The evening times., 1896-07-28
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Baltimore will spend 81 600 900 for an
underground conduit system.
Henry Kettering, "a machinist. Of Can.
ton, Ohio, was killed by boiler tAplo
sion in his shop.
Joseph Seibert, OF Camden, committed
suicide yesterday by jumping overheard
from the fcrryboat Columbia.
Miss Jane schofield dropped dead of heart
disease, yesterday while. lecturing at San
Antonin, Tex, Normal College.
Religious mania caused William Carr.
aged twenty-six years, to commit suicide
atthe home OF his mother in Passaic, n. j.
August Eggers. aged fifty-seven years, a
carpenter, employed OH the Howard udi-
toriuin, Baltimore, Tell from d rcaffoId
and was killed.
Rather than testify against his employer
Louis Hart, twenty-three years Old. shot
and killed himself athis home at Arlington,
Nj, on Saturday night.
The party ofqAmerlcan manufacturers
which sailed from New York July via
Southampton and London, arrived IN Rio
de Janeiro. Brazil, yesterday.
A lockout has been declared in the shoe
factory of the Thomas e. Plant Company,
at Lynn, Mass, because the firm dis
charged over stxty,of its employees on
Saturday. o.
DapielM. Hettipger, aged forty four years
ofGarfield. Pa, had grown ndespondent over
the prevalence or so much evil in the world.
He committed suicide some time last night
by taking dose of poison.
The Matabeles are said to be again mass
ing around BuluwayO and the SITUATION
Is no better than 1t was last A pril. when the
place was besiegcd. All efforts 10 put down
the native uprising have been unsuccessful
"A eoininittee OF the national Prohibition
convention will formally notify Mr.. Joshua
Leyering OF his nomination for Presiieatof
the United States at mass meeting 70 be
held at the Lyceum Theater. Baltimore.
tonig ht.
Capt. w. Bailey Tucker, well known
railroad manager, was shot Sunday night
at Orlando, Fla, by Alfred st. Clair
Abrams, prosecuting attorney of Lake
county, Fla. The doctors say Capt. Tucker
may recover.
The British Board Of Trade has decided
that the loss OF the steamship D-ummond
Castle, OFF usiant, on June 16. i.s Ii,irg in
the drowning OF about ESQ persons. was due
to the fact that she was not navigarcd with
proper, seainanlike care.
Levi Sancomb, aged sixteen, aud Nellie
Buzby, aged sixteen. OF Chateaugay, n Y,
were struck and killed by a train on the
osdensburs and Lake Champaiu Rail-
road on Saturday night. They were driv-
ing, and the accident occurred at grade
crossing.
In Springfield, H., sudney Winnie and
George Carson were convicted of robbing
tho postoffice in that city in April, l Is95,
or Sc, ,556 in stamps and $50 in silver
plate. Allen and Kilioran, who were i'm
pllcated in the robbery, escaped from Lud-
low street Jail, New York, July 4. 1895.
The dead bodies of Sheriff Douglass and
an unknown highwayman, who had COM
mitted many robberies single-handed dur
ing the past two weeks, were found
two miles from Nevada City. Cal. There
were many wounds on the bodies, ana
the men had evidently had a desperate
hand-to-hand fight. +1s
While removing heavy wagon from his
slaughter house Mt Palmyra ard in the act
of applying the brake in order to prevent it
from running too rapidly Jack Lands,
wealthy young nianS of Londonderry
Township. Pa. slipped aan fell, fractnr-
ing his skull and sustaining other injuries
which terminated in his deof,r
Judge B. Moribn; 81 :taes sn,tea sfates
court, sitting atE9ae eRetk s@s c., yester,
day issued n tcs9pprfty iDynac;ion against
the seaboard AM Line the Southern States
Freight AssoaaRop s3nd lines connecting
and acting with Il Nom making any re.
duction whatevss id the freight or pas.
senger rates ol g Hose lines ip effect
July 12, 1896. Fs.s@
Mrs. Mary HefrnaF, wife OF John Her
man OF South Camden, yesterday utter
noon drowned her two children; aged -cne
and two and a half years, and atteinptcd
to drown herself in the Delaware River.
crazed husband was epnmitted 20 prison to
prevent him fpmf committing. suicide
through grief. NJ -
Davis kitch, a prominent contractor OF
Lancaster, Pa, engaged in work on the
Pennsylvania Railroad near Kinzers, was
killed yesterday afternoon By a mass oil
rock, which was disedged by a dynamite
blast, falling on him. Deceased was for.
meriy superintendent of the Lancaster city
water works.
Judge Daily, in the appellate term OF the
supreme court in New York, ruled that
when a depositor subscribes to the rules
of savings bank governing deposits,
which rules provide that the presentation
OF bank book shall be sufficient evi-
dence OF authority to the bank to make
any payment to the bearer, such payments
shall be valid when there are no circurn-
stances in connection with the presenta-
ton of the pass-book To Justify suspicion
Oliver Halpin Stinson, an eight-year-old
lad, died in Pittsburg, Pa, under peculiar
circumstances. On last Friday he was
riding his wheel and was thrown to the
ground. In falling key that he carried in
his POCKET was thrust against his side, but
did not penetrate the flesh. He suffered iii-
tensely until death came. Tho physician
made an examination and found that d
large abscess had formed IN the abdomen
and the blow from the key had broken it.
JOHN STETSON'S WILL.