The evening times., 1896-08-08
-Briefsby Wire

Ex.sheriff Charles II. webbcr. of Roa-
noke county. Va; has committed suicide.
Emil Clare. rigger, employed On the
Philadelphia city ball tower, was fatally
injured by d faiT
Charles Thildevwa haBgcd.at salt Lake
City, Utah, yesterday. for the murder Of
his wife over two years ago.
The New York rapid transit commission
ers have called for pew plans for an under
ground RAILROAD to cttf lot over $50 ,U00,-
| 600.
BY q boiler explosion at PARK Place col
llery, In schuylkill county. Pa, Que man
was killed and three others were in
jured, two ofataalya.
In an ;elecuonS fight at Halls Gross
Roads. near KpoxyiIle, Tenn. yesterday
Mack Hall. awhile man was killed by
Will Crippen, colorcd.
John X Cowcn says that in his opinion
sound money Dcmocratic ticket would
not be desirable 1n.Maryland, and that he
will vote for Mckinney
Congressman w n Dbolitlle Of Washing
ton, elected in 1884 on a Republican free
silver platform, has Issued statement for
the press, indofsing Mckinley.
James Philips, OF Washington. D. c..
pleaded guilty, 10, the charge Of forging
checks on the Rey, DR.. John K. Pax,Cn,
and was sent 10 the Elmira Reformatory.
Eenjamia Rudolph aud Veronica X.
Sciiliing died at the HabrNmaun Hospital.
In Philadelphia, from the effectsof burns
caused by explosion OF an OIL lamp and
an oil stove
Macmillan Wiicom, ex-cashier OF the
branch OF the National Bank at Mexico, at
Merida, Yucatan. has teen declared guilty
Of en,bezzling 500 900, and will receive q
heavy sentence.
William Name, an employe Of the Buffalo
and Susquehanna Railroad. WIS caught in
frog at Wilbanisport, Pa. III the yard and
held a prisoner until run own by an engine.
He died two hours after the accident.
Robert Ross was murderousiy assaulted
with an AK yesterday at Mount Holly, Pa,
oy Chauncey Hoffman, an elderly man,
but will probably recover. Hoffman,
who was intoxicated, was put under ar
rest
The Pants Makers Union Joined the
striking tailors in New York yesterday.
adding over 2,500lto the number OF idle
garment makers. They claim that the con-
ractors vioiabed the eagreementunder which
they We're working.
Thomas Cawthern was instantly killed
at the cotton Of a plane at the Burnside
mine, Shamokin, Pa, yesterday afternoon
by a coupling pin falling out, which allowed
wagon to run down the steep declvity
with lightning rapidity
Thomas P. whltten. who for many years
was In the city treasurer's office In Pitts
burg, Pa. and who was lately deputy treas
urer of Kansas City, No., killed himself
IN the latter City yesterday afternoon by
taking thirty grains of morphine.
The ingllam County Bank OF Lansing,
Mich, was placed In the hands OF recciv-
ers yesterday. 1t had deposits or $144 900
| and assets OF S2s5 900. but a steady with
irawai OF accounts the past year induced
The directors to wind up its affairs. ,
French compan aspurchased thecer.
70 del oro min es az Bacoache. IN the A rizpe
district OF Sonora, Mexico. The reported
purchase price is 100000 francs. Oni.
Gals of the compaasure new en- route frDm
Paris to inaugurate acttre operations at
the mines. ~ ~
secretary Lamont yesterday appointed
len F.. s. Bragg. OF Wisconsin, com
missioner to make certain Investigations
concerning the rights OF the United States
II connection with the Improvement NJ
the Fox and Wiseopsin rivers, directed 81;
the last river. .a1t aiarbor act
The Ameritt tHFrihold Land Mortgage
Company. OF EoNdeH England, has brought
suit I'D fhe cirerSf;eetrt OF Kansas City to
recover S2s, 2OH 10 - wtul gold mercy OF
iheUpitcd state3FfoE the Sonti,ern a gency
and Investment Etlspany- Unsatisfactory
transactions by the tvnpafy are alleged
Morris Fox. tarm 10y from ReadIug. is
dying from a Iilies; wound inflicted by
eo.il and Iron offRef Lpris.ai ,or shamokin,
Pa, while euficafdf5&x toscscapc arrest for
| having stolen AGeEn Reading freight
train. The Dulle .cBtered che boys back
near the shoulder a6u came out directly
over his heart. <
William Rietafson s5r., aged twenty four
| cars, of Shenaiyoah, Pa, employed as a
repairman, was instantly killed at West
Shenandoah Colliery yesterday Richard
ION was in the act OF removing a pulley
upon which the hosting rope runs, when
he loaded minerva gon which was heing
hoisted struck hir, and he fell to the bot
tom of the incline.
Hyram FlickIinger, aged sixty years, of
Sandy Lake, Pa, fell off moving p ->i,,i,
yesterday and the wheels passed over his
holy. crushing him so badly that he will
die. Within one mile OF where he was in
.u;ed. at almost the same TIME, George
Jennings, aged seventy mine years, fell
among the Knives OF his moving machine
and was so badly mutilated that he can
not recover.
Park Place, Pa, was the scene of q ter.
ribie boiler explosion yesterday morning.
Percy Smell was Instantly killed. His head
was bio wn off and was found some distance
from the scene on the roof OF n sma II bniltl-
| ing. Edward Davis of Morea was very
badly scaided, and his condition is regarded
MS critical. Michael Cohdren. ten years old
had one OF his legs broken and was fatally
scaldcd. John Reese was terribly scaMei
about the body.
A sequel To the shooting OF Thu rsday
| asst in East Los Angeles. Cal. involving the
death of Ms. Jennie B. Snyder, late of
| Semitic. WASH, and the suicide OF he para
mdur. William J. ireland, was the arrest
At Los Angeles Thursday night of DR.. An
| .inew 8. shorb, the most prominent and re-
spected physician in the city. on the charge
| II murder, the verdict OF the coroner's jury
| being that lin. Snyder died from the eff
fects Of a criminal operation performed
by DR.. slorb.
The convention Of the Catholic Total Alb
staineB' Union OF America concluded It's
abon yesterday afternoon and ad' 'o1rned
| sine die by the election of the following