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free miner named Tom Moore.
Large quantities Of rock fish have
been seen in the Chesapeake bay
below Havre de Grace. In one
day Thomas Reynolds took 2 5000
pounds Of fish, the largest weighing
about forty pounds. At Carpen-
ter's Point Perry Barnes caught in
his shad seine q quantity of rock
fish estimated to weigh two tons,
the largest fish weighing thirty
five or forty pounds.
The fight between Peter jackson,
colored of Australia, and James j.
Corbett, Of California, at the rooms
Of the California Athletic Club in
San Francisco on Thursday night
for e1O, 900, was declared no fight,
the contestants in the last thirty
rounds simply walking around the
ring and looking at each other.
Albert Havenstine was hanged
yesterday at Broken Bow, Neb., for
the murder of William Ashley and
Hiram Rotten. When the trap was
sprung the rope broke and the pris.
oner fell grooming to the ground.
Havenstine, half conscious, was
taken back to the gallows. The
rope was doubled and the trap was
again sprung. Death was painless.
Fully 5000 people had gathered
from the surrounding country to
see the hanging. They knocked
down q stockake sixteen feet high
which had been erected around the
gallows.
MONDAY, May 25.
A fire at Detroit, Mich. Saturday,
caused loss of about $3.50, 900.
Ex-Postmaster Colonel Harrison
AdreOn died at his home, No. 1906
North Calvert street.
A little daughter Of Joseph Har-
tell, Of Brooklyn, was drowned in
attempting to wash her dolls face
in cask of water.
An official statement from Gov
ernor Hill in affixing his signature
to a bill is construed as Implying
his acceptance of the United States
senatorship.
The Westinghouse and most of
the furniture of Mr.. Cornell, ten
ant Of the farm Of Mr.. John w.
Clark, in Pomonkey Neck, Charles
county, Nd, were destroyed by fire
last week.
William and John Anderson,
colOred, held Jane Ware on a rail-
road track in Rossier parish, La,
until train ran over and killed
her. The men were pursued by Q
posse Of cOlored men and hanged.
Mr.. p. II. Mcdonald was assassi-
mated Friday last while blowing in
his field near Winsboro,' Texas.
The assassin first shot his victim
and then cut his throat from ear to
ear. Sheriff Law arrested two Of
his brothers-in-law, named Hay.
Rev. Jacob A. Walter, pastor of st.
Patrick's Catholic Church, WASH
ington, who was Mrs. Surratt's spir-
itual advisor, has prepared Q paper
for the Catholic Historical Society
of New York upon Mrs. Surratt's
trial and execution, expressing his
entire belief in her innocence.
Baron Rudolph Kalnoky, nephew
Of Count Kalnoky, the famous
Austrian diplomatist, fought o
duel with rapiers q Chicago yester-
day morning with at young South
ernor to settle quarrel about Miss
Mittie Anterior, an opera singer,
in whose affections they were rivals.
A man has been sentenced to
death at Nancy, France, for murder,
who killed number Of persons in
order to marry young woman.
One Of his crimes was the murder
Of his only son, q boy eight years
old, an obstacle to his suit, by bend
ing the victims head so that the
spine was broken at the nape of the
neck.
Alexander Campbell, of Balti-
more, was found guilty of murder
in the first degree at Jacksonville,
Fla, Saturday. The jury recon-
mended him to the mercy of the
court. He was tried for the shooting
Of Miss Mamie Josephs at st. Angus
tine, Fla, September 80, 1890.
his defense was temporary insanity.
In attempting to extinguish o
fire which he started by upsetting
o paraffine lamp in the drawing
rosm Of his London mansion, Lord
Romilly was overcome by smoke,
and when taken from the burning
building to q hospital, died. Two
women servants lost their lives in q
manner similar to that of their en-
ployer.
W. j. Ashley, an aged and we'll
TODD merchant tailor of Sewanee.
Tenn, committed q sensational
suicide at Chattanooga, Tenn,
Saturday, by jumping from the
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