The evening times., 1896-08-03
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A second new htel is projected at Nor
fo,k',tccoss s. 5a.obo.
new. hospital. TO cost $5o,ooo. will
lie erected for the Retreat for the Sick i
Norfolk. g"
Prof. EDWIN A. Alderman has been elect
ed president OF the University OF North Caro-
linI.
An unknown man was run over on the
Baltimore and ohie road. near Green Spring,
W. Va, and kuied.-
Miss Catherine .Lyston. aged f!fty-fve
years, tried To kill hersef with a razor at
her home in Baltimore
In an aitereation with William Downing.
Charies Whitaker. a Hartford county, Nd.
farmer, was tltlily shot:
Mr.. Edward +. Barney, presidentof the
Virginia Navigation Company. fatally slot
himself at his home, near Richmond
Tie steamer Argus. of the Baltimore
Wrecking Company, was burned near
Havre de- Grace. Her crew was saved
J. G. Carver has been arrested in West
Chester. Pa. charged with the murder OF
Mrs. Richards in Cecil county, Md. in ssl.
Rev. DR.. w II Belden, secretary of the
international Missionary Union, died OF
paralysis at Clifton Springs, n. Y. satur-
day.
The Emerson Fisher Carriage Company,
of Cincinpati, made an assignment IN sat
urday. Assets, S4J0, eco; liabilities, $685.
900.
S. W. Clark, a grocer, OF Dallas, Tex.
was shot in the head by one OF two burg
lars. Saturday night, and was fatally in
jured.
W r. Getty. Democratic candidate for
elector in the Sixth Maryland district, ex-
pressed himself in favor of Bryan and free
silver.
| Major Jesse W. Sparks, United States
consul at Piedras Negras, Mexico, died Sat
urday. His home was at Murfreeshoro,
1 Tenn
The pope celebrated mass in the Pauline
| chanel In the Vatican at Rome yesterday.
A large party of American pilgrims were
| present. ~ = s y ~ S,
Two 'Iongshoremen who were fighting on
| the river from at New York fell into the
North River, on SATURDAY. night, and were
| drowned.
I 4 man, supposed to be the one who as
t-saultcd Miss Jeans. OF Frederick county.
| Md, a yeAr ago, has been arrested in West
Chester, Pa.
| Two,c colored men were iynched near
Selma, Ala, Friday night. They were
| charged with attempting to assassDate Col.
j-C-lD. Hunter. ~e.s
/ uoi. lrpo INF m ofQ
hood as Sister Gertrude, died during Friday
night atSt. Joseph's Convent at McShcr-
| rystown, Pa.
1t is reported that sheepmen and cattle
men fought near Canyon City. Ore, sew
erai DAYS ago, and that two of the sheep
herders were killed.
j. r. Weaver OF Philadelphia, was killed
in the wreck. of a freight train in Howard
county, Nd, andowas buried by the Patri-
otic Sons of America.
Daniel Geiselman died Saturday Mt his
home in Handver, Pa, aged seventy-seven
lyears. He was member of the Pennsyl-
vania legislature in 1875. 80
Cyclone" Davis, the Peoples party lead,
er, was nominated Tor Congress by the Popu-
lists of the Fourth Texas district. TO sue
ceed Hon. D. 3. Cnlberson. ,5
Mr. Charles "A. Councilman farmer near
Glyndon. Md /. has raised fourteen acres oil
sunnowers, .aM Eill, use tue seed OF the
flowers as food for cows.
About 1 so tramps attacked train crew
near Aipena.t SsnD., Saturday afternoon,
and were onlyrepuised after hand fight.
| No one was seriously injured.
:. At the annuni meeting of the Nationa
Apple Shippers Association in Chicago II
was stated that indications point to larger
crop OF apples than ever before. 4'
Mason P Mills, ex-communderDepartm
Of the Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic
and one Of the most prominent lawyers iI
the State, is dead, aged So years.
Henry Teuschner, a farmer, arrested al
Burlington, Iowa, has confessed that ht
| murdered his grandfather. Louis Krekel
last winter during a family quarrel.
Kansas gold Democrats on Saturday
chose. Samuel Kimble OF, Manhattan, TIN
State leader In the movement, to represent
them at, the indianapolis conference.
Thesofficlals OF the Tilden mine, at Bes
seuer, Mich, have received Instruction.
to close down the mine. President Rant
gave as the reason that It was tnspossihls
to make sales Oh account OF the free silyel