Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-01-18

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drunken fight wm Br.nn-r ri,-her Of the
ReIisrce Base b all Club. struck John Walls 90
on the head with a shovel. hsetating his
skull.
At Griftin. c., Monday Brewster Newt.
liams. sixteen years Old. while lAhoring nnirr
- fit OF mental excitement caused by recent
sickness. killed a negro giri of ih- same age
aud then deliberately shot and killed himself
A rolored man usmea Garter. an EN- plove OF
the Tred-rsr Iron Works. at Richnond Va.
was killed SATURDAY. ssssing hS hs.iag his leg
accidentally pierced by q red no, rod from on.
Of the furnaces.
!, showed AZ High Point. North C.rorins
and vicinity nearly all last week Friday
night another stnrm set in and the ground was
covered to depth OF ten to fifteen iuches on a
level
A bill was introduced in the Nississip ii leg
islature Saturday 10 revoke the charter Of The
city of Jackson ADD placed the city under sew
en- commissioners WIS are to have full control
Of affirs. The sheriff is to collect the taxes
Mrs. George. a widow living near Mannheim.
Lancaster comfy. Pa. locked her two children
in the house Sunday while she went 20 visit -
neiuhbor, and when she returned one of the
children, aged three yea $, was buried TO a
crisp.
Four hundred and fifty spiitnnus costing
eight hundred and twentv-siI dollars. were
supplied during the last fiscal wear to the ma
tional House OF Representatives, rs ported bv
the clerk of the House.
A powder m,gszin- nm the Cornwall Pa
.re bills exploded on Monday morning and a
workman named Posey. who had entrrerei the
magazine just previous to the explosion. was
blown TO atoms The force Of the explosion
was felt mile away
prominen, mHmher OF the Bar Association
Of New York states that movement is on foo,
among members Of the bar of the Sta te TO pre-
fer charges against at least Il We Supreme Conri
judges. Il is cl-imed that these judges have
their favorites, TO whom is given all the jndi-
cial patronage.
The Judiciary committee Of the Texas Lesis-
lature reported fivor,,hlv a hill Saturday max.
ing fence cutting a felony punishable by from
two to five wears in The penitentiary, and the
killing of fence-cutters caught in the act o,
APPLYING the wire cutting nIPperS jrs'iRable
homicide.
In Philadelphia on Mond " VIM H. Powner.
a young mau. pleaded guilty to CHI ,rges of en-
bezzlement of s., 700 from his employers, Sim
clair Loughlin, and was sentenced to an i'm
prisonment Of FIVE wears and three months
PownsI said he had lost the money playing
poker and faro.
At Reading, Pa, on Monday CYRUS Graw.
aged IS wears, was taken with violent spasms,
with symtoms of hydrophobis He was verv
violent, and at his own request was hand-cuf
ed. His attendant temporarily left him. when
he seized a knife and hacked his throat aud
wrist aud then jumped out Of secondstory
window His condition is critical.
Edward Ad ,ms of Richmond Mo 10 years
Of age, went hunting with two dogs. and some
hours later one of the animals returned home
and btrked and whined until Mr.. Adams fol-
lowed him to the spot where the boy Law dead
with his gun by his side and the other dog
watching him. The gun WIS discharged while
the boy was climbing fence.
Young james Mutt, Of Uniontown, Pa, who
killed Dukes, reached Pttsburg, Pa, S .urdly,
where his trial began on Monday. At every
station along the route between Uniontown
and Pittsburg crowds of people were waiting,
and as the train passed men cheered and wo-
men waved handkerchief At West Newton
three young women boarded the train and pre-
sented Mutt with bouquet of flowers. Yes
terday Doctors Avres and Wyle spent two
hours with him. Their object was to make
observations from which to testify for
tue prosecution concerning Nuts mental con-
dition. He did not know this and talked free
ly. His counsel claims to have evidence sup
porting the theory of emotional insanity.