The evening times., 1896-07-24
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liain Pattoni has growing Corn twelve feet
in height. @
NJ. Eugene spuier, politician, journalist
and author, is dead at Dion, France, aged
sixty-one.
Cardinal Gibbons celebrated his sixty
second birthday at Cape Nay, where he is
spending d Vacation.
William Steinway. of New York. has
given his $4,000 salary as rapd-transitc COM
missioner TO the poor.
The heApcientanI Honorable Artillery Coni-
phny called from Liverpool for Boston yes
terday Oh the steamship servia.
The practice of shooting porpOises from
the Cape May strand has Caused that sd
| gacious creature to give the strand wide
berth.
Beecher Shaw, twenty-thrce years old,
who resided in Philadelphia, was drowned
yesterday at South Cape May, while bath
ing. e.asi5,
MIR. Joseph Bryan owner OF the Richmond,
Va, Times. denies the statement that he
will vote for the Republican nominee Tor
President.
The steamer Concordia, from Montreal
on Sunday night and yesterday stopped at
st. Johns for repairs.
| Chinese advices TO the 9th instant, re-
| ceived at Vancouver, are to the effect
that the Nohammedan rebels have anui-
hi!ated 5000 imperial troops.
The Republican convention OF tie First
Congressional Virginia district met ut
Cape Charles and nominated W B. Tyler,
Of Fredericksburg, for Congress. a
Catherine Booth CHbborn, head Of the Sal
wilton Army organization in France, was
knocked down by bicyclistin Paris yes
terday and was considerably hurt.
| The artesian well at the Camden county,
N. j., jail has reached depth OF IL 8 feet,
and struck fine flow of water. Tile pro-
duct VIII be tested as to its quality.
| Wallace Burtosic was instantly killed by
| n fall OF top rock at the Burnside mine,
Shamokin, Pa, this morning He is sur
vived by a widow and eight children.
Thesteamer Virginia, which went ground
III the james River last Saturday while re-
turning to Baltimore, was floated yesterday
and taken to Newport News for repairs.
The Dominion government has given
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the time for the free entry of mining and
smelling machinery into Canada to July
1, 1897.
The steamer Connecticut, OF the Provi-
dence line, which left New York on Wednes-
day night for Providence, broke down in
| Long Island Sound and was later towed
to Stoningtoa
Franklin s. Hoyey, well known Phila-
deiphia merchant and one OF the oldest silk
manufacturers in the United States, died
suddenly of fapoplexy Tuesday at Camp wy
oning. near Whkesbarre. Pa.
An imperial irslde has been issued 7at
Constantinopie, notifying the council OF
Armenia and tho patrarchate that they
will be held Responsible hereafter for any
treason on the part OF Armenians-
An unknown man was found drowned
in the Passaic River at Paterson, N. j.,
yesterday. He had evidently committed
suicide, and bound to his body with wires
was II large bag tilled with stones.
Samuel wfnef, the match factory en-
gineer, whoSc1ntracted blood poisoning by
chewing mattel sticks, died today at his
home in Lebanon, Pa. He. was forty-five
years of age and leaves widow and eight
children.
The Rethlehein Pa Iron Company has
shipped five, teu-inch guns for the United
States army to Sandy Hook. They were
forged at the gun shops OF the company and
are the first shipment of the hundred-gun
contract.
The 1900 boxes of California fruit
shipped to England on board tile American
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don in perfect condition. There is the great
est intercst-in the sale, Which will take
place today. .,s. -
Jefferson City. Mo-, minister, while
visiting Texas recently, assisted in re-
vival services going on there. and scored a
big hit by bringing about the conversion
and baptism of the Democratic candidate
for Congress in that district. r ~.
Clement West, oolored laborer, living
at McKeesport, Pa, received a letter from
Montreal, Canada, stating that his uncle,
j. R. Cleavant, had died, leaving him an
estate valued at $50 600 He left at ouce
for Montreal to claim. his fortune .sse
The 5000 tpiiors in New York and
Brooklyn, who went out on strike on Wed
uesday for an increase of wages and shorter
hours, had their number increased yes
terday by 10e.men, employed in fifteen
shops, who Quit work voluntarily.
During the prevalence Of heavy storm
at Frederick, Nd, lightning struck large
barn belonging to William @. Null, near the
Mnnocacy bridge, in Buckeystown district
The building and quantity Of wheat, hay
and farming implements were destroyed.
Michael AZdinno died at Jessup, Pa,
from the effects of the blow Of an axe re-
ceivcd at the hands of his sbrother-n-law j O.
seph Kolar, Sunday night, at Jessup. How
the man lived SO long is a mystery to the
physicians who have been attending him.
A wealthy Iowan with nine motherless
boys in his nursery at home has just added
10 his establishment by adopting nine
fatheriess girls and their mother, his
was formally Obtained at Ellis Island, where
it had arrived from Europe.
James Burk, John o'Duffy, and Johu
Gildea went fishing near Wawa, Pa, yes
terday and used boat. A big swapping
turtle got on Burk's line and pulled the
boat under, throwing the men into the
creek. They managed to escape drowning
after struggle, but lost the snapper.
william Darby and Miss Jennie Thomp.
son, while out boating off Victoria Park
near Toronto were swept off into Lake
Ontario during a, heavy gale last evening
| This morning- they were picked up by the
steamer Cansteo thirty-five miles from To
ronto The steaper had much difficulty
in rescuing the skiff. a14.itF ,,i af
new feature has been planned in the
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