The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-03

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Reading, Pa, aged II and IA years re-
spectively, absented themselves from
school Tuesday, and being afraid of pun
ishment from their parents, did not go
home. but crawled between two hot ovens
at the Henry Clay furnace, where they
were suffocated and burned almost beyond
recognition.
At High Point, n. c., in the all-age
nointer stake Wednesday, Robert lie Dia-
BILE won the first prize Of $500 In the
all-age setter stake in the first series Gilt
ford beat Noble c., Fred W. beat Lillian,
Gloster beat Brandon, Lady &. beat st.
Elmo ", Belle beat Pendragon, Roy
Monarch beat Chickasaw H., and Mandan
beat Windemerer
The annual report OF the State board
of assessors Of New Jersey shows an In
crease in the valuation of railroad prop
erty of S32S3,691 over last year. The
total value of railroad property is $l92,
$50, 343. The State tax will be S964,9Ol,
and the local tax $372,364. In all 81 COM
panies are assessed.
Three Hungarians, John Cobbalack,
John Werner, and Andrew Kosko, who
were living in drunken sleep upon the
track of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroad, near Pttston, Pa,
Wednesday night were struck by pas
senger train and killed.
Justice Edward NJ. Paxson, of the Penn
sylvania Supreme Court, and Mrs. Mary
Martha Stopp Bridges, widow OF the late
Congressman Samuel A. Bridges, were
married at Allentown, Pa, Wednesday
night. Many distinguished guests were
present from New York, Philadelphia,
and Pittsburg.
Tuesday night three boys-two sons
of John Lee, aged and years, re-
spectively. and a son of Robert Pulyer,
AGED years-were drowned at Joy, a
village in Wayne county, n. Y, by break
ing through the ice
The second section of freight train
No. IS on the Cleveland and Pittsburg
railroad ran into the first section near
S,ummittville, Ohio, Tuesday night, wreck
ING sixteen cars and both locomotives.
The debris took fire and was consumed.
The loss was $4,000.
Willis p. Dickinson, member of the
Chicago Board of Trade, and former
employee of the defunct firm Of w. +.
Harvey & Co., has been suspended from
the Board of Trade for eight weeks on
the charge of dishonest conduct toward
his former employers.
Frederick Wessner, of Riverside, n.
J.. who had been on an extended spree,
Tuesday tried to kill his wife and children
and burn the house Neighbors eXtln-
guished the flames and rescued his wife,
who had been badly hurt by her husband.
General James Allen Dawson, surveyor
general OF Colorado, and formerly
prominent citizen and State official Of
kentucky, was stricken with paralysis at
Munfordville, KY, Wednesday, and is not
expected to live.
Mrs Jansen, the woman who was stab
bed by her husband in Chicago last Fri
dav, died Of her wounds Wednesday.
Jansen, the murderer, attempted to hang
himself in the Jail Tuesday night, but was
cut down.
Engineer David BlackwOOd and Fire
man Charles Gust were killed by the col
liding Of two trains one mile west OF
Parker, Iowa, on Tuesday. A number Of
passengers were injured, none fatally.
The ordinance imposing a license of
$4,000 per annum on bOok-makers and
booksellers was before the Municipal
House of Delegates Of st. Louis Tuesday
night, but after discussion was laid over.