The Evening critic., 1883-04-24
News Notes.

Eight hundred Irish emigrants arrived at
Boston yesterday.
Nearly all the saloon keepers of Hyde
Perk, Pa have been refused renewal Of
license.
Timothy Kelly, the alleged Phoenix
Park murderer, was placed on his second trial
yesterday.
The circus men who were wounded in the
late riot in Delaware were taken to Baltimore
yesterday.
The arrangements for the international
rife match between tho United States and
England have come to a temporary hitch.
The anniversary of Shakspeare's birth
was celebrated In Baltimore yesterday by the
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.
In the House of Commons Mr.. Bourke
said he should ask the Government II steps
have been taken at Washington relative to
conspiracfes against England.
Fred Bean, sent to the West Virginia
Penitentiary from Hardy County for life for
the murder of Henry Wilburn, has been par
doned by Governor Jackson. He had served
seven years.
1t is said that prisoner in Kilmainham
jail has given important Information regard
ing certain Dublin murders. The English
Government is said to have received valuable
information as to the Fenlan organizations.
The steamer Scandinavian, which has
Just sailed from Moville for Quebec and Mon.
treal, took 2S5 emigrants from County Mayo.
It is stated that 10000 persons In Galway
nave GpDlleu 10 Lle uONernIuenL IOt ASSISTANCE
to enable them TO reach America.
Fifty-fve infantry companies, five
batteries OF artillery and several noted mlll-
tary bands of music from different parts of
the United States have entered for a com.
petitive drill at Nashville, Tenn., on May 81
The military Will be encamped on an elevated
plain, two miles west of the city, In tents.
Near Murfreesboro, on Sunday, Wat Ran
som shot and Instantly killed his cousin, VIM.
Ransom, a deputy sheriff, I'm q quarrel over a
gamo OF cards and iied instantly on horseback.
The parties had been shooting at u mark, and
Wat claims that he thought all the barrels of
his pistol were empty, and that he merely In
tended to snap the weapon at his cousin.
In the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
yesterday the Judgment of the Luzerne
County Court In the case OF w. W. Scranton,
who obtained verdict OF $1,4f1.6O against
Aaron A. Chase, editor of the Scranton Daily
Times for libel, was affirmed. The libelous
article was published in August, 1873, on the
subject OF a division of Luzerne County. 1t
charged Mr.. Scranton with murder, growing
out OF his participation In the Scranton riots.
The twenty-frst annual reunion of the
Farragut Veteran Association Will be held at
Grand Army Hall, Philadelphia, on Wednes-
guests are Secretary Chandler, Admiral
Porter, Rear-Admiral Boggs, Loyal Farra-
gut, son OF the late Admiral, Captain d. s.
Osbon, ex signal oflicer of the Farragut feet,
and number OF other distinguished persons.
In Philadelphia yesterday Catharine
Burneson, who was charged with murder, In
having caused the death OF Maggie Curlett,
aged years, by shooting her In January last,
pleaded guilty upon the advice of counsel.
The little girl, with number OF other chill
dren, had gathered In front OF Miss Burne-
sons house for the purpose OF annoying her,
WhereupOn Mics Burneson, becoming irrl-
tated, fred pistol out of a window and killed
the child. Sentence was deferred.
An ingenious swindle with bogus certi-
fed checks was developed at Worcester, Mass,
yesterday. man calling himself Henry
Klein, commercial traveller, has passed
ton, Del; Steubenyille, Ohio, and Hartford
signed Louis Roth & Co., and certified across
tho face with 80. X. II properly presented,
Waite, cashier" In ink over "Birst National
Bank, Worcester" In a rubber stamp. The
checks were sent to Worcester for collection,
where the certincation was pronounced 70 be
a fraud, EYu