The evening times., 1896-11-09
Wire Briefs.

| Mr.. James B. Councilman. Of Pikesvillc
Baltimore county, Md, paid his farm hands
| in gold.
Russell Smith, a widely known scenic
| artist of Philadelphia is dead. Hc wa!
born in Glasgow in 1Si2.
Capt. Elias Joseph Hincken. one Of the
| founders OF the Philadelphia Sunday Dis
patch, died In his sevcnty-cighth year.
The body OF a white man, apparently
thirty-five years of age, W as found on the
| shore OF the II obbs farm, on Eastern Bay
| Maryland. The throat had been cut.
An unkno wn man, whose body was found
| along the Reading tracks at Royersford
| is believed to have been burglar. who was
| pushed In front of a train byhiscompanion'
Paris green was sprinkled by some one
upon vegetable beds in the garden or Mr.
| John Walman, at Mt. Winans. near Balti-
more, 1t is supposed for the purpose OF
poisoning Mr.. Walman's family.
Lewis, Lawrence and Daniel Cheraz and
Chillan and Alex Vanance, all Italians.
were lodged in jail at Huntington, Pa. last
night, charged with numbering Peter Ven
Zelona by beating him to death with an
iron pin and stones.
James Creamer, ,of Chester. Pa, had in
his pocket u number Of candles of red fire,
which were igniied by spark from a
Roman candle get off near him, instantly
enveloping him N u blaze, and he was badly
burned on the arm, hands and neck.
1t Is reported that Emperor William has
demanded that Prince Bismarck come TO
Berlin for conference with himself and
Chancellor Hohenlohe in regard 10 the MS
closures of state secrets he is making
through the Hamburger Nachrichten.
Andrew Jackson, a negro convict in the
Maryland Penitcntiary, was SHOT ard al
Ing mt lad an
John ii Wollering, deputy warden of the
institution. Jackson had attacked the
warden with a hammer and shoe knife.
While hunting n the woods near Bradford,
Pa, Saturday, Earl Funk, a Bradford young
man. stumbled over the skeleton of n man,
which was subsequently identified as that
of ID. E. Colgrove, a young man OF chat city.
who mystertously disappeared in July,
1895
State Weather Observer DR.. Charles Moore.
who is about seventy-six years OF age, voted
on Tuesday FOR the fifteenth time FOR Presi-
dent OF the United States, his first ballot
having been cast in 1910 for Gen. william
Henry Harrison. grandfather Of ex-President
Harrison
Charles johnson, OF Chestertown, Nd,
while cunning for rabbits Saturday after
noon, accidentally shot his twelve year-oid
SOD, Charles. The father did not know
the exact location OF the boy, ana rreu at Il
rabbit. Fnlly twenty sh OF Of the load went
into his sons knees.
Congressman Jonathan s. Willis, present
member from Delaware, will contest the
seat of L. Irving Handy, the free silver
Democrat who was elected by plur Atty
of 1854, ON Tuesday, by reason of the
division in the Republican ticket MT.
Willis. it is said, will make the contest on
the ground of fraud.
Ex-Congressman Sibley has sent letterto
his Erie supporters announcing his accept
'ance of defeat, He viii not contest the cleo
ton of . c. Sturteyant, but urges the prose
cution of any who were guilty OF fraJdu-
lent voting or Irregularities at the polls. All
bets are being paid. and Louis Strcuber,
whobacked Sturtevant, wins about 10000.
Advices from Madison, Va, tell of Il muir
der resulting from an election row there the
victim being DR.. W. f. Teasley, who was
assaulted by James Bockover, cnlored
politician. The victim was struck ON the
head repeatedly with a large Jagged atone.
His skull was factured in number ofplaces.
The alleged murderer is still at large.
He is being pursued by sheriff's posse
with bloodhOunds.