The evening times., 1896-07-30
Briefs by Wire

Joseph b. Lee, jr. was killed by lightning
at his home in Stafford county, Va
Miss Katharine Cassidy, OF Lancaster.
Pa, celebrated her ninety-sixth birthday
yesterday
Jonathan Bowser, OF Wnliamsport, Nd.
recovered his voice after seventeen years
of silence from paralysis
Airs. Blackburn, wife of Senator Black
burn. of Kentucky, who has been i'll at
Ocean City. Nd, Is recovering
Miss Kate Campbell, an inmate of the in
sane department at tine Bayview, Nd, Asy-
iuIn, committed suicide by hanging.
ExGov. Brown will be the president of
the United States Fidelity and Guarantee
Company. just organized in Baltimore.
The Russia loan OF /, 600, 900 ,oeo francs
t$2o0, 100000, issued by the Rothschiids.
has been covered twenty-five times over
in Paris.
Tho Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Com
pany, of Baltimore, refused to negotiate for
bonds of Monroe county. Ind, OH account Of
the silver agitation.
The Atlantic and Danviile Railroad Com
pany has announced that it would enter
the rate war now being waged by the Sea
board Air Line and the Southern Railway.
william KTsnk was struck by a bicycle
riddenb va woman in Chica 20 Tuesda might
and GO badi y injured that he died yesterday.
The woman rode away on her wiieei and
escaped.
Mrs. Anthony Lener, fortg-one years OF
age, OF South Bethichem. Pa. while Try
ing to quicken. usfire with kerosene last
evening was boaibadiy burned that she
will die.
Gov Hastings, of Pennsylvania, Is con-
sidering plan for the ppbuilding of State
schools by converting normal schools into
free colleges. and making instruction at
universities free
While F. B. Harper, painter. was at
work in Allentown. Pa. yesterday, he
was taken violently insane, and it required
four men to hold him. Harper lost three
children by death within a short time, and
was dethropcd.
The catch of twenty-eieht Canadian YES
se;s engaged In Coaching seals IN japanese
waters for the seasOni lust Closed was over
Is, 1000, While the catch of American and
other vessels in those waters swelled the
total to 25,524.
dispatch from Halifax says that the
schooner Geneva, of Have. Nova Scotia,
was run down on the Grand Banks and sent
to the bottom with one of her crew en-
board. Capt Eonikeyc ard the remainder
Of the crew were rescued and landed at
st. Johns, New FoundlaBd. The captain
had one leg broken and four of the other
survivors were injured, three of them
seriously.
Chief Justice Davis of the exchequer
curt of Canada. sitting at Victoria as local
Judge In Admiralty, has awarded So, 1880
damages TO the sealing schooner Ecatriee.
which was seized in Bering Sea by the
American revenue cutter Rush, in August
last The seizure was held TO have heen
Illegal. This case was test case and
other claims will be adiudicated in accord
ance with this decision.
William Snyder, employed as carpen-
ter by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company at Lancaster, made wonderful
escape from instant death yesterday. He
was working on the roof of the screen
building at Hauto, when, in some unae-
countable manner, he fell through from the
roof, landing in coal pocket about sixty
feet below. Although badly bruised, Sny-
der escaped serious injury, no bones
being broken. he was able to walk home
unaided.
During u violent electrical storm at
Conneaut Lake, Pa, last evening q. NJ
Grant, an Emienton, Pa, merchant. who
Is camping there with his family, stood
with his right hand against q small tree
,,olt of 6rhtuiur ShatteYed the tree.
passed the entire length OF his body, aud
entered the ground. 1t stripped his right
side completely, even the shoe. and left
its mark on his body from head to foot,
and yet in an hour lie could walk about.