The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1883-03-14
News Notes.

Lord Spencer will not leave the English
cabinet.
Explosive machines have been found in
various parts OF Paris.
The combined anthracite coal companies
have agreed to resume work on full time next
week.
The Illinois House of Representatives
yesterday passed the bill to punish wife.
heaters by whipping.
Mr. Coleridge Kennard, of the House of
Commons will question the British Govern
ment relative 10 the Alabama award.
A meeting of the stone masons of Boston
on Monday evening resolved that workmen at
that trade should demand 81 per day on and
after May /.
The Produce and Grain and Flour Elk.
changes of Pittsburg, Pa, consolidated yester-
day. The united exchanges have member
ship of 500.
At Chattahoochee, Fla, on Sunday,
George Jones, a storekeeper, shot and killed
Ellis Lemoni, colored, in n dinlculty about the
payment for some whisky. Jones has fed.
Both Mrs. May and her infant, who were
assaulted by the servant girl, Catherine Metz
gar, in Philadelphia, on Friday, are reported
as progressing favorably toward recovery.
Sir Alexander Campbell has introduced
into the Dominion Senate an amendment TO
the postoflce act forbidding any communica-
tion respecting lotteries being sent by mail.
In the case of Epos j. Crowther, who is
charged with completely In the robbery OF
100000 worth OF city bonds from the treas
urer's onlce at st. Joseph, Mo-, year ago,
which Is now on trial, John s. Cox one OF the
defendants, has turned States evidence and
confessed.
John II. Jacobs, who killed Miss Cathe-
rine Edwards, at Caseyville, ILL.,, on Saturday,
by playfully swapping gun at her which
proved to be loaded, has been committed to
jail without bail, Notwithstanding the coro-
ner's jury returned verdict that the act was
unintentionai
The Mississippi has fallen Is inches at
| Memphis. II is expected that travel Will be
resumed on the Memphis & Little Rock
| Railroad next week. The river is also falling
at Helena. break in the Dennis leyee, IN
crevasse at Ellslie's is being closed.
The Window Glass Workers Association
| OF North America, with Its headquarters al
Pittsburg, Pa, is preparing bill, to be pre-,
scented at the opening OF the next session Of
Congress, making It an orfense punishable by
fine and Imprisonment TO import any class oil
workmen under contract to work for certain
wages for any given length OF time.
The Executive Committee of the Western
Union Telegraph Company yesterday resolved
10 advise the Board OF Directors at their meet
ing to-day to declare a dividend OF 19l pei
cent TO be made payable on April IS next
This is the largest dividend thatha ever beer
declared. The books will close oil the Goth Of
this month and open again on the 18th OF mex
month.
The remains Of the late Bishop Quinlar
were Inferred with great pomp In Mobile yes
terday morning. Eight bishops and fort,
priests assisted In the ceremony. The service
began at 10 80, with the ofiice for the dead
followed an hour later by the pontincal higl
mass, Right Rev. W. II. Elder, d. D., Of Clncin
NATL celebrant. Bishop Gilmore, OF Cleveland
Ohio, delivered an Grafton. The Cathedral an
the streets adjacent were crowded with people
After the service procession was formed
headed by musicians and the police, an
composed OF the military, fremen, beuevoleu
societies, and committees on foot, clergy 4
carriages, and the hearse, and closed by OF
phans, sisters or charity, and citizens on Too
and In carriages. After the procession tn
remains were brought back 70 the Cathedra
and deposited beneath the pavement IN III
ground porch 70 tue south OF the main OF
trance.