The evening times., 1896-08-10
'B!fiefsfy Wire

damaging dronth isprevailing In South
siucss Y a. II ~ ~ 5sf a$ii
The Deaocrats OF the second Tennessee
district have dominated w. L. Ledgerwood
| for Congress.
Joseph II. Eagle has teen nominated for
Congress by the PopuIists OF tie First
Texas district.
George Meyer. who is held in New York
on charges OF bigamy, has, it Is said. four
teen wives alive.
Carroll Spencer. minister to Turkey under
President Pierce, died yesterday at bis
home In Baltimore
-Four persons were drowned in the River
Spree, near Ecrlin. yesterday by the sink
ing OF an excursion steamer.
Ex,Gov. William Pinkney whyte of Mary
land. observed, his ssvent y-secoDd birthday
yesterday at Long Branch, n j.
James D. Fortescue was killed By falling
| twenty feet FROM a .Huilding he was paint
ing on Green stfeet. Philadelphia.
John Harver, aged seventy five years. OF
Baltimora. was Yesterday killed by u Balti-
more and Potompc Railroad train sa, i
The Czar of Russia is.rerorted TO be in
| hourly dread ofbhi&, life. owing to the dis
covery OF renewed Pihilist activity-Ai,7l
| William Grlppt aged nine years, OF Balti-
more. was droEned. by walking into tile
I'atapsco Riveri from Light street bridge
while asleep. " sia
Frank Yerripgton, James Brtrick, W.
NJ. Marke. and Morton Manning were
drowned ut Benton Harhor, Mich, yester-
day, while bathing.
A man Found three gold sovereigns and
seven pounds in Bank OF England notes,
dated about 1850, buried on Sideling Hill,
Washington county, Nd.
Harry McDermott and Harry SINNERS OF
Norristown, Pa. have been arrested FOL
assauIting Waiter G. Hatha wa ) or the West
| End, and stealing his pncketbook-. -. -,
a., Fire yesterday destroyed the summer re-
| sort at Dallas, Tex, known as NeisterhaD's
Garden. The WIFE OF Fred Reifer, tho gar.
| den manager. pershed in the flames.
Charles s. johnson and Ed schubci were
| drowncdby the capsizihs of aD0atiii which
they were smiling, off Lincoln Park, Chicago,
last night. The body OF neither has been re-
| covered. n'.''n - sJ= sas as n
| Daniel FuesDer. fifty-ffve years old, a
| Philadelphia saloop-keeper. is In critical
| condition, the result of injuries inflicted
| during quarrel by Jacob May, who is in
| custody.
| Berthe Lark jumped from an electric csy
at York, Pa. yesterday to recover her hat.
tlilt had been blown off md was probably
fataily mangled by the wheels. as she fell
| to the ground.
| Garland Travis and VIII Way, aged twen-
| ty-twoandtwenty-live, were edrowned inthe
Kankakee River, at Las Peste. Ind, last
night. Travis fell overheard and Way at
| tempted to save him.
| Edwin K. Brown, editor lecturer. bank
| or, business man and poet. commonly called
| the Sage of Elnwood," died at his home
In Eimwood. H., last night, at the age
OF seventy-eRe, years. .a
| Mrs. Nellie. Slowdcn, Q white woman.
| aged twenty-five years, was fatally shot
yesterday tn Piitsburg :, Pa. . by william
Campbell, . eotofed man, at her. home on
South seyenteenth street.
Alta meeting Of the Can Francisco Demo-
cratic stase-centraI colnmitiee Satprda )
.vening, u committee Of nine was appointed
u confer witt d similar committee similarly
selected by the Pppulists fw the purpose
OF fusing on Presiden ntMI electors.
Jealousy bssNesn he :xnife and negro
laborers on theEshsas GU &assburg and
Gulf Rnilwaxs1p28Er H9sst0 Ark. cui'
n,irated i9ssH6 & 5eel Three
| negroes wAfS eiybz ounded and
many wetsA.sr sf s6e ToEhtfy."
The Bri,tens ef .stes1s Il adv Fur.
ness. arrived in t43Yark scstesduy from
DeIugoS bay ls5 Ah1esica, In ballast,
thus mixing on4 f1be longeat voyages on
record for u sid In ballast. Tho dis
,ancs tfaveIed $H8 little OVER 3 100
miles, ,4s.s.sj,4. y snssa atassss
A tesSttfic RAID I'm hFeke oyet Detroit
| last night after a. of intense heat. The
stcrinwus- aced liedsbyta higrf Wind,
which swept oylE e riyefs aud. Lake, st.
| Ciair, upsefting n d4fen yachts which were
on ,Ile,sirer "a Gth4 itilncse Fhrce ,Iiersons
are SO far know tnthave becn drowned,s
| Miss Marion Bufnhan,. aged fourteen
| years, Of Boston. was Accidentally drowned
In Lake Chaniplain, near West Port, n. Y.
| yesterday afternoon while bathing. Miss
Maggie Moulder. nurse. who accompanied
| Vic youbS h'oy anu "ho WNho W hCh 40
sistance, was also drowned.
| The steamer van CoIver, OF the Denim
| ion Steamship Company, from Montreal
| for Liverpool, which passed Father Point
| last night, put back to Father Point, Que.
bec, at 7:3O O'Clock this morning, with her
| bow badly stove in. She had been in
| collision With an inward Bound steamer.
| No lives were lost
DR.. John Craig and William H. Nc
ciufe were arrrcstcd at Seaside Park,
| N. j., yesterday, charged with being con-
ccrned with Janes F. Mcclure, William A.
| TH6inus and John I. Talman, now under
arrcst ia Chicago, with grain and mining
swindles In Chicago and New York.
| They will be afraigned before United States
Commissioner Lindsey Rowe today.
Daniel Norris, OF Atlantic, City. has do,
mated $45, 5000 in cash and securities to
! help build Catholic orphan asylum at
Hopeweil, in Mercer county. On the prom
ise sometime ago to make the donation
Bishop McEaul has already awarded the
contracts for tile erection OF the building,
the land having been purchased under the
| administration Of the late Bishop o O'Farrell
Dr. Calvin c. ehaffee, former Congress-
| man from 1ss6-60, died in Springfield
Mass, Saturday, Within few days OF hii
| eighty-fifth year. By his marriage with
the widow of DR.. Emerson, q surgeon OF the
United, States army, he became the ownel
nf the celebrated slave, Dred Scott, whs
cured in the famous Supreme Court case.
He.made his home in Washington for man,
years after the wnr. =