The Evening critic., 1883-01-30

News Notes.
Iti reported that cholera has broken out
in Calcutta.
The United States steamer Juniata has
arrived at Malta.
The project of the Paris police has been
suppressed because he refused to answer GER
tain questions concerning the Anarchists.
Placards have been posted in st. Peters.
burg warning the people to avoid localities
frequented by the court for feaI of sudden
danger.
Five colored men were drowned while
attempting to cross the Ogeechee River at
Egypt forty miles west of Savannah, Ga,
on Friday night.
A reduction of 10 per cent having been
made in the wages of the bottle blowers
of the Cohansey New Jersey glass works,
the men have stopped work.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
affirmed the judgment of $4,000 recov-
cred by Isaac Noar against the Philadelphia
d Reading Railroad on account of the kill
ing of his son by train on the Reading
road.
Maggie Donahue, aged five years, while
coasting at Lost Creek, near Shenandoah,
Pa, yesterday, plunged into an opening IN
a mine fifty feet deep, and was fatally in
jured. The opening was caused by recent
cave-in.
Walker & Co., whisky dealers at Louis
vile, KY, have made an assignment. Their
liabilities are from $4,000 to 100000 their
assets are unknown at present. The failure
is attributed to tine Congressional agitation
over the bonded period.
Fannie Donohue died yesterday in the
Onondaga On. W Penitentiary from the eff
fects of beating administered by her hus-
band, Thomas Donohue, while both were in
a cell at the station-house on january 18.
Donohue is now in the penitentiary.
AT Red Top, a negro settlement in st. An
drew's Parish Charleston County, S. c.,
yesterday, Henry Moore, colored, was stab
bed in the left breast with knife by JEFF
frey Freyer, also colored, and died from the
effects of his wound, Freyer escaped.
The majority of the bishops of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church have consented to
the consecration Of Rev. Hugh Miller
Thompson, d. d., assistant bishop of Missis-
sippi. DIR. Thompson will in all probability
accept, and his conservation will take place
as soon as the preliminaries can be ar
ranged.
Jonas Reynolds was shot and killed at
Somerset KY, yesterday, by Marshal
Hanford Reynolds became disorderly,
nolds resisted, fired at the marshal and
ran. Hansford pursued and fred till Rey-
nolds foil dead. The coroner's jury found
the killing not necessary to self-defense.
Charles Q. Staring, foreman in the West
Shore Railroad gravel-bed, shot himself
dead at the Continental Hotel, Syracuse,
N. u, last night. He entered the hotel
and registered "Chas. @. Staring, He'll, ("
handed gold ring to the clerk, asking
him TO give 1t to his wife, and without say
ing another word shot himself through the
head.
The railroad coal operators met at Pitts
burg yesterday to consider the wage scale
submitted by the miners. After some dis
cussion the scale was rejected and another
one adopted, which will be presented to
the diggers at their next convention. The
scale provides that when the selling price
Of coal is S. per hundred bushels in yard
the price of mining shall be $3.50 per hun.
dred bushels, and for every additional half
dollar in the selling price an advance of
20 cents in the miners scale shall be made