The Evening critic., 1884-05-05
THE MORNING NEWS,
Local and General, Boiled Down
worked Over and Furnished UP

night.
The village of Gilmau's Depot, near Port
Jeryie, N. Y, was entirely swept away by fire
on Friday afternoon.
A diamond bracelet, valued at $50, was
stolen from the house OF Annie Addison, 1853
ID street northwest, on Saturday.
Mr.. j. w. Buell. has been accredited as
the agent OF tho Smithsonian Institute in an
exploration Of the Island of New Guinea.
John l.. Gladstone, charged with killing
Robert M. btribling at Markham Station, Va,
In December, 1883, was acquitted on Satur-
day.
Five men were killed and two fatally in
1ured Saturday at Gouverneur, N. T., by the
explosion OF tho boiler OF the Whitney marble
works.
A certificate of the incorporation of the
National Protective Association OF Masters
and pllots was died with the Recorder last
Saturday.
General William Painter, vice president
OF the New York, Philadelphia 4 Norfolk Rail-
road Company, died at his residence IN Phil.
adelphia Saturday, orapoplexy
John Dufy's house, near Independence,
Iowa, was burned Saturday. His 13-year.old
daughter perished In the flames, aud another
child is not expected to recover.
There is movement on foot to raise
subscription from the members OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic to erect monument
over Kit Carson's grave In New Mexico.
Patrick Slattory, of Ennis, Ireland, has
confessed that he suborned witnesses by
whose false Testimony the brothers Delahanty
were sentenced to life servitude In 1888.
Owing to tho discovery ut Moscow of
plot to assassinate the Gear, the festivities de-
signed In honor OF the coming OF age OF the
Czarevitch will bo held In st. Petersburg.
The steamer B. s. Ford, of the Chester
River Line, was burned at Chestertown, Nd,
on Saturday. She was recently repainted and
repaired. Her original cost was $4,000.
The Republican newspaper El Pdltnquc,
at Havana has been seized, tho editor SON
fenced TO six months Imprisonment and the
cc'ts of trial and deprived OF the right to vote
Woodside and Morgan, the bicycle riders,
have undertaken to rldo from New York to San
Francisco. They Will ride flve-mile match
at Athletic Park here next Thursday afternoon.
Subscriptions amounting to more than
seventeen times the desired sum have boon
offered the Russian Government for q loan OF
R16,000,000 to BIO used In railroad construc-
zion.
The fist session of the Normal Institute
will be held In Calvary Baptist Church at 1 80
o'clock this afternoon. Addresses will be
made by Drs. j. Ii. Kellogg and j. Elliott
Coues.
r. w. Lowering, n member of tho senior
clr"s of Har Sard College, and one OF the most
prominent players on the Harvard baseball
nine, died suddenly Saturday of Inflammation
OF the bowels.
Another mass meeting will be held by the
south Washington citizens on tho railroad
question next Wednesday evening, at Z 80
O'Clock, at the corner OF Ninth street aud
Maryland avenue.
At meeting of wholesale butchers en-
ployes in New York, Saturday night, 1t was
decided to mail TO all retail butchers In the
Gig notice that they will be boycotted II they
handle Chicago beef In any way.
At Harrisburg, Pa, Saturday, the jury in
he case OF VIM. Andrews, charged with kill
ng his wife and then burning her body, at
Highspire, on July q, 1881, returned ver-
dict OF murder in the second degree.
Tho English sloop Grappler, commanded
by Samuel +. Pennington, has been captured
and burned by the savages on a Cay Island,
about so miles west OF Port-au-Prince. The
crew are reported to have been murdered.
A contort in the Republican Territorial
Convention OF Mont.na between the Blaine
and the Arthur forces resulted In the combina.
ton of the Blaine and Edmunds men, who
divided the delegation to Chicago between
them.
Isabella Johnson, colored, 1858 Eleventh
street, while driving horse and wagon along
the Sheriff road Saturday evening, was run
into by a train on the Baltimore & Potomac
Railroad and severely injured. The horse was
Filled.
stabbing ARRAY occurred in Brooklyn,
N. Y, last night, In which n number of young
ruf1ians were wounded. John Shevltn, %
years OF age, was cut, probably fatally. Her-
bert and John O'Neil and Chas. Keegan wore
arrested.
largely. attended meeting last night. The
programme consisted of a farewell address
by Rev. Father Thomas, recitatlons by Master
Skivington; also solos, recitations, readings
and piano solos.
The grand Jury of Copah County, Missis-
sippi, have indicted the Penn brothers for the
killing OF II. d. Rials, and T.. ID. Wheeler for
the murder OF J. p. Matthews, prominent Re.
publican and eXsherin and deputy internal
revenue collector.
Commissioner Evans returned to the city
on Saturday evening from Kentucky, where he
had been actively at work In the Interest OF
the Administration, presided over the State
Republican Convention and been elected as a
| delegate TO Chicago.
| The Irish American Alliance held its
| regular meeting yesterday at Clan-na-Gael
Hall, and passed resolutions rendering their
| thanks to Senator Van wyck for his action
| with regard to the English corporations alb
| sorbing public lands.
| At. Frankfort, KY, Yesterday Frank Egg
| bert, aged %, was shor, probably fatally, by
| Tom Gritty. This Is the fourth man Gritty hai
| shot during the past threo years. Two months
| ago he was acquitted OF the killing OF the Chile
| OF Police OF Frankfort.
The Archbishops and Bishops of th,
| Roman Catholic Church In Nova Scotia, New
| Brunswick aud Prince Edwards Island have
| petitioned the Queen to protect their Interests
| IN the funds OF tho Propaganda at Rome, no
| threatened by the italian Government.
John Evers, the scenic artist, died Satur
day In Hemsptead, L. l., In the S7th year o
| his age. He waB the scenic painter In tho ole
| Park Theatre, New York, twenty-one years
| and was acquainted with the elder Wallack
| Forrest, Hackett, Fannie Kemble and othe
prominent professionals.
The police learned yesterday that a baby
had died at the house OF Caroline Martin, OF
| Twelfth street. near O, yesterday, under some
what suspicious circumstance. the chill
was brought there by an unknown man, VIII
| promised 10 pay Its board. IL Ia said the In
ant died for want OF food.
Officers King, 0'Shea and Staley at
empted to arrest three brothers named Skell,
at kittanning, Pa, Saturday night. Durinl
| ne encounter King was shot twice In the head
O'Shea and Staley had each a bullet hol
through his coat. About twenty shots wer
exchanged. The three Skellys were arrested
The nude body of Mrs Annie Branson
colored, OF Moorestown, N. j., who has beel
missing since Tuesday last, was found yes
terday in a ditch In the woods about six mite
IRON Camden. Pieces OF her clothing wer
found scattered about through tho woods
and there we're bruises and scratches on tn
body.
The Signal Office reports that tele
gram has been received from Colorado Spring
showing that the observer at Pixies Peak ha
been relieved in the best OF health, and tina
the supply OF provisions is abundant. Tn
late reports regarding the insufliciency OF foo
and the concern as 10 the safety OF the observe
are not, therefore, justified.
The steamship Hanoverian arrived q
Halifax, N. g., Saturday from Newfoundland
with tho captain and crew OF the America
schooner Tennessee, which took IRE nc SEA o
the I'd OF April. BY closing the matches IN
hre WAS kept down until the 7th, when ia
crew was rescued just before the nre broS
through the deck and wrapped tho whole YES
sci IN flames. .,ss
BEING Our own sIanuElaaeskFers