The evening times., 1896-08-01
Briefsby Wire

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DR.. II. d. Huxley drank an overdose OF
poison in Baltimore boarding house.
Prank Hartzell, aged forty years. COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas in third ;
story room at his home in Baltimore.
A tourist Just returned from Europe says
there is 4 good demand there for Ameri-
can bicycles and dagricultural implements.
In New York It is 3umored tina, Rscl,a ris
Croker will return from Europe by septem-
ber !. and thatfle il against the Cnicago
ticket. ~ tss
In a collision between two cars of the
Hartford avenue line. of the Baltimore City
Passenger Railway, ten persons were
injured. -
Twenty-Five dwellings and bus.nes IS piiIces
IL Grass Valley, Cal, were destroyed by
an inccndary fire Oh Thursday Z senfhg.
The less is about $3.50, 900.
Nineteen persons, two OF them women.
were convicted and sentenced to death at
Agram. Hungary, yesterday, for organized
brgandage and murder - S
Two street cars were held up by masked
men near Manistee, Mich, on Thursday
night. aud the Conductors and aiutOrmeu
were forced To surrender their cash.
Judge George NJ. Carpenter of theUnited
States district court. for the district of
pIlpue isli1u. ultNl ytSttEuts vi
the heart, in Holland, where he was travel
ing.
Cnder the agreement of the Kentucky
distiliers. which goes into effect today.
whisky making in that State will he almost
totally suspended for period OF eighteen
months.
Mrs Henry Webster. OF Butler Ind,
was fatally shot in the abdomen by her
eldest son ON Thursday night. Mr. Web
ster was knocked insensible by the boy,
who then escaped. :,
Mrs. Norman Thomas, aged seventy
three. mot her OF o. r. Thomas. of
| Transfer. Pa. was killed yesterday in
| front OF her aged husband by a Pennsyl-
vania Railroad rain. ,..4 sss ,s,.,e ~ a.
Thomas Mallalieu, one of the founders
| OF the Unicorn Cloth Mills or Kent county-
Delaware. and his wife died within q few
| hours OF each other. aged eighty-five and
| eig yseven years, respectively. =
The Waterbury Watch Company, which
| employs several hundred operatives, Closed
| down all departments of its plant. at Water
| bury Conn.,, last evening, until September.
| The shut down is the result of dull bnsi ness.
Early yesterday morning Farnham Lyon,
| wcll-to-do farmer, of Potter county, Pa,
| killed carpenter named Patterson, whom
| ne nsi0 eERaEeu TO Il NouSe IOf iiith-
| Patterson boaxded at Lyons house and
| jealousy caused the trouble.
| Will Shank, Of Peach Potion Pa, was
| scorching down the towpath when cow
i ran out OF the bushes. The bicycle ran
| into the excited animal and was wrecked.
| Shank went over the cow, q nd in the leap
\ his throat was cut by her sharp horns.
Herbert Gray, IL years old, was pushed
off the rear OF an ice wagon. near Forty
fifth street and Baltimore avenue, Pa.
it is alleged, by Thomas Miles. colored
IL years old Gray fell in front of trolley
car and was killed. Miles was arrested
! Albert Sewers, q ged twenty-one years. was
held to await the action OF the coroner In
the case of william Tankirk, aged twenty.
seven years, who was drowned in the
SchuyikiIi River, near Philadelphia, on
Thursday. 1t was testified that Sewers. In
spirit of playfulness, had thrown Vankirs
into the river.
Five masked burglars made determined
but unsuccessful attempt to rob the safe OF
County Treasurer ,Eilenherger at Stra nds
burg, Pa. The safe was blown open by
dynamite, but the, noise of the explosion
was so great that the burglars fled without
takisg a cent, although a considerable sum
ofnione was exposed to their view
Mrs. August Smith was arrested in Ian.
caster, Pa. yesterday on the charge of cruel
treatmeptDf one or herchildren. Hertwelve
ycar-oid daugHtcr, Annie. is now in a
serious condition, People were attracted
to the Smith residence by cries of murder
In a childish Voice, and Mrs. Smith was
found with her daughter on the floor heat
alg the child, whom, she had first knocked
down with dust brush. The furious
woman jumped on the little girl, picked
her up and then threw her to the floor nd
pounded her with 'brush and fist. The
,lild was taken to a neghtor's, where twc
physicians attended her, finding that She
had been injured Internally in serious
manner. -