The Evening critic., 1882-11-07
News Notes.

Mr.. Parnell is in i'll health.
The Governor and Secretary of the State
of Tabasco, Mexico. have been murdered.
The Prince of Wales will act as chair
man Of the Longfellow Memorial Committee.
American filibusters are taking an tier
est In the Cuban leaders imprisoned In
Madrid.
Mr.. Robert Garrett denies that the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company has taken
any part in the political contest.
Gustav Westfelt, aged 33 years, who was
to have been married last evening, was
drowned yesterday morning from Broadway,
Baltimore, ferry steamer
Mrs. Mary Isabella Martin, who has been
on trial at Emporia, Kansas, for several days
on charge OF poisoning Mrs. Krleger, was
yesterday convicted OF murder In the first de-
gree.
Lord Randolph Churchill says that the
government will only succeed by n small
majority in defeating Sir stafford Northcote's
resolution for tho rejection of the cloture
resolution.
The checker tournament at Boston be-
tween Wyllio and Barker closed last night.
Fifty games were played in all, OF which each
contestant won single game and the others
were drawn.
Henry @. Leimkuhler, an engineer in
the New Orleans Fire Department, while on
the rear OF his engine going TO a flre last
night, was thrown or by a sudden turn, and
was run over and killed by hook and ladder
A mandate from Monseigneur Fabre pre-
vents priests In Ontario from administering
York GoVier des Etats tnis, a French daily
newspaper, which has large circulation In
that province. II is alleged that a French
serial published in the paper is Of an immoral
tendency.
The annual meeting of the general mis-
sionary committee OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church was begun In New York city yester-
day. In the past year the decrease OF liabili
ties was $29,313; the receipts for the year
ended October 81, 1882, showed an Increase OF
s66,OO2 over those OF 1881, when the proceeds
amounted TO 1926, 1858. The appropriations
made this year will amount 10 s7l6,000,
against 100000 for last year.
The Lowell (Mass.) telephone syndicate,
which controls 1900 telephones In Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, lex.
cept Boston and Southern Massachusetts) and
three counties IN New York, including Sara
phone Company, capital 100000, inclad.
Ing Brooklyn, and the New Jersey,Telephone
Company, capital $l,2oo,0o0, Including the
State, except Newark and Camden.
The grand jury of the Hastings Court
has Indicted John Henry Johnston, Mayor OF
Danville, Va, for the murder OF John T..
Hatcher, formerly chief OF police. There had
20 the disposal made OF certain fines, and at a
casual meeting on December o Johnston shot
Hatcher through the body with a pistol
Hatcher died two days later. johnson was
also indicted for carrying concealed weapons.
William Henry Cameron, a shareholder
in the Mutual Union Telegraph Company, has
brought suit against that company and John
q. Moore, II. O. Fahnestock and others in tho
New York Superior Court to compel the syndl-
cate by which tho limos OF the company were
constructed to account for $14,000,000 OF tho
shares OF stock and bonds issued In payment
therefor. He charges that the work only cost
$30O0,OO0; that tho bonds Issued TO the syn.
dicate more than covered this sum, and that
they received $0,OOO,OO0 In stock, without
consideration to the company.
THE State Treasurer of Kentucky, Hon
Richard Tate, on a late occasion was Severely
burned about the hands and face by an oxpl0
sion OF gns In his once. He used 81. Jacobs
OIL with the happiest effect.