The Evening critic., 1882-10-18
News Notes.

Frenchmen and African laborers are about
to begin a railroad between the Niger and
Senegal rivers.
1t is estimated that Great Britain will
require 15,5OO,OOO quarters OF wheat from
abroad from September 1.
The execution of the leaders of the Egyp.
tian rebellion is 1t ia reported, demanded by
the public sentiment In Alexandria.
1t is reported that the authorities of the
Suez Canal have prohibited the employment OF
laborers who worked for the British forces.
In the Vermont House of Representatives
yesterday q bill was introduced providing that
prisoners shall be made insensible by the au-
thorities before execution.
Lewis Barney, colored was shot and in
stantly killed last night by Lewis Dunn, alias
Dummy Black, colored, In the saloon OF James
Grimm, at Eutaw and Dover streets, Baltimore.
The fastest long run by railway ever made
west OF Chicago was that by the burlington
party from Burlington TO Chicago-2O7 miles
at the average rate OF 80 miles per hour.
The American Public Health Association
began It's tenth annual session at indianapolis
Yesterday. DR.. Albert L. ellison, OF Washing
ton, presented report on the proposed estab-
lishment OF n national museum OF hygiene.
At Lexington, KY, Monday night John
and Richard Travis, cousins, who have been
Lying together, got drunk and qIerreled.
few hours afterwards. The murderer escaped.
Daniel Brewton, 40 years old, of Phila.
delphia, made an unsuccessful attempt TO cut
his throat with piece OF glass yesterday. He
was for number OF years a conductor on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Rail
road.
Hon. w. G. Depaw, of New Albany, Ind,
has condltionally made a donation OF $4,000
and will arrange in his Will for further on.
dowment The whole amount OF the gifts will
be about 81 100000.
Mr.. J. b. Brown has resigned the presi-
dency OF the Western Indiana Railroad and Belt
Line, and has sold his interest In the road,
which is now owned by the Grand Trunk, tho
Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Wabash, the
chicago-Atlantic, and the Louisville, New AL
bany and Chicago Railroad Companies.
A monument to the Union dead, erected
In ohalmette Cemetery, New Orleans, by
Joseph A. Mower Post, O.. A. r., was last night
formally presented TO the United States, Gem
eral Badger representing the post, and Colonel
Z. j. Strong, detailed by tho War Department
for the purpose, representing the Govern
ment.
John II. Cook, editor of the Red Bank IN.
J.) Register, and William j. Kellet and Henry
Clay, reporters, have been indicted for sending
false reports OF the prevalence OF typhoid fe-
YER at Red Bank TO the New York newspapers.
1t is charged that these false reports nearly
ruined several OF the proprietors OF summer
boarding.houses.
A broken rail on the Indiana. Blooming
ton Western Railway, near Sandusky, Ohio
yesterday threw passenger car on the track
and pretty severely injured VIM. Horace Lin
gard, Alice Dunning Lingard, Miss Ashley,
Miss Androws, Miss Frances and Fred. Cor,
bolt, OF the Lingard troupe, NJ. A. Jacobi, OF
Cincinnati II: j.. Weber, OF Columbus; d. E.
Hewett, OF Philadelphia; A. X. Smith, OF New
York, and Conductor Thomas Kinds, OF San
dusky.
At the annual meeting of the Western
Associated Press at Detroit, Mich, yesterday,
the following officers were elected President
Joseph Medill, OF the Chicago Tribune, Vice,
president, W. w. Armstrong, OF the Cleveland
Pldindeaierj secretary, II. L. Baker, OF tho De-
troit I0st and Tribune; executive committee,
Messrs. Smith, Haldeman and Nixon; general
agent, william Henry Smith, Of Chicago. The
annual reports chow about 100000 spent In
the past year In collecting and distributing
news. N