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NelCsy Notes.

The wife of Judge Nathan GoA, of Clarks-
burg, this State, died in New York Thurs
day morning.
While a balloon was being inflated at
Piedmont, on the 4th, a pole fell and killed
Eva Rowe, twelve years of age.
Mrs. Sarah Steele died in Millsburg, Ohio,
on Saturday, June Goth. She weighed six
hundred and seventy-ive pounds.
While a bicycle race was in progress at
the Driving Park, at Buffalo on the 4th the
grand stand collapsed, ipjuring fifteen of
the occupants.
Capt. Howgate has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for eight years at hard labor
An appeal has been taken and the judgment
arrested until October.
Quick transportation is bringing water
melons to the front. Georgia now has a ri
val in Florida. 1t is said 5000 car loads
will be the present years shipment from the
latter State.
Seventeen lives were lost in Missouri and
Kansas by storms and floods on Friday night.
The towns of Winona, No. and Baxter
Springs, Kan, were almost destroyed. Seven
inches of rain fell at Jefferson City, Mo.
Miss Mary Berry Donavin, daughter of
DR.. NJ. w. Donavin, formerly of this town
now of Baltimore-and 1t. Charles Mil
Ter, of the L. S. Army, were married in
Trinity NJ. E. Church, South, Baltimore, on
Tuesday of last week, Bishop A. w. Wilson
officiating.
Miss Bessie Harris confessed in court at
Ramirena, Tex. recently that she hanged
her lover, Albert B~lackman, until he was
dead. He had agreed to allow her to sus'
pend him by a rope as a test OF his love for
her, she having agreed to let him down in
time to save his life.
An increase Of 10 per cent. in wages went
into effect last week at the Norton Iron
Works, Ashland, Kentucky. A like increase
is to be effected in sixty days. Both are
voluntary with TIE company. The present
trade with the plant is reported to
be the best that has been had in ten years
past.
DR.. Edward n. Palmer, one of the most
prominent physicians Of Louisville, and
well known throughout the Southern States,
was killed on the Southern boulevard Friday
night, while riding his bicycle, in a collision
with another wheelman, VIM. R. Colston.
Both parties were thrown to the ground, but
Mr.. Colston was quickly revived.
At San Francisco the other night claret
wine figured in a new role, that of a fire ex-
tiuguisher. During a 81, 100000 fire in
San Francisco Friday night water gave out.
Immediately a two inch hose was attached
to an $4,000 gallon tank of claret wine and
over an acre of lumber and dry roofs was
drenched with the wine and saved.
On the evening of the 4rh, while about
300 people of Bristol, Ind, were gathered on
a bridge spanning the st. Joseph rive,
watching a tub race, one hundred feet of
the sidewalk ofthe bridge wentdown carry
ing with it 100 persons. The fall was about
thirty feet, and the iron fell on many.
None were killed outright but several will
die.
Marshall Price, the condemned murderer
of Sallie Dean, was taken from the Jail at
Denton, Maryland, on Tuesday night of last
week, and hanged by masked men. He was
to have been hung on the following Friday,
but the Governor respited him to give oppor-
tunity for his case to go to a higher court
The people were impatient because of the
laws delays.