The evening times., 1896-10-30
Wire Briefs.

caravan from West Siberia has arrived
at 81. Petersbug, bringing gold bars weigh
ing 1900 pounds.
Herman LevIson Millionaire jeweiry mer-
chant, of San Francisco, is dead. His es-
tateis reputed to be worth SO, 100000.
Mrs Julia Borland Higginson, wife of a
wealthy Boston banker. has been married in
faristoJameS WheatlaBd Smith, with W hom
she eioped.
Blaine Elkins, son of Senator Stephen
| B- Elsihs, of West Virginia, is reported
| 70 DE lying very Ill at the infirnary at
| 1ale' where he is student, with typhoid
| fever.
Grace Parker, aged fifteen. of Toledo, o..
committed suicide yesterday by taking an
| overdose Of morphine. She was piqued over
being reprinanded for absenting herself
from Sunday school.
During services in the Catholic Church Of
81. FRANCIS OF Assist, New York a youn.,
Inanstolethe pocketbook Of one nth ewomen
"orshIperS. who gave the ALARM and half
the congregation pursued the thief until
captured.
The Lancaster, Pa, police officials
believe from the printed descriptions of
the wo men who shot Mrs. Kaiser I'm Mont
goTnery county Wednesday night that ths
criminals We're two OF the three men
who escaped from the Lancaster jail last
Sunday morning.
George Toll Pierce an cx-Cnited States
convict, shot and killed Henry Beard, "A
farmer. of otto Creek Ky yesterCia after
noon. Pierce and John Howell, whois sup
posed 10 he an aCcompIice. We're arrested,
! and there is some fear of a mob. Beard was
| shot in the back
| Mrs. J. W. Allen of Marysville, Mont.
| yesterday shot AT her husband with
| rifle. but missed him and killed her weIve-
| year-old son. She then fired two mora
| shots at her husband, one bail fracturing
| The skull and the other breaking his arm,
HIS injuries will probably prove fata.
| Walter Ritchie Of Piusburg Pa. cousin
| or little Bessie Osborn, who was burned
] to death while trying to save her brother
! and sister from a fiery death, went yio
4 ieHliy insane when he learned OF her acct
| dent He was removed TO the Allegheny
| General Hospital RitChie was twenty-five
| gears old.
Mrs Mary WaIlick, ged seventeen and
| bride OF three months, after pouring oil
! on the kitchen fire in her home in Pitts
burg Pa, last night. placed the oil can on
1 the stove. There was an explosion With
| her clothing aflaue. She ran Shricking into
! the street She was SO friehtfuIl Y burned
| that she died during the night.
J. ID. johnson of Trenton, y. J., ship
| keeper Of the monitor Ajax, IN use by the
| Naval Reserves, and moored at the foot
I
! sylvania Railroad tracks at Second and
Bridge avenue. Philadelphia, Wednesday
eNcnlng- With his head crushed. He had
| probably been struck by train while go
| ing toward the \ jax- He died in the
| Cooper Hospital
james kearney, a miner. went out for a
! Walk on the evening OF October 16 accom-
! PANIED by his New rounGland dog The
next day the dog turned with n claim
around his neck, and bearing evidence OF
! having been beaten. Yesterday kearney's
! body, badly decUInpOsed. was found float
ing IN the L#ckawaHna Iron and Steel
| t"inpaHys reservoir. nearly three miles
| from Kearueys home
J DiEah Williams. colored. was arrested
| Yesterday charged with the killing of Mrs.
| Saunders. who was found dead in the ward
! back OF her cottage at Coney Island with
| her mead almost beaten to a ielly The
| woman confessed. She said Mrs Saun-
| derS was old and weak, and for that reason
| she thnus,tlt she would he better off dead
| John NJ. Clayton. a prominent Della
| ware Republican. was arrested at Will
mington on the charge OF bribery
| Theodore Ross. OF Baltimore. grand sec
! retary of the Sovereign Lodge of Odd Eel
lows has instituted suit against the John s.
/ Davis estate for $40. 900 The estate OF
| which the United States Hotel. of Atlantic
| City. is part. is that left by the late
| president of the Oil Exchange OF PhiIadeI-
| phia- The suit is the outcome of Injuries
! received by Mrs. Ross while walking on
The pavement surrounding the hotel. Mrs.
| Ross tripped over a depression and fell to
the ground. fraoturinc her thigh and leg.
| She has never recovered