The Evening critic., 1883-06-13
Pith of the Morning News.

The session of the Reichstag was closed
yesterday.
DIR. Adolph Richter, a we'll known Balti-
more druggist, is dead.
Famine is reported to exist in the Kurdish
districts Of Asia Minor.
A tornado swept over Clarendon, Pa, last
night, demollshing eighty-six large oll.rlgs
and five buildings.
An order has been passed in the Dominion
Council placing silver and German silver in
sheets on the free list.
The helpers at the Penn Iron Works,
Lancaster, Pa, struck yesterday for an In
crease OF five cents per heat.
The will of the late Chief Justice Shars-
wood was admitted to probate In Philadelphia
on Monday. The estate is valued at $780,.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the
Grand Orange Lodge of the United States is
being held at Pittsburg. Abou, 60 delegates
are present. 20.
The Massachusetts State Board of Health,
Lunacy and Charity yesterday elected DR.. O.
Irving Fisher as superintendent of Tewksbury
Almshouse.
Mrs. Julia Wheeler hanged herself in her
orchard, near Bridgeport, Ala, Saturday, on
account OF the death OF her husband. She
leaves six small children.
Hon. F. c. Morehead was yesterday
elected commissioner-general of the worl is
Industrial and cotton centennial exposition to
be held In New Orleans in 1884.
Only about So, $50 has been raised toward
defraying the expenses OF the American Rifle
Team at the International match. The min
tmum amount required is $4,000.
DR.. John B. Manning, who was divorced
from his wife in Brooklyn, N. Y, and thereby
Lost $4,000, committed suicide In Cambridge,
Mass, Monday, by shooting himself.
Professor Hastings, of the Johns Hop
kins University, who went to the South Pa
cifc to observe the eclipse, arrived in San
Francisco yesterday. The operations were
successful.
There is much interest in Berlin in the
secret conferences between the German
IT, CHINA ana the the Minister 81
reported in Paris that the negotiations be-
tween France and China are progressing favor
ably.
Joseph Goldsmith, aged II, committed
ness and the reading of light literature caused
melancholy, which is supposed to have I'M
PEELED him TO the deed.
Hester Ann Lomax, a bright mulatto,
was placed In 1ail at Annapolis yesterday
Brown In the killing of her husband, Henry
Toward Lomax, at Rhode River, Anne Arundel
County, q short time ago.
The Harvard faculty have decided OF set
apart for graduate students next year four
scholarships Of the value of at least $3.50 each,
open for candidates for the degree Of Phi. D..
who need pecuniary assistance and have been
in residence at the University throughout the
year.
The joint special committee of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature on prorogation, despite
the Governors statement that he would coun-
tenance no request on the subject, met yes.
terday and decided to ask the Governor to pro.
rogue the Legislature until August 81.
The Chicago Farmers Reuiew, in its sum-
mary OF crop reports, based on reports from
California, Tennessee, Kentucky and North
| western States, says there is little or no
change in winter wheat; II any, for the
worse. Spring wheat looks we'll and grows
| finely. Oats are improving and promise fine
crop. The first planting Of corn is poor, but
the second is coming on better.
The bronze statue known as "The Still
Hunt" representing crouching panther
about to spring on its prey, was unveiled In
Central Park, New York, yesterday. There
were no ceremonies. The statue is the work
or Edward Kemeys, and was given to the park
by twelve gentlemen, who do not wish their
names to ba made public.
The city of Beloit, Wis, was struck by a
| cyclone on Monday evening and number OF
| houses were damaged. One man was killed
| and several wounded. The Northwestern
| Railway bridge was blown down and the ma.
| chinery room OF the Rock River paper mills
| completely wrecked, A freight train on the
| Northwestern Railway, near Elmo, was picked
| up bodily, excent the engine, and lifted from
| the track. William Gleason was seriously and
| slightly hurt. Great damage was done by o
| wind storm In Dickinson and Clay Counties,
| Kansas, on Monday night. Thirteen building:
| were blown down, and a little child was killed
| The small village OF Industry, in Clay County
| was almost entirely destroyed.