The evening times., 1896-07-27
Brie'fsl]y Wire.

Frederic Errazuriz lias been elected presi-
dent of the republic OF Chill.
Prince Maximillan of saxony was or
dained priest In Bresden yesterday.
Joseph Fockoski, aged seven years, was
drowned in Bear Greek, near Baltimore.
Julius Allen, colored, is In Hagerstown
Jail, charged with an assault upon a white
woman.
Mrs. Ann Daily:was accidentally shot and
seriously wounded by her son in New York
yesterday.
A thousand bottles of sterilized milk will
be given TO Brooklyn babies daily by an un-
known bencfactor.
Z A colored girl who had been discharged
by Capt. M. NJ. Rogers, Of Roanoke, Va.
shot at him with u pistol.
race riot" occurred in Hamilton
county, Fla. on Saturday uight, and six
men were killed and eight wounded.
William cuykendall. formerly large con-
tractor, committed suicide ut Petersburg,
Va, by jumping into the Appomattox.
John Cruinp, gunner's mate in the
United States Navy, was dro wned willie
swimming in Spring Garden. Baltimore.
Because his love was not returned Will
lam II. Compton, agedthirty.eight years. OF
New Brunswick, N. j.. became insane,
A resurvey Of the Patapsco river and
chesapeuk bay was begun today by the
Emitted States coast and geodetic bureau.
James l.. Zeiler, brakeman on the
Chesapeake and Ohio. was shot at Hurri-
cane, w. Va, by tramp lie had put off the
train.
James o'Reiily's grocery store, in Chi
coGo, was held up TO two men last even
Ing, Q'Reilly was robbed of a watch and
SIS.
The National Cooperative Union was Or
ganized In st. Louis on Saturday night,
with AIonzo Wardell, of Kansas, as presi-
dent.
Francis Carroll simms, aged two years,
son OF Mr.. John A simms, 416 Wilson
street, Baltimore, was burned 10 death ac-
cidentally.
Charles PiermaD, aged eighteen years,
while riding bicycle at Lambertville, Pa. i.
was run over by anfce wagon, and probably
fatally injured. .-.ft- a fr
The American writer, Francis yiele
Griffin. and the American artist, Edwin L.
Weeks. have been appointed chevaiicrs of
Tie Legion Of Honor.
william z. Morgan was found dead in
bed at 104 North Paca street. baltimore,
having been suffocated by pillow while
sleeping face downward.
John Babb and Charles Brown, OF West
Do t,,, I.,.
the unexpected falling of the walls OF an
old stone barn in East Bradford.
John Seller. aged four years. was drown
ed In the Delaware River at Philadelphia
yesterday, while returning to sand barge
on which he resided with his parents.
Marshall Crow, OF Berryville, va. nine
teen years OF age. was shot and killed by
George F. Nightingale, who snapped O
pistol at him. thinking 1t was unloaded.
Maggie Jones, aged thirty-seren years.
after making an unsuccessful attempt to
end her life by cutting her throat, CON-
mitted suicide 10 Philadelphia by hanging.
DR.. ]. u. Cromwell, aged sixty Years.
was shot and Killed yesterday in Gaines
vile, Fla. by To wnes Kenard. a ged twenty
six. 1t is e,aimed mat the shooting was in
| self-defense g<I
Its estimated thattbe amount of damage
done by ,he- recert food iu the valleys OF
| the Moaongabeia, Cheat, and Yousi.io-
ghenys rivers wIli reach 100000. The
| flood Is abating.
About 10000 people marched from the
Thames Embankinent, in London, yester-
day,to Hyde r ark. to take partinthe social
the assemblage.
Two men attempted to bold up" the
jewelry store OF C. n. Robinson, III Chi
| cago, last evening, but the proprietor
held them at bay with a revolver until
the police arrived
| Ii Hung Chang from Paris will go TO
| England for several weeks and then to
| America. lie will visit New York. Washing
ton and Chicago. and so heIne by way OF
Vancouver.
An excursionist, whose name is un-
known, Jumped or was thrown from a
train on the Reading line while it was pass
ing out of the yard in Atlantic City, and
was instantly Killed.
! Cholera is decreasing throughout Egypt.
On Saturday the deaths included those of
| Capt. Fenwick at Firket, and Surgeon
4 Captain Trask at tKosleh. who were iaem-
bers of the Nile expedition.
John Selling, of Pittsburg. Pa. has
| received word that his son, William Sell
| ing, with the latter's wife and two chill
dren, were all drowned by tire capsiZing of
pleasure boat near Merlin, Germany.
While the steamboat Havana was passing
Pidgeon Point, between New Castle ane
| Wilmington, on her way from the fishing
| banks to Philadelphia, Emmet Hall, a young
man said to be a resident of Baltimore
jumped overheard and was drowned.
The barkcntine Jaw ON Saturday landed
at ST. Johns, Newfoundland, sixteen met
belonging to the schooner Genesta, which
she ran down aud sank on the Grant
Banks on Friday morning. One man wa
killed and five of the rescued were badly
1 injured.
Jennie, the eightecn-months- old daughtel
4 of Lawrence Farnan. of Chester, Pa, wa!
put on a bed which was pushed near a win
4 dow in the second story. Jennie rolled ou
and fell to the pavement. The little girl go
up laughing and perfectly unhurt.
Samuel Neumeyer, OF Easton, Pa, New
Jersey Central Railroad clerk at Jerse.
City, died yesterday, aged sixty years, o
blood poisoning. He cut a corn on one o
his toes and cut it too close. Gangrene Sc
in and the toe was amputated. Blood pois
oning followed.
An interesting reunion OF the descend
ants of AIRS. Esther McClain was held a
Howard, Pa, recently. 1t was the eighty
sixth anniversary of Mrs. McClains birth
day. and there were present eighty-thTe