The evening times., 1896-08-25
Briefs byWire

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Hung Chang TO visit Annapolis
The white squadron, under command CT
Admiral =Bunoe. is anchored in New York
hlrbor.
Two unknown men were killed by Read
Ing railroad train at Harrisburg, Pa, last
evening. -
The Iire-saving station ON North Beach,
Nd. was struck by lightning yesterday and
three men injured.
The storm OF Saturday damaged properly
n the Bowling Green oil region to tile eA-
| tent of 100000. ,.5t.l.
The Jumbo mine at Oakdale, Athens
county, o.. is on fire. No miners are shut
in by the flames.
Three men were scalded by the bursting
| OF a traction engine at Burkettsville. Fred
erck county, Nd, yesterday.
The barn Of Mr.. Lepage Croimiller, in
Howard county. near LAUREL Md, was de-
| stroycd by lightning yesterday.
The miners on strike at Leadvi!le. Col.
| are armed. and If the new men arrive II is
| feared there will be serious trouble.
Two men, claiming to be Amerieans,lssse
been arrested in Barcelona, Spain, In .ofi-
| nection with the revolutionary movement.
The body of an unknown man, about
| forty years of al ge, was found in the Schuy!-
| kill river, near Reading, Pa. on Sunday
| night.
A calf having a double body was Dora on
| the mountain near Scranton. Pa. The two
bodies ara connected by thick ligamcnt.
| The curiosity will die. .fsi-=t
| Mrs H. NJ. Stephenson, Bpstol lady "f
| wealth and refinement, jumped off the
| steamer Spaarncam while the vessel was
| at Sea and was drowned.
| Cclorcd men have been arrested in Mount
| Holly, Bristol. Pa. and Philadelphia. sus-
| pectcd Of being the murderrs OF John +
Henke, at Burlington, N. ].
Stanford Green. colored. has been arrest
| ed. charged with being an accessory to the
| Killing of cu!ored man at Waterbury.
| N Anne Arundel county. Nd.
Ma Quinn, aged six years, Of Glouces-
| ter City, n j., was accidentally shot and
| killed yesterday by the discharge of a gun
| in the hands other eieyeE-year old brother.
Rev. Sam Jones left Emory Grove camp
meeting. near Baltimore vest erday for Emi-
nence, KY. where his mother-in-law, Mrs.
| C. A. McElwan. died. The camp will close
| today.
Gov. o'Fcrrall has commuted the pun
shment of Doc Jones, who murdered nis
wife IN Petersburg. Va. ani-was sentenced
10 be hung. to eighteen years in the peni-
| tentiary.
Mamie Quinn, the six year-old daughter
| OF Mrs. Anrie Quinn, OF Gloucester City.
| Pa. was killed Yesterday by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun in the hands OF
her brother Willie. aged eleven years.
The Bay Ens yesterday met the cut in
Southern rsfe@ made by the York River
| line Saturday. pad further announced that
& would nset any Subsequent reduction,
M matter how fiw II Ipight he.
The body Of n 10y named Mcalnian has
been found in 4 secluded spot on the noun
tain near Fort Loudo,I, Pa. AS he was
horribl- torn ami mahgled, 1t is supposed
| he was killed by either benrs or-wildcats.
ls.rL. d. King, 9travehng man et Phila lei
| phia, was feuisi dead in bed az the Gait
House yesterday afternoon, hctipg been
rien,l SIX ur.s.vea hours. There was moth
.ng. To she&3 that he had Committed sui
| eide. s-s
| Sister Stella. a Sister OF Charity widely
known as a builder OF hospitals. and for
her works of charity. died OF fever at
! Dallas. Tex. Sunday. aged fifty-six years.
| In life she was Margaret Dempsey "a native
| of Brooklyn
| The Son aud daughter OF Martha Nc
CuiIough. living in MILAN county. Tex.
| were assassinated Saturday evening. Only
| one shot was fired and the bullet passed
through the sons neck and lodged in the
| daughters head.
A party OF 120 Italians sailed from
Lerhorn today TO assist the Christians
in the Island of Crete against the Turks
| Smaller coniingents Of Cretan sympathizers
arc also leaving other Italian ports to
| Join the insurgents
Casper Freezing, aged fifty years, ii
| prominent citizen of Freeland, Pa. at
tempted suicide yesterday NOR ming by shoot
| ing himself in the head. He cannot recover.
! About year ago Freeland's wife died. aud
he has since been melancholy.
Joseph Kruz yesterday in a fit of rage
evidently, tried To murder his four year-oli
son by holding him in front of an approach
ing trolley car at Altoona, Pa. The
1
! the crime. KruZ is under arrest.
The will OF Ernest Houscbcrg, an al
leged miser, was opened at Perargyl. Pa,
and found 10 provide for the distribution of
$50, 900 worth of property. 1t all goes
10 nephews and nicces. Houseberg. it is
said, starved TO death, refusing to buy bread
Suit for $500 900 damages has been filed
lin Columbus. Ohio. by A J. White, presi-
dent Of the Paskola Company, with head
quarters in New York. against State Fco1
| Commissioner b. McNcal and his deputies,
and Scott & Brown, Cincinnati druggists,
fur alleged libel damages and vbla ckmail
The ocean line steamer Dessoug, which
became famous by reason OF her bringing
scross in safety from Egypt the obelisk
known as Cieopatra's Needle, now In, Cen
trail PARK, New York, and which ran out
of the rort Of P iladelph:a for, number
| Of years to Savannah and other { oosst ports,
| Is TO be broken up for old iron this Week
r. Edward Cooper aged nineteen, years,
| while walking in the mines at Shenandoah
Pa. yesterday, accidentally fell on a pile
\ of rocks.fn such d manner that his lamp
fell under him. setting his oily clothing,on
fire. Before assistance arrived he was
| fatally burnedii and died IN great agony
shortly afterward. !.
TsH~sf-s- rf'r fl' -
The Baron Ge Hirscl, colonists at wooti-
biEe. Pa, are unusually active this sum
mer, The!r aupber ! as increased by about
200, and, with fhexcellentcrops and plenty of
work, the outlook is most gratifying. Elm
ployes of Dappel Biumenihal, who operate
a large clothing manufcatory at woodbine.
are engaged in erecting ten or twelve new
houses in tiia pace. a.
A tremendous explosion OF gas which had
escaped from the service pipe in the three
stsry and basement brownstole residence