The Evening critic., 1883-02-20

Mr.. James K. Keene is reported to have
made S2,O00,OOO on Wall street In the last ten
weeks.
The Imperial Bank of Germany will
shortly open q clearing house similar to that
In London.
Mary Duffy, aged 70 years, was burned to
death at Newark, N. j., yesterday by the ex-
plosion of a kerosene lamp.
AT Detroit, Mich, Francis Wardell,
special pension agent, who was found guilty of
forging the name of Pension Agent Post, of
Detroit, was yesterday sentenced TO four years
In the House OF Correction.
At II o'clock last night the Ohio River
at Cincinnati stood at 5S feet inches Bust
ness is being resumed. The Mississippi Is
rising at Cairo. The ice is passing out OF the
susquehanna, and the river is falling at most
points.
The damages to the United States moni-
tor Ajax, run into on Saturday morning In the
James River by the steamer Guyandotte, are
about $4,000. Tho Guyandotte's damages are
about the same. The Ajax is now anchored at
City Point.
Judge Ingraham, in the New York Su.
perior Court, yesterday denied the application
OF SAlmi MSrse for mandamus 10 compel
Mayor Edson to grant him license for his
"Passion Play"
William TrueblOod Hardy, the man who
on Sunday shot at and wounded boy In New
| York who was snowballing him, and who
claims to be a lawyer from North Carolina,
was yesterday pronounced insane by the
| Tombs physician.
A committee of the North Carolina Leg
| islature, on Its return from inspecting the In.
| sane asylums al Morgantown, in a special
train, met with railroad accident yesterday
near Hickory. Senator Whitford and Repre-.
| sentative Cowen were injured.
The committee of the New Jersey House
| OF Representatives, TO which the proposed pro-
hlbitory amendment to the State constitution
was referred, submitted two reports last
night. The majority report favors submit
ting the amendment to vote Of the people.
A bill to punish drunkenness, which has
passed the Alabama Legislature, imposes a
penalty on persons drunk and disOrderly In
any public place of small fine for the first
| prisonment for the third, and gives jurisdic-
lion OF such cases to justices Of the peace.
In the Court of Chancery at Chicago yes
| terday Judge Blodgett granted an application
| OF me western Union Telegraph against the
arnGiorporators OF the new Western Union
Ielesraph Company OF Illinois, restraining
| me new company from taking any steps under
| gality.
Mr.: J. J. G. Wall, who is associated with
| u. - Grant, 1rn and General John b. Gordon
| In the Belmont coal mines of Alabama' and
who has been the superintendent for yea-s
| committed suicide ON Thursday by drowning
himself. hhiimsell IN the Iennessee. The fact was not
discovered until Sunday, when a letter was
received by friend In which he communi.
| Gated his purpose. 1t s thought thai losses
| by speculation led TO the deed.
The New York Produce Exchange reports
| subscriptions for tho relief Of the sufferers
! by the Hoods In the Western rivers 10 the
| amount Of S7,482 The New York Cotton Ex
| change has collected $4,000. Tho standard
| OIL Company contributed $1,000. subscrip.
tions amounting to nearly $1,000 were re.
| ported by the committee appointed by Mayor
| King In Philadelphia, 81 900 being from Ne
e. W. Childs and $1,000 from Drexel L Co.