Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-18

Ice cutting was begun in Massachusetts, Sat-
urday. The prospects are that the crop will lie
large.
The ten Brooklyn aldermen who were i'm
prisoned for contempt of court were released
from Jail yesterday morning.
The Sunday Item, announces that Mr. Fred
Gerhard arrived in Philadelphia at late hour
Saturday night. Mrs. Langtry plays there this
week.
Sarah Rear, aged 49, governess in the fam
lily OF Major Chapman. at San Francisco, COM
mltted suicide last Friday night by taking pOis
on. She received sharp reproOf from her mis-
tress Thursday, and this is the only assignable
cause of her suicide.
Schedules In the assignment for the benefit Of
creditors ofthe firm Of Barnett. Bach & Co., Of
New York, show the liabilities to be S48, 474 and
actual assets S22. 461.
Dennis Donovan, the champion fifty mile Pc
destrian of America is fatally ill with erysipelas
In the head at his home in Natick, Mass.
A case believed to be genuine leprosy has de-
veloped in the almshouse at Salem, Mass. The
patient Is Charles Derby, who arrived from San
Francisco week ago.
A steer escaped from a drove in the neigh
borhood OF Central Park. New York, on Satur-
day evening and tossed two men before he was
lassoed and shot.
The expert accountants who have been exam
lining the books of the Brooklyn board OF edu-
cation find that ex-Secretary Stuart Is q de-
special from Augusta Me. saws: ''The Hon.
Lott NJ. Morrill, is growing weaker He ex-
presses desire to live to see his daughters who
are on their way from Europe and are expected
every hour at New York"
George r. Sims, of Indianapolis Ind. was ar
ralgned at Chicago tor cOnspiring with Chief
Pension Clerk Terrell to fraudently raise money
on pension papers. No defense was offered and
he was found guilty. He will be sentenced to-
day.
young son of Rev. T. G. Gardner, of Allen
town. Pa fell while skating and fractured his
skull, killing himself.
The British bark Langrgg Hall, from Liver
pool, struck on Tuskar rock, off the coast of
Wexford. Ireland. Twenty-four of the crew
were drowned, only two were saved.
The penal code was a dead letter in New
York yesterday. Persons who engaged in bust
ness were not interfered with by the police.
Joseph Crawford. an actor of the Theater Com
ique, at Minneapolis, MIMI. was taken sick on
Monday last, and the city physicians pronounced
and the actors and employees, numbering forty
five persons, were placed under quarantine.
In Leadville. (Col.) dance-house yesterday
two men named Miller and Cummings quarreled
about paying for drink. Both drew pistols
| and commenced firing. Cummings and a locker
on named Rearick, from Victoria, ILL.,, were
fatally wounded.
cOlOred man entered the store of John
Wright. near Memphis, Tenn, Saturday. and
demanded of Mrs Wright, who was temporarily
in charge of the store, the money that was in
the drawer She refused to give it up, and the
robber thereupon shot her in presence Of her
little daughter, robbed the store and made his
escape.
The postoff1ce at Monroeton, Bradford county,
Pa. was burgiarized early Saturday morning
The safe was blown open and several hundred
dollars in stamps were taken, together with
some registered letters Postmaster d. J..
Sweet also lost $500 in money and some valua-
BILE papers. The indications are that the work
was done by professional cracksmen.
pouch at the post office. containing mail
matter for the East, suddenly burst into flames
from spontaneous combustion, at Detroit, on
Saturday, and was destroyed. 1t was filed with
merchandise of all sorts.
The gross receipts at the Globe Theater, Bos-
ton. during Mrs. Langtry's two weeks engage
ment, which terminated Saturday night, were
500, 74S.
Bishop Ireland. OF st. Paul, Minn., has issued
an edict prohibiting Roman Catholics from act
ing as saloon keepers