The evening times., 1896-09-01
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/ "A young man named Knox, who baill
from Danville, attempted to commit sui
eide in Lyncbburg. Va, yesterday.
| Joseph Orosz was hanged in Pittsburg
this morning for the murder OF Theresa
Bobak, who had refused to marry him.
| Thomas Donovan. a boy. was shot and iu'
staDuy killed at Braddock, Pa, last night
by james Cavenaugh, aged eighteen, who
| escaped.
| Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss, the well.
known New York merchant, announces
that he will not vote for Mr.. Bryan Cor
| President.
The Dupont Rdige dock, at Havre, France,
| with two warehouses containing cotton and
lard, were burned to-day. The damage is
| 100000 o..
James Ii. Henderson, aged about fourteen
| years, was dra gged tddeath by tworuna way
horses near his home, in the Tenth district
| OF Baltimore county.
| The British Mediterranean squadron of
| tweDty-two vessels has sailed from Malta
| for Firaeus, whence the ships will go To
| Tasos, Lcmnosaitnd Salonica.
The Culver-Hffi Shoe Company, a lead
| ing shoe house of Des Moincs, Iowa, failed
| yesterday. TIE fsfiiurc was caused by
slow Collections ssnd dull business.
wel-cducatdd ma supposcdto be from
| wasnh-tnn. whpr Stopped ut Harper's
| Ferry boarding house. has disappeared, ana
| the authorities OF the town arc making an
invcs,ti cation. f~e - t-
ii. a. Butcher, clothier, OF Chicago, as
signed voluntarily yesterday. His state
neut shows assets $4,000; liabilities.
81 500. Dull times is the cause assigned
for the failure
President Parr, of the Honest Money
Democratic League, has received a telegram
from Hon. ". Bourke Cochran, accepting
ahincilation To ADDRESS a ss-niee ting In
BALTIMORE on October 3. ;;
The NoGales, A riz. bank robbers are still
In a deep canyon of the Ajo Mountains.
Sonora. 1ifty miles south OF Bisbee. Ariz..
with an American posse still after them,
and there is good prospect OF their capture
f. II. Mullen, J. well-to-do groceryman of
Birmingham, Ala, sat oD the side OF a bed
last night playing with his four-month old
infant Suddenly he drew pistol from his
pocket and sent a bullet through his brain.
IL is stated at the office Of the Union
Trust CoInpauy, in New York, this niorn-
ing that no funds have yet arrived with
which 70 pay the interest on the Union
Pacific extended 8 per cent sinking fund
bonds, due today.
The old Hatfield Tavern, on the southern
outskirts of Chicopee. Mass, was destroyed
early this morning by fire, probably OF in
ceudiary origin. The building was owned
by C. C. Abbey, and the loss was $40 900,
partly covered by insurance
Miss Niollie Grove. who resides at John
sons Mills. Morgan county. W. Va, near
Berkeley Springs, was thrown from horse
on Saturday afternoon, the horse falling
backward upon her. She sustained internal
injuries and. 1t is said, she cannot re-
cover.
PENDING an investigation as to whether
the neutrality laws have been violated. the
collector OF customs at Brunswick. Ga, has
seized the tug Dauntless, alleged TO have
taken Off arms and men at Port Antonio
from the steamer Laurada and landed them
In Cuba.
A dispatch to the San FIanoisco Mer-
chants Exchange yesterday stated the
British tramp steamer LinLithgow, from
San Francisco for Leith, broke her shaft
on August IL, and is now drifting north
east off Acapulco. No further details Of the
accident are given ~
The blast furnace inen at the Riverside
Iron Works in Wheeling, W Va, were yes
terday notified Of u 90 per cent reduction
in their wages. They refused to accept The
reduction n nd quit work and the plant was
a -b,.la 81.
5000 men, is now idle.
Hon Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the
Navy, went on board the new British tor
pedo boat, Destroyer Desperate. on the trial
trip OF that vessel in the More today. Mr..
Herbert was accompanied by Lieut.. Com
mander W. s. Cowles. the naval attache of
the United States embassy.
After deliberating since Saturday right
the jury in the case of Ma jOr c. W Wright.
ex-towD treasurer. OF Suffolk Va, charged
with embezziing $1,000 of the public funds,
reported at bp. m that they could d OF agree.
Bribery is rumored, and Frederick Brinkley
who voted for conviction. asserts that he
was offered 500. The accused was re-
leased in $4,000 bail to appear in Novem-
Der.
aldtt tiic yOuHR AlisSlSSipplhu VIII
created such row at Richmond. Va, last
week in his effort to get married, passed
through Jackson, Miss, yesterday en- route
TO his home in YaZoo county, under escort
OF his father, ex- Sheriff Taylor. who is one
If the most prominent men in the State.
Young Taylor says he only spent 1000
On his spree, and that he will yet marry
the girl.
At Hagpcr's Creek, In Monroe county,
W Va, William Robbins, n man of mid
die age. who has several grown children,
shot and killed his eighteen year-ol d
daughter Alice He used a rifle and shot
her In the bnck while she was gathering
peaches. Robbins. il is said, had been
previously guilty of a criminal assault upon
his daughter, and when concealment was
no longer possible he decided to kill bcr.
He was arrested Saturday and last even
ing cut his throat and died.
The Ripley. New York, branch OF the
WestfieId N Y, National Bank was robbed
yesterday I'm Open daylight. The masses
had gone out to listen to Candidate W.
Bryan at the Macbee picnic, and the
cashier OF the bank was among the spec
tators The bank had been left in charge
or the bookkeeper, and he, hearing some
excitement, went to the front door, and
while there got into an argument. While
he was thus engaged the robbers came
up through n sewer into the cellar a nd then
up into the ebanking-room. They took $3.50
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