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BRIEF MENTION. The suit of Mr. Eveline V. Smith, of Woodstock, Vt., who claims to be the relict of Hezekiah B. Smith, the late millionaire manufacturer, of Mount Holly, N. J., came up in the county courts. Mrs. Smith gave testimony to the effect that she had married Mr. Smith in 1846 and that he had left her in 1867. A committee of Philadelphians and citisens of Camden called on Governor Green in the interest of the removal of the Delaware River islands. They asked the to advocate the appropriation of §100,000 to ward the purchase of the islands. Thieves have been busy in the small towns in the vicinity of Woodbury, N. J., and they made quite a haul at Paulsboro. Miss Emma Trautwein, of Hackensack, N. J., has been awarded $5,000 by a jury for a broken nose. Charles Hickson, a brakeman on the Lehigh Valley road, was blown along with the car roof off a bridge into the Lehigh river near Mauch Chunk, Pa, and escaped serious in jury. A $25,000 railroad wreck near Beaver Falls, Pa., was caused by a sleepy operator. Phil Daly is said to have wept while testi fying before the grand jury against his as sailants. Chauncey M. Depew has a glass leg, fitted by Dr. Hammond on the limb which the genial railroad president injured recently. Ferdinand Carolin was convicted in New York of murder in the first degree for killing his wife with a hatchet. Lawyer Trude, during argument in a jury bribing case in Chicago, charged Judge Hawes with having used undue influence with the grand jury to have the indictment found. Miss Isabella Lee, of New York, great granddaughter of John C. Calhoun, obtained an injunction restraining the executor of Thomas G. Clemson, Calhoun’s son-in-law, from turning the Calhoun homestead over to South Carolina for an agricultural college. Forty of the chairmen of the Republican county committees were called before the United States grand jury in Indianapolis to tell what they knew about the so called Dud ley letter. The report of the chief of the secret ser vice division of the treasury department showed that out of 1534 foreigners arrested as counterfeiters, 67 were Italians, just 50 per cent, Mr. Faulkner introduced in the senate a bill providing for the establishment of a pure food division in the department of agricul ture. Senator Cameron presented to the senate resolutions of the chamber of commerce of Pittsburg praying for the adoption of the decimal system of weights and measures. Lieut. Wissman, the African explorer, dis believes the story of Stanley’s capture, on the ground that the news could not have reached Osman Digna. The new Servian elections have resulted in an overwhelming majority against King Milan, which may force him to abdicate. Sir William Pearce, M. P., the famous ship builder, who constructed the Etruria and Umbria and other fast ocean steamships, is dead, Queen Victoria has dissolved the Honorable Artillery company, of London, the oldest military organization in the country. The Indian Territory convention, at Hot Springs, Ark., passed resolutions in favor of the immediate opening of the territory to white settlement. Hester Ann Chase-Ridout, of Annapolis, who died recently, bequeathed her magnifi cent ancestral home (which was built in 1770, by Judge Chase, one of the signers of the declaration of independence) to establish a home for destitute, aged and infirm women. The new Montefiore Home for Chronic In valids was dedicated in New York, Mayor Hewitt and Carl Schurz making speeches. The corner stone of the Good Samaritan Hospital for Colored People, which is being built exclusively by whites, was laid in Charlotte, N. C. The interstate commerce commission began a hearing in Washington in the tariffs and classifications of the railroads south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, associated under the name of the Southern Railway and Steamship association. The convention of millers at Milwaukee decided to limit the January flour output. Governor Hill, of New York, has granted requisition papers on Governor Seay, of Ala bama, for forger Henry D. Goff, who is wanted at Syracuse, Rochester and Pitts burg. Another bold attempt was made to wreck a train on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad in Missouri. Members of the pension legislation feo have arrived in Chicago to questions to be presented to the Fifty-first congress for the relief of old soldiers, river and the captain and cook were drowned.
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Annapolis Evening Capital
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Thu, Dec 20, 1888
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