The evening times., 1896-08-11
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Six beIieyersl In the KDeipp cuSes walked
barefooted 10 East River Park. New York.
4r. A. G. Hippey. general superintendent
or the Norfolk and Western Railroad, dieil
In Roanoke.
The Democratic convention OF the Ninth
Iowa district Yesterday animated T. F.
Genqng for congtess.
DR.. William H IN aIlette, formerly we'll
known society ieader OF Philadelphia. died
Observation-Disclosures City i Mo, ..s-s.sz
There are teb cases or smallpox in the
Eruptive Hospital, in Paducah, KY. Three
cases have developed since Saturday.
The Japanese steamship Company has
begun un aggressive war Of rates against
the Pacific Null and other conipa nies.
During thunder storm in New York a
Miss Names, thinking.ber brother had been
killed by lightning. lost her reason. Z
Jacob Erlichmann. aged eighteen years,
was drowned while bathing in deep
| pool az Golden Ring. baltimore county
Hon. John D. Clardy has been nnani-
mously nominated for reelection to Con-
gress by the Second Kentucky district
Democrats.
The Midland Steel Works and the In
dinna Iron Works, in Muncie, Ind, resumed
operations yesterday, with nearby 500
hands In each mill.
John King, OF Connellsville, Pa, was
stabbed TO death yesterday near McKces-
por. by an unknown man with whom be
had quarrel at spring.
wniie natmngin stone quarry at Lenan
OF. Pa, yesterday, Harry weidel, gcd eley-
drowned in fifteen feet OF water.
Percy NJ. Vernon. d. D.. dean of the
College OF Fine Arts. Syracuse Univrr-
sity. New York, died suddenly yesterday
afternoon at his home in that city.
The twenty-fourth annual session OF the
International Association OF Fire Engineers
began in Salt Lake City yesterday There
are about $50 chiefs in attendance.
Joseph Miller. "a farmer. of Hanover
county, died from injuries sustained In be
ing struck by train on the Richmond.
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.
Ex-Gov. John Young Brown. of Ken
lucky, has sigDified his Willingness TO ac-
cept the domination Of free silver Demo
Gratis for Congress from the Louisville
district.
John II. Entz, an ged saw mill operator.
residing near Farragut, Pa, was instantly
killed yesterday morning while engaged
in removing tree that had been blown
across The road by the storm.
Silver mine owners deny that they have
| maintained bureau at Washington To
| further free silver legislation or that they
ever employed Mr.. William Jennings Bryan
to advocate free coinage of silver.
Mcbride and Thomas, who tried to force
their way through Miss peaver's farm in
| Frederick county, have asked for war
rants for tine arrest OF the Misses Beaver.
| charging them with assault and battery.
The first bale of cotton of the crop Of
1s96-7s was received in st. Louis yes,e!-
day from W B. walter. of Prescott, Ark.
| 1t weighed 532 pounds classed good mid
ding and was sold for cents per pound
The five-year-old. daughter Of John Allen.
of Thomaston. Pa.aw WAS struck4at her home
by lightning and ka led = Her mother was in
the act of forming Yer. but was not injured
in the least. nor WIS the house at all dam
aged.
Albert Wade. foetneriy assistant cashier
Of the First NatoAa Bunk OF Mount Yer
non. Ind. Who eat,seopded eighteen months
| ago with $40, eco was arrested fastspfebt
| in Nashville. Tenn, on, a telegram from
| Mount vernons -
| Washington F. Pedrck. WHO was serre-
tary of the Geneya arbitra,ion. the French
| Clains Commission. The international Ne
l ls.u
| Commission. is dead. He was horn in PhiIi-
| deiphia in 1876.
The fiagstaffat washington's headquar-
rers. Valley Forge, was blown down by
the high winds Sunday night The broken
portion fell against the historic dwell
ing and demolished dormer window and
a portion Of the roof.
| Tony Castor, aged fifty-five years, Of
Bristol, Pa dropped dead with heart fail
| ure yesterday, while being chased by his
| wife, to whom he had dealt a heavy blow
in quarrel between them. The woman
| fell over his lifeless corpse.
o. II. Winthrop, who is charged with alb
/! Quoting James Campbell, the Honolulu mil
lionaire. and confining him in house in San
| Francisco for several days in an attecapt
| TO extort $2O,00a from him. was captured
\ Y the police in Oakland. Cal.
William N. Bun ker was arrested in st.
| Louisiast evening ona charge Of disorderly
conduct while wildly. hara1gaing crowd
on7Twelffb street II was discovered that
he was :dcmcnted- presumably from the
| heat Bunker is a salesman for the Key
stone Axle Company of Pittsburg, Pa.
jay Baird OF Stroudsburg, Pa, heroically
saved the life OF two -year-old Charles
Hauser Baird was awakened from sleer
and saw the tot in blaze. The fiimsy
| materials of the frightened child's dress
were being rapidly consumed, when Baird
| grabbed the child and put out the flames,
| his right hand being severely burned.
A soda fountain exploded at the bottling
establishment ofD. r. Rockefeller & Broth-
er, at sunbury, Pa. Half the fountain
Knocked q big hole in the side of the bot
1 ling room. The other half struck Cleri
\ James Newberry, who was working at the
/ fountain and hurled him ten feet over &
| rack and table. He was picked up uncon-
l scious and died several hours afterward.
Mr.. Rhees Feels Indignant.