The evening times., 1896-09-22
Briefs byWire

| A. W. Bee. proprietor OF the EOcick
House. the largest summer hotel at Bar
Harbor. Me-, assigned today.
Charles N. Roach, one of the unsuccessful
Candidates for the Naval Academy from
Paw Paw, Mich, had $170 stolen from him
on Saturday last.
The organ Of the National Farmers ALI
ance at Raleigh, n. c., gives notice that 1t
will bot Bryan, unless Watson is on the
ticket In that State.
J. Murphy Small, a law student OF Harris
burg, accidentally shot himself through the
head yesterday at his fathers resi-
and was insta ntly killed.
Two satcheis and u large trunk filled with
| dynamite bombs were discovered by the
Chicag 20 police on Su nda night In the roorus
ofan anarchist in that city.
Rev. james b. Morrison, pastor OF the
| Unitarian Church at Lacouia, N. H., com
mitted suicide by inhaling gas at the Revere
House, in Boston, last night.
Hon. +. +. Gllen, NJ. p, commissioner
| of Gro wn lands in South A ustralia. died sud
| denly today from heart di>ease, while at
tending u meeting OF the cabinet in Ade-
| la:de.
Mrs. Eliza Garrett, wife OF William Gar
| rett, q Philadelphia salesman, committed
suicide Sunday night by Jumping off the
drawbridge at Bethel, Del, into the Laurel
| river.
The Mail and Empire, OF Ontario, says
| that the government has passed an order in
| couno Ill providing for the opening OF cana"
| on Sundays for the purpose OF facilitating
! traffic
The monument on South Mountain, erect
ed to the memory of George Washington by
| citizens of BoonsbOro in 1927 and rebuilt
in 1882, was struck by lghtnihg Saturday
| afternoon and Almost demolished.
A society has been organized IN New
York. whose members pledge themselves
not to marry any person whose family is
subject to such hereditary diseases as CON
sumption, insa nit OFF the appetite for strong
drink.
The artillery department OF the war
Office in Constautinopie has on exhibition
l1U Armenian bombs. from five to nine
inches in length, which the authorities dis
covered in an Armenian bomb factory in
that city.
out OF an attendance or members cast
ing an even 100 votes, the Democratic
= to 30, to repudiatc the Chica go platform
and defined to indorse candidates Bryan
and SewalI
David Keiffer, of WoOdside. Pa aged
sixty eight, was married to Mrs Molhe
FUitZ, of Salem. aged sixty-six. at Mid
dlehurg, Ia. The bride is he mother of
fourteen or fifteen children and the grand
morhcr of fifty
Frank y. LarIsh, gcd went y-eight years,
Il former postal CLERK, was held in 81 900
bail to await Il warrant from Milwaukee.
charging him with the larceny OF letters
containing money. detectives had been
look ing Tor him since February
George W. Troutman pleaded guilty in
St. Louis yesterday to murder in the sec
oDd degree, and Judge Edmund sentenced
him to life Imprisonment. Troutman shot
and killed tbs sweetheart, Blanche Simp-
son. one year ago He is now a mental
wreck.
Tie ninth annual convention Of the Car
peDIcrs ard Joiners of America met hcre
yesterday in Memorial Hall, with sixteen
dele gates present. No Important work was
transacted, the day being devoted especially
to the receiving of delegates and examin-
ing of credentials.
Arthur Sewall, the Chica go ca andidate for
Vice President, has resigned from the Ameri-
cam Merchant Marine Association, of which
organization he was president. He OBJ
jected to the partisan methods OF the
association, which is said to have issued
orders indorsing Mckinley.
Mrs. Reynolds, wife of the Rev. A. W.
Reynolds, a professor IN Grocer Theological
Seminary, at Chester, Pa, who was buried
under u falling fence, which was part OF
OF the old Starin pier, at the foot of Cort-
lnadt street. New York. yesterday, was
slightly improved this morning.
The Hodgman Rubber Company, whose
stores are at Nos. 459 and. 461 Broadway
and No. 81 West Tweuty-third street, New
York, with branches at Boston and Chica-
go and factories a Mount Vernon and Tuck
ahoe, suspended yesterday. The company
has fully paid-up capital of 1852 900.
Harrison Harmcn, Thomas Hen and Ed
ward Harrington have been arrested in
Oklahoma ON a charge of couDterfeiting.
A bushel of counterfeit dollars were found
near their camp. and they are believed to
be part of the gang who have flooded the
whole territory with counterfeit halves
and quarters
\ fire this morning in the sixth-story
Carey building. corner of Beach and Hud-
son streets. New York occupied by various
paper companies, caused loss to the
occupants and on the building of $50 900.
The principal loss was TO the stock of the
Elsas Paper Cumpa ny, which occupied the
four lower floors.
Harvey W. Fogie, the ten-year-olI son of
Thomas r. Fogie of Ladiesburg, Carroll
county, was smothered to death i'll a bin
OF wheat in the elevator OF A. d. Birely 4
Son, at Westminster, Nd While he was
playi in the wheat the bin was opened
below to load a car. He was dra wn toward
the opening and covered by quantity of
Gold is reported to have been discovered
on a farm near BoyertowD, Pa. 1t is said
to be in paying quantities and a vein of un-
known extent has been located. Specimenf
have been assa yed in Philadelphia and New
York and pronounced exceedingly rich
Machinery for mining the ore has been
ordered.
William H. Miles, middlc-aged colored
man of Frederick, Md, who has been blind
for some years, became insane on Saturday
last, and attempted to kill his mother
He labored under tie hallucDation that lie
had been commissioned by divine providence
to kill seven people, and his mother was
one of them.
Walter Levi, a young man residing in
Wilamsport, Md. was very seriously in
jurcd yesterday about the face by the ac-
cidpDt al discharge of an old gun i'm the hands