The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-07-15
Summary of Morning News.

The Garfield fund yesterday reached
$143, 1904.
1t is believed that the Car will par
don Hessy Hoffman.
The Car and Czarina have returned o
st. Petersburg without ceremony.
Jared Parkhurst, one of BaltimOre's
Oldest merchants, is dead, aged S3.
--Midhat Pasha has confessed that he was
accessory to the murder of Abdul Aziz.
=, Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, makes
his headquarters on gunboat on the Dan
ube.
> The American Colony in Paris is pre-
pairing an address of sympathy to tho Presi-
dent.
b Justice Clifford, of the U. s. Supreme
Court, has had his foot amputated for gan
creme. aC rr2-Cy "a
Paris celebrated her national fctc, the
fall of the Bastile, yesterday with imposing
ceremonies. na
Charlie, f. Kring, who was to havcb
hanged at st. Louis to-day has been granted
stay of execution. q g; -
"A meeting was held in London last
night to protest against the exclusion of
Bradlaugh from Parliament. d We
Yesterday was observed by the people
of kentucky and Arkansas as day of fast
ing and prayer for the Presidents recovery.
Tho anniversary of the capture of the
Bastilc was very generally celebrated by
French residents of American cities ycster-
day.
Tho Siberian plague is spreading
through Russia with alarming rapidity.
Horses are dying by scores and many per-
sons are affected.
Josephine Berthond, aged 10, daughter
NJ a vaalthu pturar Of Milfprl. Pa
has eloped with one of her fathers work
men named Rose.
The widow of Lieut.. Hiram III. Benncr,
who lost his life while aiding yellow-ieyer
sufferers, complains that she has not re-
ceived all the sums raised for her relief.
"A steamer has arrived in the river
Thames from the Clyde, which is steered by
an electric apparatus. The steering gear
worked WELL but the compasses were SO af-
fected by the electricity as to be useless.
Mr. Gladstone, in the House of Com
mons last night theoretically attacked the
y Home Rulers for their persistent and sys-
tematic obstruction, and was loudly
cheered.
Allen Rutherford, lately employed in the
city stables Of Toronto, Canada, has been
informed by letter from Scotland that he Is
Earl of Teviot, and master of rent-roll OF
1roO,UVo per uhhuih'
Robert Kane, aged 10, was drowned at
Rockland, Me-, yesterday, by Jonathan
Gross and Jacob Richards, aged respectively
12 and 10, in order that they might possess
themselves of twenty-five cents which
Kane had about him.
Yesterday the diplomatic body accred
tied to the Vatican went to the Vatican by
express invitation from the Pope, who ad
dressed them in an oral protest in regard t.
the disturbances during tho removal of the
remains of Plus TX. Mgr. Jacobini, papa
secretary of state, has sent similar protest
to the papal nuncios abroad.
In the House of Commons yesterday
Mr.. Trcyelyn, secretary of the Admiralty
in reply to Sir John Hay Liberal Conserya'
tive), said there were nine French iron
cads on the African coast, six of which
were of the first class; that Admiral Sey
mour has six iron-clads in the Mediterra
i. mean, which were quite sufficient to cop'
with the French nine [cheers.l; that Eng
AR tbas besides in the channel squadron
DRESS G,p-clads and nine coast-guard ships
at DDS as though England was prepar
MID Oontest with France.
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