The Evening critic., 1882-12-05
News Notes.

The Sultan is said to be in a state of
panic.
By railroad accident in Australia fifty
persons were injured.
France will, it is said, uphold her treaty
Of 1868 with Madagascar.
There were forty-two deaths from diph.
liberia In Philadelphia last week.
John 9, s. Robertson, prominent physi.
clan and Mason OF the thirty.thlrd degree, of
Paterson, N, j., died Sunday.
A report has reached Memphis that COL
onel W. II. II. Tilson WAS killed ut Baldwin,
Mise, yesterday, by L. Saunders.
Mrs. John Small. while walking with
her husband In Jersey City yesterday, sud-
denly dropped to the sidewalk and died.
Wages were reduced from 10 TO % per
cont. at the Albany IN. W lion Works, the em-
ployes, several thousand In number, accepting
the now scale.
The special committee on standard
policy, appointed by the National Convention
of Insurance Commissioners, met in New York
yesterday in secret session.
Morris buchanan, u Russian Hebrew refl.
gee, hanged himself In the hall OF a board
ing'house, In New York, yesterday, because
he could not find employment.
James Cavanaugh, who was bitten by
dog about year ago, died In Philadelphia
yesterday OF hydrophobla. He first showed
symptoms OF the disease on Friday last.
The property Of @. S. &c J. 7. Jones, pro-
prietors OF tho Calcutta Cotton Mills, near
Philadelphia, was levied on yesterday to
satisfy judgments amounting to S3S9,0i1.
Joseph Weber, for many years editor and
publisher OF the NOTths1n AdUOcdte, at Clare
mont, N. H., died on Sunday evening while
attending prayer'meeting AT the Methodist
Church.
Mrs. M. b. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. j.,
widow OF the Inventor OF the Stevens battery,
heads tho subscription list for new chapel
for 81. Pauls school, In Concord, N. H., with
| $4,000.
Notice was given at ST.. Louis Yesterday
that after December freight rates to all points
| In Gould Southwestern system In Texas aud
Louisiana VIII be reduced to an average OF 20
per cent.
| At Buffalo, N. Y, yesterday, Mahoney
and Grelf, laborere, quarreled, and Mahoney
| gave Grelf severe beating. Mahoney subse-
| quently struck Grief with a hammer and
| killed him.
Il. Taylor manager of the Western
| Union Telegraph Office at Frankfort, KY, and
| Frank Montgomery, manager OF the telephone
| company, had a shooting AFFAIR yesterday In
| which both were wounded.
| The funeral of Hon. ]. r. UpdegraT
| member OF Congress from the Seventeenth
Ohio District, took place yesterday from the
| Friends Meeting House at Mount Pleasant.
| Business was entirely suspended while the
| services were In progress.
| Michael Nsbet, supreme commander OF
the supreme Council, American Legion OF
| Honor, has made affidavit charging John
| O'Grady, a member OF tho, Philadelphia bar,
| and Robert, william and Margaret Cunning
ham, with entering into a conspiracy to de-
| fraud that ordor.
| At meeting of the New York Commits
sloners OF Emigration yesterday II was agreed
| between them and the railroad representa-,
| tlyes that superintendent jackson should
| supervise the sale OF Now York Central, Erie,
| Baltimore x ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad
| emlgrant tickets I'm Castle Garden.
The New York SUNDAY Leogue' was
Incorporated AT Albany Yesterday. The oblec
| Of the association 10 % enforce tho Sunday
| lave. Ono hundred and thirty-one persona
were arrested for violating the provisions Of
the new penal code In Kew York on Sunday
and nineteen liquor DEALERS for violating
tho exciAe law.