The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-07-28


imposed by the constitution and laws
upon the Executive of the State, they
shall have if should be nominated
and elected. have always held that
public office is public trust, and if
am nominated by my party and
elected in November, you can rest as.
sured every effort will be used to make
my administration a success.
There is much indi gnation at Flor
ence, S. c., over the appointment of
of a negro postmaster. Acts of this
kind serve only to keep alive sectional
luminosity. They do not indicate any
especial love President Mckinley has
for the negro and are merely intended
to humiliate and irritate the Southern
people. We should like to see the
President appoint negro as post
master in some Northern or Western
town.
The Democrats of Baltimore city
have decided to nominate a candi-
date for Judge of the Court of Appeals
Messrs. II. Arthur Stump and Archi-
bald II. Taylor, both prominent mem
bers of the bar, are mentioned for
the place. The present incumbent,
Judge Samuel d. Schumacher, is a Re-
publican, but he has the endorsement
of Hon. William Pinkney Whyte,
Edgar H. Cans and other well-known
Democrats.
Captain N. NJ. Dyer, who is to re-
ceive q sword from the city of BaIti-
more, Oh September 10, as token of
the appreciation of the services rem
dered by him as captain of the cruiser
Baltimore, in the great naval battle of
May /, 1898, at Manila, has asked that
number of the officers Of the cruiser,
who were partic pants in the battle,
may be included in the invitation.
Windsor Castle, England, is to be
equipped with an American fire-alarm
system, by Connecticut company.
y Pennsylvania iron company has
lately been awarded by the British
government contract for bridge
across the Nile, because it was the
only plant in Great Britain or the
United States that could guarantee
its completion in the time required.
A desperate fight between Mont
gomery and Howard county clans of
negroes occurred near Hopkins
(NIa mol ohnnf
Montgomery line in Howard county
Saturday night. Robert Lewis, aged
2G years, was shot in the abdomen by
Richard Anderson, and died Sunday
evening.
Elihu Root, of New York, has been
appointed Secretary of War, to sue
coed General Alger. Mr.. Root is
lawyer and it is suggested that his
abilities in that direction will be used
by President Mckinley, in his per-
picking colonial scheme, while some
one more familiar with warlike affairs
will attend to that brarch of the bust
ness.
Admiral Dewey, in behalf of HIM
self and the officers and crews of the
United States naval forces assisting
at the battle of Manila, has entered
suit against the government for
500 600 prize money for the destruc-
ton and capture Of the Spanish fleet
and supplies at Manila and Cavite.
The transport Tartar, which left
San Francisco for Manila, on Monday,
carried Gen. Joe Wheeler and his
daughter. The government also sent
on the same vessel j3 chests, contain
ing five tons of coin, amounting to
81, 300 900, intended for the troops on
duty in the Philippines.
The convention of Maryland bank
ers, in session last week at Ocean City,
listened 10 a number of papers and
addresses and adopted resolutions in
favor of the gold standard. United
States Treasurer Ellis FL. Roberts paid
a high tribute to the financiers of
Maryland.
Homer Strauss and Will Brinscoe,
both white men, of Burke, w. Va,
quarrelled as to the size of their
respective feet. Strauss accused
Brinscoe of wearing No. 10 shoe and
was given the lie. Strauss resented by
shooting Brinscoe in the left breast.
BY the collision of two freight cars
near White Hall, Baltimore county,
800 bushels of corn were strewn along
the track. The corn was worth a.
cents bushel when placed on the
cars, but was gathered up and sold to
farmers at u cents bushel.
John Narkwith, of Orange, N. j.,
is so years old and is now engaged in |
the important dental operation of |
cutting his third set of teeth. His
eyesight is also improving and he de- |
ciares he is renewing his youth every
day.
Watson Beale, colored, was shot
and killed, on Thursday night of last |
week, at Avalon, Baltimore county,
by John Brown, colored. A coroner's
jury decided that the killing was
justifiable, and Brown was discharged.
An entire herd of fine cows belong
ing to Jonas b. Meyer, near Norris
town, Pa, were killed, be- cause they
were all suffering with tuberculosis.
The State OF Pennsylvania will pay
him $25 head for each cow killed.
The Baltimore Ne,rs of July 90 has
a clever and suggestive cartoon, in
which Uncle Sam is represented as
having dropped large burden mark
Algerism but is still staggering under
l mighty load of McKinleyism.
The great crater of Mokua Weoweo,
IN the island of Hawaii is in a state
If eruption, and lava flow, throwing
of fire hundreds of feet into
he air, is rushing down the mountain
Tide towards the city of Hilo.
Tie International Epworth League
in 1901 will be held in San
Francisco. u