The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-05-27
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, MAY 90, 1881.
Current News,

Gen. VIM. H. French, who was in comman'
at Fort McHenry, for a considerable time, diet
on Friday, in Washington, of apopleXy.
Three men named Ilatton, O'llara and st
John were terrible burned by the ignition of ga
at an oil-well near Bradford, Pa, Monday night
O'IIara is believed to be fatally burned.
Billy Leroy, the Colorado outlaw, and {
confederate, calling himself Sam Potter, wert
taken to Del Norte on Sunday night, and al
hour after their arrival were lynched by citi
Zens.
. Reuben Whitaker, aged four years, while
gathering flowers at Fall Creek Gorge, neal
ithaca, ON Sunday fell over the precpice, dash
ing his brains out on the rocks thirty feet be-
low.
Francis Lightfoot Lee, member of the dis.
tinguished Lee family of Virginia, and descend
ant of the signer of the Declaration of Independ
ence, died in Philadelphia, on Monday aged Al
years.
"A farmer of Markham township, 20 miles
from Toronto, has discovered pit on his farm
containing 800 skulls land five times as many
leg and arm bones" 1t is believed the pit was
an Indian burial place and that the remains have
been there 200 years.
AT Anna, Illinois, on Monday, Robert s.
Reynolds a very wealthy farmer, was Killed by
his son with blow on the head from boulder.
The deceased was 20 years old and only year
ago himself shot and killed Mr.. Frazier
Concerning the forming of the new cream
cries In Chester county, the question is asked,
pound, when the milk can be promptly got 10
market? The opinion is strongly held that 1t
does not
"A pack of nineteen thoroughbred English
fox hounds, imported for the Hare and Hounds
Club of Montgomery county, Pa., arrived in Phil
adelpha on Monday. They are very beautiful
animals, of great intelligence, all answering to
their names which are clipped in the hair of
each.
"A man in the neghborhood of Whitehall,
N. Y, who had resolved on drowning himself,
started out with an umbrella because the rain
was falling and he wanted to keep his clothes
dry. As he tells the story himself there can be
no doubt that he changed his mind before taking
the final plunge.
A package containing securities valued at
nearly 81 900 was adroitly stolen from the bank
ing house of d. Fahnestock IL Co., of Baltimore,
on Saturday, by three rogues, two of whom
engaged the attention of the bankers, whilst the
third distracted the package from a table on
which 1t had for moment been placed.
A steam saw mill four miles west of Oakland,
Md, was blown to atoms by the explosion of
the boiler Marshall Butler, the fireman, was
blown distance of 600 or 700 feet, and was in
stantly killed. William Browning was caught
under falling timbers and seriously injured
Eight or ten other persons were slightly in.
jured.
"A cave occurred at the Golden Terra mine,
Terraville, Oak, on Thursday of last week.
Thomas Green was thrown by the compression
OF the air nearly eighty feet and instantly killed.
Two Others were also blown considerable dis
lance, one of whom was MORALLY injured. Elev-
en- men in all were buried under the debris
Three were killed and five injured
Two young men named Austin and Brannon,
got into quarrel in Scott county, Ark, on
Sunday, concerning young lady whom both
loved. Each claimed to be favored with her af-
fections, and to settle the dispute they fought u
duel, with pistols, at six feet distance. Four
or five shots were exchanged before Brannon
fell mortally wounded. Austin was arrested
but escaped.
Last Friday in Wayne county, Miss, Sheriff
Davis and Revenue Collector Hatton were mur-
dered by a gang of desperadoes whom they were
attempting TO arrest. Subsequently the despe-
radoes were pursued by Captain Leaper and
oyertaken in camp. Hamilton, one of the gang,
was killed, and Myers, the leader, dangerously
wounded Brown, anorher of the desperadoes,
was captured at another point.