The evening times., 1896-10-02
BriefsbyW


| The Mississippi Democratic executive com
mitteemetat Jackson last nj gtIta declares
Major Fat Henry the nominee for Congress
IN tue Seventh district.
Eight men Were seriously injured at ,h,
| Schmidt Brewery.;in indianapolis, on Wed
nesday night. by an explosion OF ammonis
In the cold storage department.
John j. McNamre, aged forty-two years
while attending a vat in the Atlantic Re
| finery, at Point Breeze. fell head first upon
IA revolving cutter and was instantly killed
Edwin Walker was yesterday elected a
| director Of the Diamond Match Company
in Chicago, in place of W. H. Moore, wbo
| resigned week ago Mr.. Walker was
| also elected general counsel of the company
At Middlesboro, KY, Thomas Newkirk
and Henry shcraft tough t a duel WedneS.
day night with Winchester rifles on the
| long fork of Shelby Greek. They were
suitors OF Mary Dean. Both men were
killed.
Mountain fires are raging with terrible
violcDce in Switze's Camp and vicinity
about eight miles northwest OF Pasadena
Cal. The timber belongs 10 the government.
but the fires viii he disastrous to the whole
district
thousand miners in the Appanuese dis
tr'ct. Iowa, are out on a strike against
reduction OF 3 cents for mining coal,
and general rest lessness among the
miners at other Iowa mines cause fear
among operators that the strike may be-
come general.
Tive case OF Pulitzer against Jones for
control OF the st. Louis Post Dispatch ap-
pcalcd from the circuit court by Pulitzer,
WAS heard yesterday afternoon by the Mis-
sonri state supreme court. The case was
taken under adyisement. and u decision Is
not expected before December.
Mrs. Mary V. SinCindiver is under arrest
in Richmond, charged with attempting to
kill her husband, ]. n. Sincindiver. for
mery foreman at the Times office Mt
Sincindiver was shot N the abdomen. and
his PHI ysirians say the wound will prove
fatal. Mrs. Sincindiver says the shoot
ing was accidental.
The grand jury at New Orleans has re
turned seven Indictments for cmbezzlcinent
agaist Presi;.ent Nichols and Cashier De
Blanc, nf the suspended Bank of Commerce,
The specified charges are that they AZ
various times embezzled sums of money
aggregating S96 900. The men have been
arrested and held in bond of S2I, 800 acr.
Warden Reed, OF the county jail a New
castle. Del, attacked and brut ally assaulted
j. Milton Davidson, proprietor OF the New.
castle Evening Journal, at Newcastle Wed
nesday night Reed claimed that Davidson
was the author OF story that was sent
out from Newcastle Saturday night piac-
Ing the blam. for the Jaii delivery upon Reed.
ard charging him with derellCtiou II
duty.
An attempt was made to wreck train
near GIazierville. q short distance east OF
Altoona. Pa. late Wednesday night The
Altoona Accommodation. due here a 10 p.
M, ran into a tie chained to the track.
Fortunately the train. which was crOwced
with passengers. was moving very slowly
at the time, and this fact averted what
would probably have been horrii4c acci
dent. -
In the breach Of promise case Of Miss
Emma c. Wamsher against Adam A.
StUudt the jury came into court yesterday
and returned "a verdict in iaTor of Miss
Wamshe for 81, 600. II isonc of tie largest
awards ever made in a case Of this charac-
ter in the courts Of this count V, and at the
trial was hard fought ~ the attorneys
Oh both sides.
Richard Beck, fireman on the New York
and Washington express train No. 45. south
hound. on the Philadelphia, wilmington x
Baltimore railroad. was Instantly killed
yesterday morning near stanton, Del He
VISA in the act of putting his head ontI IaryIe
cab window. when Il northhouud train
rounding a sharp curve struck him and
almost severed his head from his shoulders
Annie Farkas, fifteen years old. OF Nc
Keesport, Ia :, ,cUmIpitted suicide because II
grief over her mothers death, which ,jc-
CURED some months ago. The girl h;Id
been broodinG over the matter consta ltly.
She often visited the cemetery ard sat bv
her mothers tomb for hours. She Swai-
10 wed a deadly dose OF paris green md died
in great agony. Before death sh e expressed
the hope that she would soon meet Eer
mother.
While Mrs. John Todd Wa sdriving through
WilliamspOrt, Pa, i man rushed cut OF
store and, grasping her five year-old
daughter Sadie. started Oh a run down the
street. a horse and buggy stood in wait
ing in front of a store and was immediately
taken posse ssion of by the man, vino drov.
eff. Although number Of spectators gave
chase, the bold kidnapper escaped with th.
child. On Wednesday an attempt was mad.
to steal deaf brother Of the stolen child
1T the fair at Westfield. but it was frus-
trated by the police.