Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-07

ONE OF \ GANG o. BOYS SHOT BY A MAN THEY
PERSISTE:SrLY ANNOYED

Shooting His Prosecutor.
ONE OF \ GANG oF BOYS SHOT BY a MAN THEY
PERsISrESrLY ANNOYED.
Harrr He.lel;ingcr, residing at Wilsontown,
suburb of West Conshohocken, Pa,
about sixty-five years of age, was arrested,
CHARGED with shooting John smith, eighteen
years old. who lives in an ;.djoining house The
circui;n 'ances Of the affair. as developed at
tine !ettiug, are follows: Heffelfinger has
been hitch annoyed by gang of boys and
young I'eT. who persist in tantaliZing Iiin.,
applying various insulting taun:s 10 him by
way a.: provoking him to anger. y party OF
young men were engaged in their usual
~: ..ion vi iitieli.iisei, VII" was AT Inc
umG standing lii bis yard IN the front OF his
dwelling. He ordered them away, and on
their REFUSING TO <" lie went into the house
and GOT his sun-a double-barrcied wea-
pon-witb which he reappeared. All his per-
secttors had run away except smith, who
raised his weapon and iired. Smith fell. and
was at once carried bleeding into the house,
badly burt. y number of shot entered his
face below the eye, and others penetrated his
hand and other parts of the body. Hefeltinger
was arrested and committed.
LINDToM's CAsE.-JudgefBo Bond and Hughes,
OF the United state: Circuit Court, yesterday
heard argument in Richmond on the appli-
cation OF Thomas Bethune, known as Blind
Tom, for dissolution Oi AN injunction granted
some time since at Warrenton on the petition
OF Charity Virgins. cc'ored, the mother of Tom.
The court will probably give their decision to-
day.
ADMIRAL BALDWIN'S STOLEN PROPERTY
RECovERED.-On Monday night Iarm
hands, employed by a Portsmouth farmer
called on Admiral Baldwin. at Newport, and
handed him all the property stolen from his
house there on saturday, except purse con-
taiuing money. One of the articles was AN
heirloom diamond studded watch. 1t appears
that on sunday, while the men walking
In one OF their employers meadows, they OBJ
served n man booking around as ii searching
for something. They went To the man. who
watch from the train and he was looking for it.
He left. and the men, continuing the search,
finally came upon the box containing Admiral
BALDWIN NaiUables.
To PREVENT ELECTION FRAUDS IN CINCIN-
NArI.-An active bipartisan movement is in
progress in Cincinnati To detect and punish
frauds In the registration of voters for the
coming election. Money has been literally
subscribed and leading citizens of Inherent
parties have appointed an executive commit
tee TO detec. and prosecute all cases that can
be found.
STABBED HIS WIFE AND MorHER-IN-LAw.
AT GAINESVILLE, Ohio. Monday, George Howell,
while intoxicated, Guarreled with his wife and
stabbed her in the breast, just below the heart
the two, when she was stabbed in the back.
Mrs. Howell will probably die. Howell is under
arrest
GokED To DEATH By A BULL-Ferdi-
nand Jersensen, prominent dairyman
ard stock-raiser, living near Macon Mo- was
gored by HolsteiE bull a few days ago. receiv-
ins injuries which caused his death. The bull
was fine one, and took the red ribbon at the
You've LADY's HORRIBLE SUIcIDE-On
saturday Miss Eva Faulkner. daughter OF Will
liam Faulkner. of State Bridge, Pa removed
the burner from large lamp and poured the
She then set fire 10 herself and ran shrieking
around the house. She died on Sunday.
ANEW Coal CoMPANY-A certificate of in
corporation OF the Cumberland coal company of
baltimore city ni> been lied for record I'm Bal
liiIiore- Ihe incorporation, are Henry q. Davis,
OF Piedmont, ". Va: stephen B. EIkins, OF New
York city; Arthur p. tiornian, of Howard
county, Md: William IL. German, Of Anne
Arundel couity. nd, and Robert ODER, of Bal
unore city. The operations OF the company
are to be carried on in Maryland and West Vir-
ginist ana the principal office will be in Balti-
more city. The capital stock is OOOO di-
Nided into 300 shares Of 500 each.
A FAIH DEPUTY SHERRY WITH SEVEN MEN
PRIsoNEi.s.-rhe Philadelphia Press of to-day
says; Ill was rather novel sight TO the old
wicketkecper oi the Eastern penitentiary To
see a buNofn young woman march up to that
PRISONERS She was daughter of Luther b.
kurtz. sheriff oi Franklin county, and the Gull
lrlts were convicted q. the recent session of
the court 1T thambersburg. Sheriff Eurtz was
III III bed, and his daughter volunteered TO see
that the duties required of him were carried
out, so far as the Incarceration OF the prisoners
was concerned. Miss Kurtz was accompanied
by two men deputy sheriifs.
CHINESE COMING EAsr.-An iptelIieen, Enc.
iish speaking Chinainan named Lee Wali, who
WAS IN Pittsburg yesterday, stated that shortly
Ining secret meeting of Cinnamon was held ut
which 10 was resolved to send six delegates to
various cities and districts In the east empow-
cred TO purchase or rent quarters in the cities
for Chinese colonies and to make wholesale en-
gagements with mill owners and employers
Lee Wah expects TO locate Ave hundred of his
countrymen in IfttsbuIg and other cities In pro-
portion. He said he had some success in Tin.
cinnati and Wheeling, W. Va. When he has
visited ali tQe cities in the district assigned
TO HIM he VIII visit Washington 10 report to
the Chinese embassy.
MASSACHUSETTS VETERANS AT GETTYSBURG
A nutlprr nj Massachusetts veterans, accom-
l.anied by their wives and friends, arrived at
Getty >eurg by special train last evening. This
incoming a majority OF the excursionists went
10 the Antietam battlefield. On Thursday a
ravalcade OF all the exeursionists will visit the
tiSht different Massachusetts monuments, and
there VIII be brlcf cNrTrises al eacl. On Fri
day" Massachusett-- -l.g''-all the monuments
viii be presented Ia t..1 battlefield Memorial
ASSOCIATION in the name OF the Commonwealth
OF massachusetts,. Tie graves Of the nasSachu-
setts soldiers in the National cemetery will be
oecoratsd With flowers, and the other exercises
Will include an Grafton by Comrade George H
rstch, OF The 10Th Massachusetts, regiment