The evening times., 1896-10-31
Wire Briefs.

James Harrison, or Prince George county,
Va, was fatally injured while coon hunting
his skull being fractesed by falling tree
Joseph Myers, nf -. Mary's, Pa, conf
mitted suicide Thursday near the state
line because his young. wife is said to have
refused to live with him.
Fireman William j. Schuester, of New
| YorE crawled on hands and knees through
flames and smoke in New York house and
| rescued child that was strapped in Il chair
| Henry Ringlcr, twenty-one years OF age,
| is in IL New York insane hospital for treat
| ment. his illness being the result ii oycri1-
dulgence in smoking cigars and cigarettes.
II Is stated that Cardinal Gibbons has for
| warded To Rome Recommendation that
Bishop Keane be named as Coad1utor Arch
bishop of Baltimore, with the right or sue
| CeSsiCn.
When Jesse Teats, an aged farmer or
Shanokin, Pa, was buried yesterday, he
| was supposed to have been pennilcss, nut Il
search ,,f his trunk revealed 50 eco in gold
and greenbacks.
| Long Brothers, pnpprietors of the Quaker
! City Mills. Philadelphia, manufacturers
| of cotton and wooden goods, have, 1t is
| stItcd, ,;ldvanecdthc wages of their weavcrs
about l 3 per cent
The store of $. NJ. woifinGer, in Lambert
! vile. n j., was entered ut an early hour
| yesterday morning and goods to the value
/ Of about $500, together with about 50 IN
small change, was taken.
| Ex-Secretary John " Foster. 1t is stated,
Is likely to occupy the position Of chief al
| wiser To Ii Hung Chang. The foreign serv-
! Ice Of China is To be recognized, and II Is
| sai'i that our state department is TO he
| taken as Inu udel
\ cable dispatch announces that skat-
| ing carnival VIII he held in Stockholm on
m
twenty events on the program, amatfur and
! pr"fes Sionai. includng match for the
championship of the world.
The London Morning Post today pub
fishes Il news agency dispatch from Copen
hagen, sa ying that an official denial has
| been given 10 the story published by the
Pail Mall Gazette. anent an entente be
tween Russia and Denmark.
Mary and Joe Wilson, both cclored. have
| been arrested in Norfolk, charged with the
murder five years ago, near Shaw 5 store,
In Mecsicnburg county, of Dr. L II Rig
gan. and both are safe behind The bars III
the county Jail at Portsm outh.
The steamboat Courier, plying between
Maysville- Ny, and CINCINNATI ran into Il
pier OF the Louisville q Nashville bridge
Ii st night aud sank TO her boiler deck. There
We're twenty passengers and crew OF
thirty men on board, all of whom were
rescued
BY the explosion of can Of kerosene oil in
| Milwaukee yesterday afternoon. the three
months old baby Of william AitenbaCh was
| burned To death. and Mr.. and Mrs. Alien
bach. the parents OF the child, were 50 Sc
! vercly burned that recovery !s extremely
! doubtful.
| Henry Millhouse of Fredericksburg, Va,
YVES found dead in his store yesterday morn
IN. by his son. ApupIexy was the cause
| He was past master Of Lodge No. /, A +
/ AMI A. NJ. a member OF the / o. o. f.
| treasurer of the ROYAL Arcanum Council; an
/ officer IN Chatham Council, No. $50. Ma
tiDual Union and member of the Jewish
| order of B'nai Firth.
John II. Winder. ex-seneraI manager of
| the Seaboard Air Line, notified the clerk
OF the superior court at Raleigh, y. c, that
Ire will enter suit against the raliroai COM
pany for salary due. Ii i Understood he
Will demand $4,000. and suit VIII he
brought against each road which is n part
NJ the Seabuard system. W J. Edwards,
formerly general storekecper II the sam.
system, sues for S915 damages, alleging
he was discharged wrougfully and without
cause.
TWO burglars bound Lucinda and Mary
Gornam, maiden Ladies, aged about sixty
years,at CTaRdell Hill. Potter county, Pa.
and then tied them to the cooking stove
while the robbers ranSaCked the house III
search for thousands Of dollars that the
Ladies' were suppcsrl to have hid in the
place. About $50 was secured. and, be-
lievinG that more money was in the place,
the burglars ranSacked every place, and
even tore the piaStcring from the walls
The men finally left the house. and a
neiGhbor in passing the place was attracted
by the CRIES of the women Both are SUI
fering as result OF the severe shock.