The evening times., 1896-08-19
Briefs byWi

III Caroline County, Va. Charles Purks,
fifteen years OF age, was shot and kilIed.by
The accidental discharge OF a gun.
Ii Hung Chang, the Chinese statesman,
will sail from Southampton, England, for
,, New York next Saturday ON the Steamship
Mrs. Augusta Mantbel, agrd 104 years,
| OF sbaniokiu. Pa, died Monday from in
juries received by falling from u window
last week.
At the Republican, Congressional conyen-
ton OF the Twelfth district, Congressman
George Noonan was unanimously y nominated
to succeed himself.
John Leonard met death at the Silver
Greek coliiery, Patterson. Pa. lie was
| caught between the bumpers OF niue cars
and fatally squeezed.
In jumping from moving coal train near
Conshohocken, Pa, Jeremiah Saxton. aged
twenty-three years, fell under the wheels
| OF car, and his body was cut in two.
California prunes, bearing French marks
and packed In cases similar to those used In
France. wdl bc shipped from the United
States and sold abroad as French fruit.
Morrill, r. Hewes, OF New York. was held
in Baltimore for court on the charge OF at-v
tempting to obtain money from Baltimore
merchants by means of bogus contracts.
Senior EstehInese, who Westminster of
war in 1877, under the Spanish republic. has
been placed in prison In Barcelona as re-
suit OF the recent political troubles there.
Carl White, the six-year-old son OF Mrs.
White, OF Altoona, Pa, was run over aud
| instantly killed by u Union Transfer Com
| pany wagon at Atlantic City yesterday.
General Manager Green, or the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, las issued an order TO
have the company Is new shops antit terminals
n, Cumberland ready for occupancy by Sep
tember /.
The Madrid Heraldo asserts that the
authorities have discovered the exist
| cnce of plot to blow up the Castle OF
Grunja, The residence of the Infauta Isa.
bella aunt of the King.
The safe of the Paragon Oil Refining CON-
pany, at Ironyii'e, Ohio, was blown open
| early this morning, and between $500 and
81 900 secured. The work is evidently
that OF expert cracksmen.
Tie W. /. Macarthur Dry Goods Com
| pany, OF ST. Louis, No. assigned yesterday
for the benefit Of creditors. The principal
Indebtedness is an item of sac, ,0C0. The
stock is Worth STO.OGO.
Charles Franz was attacked and severely
cut at Iiighlandto WI, near Baltimore. John
and George Neudecker. brothers, and John
Neudccker, their cousin, are under arrest on
the charge of doing the cutting.
John Shindeliecser's small brother, at
waynesboro, Pa, yesterday afternoon. shot
him through the left lung with u cat rifle.
He will die. The victim Is about twenty
years old and the Lad eight years old.
-J.C. Williams, a visitor ron Montana.
stabbed hinselfin the breast four timeswith
n knife at Hot Springs, Ark. Failing TO
end his life in that manner. he jumped head
first into deep well and broke his neck.
Burglars entered the house of E. b. Her
ing ut Massiiitn, Ohio, early 'GsesteIday
morning. AMI after cliiorofo-,uing efie mem
bcrs of the 1smity fansacked tile house.
| securing $3.50 In cash ana other valaables
TO doubieth5igimgnnt. Two bicycles were
taken aisosssn
E0rcRanE etersRy .Iohn Mannipe sad
John Ca,npbear weN Killed in the St.Law--
| renee minc as HHts Mont. last evening, by
the failure OF a elJteh on the hoisting eu-
gins 10 work, which permitted the cage To
drop To the bottom OF the shaft, n distance
of 1850 feet.
President Roosevelt. OF the New York Do
lice board. invites strong intelligent young
men OF good Character 10 apply Tor positins
as policemen santtif they pass the exani;na-
tons, they VIII heappointed strictly on their
wifi, f,..
political iuflience,
William MaZick Miles, a well-known club
and society nian, OF Seattle WASH, commit
led suicide u,iis rocIns at the Rainier CIab.
Miles came OF = prcnlircut south California
family, and his father was fer two terms
aitorne v general OF the state. Dependency
over his ilhealth prompted his suicide.
Paul Stump, aged wcnty-two years, was
killed at the AIllrigh. coiliery, Llewclyn.
Pa, Monday night. He was working
new breast in a Bianway, which pitched
fifty-fivr degrees, when u sudden rtish of
coal which followed the firing of blast
precpitated him some forty feet, crush
ing his skull.
Oscar a. Moore, about seventy-fire years
old ,atteEprcdsucide inP Philadelphia yester-
day by shooting himself in the head. Early
in July, while a patient in st. Joseph's
Hospital, he was robbed OF iewoiry cnd
papers by his nurse. William Thompson, who
was sentenced to four years Imprisonment
for the crime.
DR.. l. A Rabb. of Bloomsbury. Pa, gave
his children some money to buy candy,
which they spent for matches. A short time
after, hearing cries of distress, he ran
into the yard and found the youngest
boy, aged two and one-half years, envel-
oped in flames The boys clothes were
burned Off AMI the body terribly burned
The child suffered great agony until mid
night. wbcu death relieved it. The faith
er's hands and arms We're badly buraed
In trying to save the child.
The nine -month-old child of George Wye
koff of Hopewcll. n. J.. was strcngied to
death Monday night. In the absence OF it's
mother ft ha,i attempted to get oItof bed,
aud in doing SO stepped down betweenthe
bed and window screen, which w;.s lying
against the bcdstead The haby's chin
caught on the top of the screen, and its
feet not touching the floor, it strangled to
death Whey the mother went into the
room later she found her child dead and
hanging in the position indicated.
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