa.
Canton, Ohio has been greatly excited b.
fading vault in its cemetery, which had beei
closed for 25 years, broken open and the bone
of the dead scattered around. 1t is supposed
the object of the dissertation was TO steal Jewel
ny from the bodies.
"A boy named Thompson accidentally kille,
his brother at Greenrldge, near Scranton, OF
Saturday. He hurled large stone at a fighting
dog and his little brother, running past, was
struck in the head by the missile and had hi.
skull crushed in.
Last Sunday Clarence Cross and Willie
Dominy, two little boys ten years of age, living
at Dublin, Ca, were wrestling, and fell on theil
side. Willie got up, leaving Clarence on thC
ground. He did not stir, and upon going up to
him 1t was found he was dead. He died without
moan or struggle.
Another telegraph company has been or.
gained at Albany, N. Y, with capital OF
10000, 900. The line will run from New York,
by the way of Philadelphia Baltimore and
Washington, through the Southern States to
the Rio Grande; also through every other part
of the country.
Sunday evening large barn on the proper.
tyofDr. Cooper of New Castle, on Red Hill, Cecil
county, was consumed by fire. All the contents,
consisting of hay, straw and grain, along with
seven hogs, were burned. A colorcd man by
the name of Charles Augustus lives on the place.
The loss will amount to about $4,000
Thomas Biddlc, resident of Elkten, Md,
and an employe of the p, w. d B. r. r., was
fatally injured last Friday morning. He was ON
hanG-car, and seeing train approaching from
behind, he jumped of, falling on the track in
front of the train. 1t passed over him, crushing
his legs and injuring him internally.
"A horrible double murder and suicide oc-
cured at Peru, Nebraska An emigrant named
Albert Clark, grasped his wife and cut her throat
with pocket knife. He then left the house,
taking shotgun with him. The first person
he met was E. NJ. Sargent. Raising the gun, he
fired at Sargent, killing him instantly. He then
opened the knife, with which he murdered his
wife and cut his own throat, dying a few hours
later.
Last Sunday morning, on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad, near Cedar Rapids, two
heavily loaded freight trains colided and plung-
ed into an indescribable mass. The trains were
,
agricultural implements, corn and fat hogs, and
the wreck was piled up much higher than the
telegraph poles. The lead brakeman of each
train was killed, and an engineer and fireman
were injured.
Last Friday, at Crisield, Md, Elijah Ster-
ling, maniac, attacked his wife with Ratchet,
inflicting fatal wounds During the scufle his
eldest son started to run out of the house, which
caused the crazy man to leave his bleeding wife
and attempt the life of his son. He only succeed
edshoweyer, in inhcting a flesh wound on his
arm before the boy made his escape. In the
meantime the wounded woman escaped and
made her way to neighbours and gave the alarm.
Sterling was arrested
Last Friday at the Lawmoor iron works,
Allegheny county, Va, negro boy while con-
veying a can of dynamite to the powder house
stopped at blacksmith shop. In moment
afterwards terrible explosion took place, and
the shop was blown to fragments. The bodies
of the boy who had the fatal explosive and three
colored men who were at work in the shop were
discovered in the ruins in dreadfuly mutilated
condition. 1t is not likely that any OF them will
recover.