The evening times., 1896-10-29
Wire Briefs.

The price Of bread has advanced "A half
penny tone cent in London. Wheat de-
clined six pence.
Alexander Mcdonald. United States min
lister TO Persia. has recovered from an at
tack OF brDnchitis- '-' ~-
Gus Gursdorf, an advertising solicitor,
was struck by trolley car In Norfolk,
Va, and had both legs fractured.
A tornado did some DANA ge to prop
erty in the vicinity OF Pennington and
Sherman, Texas, last evening. Several
persons were injured.
Perry BarthoIow, United States consul
at Mayencc, Germany, is being prosecuted
for severely niuring inmate Of his
house. by striking him over the head with
revolver.
j. H Embree. a Lebanon farmer, was
shot and killed Just outside Marinette. l.
T.. by one OF two outlaws, who stopped
Embree and a neighbor on the roadway
The motive was robbery.
Lillian Green was found dead in bed in
| Philadelphia, With traces OF carbUlic acid
| on her lips and face. Her husband told the
| puice that she had committed suicide by
swallowing some of the poison
on the occasion OF the first illumination
| OF the Cathedral OF Sts. Peter and Paul, in
| Philadelphia. by electricity last night an
| OraioIio concert was given and Arch
| BISHOP Ryan made an 5uifesS
Gen. Horatio King, Postmaster General
under Buchanan, has written to Min
| lister Robert ~ NcLane. In Baltimore,
commenting him for his recent letter
criticisinS the Chicago platform.
The car and czarina started from Darn
stadt today ON their return to Russia. The
grand duke and duchess of HeSse. brother
and siSter-iniaw Of the cZarina. bade their
majesties farewell at the station
Seeking revenge a. a result of q quar-
rel with his employer, Oscar Marshall. a
| North Bend. Wis. farmer, William Palm
er, eighteen years old, yesterday murdered
| the three year-old son Of Marshall ..... -.
Six prisoners sawed their way out of the
county jail at Brownsville, Ky -yestenIay
afternoon. and escaped. One, Charles
Jones, was awaiting trial for murder.
| The others We're held for minor offcnses.
James Mckee, sixty-one years Of age
shot and killed himself at his residence on
| Pike street. Pittsburg, Pa, early this
| morning. Dependency Is the supposed
cause He leaves two grown daughters.
The rounthouse of the Quanesec logging
railroad, about five miles from Iron Mour:-
tain, Mich, was totally destroyed by fire
| yesterday. The fire VIII neCcssitate a
| suspension OF operations, throwing 100 men
| out of work.
| The Metropolitan court. to try the appeal
of Fathers Fitzgerald and Murphy. from
| Bishop BOuacurn, of Lincoln, convened at
| Dubuque, Iowa, yesterday. Father Burt,
| of Michigan. serving as delegate judge, IT,
/ stead OF Archbishop HeDnessy-
The second annual convention OF the New
| Jersey State Federation OF Women. com
! posed Of seventeen wUmen's clubs in New
| Jersey. opened this morning at the Bergen
| Reformed Church in Jersey City. one hun
| dred and fifty delegates were present.
| "Goaded to frenzy by the taunts of his
neigbburs because he declared he would
| Vote for Mckinley" John Prutowsky, for
merly private in the army, Committed sui
| eide at his home In West Hammond, Ind,
| yesterday. after attempting to kill his
wife and baby.
The Leadvilie, Col. grand jury yesterday
| reported indictments against John Gerry,
nan. striking miners, charging them with
| the murder of Fireman Jerry O'keefe. in
| the Coronado mine riot. The court re-
fused to release the prisoners on bail
| Stephen Anderson, Il sixteen-ycar-oldl lad.
| was killed by an explosion of powder near
| Moshannon, Pa. The young man went out
| to the barn To fill his hunting horn from a
| keE. owing 10 the darkness. he took q.
| lamp with him. and spark dropped intG
the loose powder, causing the explosion.
Mrs. Emma Peterman, sixty years old.
| was killed at Ha wthorne, y. J., yesterday
| by a Susquehanna and Western freight
| train, while trying to save her grandson.
Alo studt, three years old, who had run