The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-08-18
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The great West Indian storm pass
ed over Hartford county on Thursday
night of last wet h, without doing
much damage. Ponce, whare Gen.
Miles landed his army for the capture
of Porto Rico, was almost wiped out
of existence. 1t is estimated that on
the island 200 persons persisted and
100000 were made homeless. An APP
peal for aid made by the military
authorities has been responded to
most generously. The storm pursued
its way North and touched the South
ern coast of Florida, but WAS deflicted
and passed away without injecting
severe damage in the United States.
William Cham bers, negro % years
of age, was hanged to II tree and his
body riddled with bullets, last Friday,
for an atFocious assault upon Lizzie
Watson, pretty little girl IA years
old. The girl, it is stated, was de-
llElouS dhu dlCti lIoLu 1lSh III
juries. The mob who hanged Cham
bers consisted of 800 men, unmasked
and very orderly.-William Wilson,
negro accused Of attempted criminal
assault, was spirited out of his cell in
the jail at Port Gibson, the same day,
and hanged on the county gallows.
No one observed the lynchers enter
a depart.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark,
on Wednesday says that five brutal
assaults by negro man on white
women have occurred in Little Rock,
in the past "a hours. 1t is believed
that all these crimes were committed
by the same negro, but three suspects
have been arrested and if the right
man can be positively identified he
may be lyuched The victims Of the
assaults are all highly respected white
women.
Mrs. Heprikke Beatsch, IL faith
healer, was fined 500 and costs, in
Chicago, Oh Thursday, for violating
the Illinois medical practice act, by
administering medicine to u patient,
who died under the faith treatment.
The Judge held that faith healers must
resort only to spiritual and mental
means OF treating the sick, but when
material means are used the State law
governing the practice of medicine
has been violated.
Naval Constructor Hobson, of San
tiago fame, h s succeeded in raising
and repairing three of the Spanish
vessels sunk by Dewey in Manila
harbor. He says that when the re-
pairs and armament are completed
they will be worth to the government
100000. The cost of the work was
1904, 600. Hobson proposes to raise
and repair some of the other vessels
sunk at the same time.
Two young men who took refuge
from a severe storm, Sunday after
noon, under a tree, near the North
eastern suburbs of Baltimore city,
were killed by the same stroke of
lightning. Their hats and clothing,
even their shoes and handkerchiefs,
were cut and ripped into shreds. Two
redGishblue spots on the forehead of
each told the story of their sudden
death.
Last Sunday IS storm was very severe
in Anne Arundel and the lower part
of Baltimore county. At Benfield. in
Anne Arundel county, Charles Grit
fifth and Miss Mamie Garrison, who
were returning to their homes from
spring, were killed by lightning. The
same stroke shivered a large oak tree
and made large hole in the ground
around the roots.
Hampton Predmore, of Strouds
burg, Pa, WIS looking for game and
thought he saw a ground hog. He
fired and to his horror discovered
he had killed his neighbor, Godfrey
Transue, who was hiding among some
weeds. Transue's head was covered
with long hair and he mistook it for
ground hog. A coroner's jury exon
Grated Predmore.
Col. William E. Sim, who for many
years conducted the old Front Street
Theatre, in Baltimore, making it one
of the leading vaudeville resorts in
the country, died in Pittsfeld, Mass,
on Wednesday and was buried at
Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore.
Hon Sir Ford North, Judge of the
Chencery Division of the High Court
of Justice, in England, holds that
"a reporter had copyright in his re-
port" and that that copyright was ac-
quired by the paper upon which the
reporter was employed.
The little girl Gladys Perot, has
been surrendered to her grandfather,
in London, according to agreement
with her mother, who was accused of
abducting the child from Baltimore.
Governor Lowndes has made a re
quest to the government TO stop the
eXtradition proceedings.
Signor Marconi, in experiments with
wireless teegraphy at Dover, England,
on Wednesday, met with complete
success, the messages passing through
several mile: of cliff upon which Dover
Castle stands and IL miles across the
sea.
When it comes to trying to put q
book into single word, the Germans
are entitled to the first prize. They
have adopted for the electric cabs the
euphonious title of automobile
Observation-Disclosures
$500 bushels of wheat sS,have been
threshed on the several farms be-
longing to the Mckinney estate, in
Queen Anne's county. Last year the
yield was GO, 600 bushels and in 1897 it
was 5000 bushels.
The joint fair of the Kent and
Queen Anne's Agricultural Societies
will commence at COLCHESTER, on Tues
day next, and continue four days. Ar
engagements have been made for sew
eral good races.
Four colored men in Princess Anne
county stole a COW from Isaac J. Hol-
lands stables. near Jason, and butch
cred it to furnish meat for boarding
tent kept by one of them at camp