The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-06-23
Summary Of Yesterdays News.

The First National Bank, Of Detroit,
was robbed of $1,000 yesterday.
-Ex-Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, sued the Gin
cinnati Gazette for $4,000 damages. The
jury gave him $500.
1t is reported in London that the nego-
tiations for the removal of VIM. Pcnn's re-
mains to Pennsylvania have been renewed.
The English House of Commons yes
tcrday, by vote of 175 to 20, refused to
order second reading of the bill for the
abolition of capital punishment.
Tho British Government has made the
following appointments of governors: Sir
John Glover, for the Leeward Islands; w.
Robinson, for the Windward Islands and
Sir II. It. B. Maxey, for Newfoundland.
President John w. Garrett, of the Bal
timore & Ohio Railroad Company, yesterday
agreed to buy 81, 100000 worth of the bonds
of the Valley Railroad of Virginia, to in
sure its extension from Staunton, Va, to
Lexington.
Mr.. Thurlow Weed and others in New
York who were interested in the fate of
Morgan the anti-Mason, discredit the story
that the remains found at Batavia, n Y,
were Morgan's. They think he was other
wise disposed of.
AT Decantin, Georgia. yesterday thirty
five people were poisoned by eating chicken
salad, some ingredients of which had been
cooked in II brass kettle. All suffered
severely, but the prompt arrival of medi-
cal aid prevented any deaths.
"A correspondent writes to the London
Neps that Hartman the Nihilist, is undoubt-
edly in London, and that he tried to go to
America few days ago, but after taking
passage he discovered that the steamer went
from Antwerp and was afraid to go there,
fearing arrest.
The New York grand jury has indicted
| Richard X. Fox and James MCGOWAN, of
the Police Gazette; Louis +. Post, Joseph
Hart, and Charles A. Byrne, of tho Truth !;
and Gunthcr X. Alderman, of the Star /;
for misdemeanor in publishing lottery adj
vcrtiscments,
The grand jury of the United States
District Court for the Western District OF
Virginia sitting at Danvillc, Va, yesterday
Hon. Robert W. Hughes, presiding, took up
the case of A. L. Davis, judge of election
last November, in the Presidential election,
charged with obstructing voters, and finding
the evidence on which he was sent ON by
the commissioner insufficient to sustain the
charge, ignored the indictment.
Another blackmailcr has come to grief
in New York. On Monday last Brown &
Co., dealers in notions, received II letter,
signed Charles Zollli, stating that if they
did not pay $500 within few days he
would smash up their business and then
kill them off. The firm notified the police
who succeeded in arresting Zolki as Il boy
was handing him dummy package ut the
place appointed for the meeting. The pris-
oner is twenty years old and German
cigar maker.
Thomas Garfield, IN uncle of President
Garfield, was instantly killed near Cleve-
land, Ohio, yesterday. A buggy in which
he was riding with Mrs. Alonzo Arnold, q
sister of DR.. Boynton and cousin of the
President, was struck by Il railroad train
Mrs. Arnold's skull was so badly fractured
that her life is despaired of, The buggy wa.
dragged about 200 feet before the train wa.
stopped Mr. Garfield was 80 years old. He
leaves seven children. President Garfield
and DR.. Boynton were toegraphed to n
Long Branch.
A second attempt was made at an early
hour YESTERDAY morning at Grand Haven
Mich, to lynch Vaskamp, the murderer whc
killed his employer, Lyman Cody, about {
month ago. A dozen respectable farmers o
the vicinity appeared at the Jail, over
powered the deputy sheriff and compelled
him to give them the key to the murderer
cell. They went in and secured their vic
tim. The sheriff was absent, but his wifi
was aroused by the noise, and discovering
the situation, closed the outside door, whicl
the lynching party had left unguarded, an,
imprisoned the whole party. She then sen
a servant to ring the fire alarm, whicl
called out the citizens and frustrated tn
I attempt.