The evening times., 1896-11-16
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Wire Briefs.

The Ferris Wheel at Chicago is in the
hands OF a receiver.
The famine and plague in India are
spreading and the price OF grain is ad-
vancing.
Thomas Ransom. son of the United States
minister to Mexico, died yesterday at
Garysburg, y. C.
Katie Morrow, who was to have been
married tins week, was burned TO death
on Saturday at Reading, Pa.
H q. Hall, Of Shreveport, La, a trav-
cling salesman, was found dead by the side
ut the railroad track near Fredericksburg,
Va.
Joseph Sterba, of Bower Hill, Allegheny
county, Pa, was shot and killed by a friend
who did not know the gun he was hand
ling was loaded.
Fire early This morning Gutted the room
in which packages are stored in the an
mex portion OF the Grand Central Depot.
New York. Nearly all the packages were
ruined.
During the past few days the people liv-
ing around the spar>ely settled region at
the base of the Blue Mountains. III northern
Berks county, Pa, have been terrorized by
a lot OF tramps.
Elmer Putnam, i young man about Sc ven
teen years of age, OF Rocky Springs, Fred
erIck county, Nd. while out hunring yes
terday. shot and wounded Elmer Kline.
aged tbirty-two years
Tie Manchester. England, Guardian learns
that the powers have agreed 10 guara ntte
new Turkish loan of f5.Oo0.UO0 to as
SiSi the sultan in CARRYING cut the promised
reforms in Asia Minor.
The circuit court for Allegany county
decided that under the act Of 1896 the
justices of the peace have no right To
try Tnaily persons charged under that act
with deserving their wives
A fire in Syracuse. y. V. yesterds Y, de
stroyed the Eureka Plaster Companys
Works and Michael r. Hayes salt watts.
Patrick nonnelly. who was asleep in one OF
the buildings, was burned TO death.
Mrs. Charles Klebaghn, of Norfolk, Va,
has been sent To the grand jury to answer
the charge Of numbering her husband, who
was found dead from gas poison in
room over his saloon last Wednesday
1t is semi>officially announced at Rome
that the pope has advised Archbishop Ire
land TO moderate his attitude as regards
social and other questions, but that the re
ports that the archbishop VIII be removed
are untrue
The people of Holland. Mich, have raised
$4,000 to aid in rebuilding the factory of
George 7. Hummer, the silver candidate for
Congress which was burned fe weeks
ago. entailing loss OF 81 so 600. lie will
employ 500 men.
James Stott, aged thirty-five years, a
machinIst. lost control of the handle OF a
ladle filled with molten metal at the
Midvale Steel Works, Philadelphia, and
to escape injury lie jumped into a pile OF hot
cinders, which set fire TO his clothing and
fatally burned him.
an order TO all officers serving upon courts
of-honor instructing them that hencefOrth
officers in the Bavarian army refusing
to fight duels on the ground that they are
opposed to the principle of dueling must
not be forced to resign, as has heretofore
been the rule.
large steam stock chest at the West
Virginia pulp mill at Luke burst because
of too great pressure, and Frank Nlney, the
fourteen-ycar old son of james ViEry, OF
Luke, was SO badly scaldcd that he died
in a few hours. John Burke and Patrick
Graney, two other boys, escaped by jumping
through "a window butnot before they were
badly scalded.
A son was born yesterday morning in
San Francisco To Mrs. NJ. Funa koShi, vile OF
the Japanese vice consul in this city.
The infant is the sole descendant of the ia
NOUS houses of Funakoshi and Yamagata,
two of the foremost men of modern Japan.
His mother Matsujo Yamagata- Funako-
shi is the only living child OF the Marquis
Yamagata, the great field-marshal and
diplomat.