The evening times., 1896-09-29
Briefs sbyWire

Five hundred dock. iaborers in Ham,
burg, Germany, went on strike.
Fred Barnard. the artist of "Bfack and
White" waA burned to death in bed in
| London.
Dey. N. s. W., fdr Ban Francisco today with
4 f47o, o,OeO in gold on board.
| Mr. Alexander Mcdonald. of Virginia,
| United States minister TO Persia, is i'll
| with bronchitis in Southampton.
| The Paris Figaro asserts that Sir Philip
Currie, British ambassador to Turkey. is
! about to withdraw from CoustaDtiHople.
Thomas Kidd, aged fourteen years, was
| shot aud killed by Carl McItbney, aged
| seven years with whom he had qua rreled,
near Wooster, Ohio.
william l.. Pcnick, a prosperous farmer
| OF iaZoo City. Miss. has been arrested
on a charge OF murder committed in 1855
| at Russellville, Ala.
| Mrs. Annie Enige. wife of Mr. George
Emge, OF Baynesville near Towson, Nd,
| committed suicide by cutting her throat
| with her husbands razor
Mrs. Morrison, thirty-two years of age,
lost her life under the wheels Cs n freight
train near Cumberland, Md, while trying
to rescue pet dog in danger.
President Cleveland is expected to for
mally open the Com mercial Museum in the
old PENNSYLVANIA Building on Fourth street.
Philadelphia, about December l.
John s. Leisenring. an old resident of
Williainsport. Pa, was caught between the
bumpers of two freight cars and squeezed
To death. He was passing between the
cars in crossing the track when aught.
Tom Saunders and John Dotson, Of
Ottersville. Mo. quarrelea yestrIua, an
ernoon over politics. Saunders went home,
secured ii pistol, returned shortly aiteIWaru
and shot Dotson three times inst antly kill
ing him.
The body OF James G. Clifford. OF Dunbar,
Pa, was found across the Baltimore and
Ohio track. only the trunk with one arm re-
niaininG intact. A pair OF baby's shoes was
found upon the person OF the dead man,
whicn lie mad purchased Tor I he little ync at
home.
Thomas J. Quinn, chairman of the ex-
ecutive com mmittec, announces that the thir-
tecnth annual convention OF the National
Association OF Booksellers. Newsdealers and
StatiOners will lie held in Boston, Mass,
on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 6
and =.
A freight train on the Missouri and Kansas
railroad was wrecked at Wilton, No. yester-
day, by a misplaced switch. Fireman Will
liam Blake was buried under tue engine and
killed, aud Engineer John Evans was in
Jurcd- The switch had been thrown by
some unknown miscreann
Two lives We're lost as the result OF a po-
nucal dispute Oh Saturday night in Mingo
county. W. va. John Roberts struck Doc
Estep with cane. Estep shot and killed
Roberts. King Roberts. a brother. then
procured a Winchester and followed ,,step
killing him within a hundred yards II his
home.
The North (,arnnn I i,,y.l Saa
which arrived at the Sandy Hook bar at
300 O Clock this IN orning. grounded on th,,
edge of Flynn's Knoll. after rounding the
southwest spie. Her engines were reversed
and kept working full speed astern. and at
3 O'Clock she Slid off into the channel
without assistance and uninjured.
Herbert Booth King & Brother. advertis-
ing agents, New York, assigned TO-DAY.
They have been in business arout thirteen
years and last December Claimed to be
worth 100000. They were also interest
ed in tie Herbert Booth King Publishing
Company, which published paper called
Fashion" which was started in 1891
W. l.. Wilson, pa ymaster for the Longs
dale Coal Company. who was held up and
robbed Of So 500 while going from Scwal
to Clirf Top, W. Va, Saturday evening,
topa otfthe men, and who was shot by the
robber, Joe Thompson, died late last night.
A heavy reward has bee offered for the ar
rest OF the highwa yman, Thompson, and Il
posse is in hot pursuit.
John Miseuer. farmer living nJrth of
Sharon, Pa, in Ohio was arrested yester-
day on charge of cruelty Ia his s:x-year-
OLD daughter. The Heighbors .Iund her
locked III the cellar in a half-starycd .ouCii-
tion. She sand that her father had whip
pedher becauses she had or led TO r her mamma.
who was dead. The little girls back was
cut and bleeding. and she had not eaten
anything for two days.
Late last night the international Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners. in biennial
convention at Cleveland, OHIO. elected the
following Officers President, Harry Lloyd.
Boston; vice president, Louis E TosSey.
Detroit; secoud vice president. W b. Nc
Farlane, Buffalo; general secretary and
treasurer. L. J MEG ure. of Philadelphia.
reelected, executive board, A. NJ Flagg,
Of Lewiston, Maine. and A. NJ swartz,
pittsburg-
Victor Nottingham and Edward Wilson,
two murdercrs under sentence OF five years
each in the Virginia State penitentiary,
who, III company with Jack Smith. "A prize
tighter, broke from the Norfolk county Jail
last "Wednesday night, returned to the laiI
Sunday night and gave themselves up. A
reward OF 81 80 each had been offered by
Gov. O'Ferrall, but the two men, tired out
andtrackedt To Windsor. Va, negotia ted with
the sheriff, through his deputy, and, is a
result, returned.