The evening times., 1896-08-29
Briefs

A--sreatfire in the suburbs of Hamburg,
Germany. caused a loss of several million
-maFks=
II is said Eoanoke,>ya.; Is infested with
a band OF robbers, several OF whom have
been arrested
The California delegates to the gold
standars, convention at indianapolis left
for that city last night
'Wniie walking in his sleep, George NJ.
Hunter ot-Akoona, Pa, fell fio;l Bis bed
room window and was crushed TO death
oil the'sfdewalk
George Van Horn last night cit his wife's
tiiroat ut Scranton. Pa, inflicting wound
from which the hospital surgeons say she
will die. Van Horn ana his wife were sep
arated.
Capt. Anderson. superintendent or the
Yellowstone National Park. In his annual
report recommends an annual apprUpria-
ton of 500, 600 until the road systenrof
the park is completed.
The station agent IT Merion Pa, william
Dc'irick, Committed suicide in the ticket
office yesterday He had been in the en-
ploy of the Pennsylvania railroad for tine
past twenty-five years.
A man supposed to he LionelJ. P.snith,
of Chicago. was found wandering on tie
streets OF baltimore. He said lie did not
| know his name or where he came from,
and is believed to be insane.
| A fatal combat too.i place at Milton Pa,
Thursday night between two parties OF
young men. George W. Catheru.th OF New
Columbia was shot in the head by Melvin
4 81 (lair. anil rasi o r1t., y q dfeI
william Rohius shot and fatally woun,led
| ais nineteen year-old daughter, near Tai
| cott, eight niles from here. yesterday.
she had been intimate with young man
in that neighhorhood When Robins dis
| covered the cas. he shot Eer.
The Southern Express Company has
brought action in Raleigh. ~ C., against
the Seabonrd Air Line in ofderto light the
dec;sion "f the Ashcvilie ma rist.ase ilsat no
| express matter save perisi!ahic articles can
be transported in North Carolina OH trains
on Sunday.
| "Dc!r' SwartZ who is serving Il life
sentence in Jackson. Mich. prison, may
YET he n free man. Juhu Crowley, u tramp,
| who Is i'll tail at Kalamazoo awaiting
transportation to Ccuterviilc. says that
lie killed William johnson. and that Swartz
Is innocent
CALVIN and George Diehl. brothers, aged
sixteen and eighteen years, respectively
were drnwned IN the canal near Middle
town, Pa, yesterday. They were swim
ming and Calvin was seized with cramp.
George went To his assistance and both
peTishcd- Ti:e bolies were recovered.
Alfred Wordsworth Thompson. member
OF the National Academy of Artsand Of the
Society OF American Artists, Whose studio
was In New York city, died OF apoplcxy ON
Thursday at his summer house at Summit.
y. ]. lie was born in Baltimore on May
81. iS40
During the bombarlment OF the palace
at Zanzibar by the British warships on FIJI
dag the forces of Said khalil the self pro-
Clained ssitan. i'll and about the palace
numbcrea E, 900 OF this number. tits es;i.
mated tlRt fully 500 were killed or
wouDdeay
Hclyy ,Kctchledgc, IA patient on Earole
at the StstcsHbspftal for the Insane at
'NorffStNSu, "a ! was being brought back
lasl nIslts y5I the rbiladeIpiia and Read
ing Railrofd 4. .xiien he jumped through the
car windoswpfs sone OF The passenger coaches
dnG "tSy1psNfhtiS kihtu.
crcssiesa:s,serlS,a a young nan living near
westcrnpor, Mo-, was found lying along
tIe tIacks OF he Bsltiirorrs AMI Ohio at
Cedar Cliff station, last evening, Gnoon
scious. He had been struc-. by or fallcu
from u freight train. He was badly cut
latput the head and Otherwise, painfully
bruised. 1t is doubtful Il e will live.
The sealiag Schooner Jessie. of Port
Angeles, arrived at Vancouver from ouna-
leska- and brought news 10 the effect
that Two scbooAers OF the Biilish Columbia
sealing fleet. the Beatrice. of Victoria
and the Beatrice, of Vancouver. had 80
seized and ordered hore by the commaud-
Ing officer of the American patrol fleet
Nathaniel Moore, accused of wife mur
Ger in Eastern Carolina a II onth ago, has
been captured. fie'was found by u sheriff's
nosSe. locked up in a c,esct in his IL Others
loHSe near Frrr ont, whore he had lain
-'nccaled ever since the crime was CON
rtitted. The EOuse was not half n mile
from the scene of tie murder Moore is
charged with having cut his wife'S throat
because she protested agaius this teating
her children.