The evening times., 1896-10-12
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| Ae1ahoer Hutcherson, of Norfolk couptv
va died from the effects of a blow ON m.
| nead' administered by Edward Angel
| while General Superintendent Van Fife,
or the New York Central rai,road W..
asleep in his private car a thier stole his
| trousers. iii'
report from Qua yaquil, Ecuador, by way
| Vi Lima Peru, is to the effect that the pa-
'hnai convention has elected Gen. AIraro
as the interim president OF the republic.
ihe discovery was made at st. Johns
newfoundland, on Saturday tina. duripp a
siisht IRE few days ago the custom house
vas sronbed or between So ,O0Oand 81 OOo
rrehch cruiser is about starting from
iouioh Tor Morocco to punish the Rirr
p'a.cS WHO recently seized aud ulunflerc,l
the French ship Coriute off the coast Of ,fo-
rocco VI ANU
James Jameson, who claims to be a PROT
estant Episcopal clergyman, is held by the
new YORK police on charges of burglary
and violating the hotel act by not paving
his board bill
MI Charles Jones, who lived inthe lower
part of Spottsylvania county, Va. near
ouii wednesday and so badly injuredtha the
died the next day.
lhe Democrats OF the Tenth Missouri
district have nominated Victor Gebhart f,,r
Congress Hon. Richard Barthold, the pres
ent member. is up for re election. The dis
trict Is largely Republican.
Near Fremont, Ohio. yesterday, a vest
bound Lake Shore freight train ran into
and killed two men who are Thought To
be William Sheridan OF Toronto. Ontario.
and Thomas Ware of Pittsburg. Both men
were tramps.
ie Is reported that upon certain conditions
M. John D. Rockefeller viii present the
university OF West Virginia with a hand
some building, TO be used as a school of art
ana music, and dormitores for Young
women students.
EX-ASsistanJ District Attorney Waltz,
Storm, OF New York city, was arraisned in
apolice court Saturdd ON u warrant charg-
ing him with the theft OF two diamond
studs from 4 wholesale diam ond merchant,
who had given them to Mr. Storm to sell to
a friend.
Capt &. s. Ogg, yardmaster at the Chesa-
peake and Ohio station at StaUnton, Va,
was caught Saturday between the drive
heads Of two freight cars and badly crus:,.d
about the stomach. He was also brui-.t in
the chest and his left leg was paral rzed.
He died yesterday morning
Fire this morning burned the two-story
brick block In West Scranton, Pa, occu-
pied by j. 7. and G. T. Williams, whole
sale teas The upper floor was used for
dwelling apartments, and the inmates mar
rowly escaped with their lives. Total loss,
81 900; insurance, $1,000.
Paul era wford. the fifteen yea r-old Sou Of
a wealthy Philadelphia spring mattress
manufacturer, who lefthis home beca usehe
had received bad marks in school, was in
duCed by ytramps to join tn EN-, a nd dafterwad
disclosed to the New York police the details
of ahieh wa robbery Committed by theme
The dead body OF Albert Martin, twenty
four years Of age, of Philadelphia, was
found dbetweenthetr tracks ofthe Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, near
Ferryman, Md. early yesterday morning
by the track walker. He is supposed to have
falien from freight train during the night.
Eight persons Were injured by the de-
railing Of an electric car on the Madison
street electric line in Chicago yesterday.
sunny vi NittsIi may upt hbiuuS-
COrcoran, Callahan & Co., shoe manu-
facturers Of Lynn. Mass, have assigned.
The liabilities are $4,000 the assets about
$50, 900.
The annual congress OF the German So
cialist party was formally opened at Seb-
Sohen, near Gotha, today. Three hundred
delegates were present, including many
women. Herr Singer, one of the Socialist
leaders in the Reichstag. was elected presi-
dent ofthe CO . ress and Herr Book, Socialist
deputy for tf,tha. vice president.
Snpt. Skinner of the New York State de-
partment of public instruction, who is
president OF the National Education Asso-
citation and chairman OF the executive
ofthat body. has issueda call for
the thirty-SiSth annual meeting of the as
sociation to he held at Milwaukee, Wis.
during the first week in July. 1897.
While William Baker and his wife, OF
KY, were at work in cornflcid
Saturday evening they quarreled. Baker
threw a rock, which struck his wife on the
head, telling her. With other rocks he
pounded her head, nashing il almost to u
ielly. Then he carried her to their home.
where she lived long enough to tell the
story. Baker, who is in Jail, is thought to
be insane
Mrs. Henry Grundy of Ne W Bedford, Ohio,
lied yesterday from voluntary starvation
Several months ago her nd died, leay-
ing her considerable property. Shortly
literward she made an unsuccessful at
tempt to kill herself, and since then has
BEEN closely watched. Her grief increased
each day and recently she refused TO take
saying she wanted to die and
Join her husband
At meeting of the American Sabbath
Tract Society held in PlaiDfield, n. j.
asst night Rev. DR.. y. ii. Lewis, pastor OF
he Seventh Day Baptist Church. accepted
he call to become national lecturer iG the
United States for the propa CATION OF Sab
,ath reform along the lines held by the
seventh Day Baptist Church. Rev. A. E.
dain OF Westerly, r. l., will temporarily
ucceed him as pastor OF the Seventh
Day Baptist Church.
In the United States court at Williams
,oft Pa, when Louis Droffuer, aged wen
", who pleaded guilty to having extracted
money from letters while a clerk IN the
Wi!liamsport poStoffice, was called fot
eD;euce. it was sho wn that the Young fnap
was soexcessivcly addicted to the cigarette
,abit that his intellect had been shaken
lis mother fell to the floor UNCONSCIOUS
yhcn the judge pronounced sentence OF iin'
,risonment.