The evening times., 1896-08-24
Briefs byW ire

John ram, OF warren county, va, was
killed by train near Parkcrville satur-
day night. -
CoIceining the state OF the crops in Russia
1t is said that the consensus OF opinion Is
that the harvest there is an absolute failare.
II is said there is no marx a in Germany
for American boots and shoes, as the
shapes worn In America would not Go there.
The HUSKY Cycle Company, OF Milwaukee,.
Wis, has assigned TO Hugo Casper. The
assets are So 900, and the liabilities are not
known.
Over forty persons were rescued from
drowning at Atlantic City yesterday
in separate porties while batling off the
beach.
Russian police wiz cooperate with the
Berlin force in the matter OF guarding the
czar and czarina upon lhe occasion of Their
visit To Breslau.
While coasting Oh his bicycle near Norris
town, Pa. yesterday. Charles Blumm. of
Philadelphia, took a header. He is lot eX-
pectcd to recover.
Joseph Bont, an Italian prisoner inathe
Montgomery county Pa, prison, cisem-
boweied himself with a razor yesterday
afternoon.-aa and cannot recover. ssSN
= .whi,s watching game. of baseball in
Gernantpwn, near Philadelphia. Thomas
Marion, nine years Old, was struck on the
head ,by. hall, and died soon after. ~
The cloihing firm of P. Miller Son, OF
Lancaster, Ohio. failed This morning. As
sets, S23 500; liabilities not stated but are
in excess OF assets. Preferinents TO the
amount OF 81 600 were made. -.
Hubert B: Cook, aged twenty-five years.
son of George H.. Cook, Of Philadelphia.
president of the Philadelphia and Brigaii-
tine Railroad Company, was drowned in
the surf at Brigantine yesterday while
bathing. ~
Theodore Knode, barkeeper. OF Fred
erlcs, Md. dropped dead Saturday in J. X.
Shepard's restaurant. Within less than an
hour after the death of Knodle the propr -
tor or the restaurant, Shepard, expired
from shock.
Peter Fisher, twelve years Old, shot and
killed his sister Elizabeth. aged thirteen
years, ot their in New York last even
| ing. He was using Flobert iile in the
kitchen. and said the shooting was acu.
dental The boy was arrested.
Four young men of BmcansviIle, Pa,
| Oh wager as to the drinking qcali-
| ties, drank whisky in an abandoned stcne
| quarry Saturday night. Samuel Mobley, n
! nmeteen-year-old boy. one OF tleir number
died from the effects and was found by his
| friends lying on the roadside Sunday nom
| ing.
| One OF the crew OF the British ship.
| City of Athens, lying at Pier IA. East
River, New York, was taken from the ves.
sci dead this morning; another was re-
moved TO tie Hudson street Hospital.
deathly sick, while the captain is himself
aboard the ship suffering from the samt
disease, malaria.
Bertha Crop aged thirteen. ard Aus,ir
| Worfpsley, aged fifteen, Were Killed, anC
Blanche Cole, aged fifteen. was badly hur
last evening near Mcadviile, Pa. wtfl'
] returniug.. home from n camp meeting
Young WorIpsley. against the protestatinn
of the girls, attempted TO drive across tn,
| track ahead Of an excursion train.
| ". A. Eddy, OF Bayonne. n. j., has ar
! rived in Bos,en with twent y-two large kites
| with which tsslay AN attempt will lie nIads
photograph the cit y by means OF a came "a
supported In Eiid,air, through the upwHr,
pull OF chain Of his tailless kites, OF the
type used n Blue Hill Observatory, when III
attitude OF :, ,ia1 feet was attained by 4
meteograph in this way.
Charles Wade, the son OF E. j Wade, di
vision superintendent of the Western Mary
Land Railroad, has eloped withMiss Gcrti,
Clary, of Smi,hsbnrg, a niece of Louis A. r
Koh!er, wealthy citizen of Pen Mar, Nd.
Wade has vile and three children living
at Buena Vista Springs. He and Miss ciar,
bought tickets to Baltimore. but their pres
ens whereabouts is unknown. Miss Ciary il
about eighteen.