The Evening critic., 1882-12-21
News Notes.

Overdank. the bomb-maker, has been
executed at Trieste.
Two slight shocks of earthquake were
felt at Panama OF Tuesday.
Bishop Benson has, il is announced, ac-
copied the Archbishopric OF Canterbury.
In the Hungarian Diet yesterday Herr
Tlsza said that the peace of Europe was In no
way threatened.
Chauncey W. Huff, cashier of the Union
Steamboat Company ut Buffalo, hos boon
missing for several days. His accounts ap
pear TO be all right.
The president and manager of the coll
lapsed Union Generate OF Paris have been
sentenced TO flye years Imprisonment and
fine Of 5000 francs each.
At Dover, N. H., yesterday afternoon,
brilliant meteor passed across tho heavens
from west to east. 1t was as brilliant as me-
teors usually are at night
In speech in England on Tuesday Mr..
Dayitt said that the crimes In Ireland which
have excited tho English mind and killed the
Land League must be swept away.
The firm of Graham & Aitken, dry
goods merchants, at No. 302 Broadway, New
York, have made an assignment. Liabilities,
$1G0,S10i nominal assets, S12S,914.
The venerable Stephen Alexander, LII.
D., emeritus professor OF astronomy at the
college of New Jersey, had his shoulder
dislocated yesterday by falling from his bed
Chief Justice Waite participated in the
formalities attending the presentation of the
Bluntschli Library by German citizens OF Bal
tlmore 10 the Johns Hopkins University last
night.
Lawrence Brosky, a watchman on the
railroad bridge at La Crosse, Wis, IN attempt
ing to board an engine on Tuesday night,
slipped and fell distance OF 223 feet, break
Ing his neck.
Mr.. Isaac Hodges, late president of the
Mississippi Valley Cane Growers Association,
and for many years prominently identified
with the sorghum interests Of the West, died
at St. Louis Tuesday at an advanced age.
| 1t was intimated in the Maryland Tenn
| perance Alliance yesterday that next fall
| candidates would appear for the Legislature,
| to secure a constitutional amendment pro.
| hibiting the manufacture and sale OF intoXt
eating liquors In that State.
DIR, Frederick II. Griffin was put on trial
| I'm Philadelphia yesterday upon charge OF
| manslaughter In having caused the death of
Ann Chinn, widow, aged 70 years, by ad-
| The defense claims that the doctor Is Insane.
The farmhouse of John Clarke, in Linn
| County, KAN, was burned on Sunday night
and three small children perished In the
| flames. Clark had removed two OF the chill
| dren and while he was searching for the
third the other two wandered back into the
| house.
George Lovery, who in 1872 murdered
| Roundsman Philip Lambrecht, In Now York
| city, and was sentenced 20 Imprisonment fol
life, escaped from Sing Sing Prison Tuesday
He placed a "dummy" In his cell and secrotet
himself till nightfall, when he crossed the
| river on the ice.
Solomon Jones, who was tried in the
County Court at Chesterfield, Va, for the muir
der Ofhis son, was acquitted. After his arres
Jones denied having murdered his son, alleg
Ing that he had boen killed bya train ON tut
Richmond Petersburg Railroad. The bod!
was subsequently found. The father will nov
bring suit against the railroad company FOL
damages.
Judge Goodwin, in the Corporation Cour
at Norfolk, Va, decided yesterday that tn,
Dismal swamp Canal Company has the right
| by virtue OF provision OF It's charter, TO holi
one or more lotteries TO raise money for TIN
purpose OF extending and Improving navlga
lion between the waters OF North Carolina ant
Virginia through Its canal. The act wa
passed In 1916.
Incendiaries attempted to burn tho tow
OF Henderson, N. o., on Tuesday night. tn
stores OF Charles Finch and James b. Phillip
and the tobacco warehouse or J.. d. x ID.
| Cooper were Het on lire, tho lattor In lou
| places, A vigilance committee OF nifty citizen
has been formed and the town Is patrolled b
| them every night. fow years ago the tow
was entirely destroyed by incendiary iires
Mrs. Walburga Wackerle, whose recon
suit In the United States Circuit Court at
Louis against the Mutual Lifo lnsuranc
Company OF New York has attracted attention
yesterday commenced a suit for 10000 dan
ages against the Ktna Life Insurance Con
| pHny and j. q. Webster, agent OF tho company
| She alleges that the insurance company, u
the purpose OF defrauding her out OF Ia
money due on her husbands policy, col
spired with certain persons 70 Induce anothe
man 70 personate her husband.
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