The Evening critic., 1883-06-05
pitb of the morning news.

DIR. William Howard, aged 81, died in
Baltimore yesterday.
At Hagerstown, Md, yesterday, John
McCusker was convicted OF the murder Of Abe
Bishop.
At Louisville yesterday the winners were
Farragut Lord Raglan, Roy 8. Cluke, Bassett
and Billy Gilmore.
Judge Locke has commenced suit for $780,
600 damages against the owners of the Key
West Fla) Democrat for libel.
A meeting of the Suez Canal Company
was held in Paris yesterday, and the new pro-
iect Of a second canal was discussed.
Fetes and banquets continue in Moscow,
and plots against the peace OF the empire con-
tinue to be reported from st. Petersburg.
General Grant and party, in a special car,
left Louisville, KY, yesterday, en- route for
White Sulphur Springs, Richmond, Newport
News and Fort Monroe.
The tin-plate manufacturers of the
United States met at Pittsburg yesterday and
organized the American in-Plate Association,
to develop the tin'plate industry.
There has been great reduction in the
price Of iron ore at the mines in the vicinity OF
have been reduced to rs cents for ten hours
work.
Mrs. Albert Wood, young married
woman, OF Telford, Montgomery County, Pa,
drowned herself yesterday. She was tempo.
rarily insane.
A marble statue of General Zachary Tay-
lor is to be unveiled next month at his grave,
eight miles from Louisville. All the survivors
Of the Mexican war are to be invited to attend
the ceremonies.
Frank Brown and John Anderson, of the
Crooked Creek gang, terrorized Vista, Iowa,
Sunday, for three hours. An armed body OF
citizens then shot Anderson dead and fatally
wounded Brown.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has
signed the railroad bill allowing railroad
companies capital stock amounting to $780,
S0 per NILE sna "a splang the maximum
A special from San Antonio, Texas, says
Major Wasson, the defaulting Army paymes-
| ter, will plead guilty to the embezzlement OF
S5,4OO, but VIII deny the charge OF emtez
| zling SIS, 900, which he claims TO have lost
A cyclone swept through Butler County,
Ala, Sunday, damaging property. colored
| man was killed and several persons injured
| Greenville, Texas, was struck by tornado
| Sunday evening, wreckihg number o
houses.
The police of Birmingham yesterday ar
rested an armed American Fenian named Geo
| Smythe, who had declared his intention Of
making mischief at the Bright celebration
next week. He was arrested only after
severe struggle.
| The sash and blind establishment o
| Messrs. Whitehurst Hunter, on Water street
Norfolk, Va was destroyed by fire last night
The 1 lSss on STOCK & 9i whitehmrst ,ie. g Hunter
Mrs. W. o. Marrow, $4,000. The loss is GOV
cred by Insurance.
At the general convention Of the Sweden
borgian Church, in Boston, Rev. Chaunce
| Giles was appointed messenger TO the Eng
lish convention. 1t was voted 70 hold the mex
general convention in Philadelphia. Rev
Chauncey Giles, OF Philadelphia, was electe
president, and Rev. Jabez Fox, OF Washington
member Of the executive committee.
Twenty-Five young women, English AM
Swedish immigrants, arrived at Saratoga fror
New York yesterday. They were sent out b
| nrm In New York TO accept situations 4
hotels and clearinghouse. They found tha
no places had been secured, and that the
were dupes Of swindlers. Each girl had pal
man purporting to be member OF th
firm 1850.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad has Gu
or the Baltimore Ohio and the Shenandoa
Valley Western Maryland Roads froi
It's connection for the White Bulpnr
and other virginia springs travel n
eted through via Washington, the Yirglni
Midland Road and the Chesapeake
Ohio, which Will get the longer haul and Il
most OF The passage money by that route.
The inquest was begun in New Yor
the recent panic on the Brooklyn Bridge. M
O. O. Martin, the superintendent OF the brldg
stated that at the time OF the disaster the
were twenty-five special police officers on 4
bridge. railing had been put up at Il
| stairway since the accident but witness Ba
| that this would not remedy matters there
case OF another panic. He thought an incline
plane would be dangerous In slipper
weather.