The evening times., 1896-11-11
Wire Briefs.

At Larraboo, Iowa. Rev. f. L. Benedict
shot and Killed Harry Mewhirter. who mad
attacked him.
\ millinery shop has been opened in New
York under the patronage OF sarah Berll-
hardt. the French actress.
William Evins. a Mantua, Pa, farmer,
was run over by his team yesterday while
hauling gravel, and was almost Instantly
killed.
The London Chronicles COnstantnople
correspondent telegraphS that many lnno-
cent persons who have long been confined
in prison are being released.
Walter Bowen, Baltimore boy, had his
right hand torn completely from his arm by
a machine which he was running, and now
he is in precarious condition.
According TO a Vienna dispatch, the
families of most OF the diplomats at Con-
stantinople have left the city. The situa-
ton is regarded as very dangerous.
In Lincoln county. W. Va. the house OF
James K. Abbott was destroyed by an IN
cendiary fire, and his daughter. Cora u
young woman. was burned to a crisp,
G E. Land was probably fatally wound
ed yesterday by John Northcraft, at Letdn-
ON, Ky Both Were farmers The shoot
ing affray was prompted by an old srudge.
David = Spriggs, aged sixty-one years,
afternoon at the Mount Clare foundry by
coming in contact with live electric
light wire.
The French Chamber Of Deputies yester-
day, by vote of - B to Psi, decided, despite
the opposition OF the government, to dis
cusS, ON November 16, the mode OF elect
Ing Senators.
Gen Bradley T johnson. who has recently
returned from Cuba. says that recognition
of the insurgents by the United States would
be followed by spaiU's declaration OF war
against the United States.
Miss Mary Kramer. of Potter county, Pa.
has been made insane by the pranks of
practical iokers. who frightened her while
she was sleeping in supposed haunted
house in paying a foolish election wager.
A cantonel court has ordered the bank OF
St Gall Switzerland. to hand over to the
relatives OF the wife of the long missing
ArChdukc John OF Austria a million franks,
deposited by the archduke prior to his dis
appearance in 1889.
Patrick McGarvey, of Philadelphia, to
pay an election bet, started yesterday TO
walk to the home Of William Jennings
Brvan, at Lincoln, Nebr The conditions
are that he must travel by turnpikes, and
walk every step. He expects TO reach his
destinationin about three months.
Mr.. Isaac j. Lamberton, of POcomoke
City, Md. proprietor Of the steam Srw and
planning Q IN Ills at Big Mills, while instructing
some men yesterday, got his right hand
caught between the rollers of the planer,
and before the machinery could be stepped
the hand was mashed so badly that amputa-
ton was necessary.
a. W. Crostley. formerly of Washington,
N j., and Charles F. ellis, former resi-
dent OF Dayton, Pa. clerks in the office of
tie Adams Express Company, were arrested
in Pittsburg, Pa, yesterday, charged with
stealing 81 900 worth of goods in transit.
1t is claimed that they have been stealing
for over four years.
DIR. Taylor, the Virginia State chemist,
has made a careful anal ysis of the contents
of the stomach of Mrs. White, whose death
caused some talk among the people of the
vicinity OF Deep Greek, Norfolk county.
Dr: Taylor reports having found traces of
arsenic in the stomach, but that he could
not say that Mrs White was poisoned. but
thatthe traces found could have come from
the remains being embalmed.
No person has laid claim to the money
found by Edward $. Spangler while tear
ing off the roof of ] B. Horns barn at In
nersville, Pa, and it has been turned over
the men that found it. The bag contained
about 81 900, and had the appearance of
being in its hiding place since the war.
When the Confederate troops under Gen.
John B Gordon invaded York many persons
fled with their valuables, and it is thought
that the money was hidden by one OF the
many Yorkers who went through lnnersville.
The judicial committee of the privy cohn-
Gil, consisting of Lord Watson, presiding;
Lords Hobhouse and Morris and Sir Richard
Couch, assembled in London this forenoon
and began the hearing of the appeals nf The
Dominion of Canada VS.. the province of On
tario. the subject of the dispute being
whether the province of ontario is liable
for the payment of certain annuitics to the
Indians for lands which they ceded to the
late province of Canada. and. if so, whether
the province of Quebec is not Jointly sable.