The Evening critic., 1883-03-12

The funeral of Michael McGloin, who
was hanged in New York on Friday, took place
yesterday.
A house was carried away by the flood
at Helena, Ark, yesterday and four children
were drowned.
A reading club of German students in
Vienna has been closed by the authorities for
political reasons.
The German Government has forbidden
the Introduction into Germany OF the Vienna
Allegewelne Zeitung.
The number of deaths in Baltimore last
week was 1885, an increase OF 1S over the cor.
responding week OF 1882.
The jury in the Dukes-Nutt murder case
was secured at Uniontown, Pa, Saturday.
The taking OF testimony VIII commence to-
day.
drunken man in Hall County, Ca,
named Herring, Saturday poured a shovel Of
hot Goals on his infant child and burned 1t to
death.
DR.. Fillmore D. Bagley, a prominent New
prominent Methodist minister, of the same
city, died Saturday.
The body of the late Bishop John Quin-
Ian arriged At Mobile Saturday. It will lie in
the funeral Will take place.
The principal coke furnaces of Alabama
and Tennessee have advanced the prices OF all
grades OF pig-iron from so cents to 81 per ton
above the figures OF the past three weeks.
Mayor Edison, of New York, offers the
Governors room In the City Hall for the recep.
tion OF John Howard Paynes remains, which
are expected by the Burgundia next Thurs.
day.
Both mines of the Georges Creek Coal
and Iron Company at Homecoming, which
have been working slack for some time past,
started Saturday to work to their full
capacity.
Major Edward d. Muhlenberg, late of the
Fourth Artillery, United States Army, died on
n Iancastar af
He was q graduate OF Yale College and civil
engineer Of eminence.
At Chelsea, Pa, Saturday, the jury in the
case OF Samuel CAST, the cancer doctor, charged
with manslaughter, in having caused the
death OF Mrs. James Armstrong, whom he
treated for cancer, returned verdict OF not
guilty.
A New York policeman recently received
pay for time lost during sickness. About
eighty other policemen have put In applica.
tions for similar compensation. Collision
between patrolmen and police surgeons is
charged.
mitted suicide Saturday afternoon ON a pas
senger train on the West Jersey Railroad, by
cutting his throat. He had been despondent
for some time because OF unsuccessful busl-
| ness transactions.
In Philadelphia, Saturday. Thomas
| Maher, jr., Isaac L. Street and Joseph Myers,
| convicted OF making fraudulent return as
election officers, were each sentenced to three
|
franchised for period OF four years.
| Socialists undertook yesterday to meet
| In the streets OF Paris, bur they we're disband-
| ed by the police after they had engaged in q
Tree light. Nineteen persons arrested In the
| riot on Friday last have been sentenced to
imprisonment. 1t is reported that Louise
Michel VIII be arrested also.
Hood G. Scott's lodging she'll at the
Brownville wood camp, at the terminus of the
Black Hills a. Fort Pierre Railroad, Dakota,
was burned at midnight Saturday night,
James Chalmere, Thomas Finloss, II, q.
Wright, Lewis Hanson, Peter Hanson, A. Ten
necline, Harvey Wood, W. II. Andrews, Charles
Hammontree, Fred. II. Peters and samuel
Hayes were burned to death. -Four others,
whose names wore not learned, were seriously
injured.
A mass convention of the first district
Amalgamated Association OF Iron and Steel
Workers, at Pittsburg, Saturday, elected 16
delegates 10 the national convention, which is
TO be held there on April z. From an unofi-
clal source Il Is learned that the hnishers at
the convention will propose plan whereby
| their wages Will be Increased about 15 per
cent. II this proposition Is carried and a
strike ensues, the puddler ana muck.roilers
will withdraw from the association. The
firms belonging TO the Philadelphia Rolling.
Mill Association say that they anticipate no
| trouble when the new scale, adopted at their
last meeting, shall be put into effect to-day.