The Evening critic., 1882-04-08

The fund of the London Mansion House
committee for the persecuted Russian He
brews amounts to 100000.
Another dynamite mine has been dis
covered beneath the Nicholai Railway near
Moscow. A number Of arrests have been made.
Judge Dexter, yesterday, in Elmira,
N. Y, granted an injunction restraining the
directors of the Utica, Ithaca Elmlra Rail-
road from leasing the road.
The State Executive Committee of the
Woman's Suffrage party In New York Will
memorabilia Congress against the admission
OF Dakota while Its women are disfranchised.
The Temperance mon of Boston have
nominated Mr.. Shreve Hartshorne and the
Republicans Mr.. Israel Lacy for Mayor, but
the latter has declined the nomination. The
Democrats have not as yet made their nomi-
nation.
About one. half of the striking laborers
at the weehawken tunnel, N. j., resumed
work yesterday at the old rates. The places
OF a majority OF tho other strikers have been
flled with Italians. No further trouble is
anticipated.
The steamer c. N. Davis, en- route to the
Tennessee River, with 1000 bags OF corn, sunk
yesterday morning mile below Mt. Vernon,
Ind, In eighteen feet OF water. No lives were
lost. 1t is thought the steamer can be raised.
She was valued at $4,000, and insured In
louisville for $4,000.
A dispatch from Cracow, Austria, states
that grave apprehensions are felt In Warsaw
OF another outbreak against the Hebrews.
Placards have been posted threatening them,
and they are In state OF great terror. The
Russian Government Is taking precautions to
prevent a renewal OF tho disturbances.
A Franklin la dispatch says the water
has risen 2i1 inches in the last twenty-four
hours, ending at o p. m. last evening. Yester-
day morning the water was running In the
upper limits OF the town, threatening inunda-
tion, The citizens turned out and built a
mile Of levee, thus preventing immediate
danger.
Yesterday morning at an early hour
Joseph Hess, German saloon-keeper Of Allie
gheny City, Pa, deliberately killed his wife
and then attempted suicide. When found he
revolver In his hand, evidently with the In
tention OF committing suicide. He was dis
armed and taken 10 the watchhouse.
Frederick Maikles. of Pittsburg, Pa, was
robbed Thursday night OF a satchel, which he
claims contained 100000 in mining stocks,
while on an eastern-bound passenger train on
the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railway.
Tho thlef, blind man named Davis, was
caught at La Sale, H., burning the securities,
$4,000 OF which he had destroyed In that
way.
Considerable excitement was created at
Milwaukee,, Wis, yesterday morning by the
fact that the workmen In factories which do
not employ union men received anonymous
communications with rough engraving OF a
sentation the word " scab." The communIca.
tions are considered as threats Of bodily harm
10 non-union men.
The new comet will be visible to the
naked eye In about two weeks, Just after mid
night, and Will remain IN sight until dawn
About o'clock In the morning It Will be seer
about halfway up to the zenith In the con
steilatiOn of Lyrai and near Vega, the bright
est morning star In that part OF the sky, The
comet Is travelling about north-northeast, a
the rate Of about a million OF miles day. 1
viii approach within S0,OOO,OOO miles OF TN
earth. 1t Is an unusually large comet, but l
will be seen 10 its best advantage only In th'
S0uthern hemisphere. The comet OF 1917 L
expected to follow this.