The evening times., 1896-09-05
BriefsbyW Wire

I Willis weikel, aged ten years. employed
by Mrs. Emma Phipps, OF EyaDsburg, Pa,
| was killed by being dragged by runaway
COW. his skull being fractured.
Cardinal Gibbons announces that Bishop
| Curtis, OF Wilmington, will come to Hiiti-
more to ill an important positiqp as soon as
| his successor Is named by the Pope.
In order to aise money to pay Tor an altar
| rail the pastor OF coiored church In Brook
| lyn gave an apple dumping eating contest,
| in which the winner swallowed thirteen
dumplings.
| Henry Becker, who has been swindlng
people in Philadelphia who advertised Tor
situations. was caught By the mother OF
youth he had defrauded and was turned
| over to the police.
Gov. Lowndes has extended the time OF
the assessors OF Prince George county, Nd,
for the Second assessors district, compris-
ing Bhdensburg, Kent and Queen Anne.
until September 80.
In the California Populist convention yes
terday Judge w. A. Mcdonald, OF san
Diego, read letter from Jesse Il.
Grant, son of the late Gen. Grant, espousing
the Peoples party cause
Albert ,Boltan. a young New York dry
goods merchant, had to have Pauline HAM
merstein, n pretty German girl. arrested
because she was 80 infatuated with him
she followed him day and night.
George H. Trump a student at the Bald-
more Dental College. was perhaps fatally
injured by having been caught In the ma
chiDery OF a thrashing machine al his
fathers farm in Manchester. Nd.
BY the wrecking of a work train yes
terlay. on the Pony aud Sappington
branch of the Northern Pacific road. near
Bozeman, Montana, Patrick Cronin was
killed and five others seriously injured, OF
whom Mike Burns and Johu Donahue will
die.
During a very severe thunderstorm, which
passed over Snow Hill, Md. Thursday night.
lightning struck the residence OF Mr.. Will
lam j. Henderson and affected Mr Hen
derSon and his wife so seriously that they
Were both unconscious for about half an
hour.
The New Haven, Conn, Democratic con-
veDtion last nj ght chose a solid silver dele
CATION to the State convention there next
week. Resolutions. were passed instructing
bridgeport and Meriden also chose silver
delegations.
For over an hour last night Weir City,
Kan, was pelted by hailstones, and the dam
age to window glass Is estimated at S10r
300. Nearly all the stained glass windows
N st. Anthony's Church were destroyed.
Every residence in the city lost from one TO
twenty-fiv panes of glass.
A horse which Joseph Bradley. n eed TWEEN
ty-seven years, was riding on Old York
road. near Philadelphia. became fright
ened at a trolley car and jumped from the
bridge crossing the Richmond branch pf
the Reading Railroad TO the tracks, twenty
feet below. Both rider and horse were
killed.
Samuel Bridges OF ,Johnstown, Pa. aged
seventeen ran his wheel up on the stone
coping of South Fork bridge. When about
the middle of the bridge the tire was
pupcturcd and he was thrown down into
South Fork River adistance of about forty
feet, sustaining injuries which may prove
fatal. The wheel remained on the bridge.
and it was that winch led to the discovery
OF the accident.
Mary Lydia Roper, a fifteen year-old col
oreu girl, Is in jail at Portsmouth. Va,
charged with attempting to poison tie four
months-old child OF MI. ard Mrs. W. Z.
Duvall. The poisonInsed was Concentrated
lye, the girl putting a spoonful OF it in the
infants mouth, burningit terribly. She had
been employed only three weeks, aud no
cause can he assigned for the deed She
denies having Committed the act.
George Marlartze. aged twenty-four years.
died AT the Pottsviile. Pa, Hospital yester
day from injuries received at the rolling
mills He was working rear a one-ton-
irondrop bail. which was being dropped from
derrick TO break scrap iron. The ball de-
scended before Marlartze could reach point
of safety. 1t struck him iE the chest and
side, and he fell head-first upon pile OF
angle iron. His skull was crushed, aud his
death followed shortly after.