The evening times., 1896-09-16
Briefs byWir


The store of u II. Herbert and postoffice
at Chaneyville, Calvert county, Nd, were
broken open and robbed.
The Democratic convention Of the Third
Louisiana district hns nominated Robert
IL Broussard for Congress.
Plans have been about completed for u
colony of Hollanders on the Choptank
River, in Caroline county, Nd
1t is rumcred that West Virginia Popu
lists are about 20 withdraw their State tick
ct and inderse- the Republican ticket.
Alfred HURST. a free silverte, was yester-
day nominated for Congress by the Second
Iowa dstrict Democratic convention.
Prof. Talliaferro, of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College, is visiting at the house OF
his lather-in-iaw. b. ii. Pole, in this city.
Judge Pitcairn C. Wright. one OF the best
| known journalists in the South. died at lis
home. lear Nashville, 1enu., last night.
Matthew Ross, aged thIrtyegit years,
an employe of the Camden. n. J.. Iron
Works, waskiied yesterday by falling from
| a cranc.
TIE SILVER Democrats and Populists OF
the Seventh Wisconsin district yesterday
4 a.
| Congress
/. Ex-aiayor Abram S Hewitt was yester
day nominated for Congress by the soliill
money Democrats OF the Twelfth New
| York district
The Democrats OF the Second Congress
sionai district OF Michigan have nominated
Hon. Thomas E. Bark worth. OF Jackson, on
silver platform.
william Black, of Bristol, Pa. was com
mitted TO prison yesterday. charged with
| committing ii uurderous assault ON Charles
| Racker at Burlington.
| Hon. William J Bryan will he driven
| through the principal streets Of Petersburg
in a carriage drawnb by sixteen white horses
and one yellow lsorsc.
| The American Health Association met
| in Buffalo, y. Y, yesterday. with delegates
| in attendance from various parts Of the
| United States. Canada aud Mexico.
| The executive Committee OF the Sonth-
ern Freight ssoc;atiun decided at Atlanta,
| yesterday, to restore the old rates in cf-
| feet before the rate war was started.
The Brotherhood OF Railroad Trainmen
has fixed September "a as memorial dag,
| when the graves Of ;keir comrades who
have been Killed on duty viii he decorated.
| Notice was given ry the Maryland Steel
| Company, at Sparrow's Point Baltimore,
that one of the furnaces will shut down
| Saturday, throwing 135 out of employ
meDt.
Mary White, OF Sharon, Pa, aged ten,
| was beaten by her father till unconscious,
| for returning late from school. She may
not recover. The father has been ar
| rested.
1t is believed that the Rev. DR.. Chauncey
J. Brewster, formerly rector of Grace
Church. Baltimore, Will be elected to sue
cecd Bishop Coke as Bishop OF Western
New York.
Edward Miller. aged fourteen years, 2f
Baltimore, died under circumstances which
| led to the arrest of Grover Cleveland Ora
| ham, aged twelve years, on the charge Of
causing his death
Col. Joseph Hill. ex-general manager OF
the vandalia Road. is dangerously i'll at
his resideuce ia ST. Louis. Col Hill is
| seventy-two years OF age, and recently
retired from railroad service.
Norah McCauley, aged twenty-one' was
he'd in Philadelphia to answer the charge
mi,ted having forcibly entered a house and
stolen articles valued at $50.
The Railroad Conductors Association of
the United States and Canada held its an-
nual session 10 Richmond, Va, yesterday.
John I. Keith. Of the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie road. was elected president.
An armed band OF Tomachie Indians and
| Mexicaus made a rad on the custom house
at Las PaloInas, Mexico, on Monday, hut
were finally driven off, with loss OF two
| killed. Two OF the customs officers were
mortally wounded.
At Jeffersonvile, Ind, yesterday. Or.
W. L. Breyfegle Of New Albany, ex-presi-
dent of the Monon road, was acquitted NJ
the charges of forgery and enbezzement
in connection with the failure OF the New
Albany Banking Company.
The South Side Rapid Transit Railway.
of Chicago. better known as the ALLEY
L." was sold this morning TO Leslie Car-
ter. acting for George L. Adams, OF Che
caco. for $4,000. 100 The sale was
made in the interest of the bondloltiers.
The long overdue British fruit steamer
Etiielred, Capt. Hopkins, concerning the
safety OF which there had been considerable
anxiety. owing to the fact that she was out
in the recent hurricane, arrived at Fortress
Monroe, Va, about midnight last night
with serious da mag geto her tanks ana decks,
with cargo gone and otherwise injured.
Miss Ida G Kast, of Mechanicsburg, Pa,
whose brave fight for registry as student
at law in which she was rclentlessly or
posed by almost every member Of the bar,
has lust come out with flying coiors, after
critical examination by the examining
board, and yesterday Y morning was present
ed in court and admitted as a practicing
attorney in the courts of Cumberland
county.
John Jackson. a BridGeton. n. j., farmer,
was driving into town yesterday morning
with load OF potatoes, when he met on the
Roadstown road two men IN a covered
wagon. The men stopped him and pretend
ed to want to buy few baskets of his po-
tatocs, for which they bargained. When
jackson took out his shot bag, one OF the
men knocked him down. while the other
gra bbed the money and both made off
g H. Green & Sons. prcpretors Of the
Clyde Print Works. in Warwick, R. l.,
have secured from Judge Colt. in the
United States circuit court. the appoint
ment of receiver for goods now in their
possession, in the process of manufacture
for Coffin, Altemus Co., Of Philadelphia,
The goods are valued at $3.50 900. and the
receiver is to hold the proceeds to secure
accepted drafts of Green 4 Sons against
the Philadelphia firm, amounting to about
$525. 900, that are now outstanding.
A post-mortem examination held at Will
iamsport, Pa, on the body of George W.