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feet from the ground and dangled
until he choked to death. He
leaves q widow and five children.
Saturday, October %, 1898.
The oyster supply this week has
been equal to the demand.
Several interesting registration
appeals are pending in the Circuit
Court for Charles county.
The fire department of Belair is
being reorganized..
There were 179, 200, 900 tons of
coal produced in the United States
last year.
"Doc" Taylor was hung at Wise
Courthouse, Va, for the murder
of the Mullans family.
Mr.. Richark Wake. a prominent
Norfolk lawyer, is being urged as
successor to the late Judge Hugh
j.. Bond.
The act giving the women the
right to vote for school commission
ers at Syracuse, n. Y, has been
decided unconstitutional.
Commander Whitney, of the
United States Navy. win %the
daughter Of wealthy Chi ese me-
chant-at Hoaolulu.
"
OF forty candidates who took the
recent examination to fill vacancies
in the medical corps of the army
only five passed, two of them being
Marylanders.
Miss Daisy Garland, twenty-four
years old, daughter of Hon. A. Ii.
Garland, ex-Attorney- General of
the nited States, shot and killed
herself at her fathers residence in
Washington.
The Carnegie Steel Company, of
Homestead, Pa, Instituted suit
against the Maryland Steel Com
pany, of Sparrow's Point, for al
legged violation of a patent for mix
ing molten pig metal.
The Georgia House of Reprcsen-
tatives yesterday passed bill pro-
hibiting the sale of cigarettes in the
State. A bill was introduced licens-
ing the carrying of pistols under
certain restrictions.
A bottle thrown from the shin
1essO, October 16, 1891, was found
on the African coast in 1898.
Chief Officer j. w. Kinghan, of
the steamship Montana, was given
binocular glass for bravery i'm res
cuing the crew of the bark Fortuna.
The Senate yesterday began vot-
ing on amendments to the Voorhees,
bill, repeating the silver purchasing
clause of the Sherman law. The
popullst Senators still show dis
position to fight the repeal of the
bill, but if they can be persuaded
not to prolong their speeches there
will be no difficulty in disposing of
all the amendments to the bill to-
day, and reaching final vote Mon
day next.
Monday, October 80, 1898.
The tomato pack in Kent comfy
was very large this year.
In Alexandria Officer James Nc
Cuen, while asleep in the police
station drew his revolver and shot
Officer George W. Crump in the
knee.
Mrs. Virginia A. Charlton fell
into bed face downward at her
boarding-hous in Washington,
and was smOthered by a pillow.
A fire in Cambridge was ex-
tingnished promptly by the use Of
the new water-wOrks system, the
trial of which proved satisfactory.
A monk was killed during a riot
in the Church of the Nativity at
Bethlehem Friday evening. The
church ia said to inclose the man
ger in which the Saviour was born.
4 committee of colored LAWYERS
are in Washington with a petition
to Congress asking for the appro-
priation of billion dollars for the
colonization of their race.
Thieves carried off clothing and
jewelry 10 the value of $500 from
the rooms of students of Georgetown
College last week during the enter
tainment given in honor of the
episcopal jubilee of Cardinal Glib
bons.
General Margello, commander in
chief of the Spanish troops at
Melilla, in Morocco, was shot dead
Saturday while leading a sortie
against the Riffians. Seventy of
his men were KILLED and I22 wonnd-
ed.
j. Jenifer, coiored teacher of
Washington, is under bond to
answer a charge of assaulting a COL
ored boy, one OF her pupils, who
said he was thrown to the ground
hy the teacher.
August summerfield, aged ten
years, No. Ala Penn avenue.
Plttsburg, Pa, was killed FRIDAY |
night by jumping from a third |
story window of his home to escape |
from his father, who was beating |