The evening times., 1896-09-30
Briefs byWire

sam Drake OF New York was found ia
| Fairmount Park, Philadelphia yesterday
with his throat cut. having attempted SUI
| eide
A riot occurred at Ligonicr. Pa, yes
| terday in which General Manager George
| Sneft, Of the Ligonier Vale Railroad Com
| pany. was shot and badly wounded.N
George Warren, a Baltimore atiorn-:,
was arrested in st. Louis on charge of
| obtaining $325 by false pretenses from the
| City and Suburban Railway Company.
The Cleveland tohioi Rolling Min, one
| Of the three largest plants of It's kind in
the United States, has closed down. and
l 500 men are thrpwn out Of employment
John Consti and his bride. of Shamokln.
Pa, went to Mount Carmel Monday evening
to receive ttIe congratulations of friends
Liquid refreshments were plentiful, and
during a fight the groom had his right ear
chopped off close to the head BY knife.
Albert jarrett. who was employed pick
ing apples in Montgomery county, Pa. fell
from a ladder and broke his neck. He
was taken to a Philadelphia hospital and
still lives. The physicians hope To save
MS life If they can keep the inflanma-
ton down.
TIE bead found Monday in Wiley's Grove,
near Pittsburg, Pa, which the police au-
thorities thought was that OF Parry Lee
Downs. Of Baltimore. was positively ideD
titled yesterday as that Of Harry kelsJ
No clue has been obtained, however. as to
the motive for the murder or the Identity
of the aSsass0s
Doctors worked all night over Constable
William Coles, Of Scranton, Pa, who had
taken lau danum GU. % { re lnurs for his wife's
leaving him after twenty-five years of
married life. She became Jealous because
meta Tx ed o tn. other women, and is thought
to be with her sisters in Philadelphia. HE
will probably recover.
John Weber, aged five years, of Gin
cinnati, was killed by his older brother.
Joseph, yesterday at their home joseph
was removing cartridges from revolver and
John was watching him. The revolver
suddenly exploded, and John fell back with
"A scream, The bullet entered MS breast.
He died five minutes later.
Before Albert Kontz and Wilmer Dull, Of
Johnstown, Pa, started on a hunting ex-
petition yesterday afternoon, kontZ took
up his rifle. He did not know that Dull
had placed load in it, and he pla yfully
aimed the weapon at his wife and pulled
the trigger The bullet from the weapon
lodged i'll her brain. She is not expected
to recover.
DR.. II. L. Stickel, a former prominent
physician of Harrisburg, Pa. and at one
was convicted yesterday of malpraot tce
and sentenced to two years in tile peniten-
tiary. An assistant, named Potteicher.
was sent to Jail for one year. stickel
begged the court to incorporate in the
sentence an order that his luxurious beard
he spared from the prison scissors.
John Dinterman, four year-old son Of
Glen DiHterman, or near New Market, and
George son of Mr.. Charles Haffner, Of
Pearl, were playing along the banks of the
Long Branch, near Pearl, Nd, on Monday.
when the DiDterman lad slipped in and
sank to the bottom. He was going down
for the second time, when lis companion,
al the risk OF his own life, reached over
and. grabbing him by the hair, bravely
rescued him.
Walking into a room on the Sc econd floor
Of his home, Edward Garry, of New Bruins
WICK. n. J., was surprised by the report
Of a revolver and the whiZ OF a bullet
over his shoulder. The weapon was in the
hands of his son. William, aged twent y-six.
The young man has not been living home
for some time. and resented his fathers
intrusion into his room. The father had
his son arrested on the charge OF atrocious
assault and battery.
l.. c. vass. d. D., the new chaplain of
the University OF Virginia, died late Mon
day night OF pneumonia, after an illness
Of only ten days. Sunday morning, Sep
tember 20, he preached his first sermon To
the students. After the sermon he was
taken with chill. which prevented his
preaching that night and proved to be
the beginning of his fatal sickness. Dr.
Vass was born and reared in Frederick
burg, but most of his ministerial work was
done in North Carolina.