The evening times., 1896-09-09
Briefs byWi ire

Fifteen hundred troops embarked at Bar
celona, Spain, for the Philippine Island
today.
I Ex-Presi1ent Harrison has declined TIL
presidency OF the new University Of In
dianapolis.
The Seventh Tennessee district Repuli
can convention has nominated A. N Hughes
for Congress.
The Great Sun Council of the Improved
Order of Red Men began sessions at Min
neapoiis yesterday.
| Julius Watkins committed suicide IL
Montgomery county. NIL, by yhanginghimseli
in his tobacco barn.
! The Japanese Colonization Society has Sc
cureda concession of3OO 900 resfrom the
Mexican government.
1t is stated that dynamiters are destroy
ing the fish In great numbers in the Po
tomac River at dam No. 4.
An Illinois court has decided that plow
ing corn on Sunday in sight of church-So
ers is not a disturbance OF the peace.
George winans, of waukcsha. was yes
terday nominated for Congress by the
Fifth Wisconsin district Democratic COLI
/ yention.
| On the thirty-sixth ballot last evening
| W. II. Rogers was nominated in the Second
Wisconsin sionaldistrict Democratic
| convention.
| n. Ribot, at one time prime minister
of France. has arrived in Montreal. Dur.
ing his stay in Canada he will visit Ottawa
and other leading cities.
| Henry Bringhurst, O conductor, at Ian
caster, Was accidently shot and killed
last evening by his friend, John Witncr,
| while they were preparing for q hunting
trip.
Congressman Harry Weles Rusk, who has
represented the Third Congressional district
| OF Maryland in Congress for five years,
withdrew yesterday from the fight forIe.
| nomination.
Sir Matthew White Ridley, British home
| secretary, says the release of the Irish
political prisoners was due solely to the
medical reports submitted to him regard
ing their condition.
The Democrats and Populists Of the
Eighteenth Ohio district last night NOM
mated Gen. /. r. Sherwood. the veteran
Democratic editor, OF Canton as a fusion
candidate for Congress.
An explosion of turpeutine gas in W. W.
Alber's drug store, at wausau, Wis. yestcr-
day resulted in the almost total loss or tic
stock and the serious personal injury oi
two clerks, william Borchardt and William
Bartel.
T. +. Mears. q prominent citizen OF Prin-
cess Anne county, Va, yesterday commit
ted suicide at the Hotel Princess Anne at
Virginia Beach by shooting himself through
the temple. The deed was the winding up
OF n prolonged spree.
John K. Caldwell was nominated by the
Silver Democrats OF the Fifth Iowa Con-
gressiUfial district convention yesterday
to oppose the election OF Robert g.
Cousins. Fusion of the Populists was
asked, but not secured.
ST. Mary's Church. at Plymouth. Pa, was
entered SOME tine Monday night aud two
iron poor-boxes werc broken open ana the
contents, about S25. earned away. The
ciboriurn, worth $50. was also carried off,
and Some gold chalices.
John B. Goodwin. af Atlanta. Ga. and
C. q. Hoyt. OF Beatrice, Ncb, are in fo-
catello. Idaho, to treat with the Bannock
and Shoshone Indians, OF Fort Hall res
ervation, for a portion OF their lands TO be
thrown open for public settlement.
John Paroeck, Hungarian. of Harleigh,
Pa. was sent to the county jail yesterday
on the Charge OF clubbing his wife. who is
in a critical condition. When reprinanded
by the alderman he replied that she was his
wife, and lie had right TO do as he
pleased with her.
Katie Behe, aged fourteen years. at
Lilly, Pa. was instantly killed Sunday
evening by lad naIned Ed snieitZer. Tie
children were shooting at MARKS with a
revolver, when the girl was accidentally
shot. An artery leading from thesneck to
the heart was severed
The gold Democrats of Utah, led by
Party l.. Wilson, decided yesterday to hold
a convention and nominate Presidential
electors for Palmer and Buckncr. The sill
yer wing of the Republ can party issued a
call for a convention On September n 10
nominate Bryan and sewan electors.
Wisconsin Central freight train struck
a wagon containing Henry Steinkc, wife
and daughter, near Oshkosh. Wis. fast
evening, and all We're instantly killed
Steinke was a wealthy farmer residing in
the town OF vinland. He was fifty-six
years old, and an old resident of the county.
The Fayal mine at Eveleth. the Auburn
at Virginia, and the Chandler at Ely. all
belonging to the Minnesota Iron Company,
will cease today active shipping operations
for the present. Fully 300 men will be
thrown out of employment. The shutdown
is severe blow to both yermilIiop and
Mesaba ranges.
Two unknown negroes visited the house
OF John Baker. a respectable white farmer
near Hamlet, Va. The darkies eDticed
Baker some distance from the house. when
they fell upon him and beat him into in
sensibihty and then left him for dead.
They then returned to the house and seized
his wife. After outraging the poor woman
the villains fled to the swamps.
The steamer Angler. which runs between
New York and Rockaway Beach. was run
into this morning shortly after 10 O'Clock.
off Bedlow's Island, by a thrce-masted
schooner sailing light under full sail. II
was blowing quite fresh at the time. and a
serious accident was averted by the crew
of the schooner, who were able to turn
the course OF their vessel. making the blow
a slanting one instea of straight cut into
the side of the Angler.
Charles Jeffers. who is said to be In the
mercantile business in Milwaukee, Wis,
was in Cape May, n. j., yesterday, unable
to give any account of. himself since leaving
his home He Is son n-in-la W of Thomas Y
DeNornaDdie, who lives at Green Creek. a
village near Cape May. He was taken to
Mr. DeNormandie' house, where ne rec
ognized both Mr. and Mrs. DeNormandie.
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