The Evening critic., 1884-05-16
THE MORNING NEWS,

worked. povcr ana Furnished Up
Fresh. G.. .ssessfs'
The ssaats,aas ad ioyuaed' until Monday.
g. SEE t5S isa.ss'shits for children at A.
king Alfonso of Spain is threatened with
with consumption.
w. Began Cash was killed by the sherifrs
posso near Cheran, s. c., yesterday.
The General Assembly of the Presbyte-
rian Church met at Saratoga yesterday.
A Fenian disguised rs newspaper man
called at the hotel OF the Prince OF Wales In
Paris yesterday.
J. Il. Eusts was nominated for United
Senator yesterday at Baton Rouge, La, by the
Democratic Joint caucus.
Fifteen hundred cabin passengers sailed
from New York Wednesday on the various
steamers bound for European ports.
Mr.. Morton, American Minister, enter
tanned the Count OF Paris and largo company
at banquet in Paris on Wednesday.
II is announced in Berlin that the NOR
ganatic marriage OF tho Grand Duke Louis OF
Hesse'Darmstadt has boon legally dissolved.
The National antiMonopoly Convention
at Chicago yesterday was attended by only
200 delegates. General u. Il. Butler was nomi.
mated for President.
Fire last night in the storage warehouse
OF Thomas Kane h Son, 20 Washington street,
New York, damaged 1900 bales or cotton to
lne eAtonl OF FoU,UuU.
Dr. Wilbur J. Rogers, prominent ply
stefan OF Sparta, Ga, was struck aud killed by
lightning Wednesday evening. He was stand.
ing by the side OF his wife.
At meeting of the Northern Pacific
RailfOnd Company In New York yesterday
Johnston Livingston was elected director In
place OF Henry L. Johnston OF Baltimore do.
ceased.
Six men were badly scaldel at Harris
burgh, Pa, yesterday BY, the bursting of a
steam pipe at the Pennsylyania Steel Works,
Charles Pierce fatally, and George Murray Sc
riouely.
Judge Reid, kentucky Circuit Judge
and candidate for tho supreme Bench of the
State, committed suicide at Mt. Sterling yes
| terday. He had been mentally depressed fol
| some time.
The United States Senate yesterday
| passed, with slight amendments, the bill up
hropriatlns 81 600, 900 to aid tho New Orleans
Exposition, and tho House concurred In the
| amendment.
| At q brief meeting OF the Central Demo
| cratic Committee at the Metropolitan Hotel
last night II was decided to defer all action un
| I'll the nominations are made at the Chicago
| Convention.
Abner's Concert Garden was opened fol
| the season last night with a crowded attend
ance. The programme was excellent aud
| Fraulein Nandel Hofer, the Swiss warbler,was
| repeatedly encored,
Chief Justice Sedgwicli in New York yes
| tefday, continued the Injunction against Rev
| DR.. John =. Newman, OF Madlson.Avenue Oon
| Rregational Church, deciding that he was moi
| the permanent pastor.
Hon. Richard I. Mcrrick, of this city
| delivered the Grafton yesterday at st. Mary's
| Md, on the occasion OF tho two hundred aud
| nftieth anniversary of the founding OF the
colony by Lord Baltimore.
George Hall Pennock blacksmith il
| Wilmington, Del, committed suicide by hang
ing himself last evening. He was 81 years
old, and leaves wife and three daughters
The cause was his poor health.
The second incendiary conaagratior
within week visited Mechanicsville, n. Y
last week. Tho passenger depot OF the Del
aware 4 Hudson Canal Company and John {
| 600.
The trionnial meeting of the General 81
| ciety OF the Cincinnati closed at Princeton,
j., yesterday to meet at Newport, Il. l., Il
June, 1857. Among those present wer
Richard NJ; Mcsherry and William Bcnnin
Webb from Maryland.
| Two hundred and fifty delegates attend
ed the thirty.tiith annual session OF the Med
cal Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphi
Wednesday. Eight female physicians wer
admitted to seats in the convention as visitor
without the right to vote.
| In the NJ. L. General Conference at Phil
adelphia yesterday Rev. DR.. W. X. Ninde, c
the Detroit Conference, Rev. DR.. j. NJ. Valdez
Of the Western Book Concern, Row. DR.. Willar
f. Mallalieu and Rev. DR.. Charles II. Fowle
were elected bishops OF the church
The glove fight at tho Theatre Comigu
last night was between Jimmy Kelly and A
| len Grown, the latter taking the place of Georg
Phillips, who failed TO put In an appearance
Barney Aaron acted as referee, and at the en-
| OF the third round Aaron announced that tn
colored slugger said ''enough."
A boiler in the shops Of the Pennsylva
MA Railroad Company, at Altoona. Pa, cs
ploded on Wednesday killing II. O'Hara, on
or the lremep, and badly inJuring Matt Enln
GER Others In the building wero woundet
George Sanders, an invalid, residing opposit
the boilcr'house, was struck on the head by
piece OF iron.
Mrs. Della l. s. Parnell, the mother O
the Irish agttator, has been made defendant
writ OF foreign attachment Issued out {
Court OF Common Pleas OF Philadelphia at tn
suit OF her brother, Edward l.. Stewart, In tn
right OF his wife, Mary Il. Stewart. The plain
Tins claim about 5000 as damages for breac
OF contract In reference to some Panama stool
In the case of Thomas l. Hall again'
Frank Stewart and others, which has boon o
trial in the Circuit Court for two days, the Iur
yesterday gave verdict for the plaintiff, wit
one dollar damages. The action was a Lane
lord and tenant case for the property left b
the Will OF Margaret Ann Randall. Tho wi
as probated left It TO Thomas I. Hall, but a
alleged codicil was produced, making beques
TO other parties, and It is claimed thafrrndl
influence was exercised upon Mr.. .&afdall
Jury found for the YlE Rhfch gives Hall II
properly.
Mourning goassdyYy ungs, 730 Seventh 81
Captaipsefocker hnh Messrs. Torrens al
WoCawafd, guards, LEFT last night for Alban
--2s-Y- with the following prisoners bound 4
the penitentiary Charles Butler, grand Il
Ing, three years; Alexander Clark, second {
fense petit larceny, three years; Yince
Flood, larceny from person, three years; tx
ward Dickson, housebreaktng, eightet
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