The evening times., 1896-10-17
Wire Briefs.

IN Caroline county, Nd, Jail Joseph W.
hedden, colored, received twenty iasbe.
: Tor beating his wife.
| Congressman Charles F. Joy has hoo.
unanimously renouanated by the Renub-
iieans OF the Eleventh Congressional dis.
| trict
| Henry Eaton & Co., wholesale hatters. or
| indianapolis, Ind, assigned last night.
Liaoliities are $4,000, and assets NOM
inaliy the same.
The embassies OF the foreign powers
nd'e Ieiuss'd the demand OF the porte to be
accorded the right of searcbinp foreiep
's III turkish waters for Arrncnians
Inc Fargo, n. D., Roller Mill Company
'ssishea yesterday. Assets, 5000: ua.
.hnies' Sso,oOO. The cause was the sud-
'eh advance In wheat. The losers are most
ly ia rmers.
Inc contest in the Oneisa -Herkimer dis
trictbetweenS Seth G. Heacock and Con,ro.s-
man James s. Sherman has been dec,ete,, nv
Judge Herrick at Albany in favor Of Mr.
Sherman
MISS Edythe TOtteD, an actress, and her
mother, who is living in New York. viii
institute suit To recover land in the heart
"f the city of Mobile. Ala. valued at sew
eral millions O dollars.
Edwin Wilson. OF the firm OF Wilson a
johnson. Boston, produce com mission mer-
chants at No. Z Blackstone street. was
arrested yesterday, charged With being
fugitive from justice
Rudolph sehryer, while In apparently
good health Jokingly selected n coffin in
"a New York undertaker's shop for his own
use. and q short time afterward dropped
dead while walking along the street.
The trial OF Miss Sarah E. Armstrong
on the charge OF robbing the malls while
acting as assistant postmistress at North
Tarrytcwn, N. Y, was begun and finished
yesterday and the jury rendered a verdict
of not guilty
Theodore Gtistave Ottkay. of PhiIadeI.
pmI, was Committed TO prison without
ball. on the charge, preferred by his wife.
that he had deliberately set fire to their
dwelling. the rear OF which was destroyed
by the flames.
w l.. Porter. n prominent citizen and
OIL merchant OF Lima, Ohio, was found last
night lying down on the street with a bullet
hole In his head. He was returning from
wayiaid and killed by robber.
Amy Price. aged twenty nine years. a
in Philadelphia. committed
suicide by shpeting herself in the breast.
She had been despOndent bee ausc OF the re-
cent death Of a young man. residing in
New York city. to whom she was engaged
10 be married.
II I. Ambrose OF Clarksville, Pa, was
.atail4 hurt in a runaway yesterday and
MS wife's Injuries may Nllso result fatally.
Their horse became frightened at ii pass
ng bicycle. ovcrturning the buggy into
ieep rGviRe- Mr.. and Mrs Ambrose were
buried under the wreekage
sgd odel Of EllcnbOro, W Va. left Sis
ersyIlie for his home on horseback Thurs
lay night. with $40 in his Packets. Near
Noodsvllie. Odel Was held up by two high
vaymen and relieved of the whole
niount- The robbers carried guns ane
we're lying in wait for their victim.
Mrs. Harriet Walker Of Pittsburg, Pa,
lotner ofthc young girl who died on Thurs
ay, from tea poisoning, expired yeSter
ay from the s;ini" cause The death Of
he two women is regarded in Harrisburg
5 of such IA portaHce that Thomas J. Edge,
scrctary II agriculture. will personally at
end the inquest.
Suit has been entered at Hagerstown,
Id, by the Peoples National Bank of
hat city against the bondsmen of Edward
offmGn, the assistant cashier of the In
LituJiun, To recover the amount of the
ond Isle 900. 1t is alleged that Hofr-
IAN has converted S19.219 of the banks
Iuds to his own use.
EX-Couacilman Samuel Cotton, OF Nor
Tx, Va, was arraigned yesterday on the
larsc preferred by Mrs. Florence P,rter,
criininally assaulting Virgie, her little
We year-uid daughter The little one was
aging on Wide street, near her home
hen Cotton, who happened along, gave
,r doll baby, and, it is alleged, after
ard accomplished his purpose.
Garret A. Hobarts coachmah. Joseph Eng
tshman, has discovered a mursierous
eapOn stained with blood, in "A cIump of
Ishes at tine corner of Park avenue and
street, Paterson, y. j. 1t is
stick somewhat more than two feet in
ngth with four inches of lead pipe ham
cred fast To the end on the lead are
e traces of blood, besides two locks OF
rk hair.
Mrs. Joseph Vert, of Newhope. Pa, Is
Ing very i'll from the effects of paralytic
reke, caused by the antics of a deinented
oman prowling around the streets Mrs.
ert was standing i'll her yard, where the
oman came up behind her, frightening her
badly that she dropped to the ground
me of the neighbors passing by at the
He carried her into the house and sum-
oned physician. She is in a critical con-
ton, TO hopes being entertained FOR her
covery.
William j. Walters. aged sixteen: A ndrew
Atkinson, aged twenty, and Wilson T.
lriing. aged seventeen, while gathering
estnuts near Buttonwood Corners.
Thursday, were attacked by three large
ick-snakes. The reptiles hissed and
rang at the young men. Oneof the snakes
'und itSeIf around Walters leg during the
tile, but Atkinson quickly procured his
ife and cut the snake into three pieces.
kinson was bitten on the finger while
wing his companion.
ASSURED OF MICHIGAN.