The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-09-07
News NOlea.

The Anglo-Turkish convention is to be
signed at once.
An armistice has been concluded on the
GrncoTurkish frontier.
A number of high Turkish officials are to
start for Egypt Saturday.
The Kurdish chief Obeidullah has made
his submission to the Porte.
The services of the special constables in
Dublin have been dispensed with.
The Vienna police have arrested twenty
six members OF a radical workingmen's So
ciety.
S. Taylor Suit has brought an action for
$4,000 against the Southern Maryland Rail-
road Company.
The National Fire Insurance Company of
Baltimore contemplates dissolution, after
career OF SO years.
The Presiden and party arrived in the
steamer Despatch from Newport, r. l., at
Woods Holl, Mass.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Church Of Canada began Its sittings at Hamil.
ton, Ont, yesterday.
Henry George, in "a London lecture, OPP
posed compensation 10 landlords when the
land shall all DO nationalized.
The Ocean House at Swampscott Mass.
was burned yesterday. The guests saved
their effects. Loss about 100000.
A convention of the National Union Sur
vivors OF Southern Prisons met In New York
yesterday. J.w. Merrell presided.
A convention Of delegates of the Phi Beta
KKappa Society was held at Saratoga yesterday.
Three hundred persons were sent out of
Alexandria yesterday, and many passengers
to the city were not allowed to disembark.
Tho ninth annual meeting of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union OF the
State OF New York convened In oswego, NJ. Y,
yesterday.
Francis d. Moulton has filed o bill in
equity In the United States Court against z.
Chafree, trustee, and william Sprague for pos.
session and title of Canonchet.
Francis G. Salmon, the Ascending New
York lawyer, who has been arrested In Florida,
is said TO have swindled his clients ont of
100000, the money going In Wallstreet opera
lions.
The fast mail East on the New York Gen.
trial Road struck an omnibus at Ilion, n. Y,
yesterday. Albert p. Redway, a dry goods
merchant, aged 40, was thrown one hundred
feet and killed.
General Wolseley telegraphs to London
that the Egyptians reconnoitered the English
position at kassassin yesterday, and mus
kerry tlro was exchanged with them. No adj
vance is expected before the 9th Inst
Herman Hagor, Of Philadelphia, Ger
man baker, died at police station there yes
found In the street in an unconscious condi.
tion. II is believed that domesti: difficulties
led him to commit suicide.
Three young men have discovered a gold
piece Of the ore weighing two pounds contains
$3.50. shaft has been sunk seven feet to the
vein, which is three feet wide. A ton OF such
ore would DO worth 100000.
The fifty-eighth annual convention oil
the Chipht Fraternity met at Atlanta, Ca, yes
terday, with sixty delegates. The following
officers were elected Henry d. Grady, OF AT
lanta, grand alpha; II. Stockbridge, OF Balti
more, grand gamma; L, Nj, Fine. OF Easton
Pa, grand delta.
At the session of tho Grand Lodge of REQ
Men, at Boston yesterday, the following ON
GERS were elected Grand Chief Powhatan
William jacket, OF Philadelphia; vlce-granc
chief, August FRANKIE, OF Boston; Junior vice
grand chief, August Schneider, Newark, NJ j.
high priest Lothire Naumann, of Chicago
grand secretary, s. W. Goodman, of Phiiadel
phia; grand treasurer, Martin Wetzel, OF Bal
timore. Tho next convention will take plac
at Baltimore.
The Grand Legion Knights of A.. o. U
W. for New York and Pennsylvania, held thel
annual session at Lockport, N. ", Tuesday
There was q grand parade In the afternoon
The following officers were elected for the on
suing year; r. a. sehoefrel, OF Rochester, gran
commhnueri W. Il. Locke, OF Buffalo, gran
ylce-commanderi A. Il. Smith, of Plttsburp
grand neulenant-commander Geo. Schwinger
Lockport grand treasurer.
There were 40 new cases and two death
Cd6xlcans) at Brownsville during the . hour
ended yesterday. The foyer is under CON
pleto control OF the physicians. The sanltarr
measures are as perfect as they can be, an
plenty OF contributions to supply the wants 4
Tho sick ok and needy are lowing in from a
100 cases OF fever ell told, and there were tw
deaths In the last "a hours. There are thre
now cases at Fort Brown. No new cases ar
reported at Pensacola, ana but one death.