The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-04-14
THE MORNING NEWS,

Local. ana General, BOiIeu Down,
worked Over and FURNISHED Up
Fresh.
There were 1913 deaths in Baltimore last
week.
The gas-lamps will DO lighted at 6:55 p.
m. and extlnguished at 10 80 n. m.
James p. Carleton, q well-known citizen
OF Cumberland, Md, died Saturday.
The Peabody Baseball Club will play the
Potomacs near Lincoln Park this afternoon.
The monitors Montauk, Passaic and Nan
tucket are being fitted out for summer cruis
ng.
The French troops have captured Hong
Hoa, which the Chinese set nro to before evac
uating.
The Paris Gdulois says that tho Pope is
preparing an encyclical letter against secret
societies.
1t is reported from Paris that group of
foreign anarchists is connected with the dyna.
miters In England and ireland.
George Fletcher, n colored boy about 10
years of age, while playing see.saw In tho Cap.
itol grounds last evening, fell and fractured
his skull.
All communication with Berber has been
cut on. Earl Granville 10 preparing q circular
TO the powers regarding England's relations
with Egypt.
Great damage to strawberries and carly
vegetables is reported to have boon done I'm
the vicinity OF Norfolk, Va, Friday night, by
neaVy ItOSt.
It is reported from Cuba by way of Mad
rid that IS OF band of az insurgents march.
ing 70 Join Aquero have been killed In an at
tack by troops.
A white male infant about three months
old was found alive and well at the corner OF
Four-and.a.half street and Maryland avenue
by Onicer Barry.
Charles Boswell, colored, was found dead
In the yard OF HIS house on New York avenue,
near Twenty.nrst street, yesterday afternoon,
from heart disease.
A large mass Of rock fell in the gangway
at the Excelsior Colliery, shamokin, Pa, Sat
urdsy, killing Thomas Harper and fatally In.
lurlng Frank Glishick.
Mstsada Sorakichi, the japanese wrestler,
and Andre ohristol wrestled mixed match In
Cleveland, Ohio, saturday night in which the
Japanese was the victor.
Mr.. Alex. l.. Spear, of Baltimore has
been appointed grand treasurer OF the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge OF Odd-Fellows, to I'LL the
vacancy caused by the death OF Mr.. Yansant.
Miss Mary Van Vranken, of Geneva,
n. Y, has been promoted from a 81 900 10 an
$500 clerkship in tho Internal-Revenue
Bureau upon the Recommendation OF Commits
sioner Evans.
The Louisiana Jockey Club held an extra
days race meeting at New Orleans Saturday
cess, Lille Dale, Bonnie Australian, Athlono
and Callao were the winners.
Sallie Smith, who was arrested on Thurs
day in philadelphia for passing Confederate
ten-dollar note, has been held for trial, tho
United States Commissioner deciding that she
committed statutory ofrense.
Government work has commenced on the
dam at the Great Falls, with Colonel Briggs,
OF Massachusetts, as superintendent. The OBJ.
Ject OF the dam 10 TO increase the supply OF
water In the District OF Columbia.
Rev. VIM. II. Schell, of Washington, has
been reelected pastor OF the Christian Church
at Rockville, Md, for the ensuing year. Mr..
Schell Will also have charge OF the Christian
Church at Readland when completed.
General Abner Doubleday, who is stop
ping at the Ebbitt has been extended a cordial
Invitation to accompany tho veterans OF the
First Corps on their historical visit to tho bat.
tle,nelds OF Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville
and the Wilderness on May 10, 1884.
The bill before tho Ohio Legislature 70.
pealing the local.option feature OF the Scott
Liquor Law, which gave to rhe residents of In
corporated villages the right TO prohibit by
vote the sale OF intoxicating liquor, has be
| come law. The Legislature adIourns to-day
A suit for $40, 900 damages has been in.
| stituted against the Norfolk & Western Rail
| road Company In the Circuit Court OF Nan
| samond County, Va, by the administrator OF
the estate Of Mrs. Susan Rich ards, who was ru d
over and killed by train on that road last No
vember.
Eight prisoners confined in tho jail al
Gainesville, Ark, escaped Saturday night at
| ter securing arms from the 1ailer's house. A
posse OF fifty citizens started In pursuit, and O
| pitch sd battle occurred. A burglar named
| Breckman was killed and three other prison
| ers were wounded and secured. The remain
| der escaped.
Tony PROXY, of Rosslyn, and John Pruitt
| and a negro, OF this city, engaged In serious
ARRAY at Rosslyn yesterday. Pruitt had Wis
coming fight in North Carolina. Pruitt
| knocked PROXY down, and on recovering he be.
| gan 10 stone tho other two mon, when the col
| pred man drew pistol and shot PROXY In the
leg.
When the collision on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, at Gould's Station, occurred, Jacob
| Dotter, the fireman OF the coal train, was
| throwing coal In the fre.box. Tho engineer
lesped from the train. AS Dotter has NOT YET
| been found, It is thought he was thrown head.
foremost into the furnace by tho, force OF the
| collision and roasted allyo.
Before the New York Assembly Investi.
eating Committee, In New York, Saturday,
| Jacob Nathan, an ex-policy dealer, testified
| that at one time he allowed three men So each
and understood the money was paid TO the
| police. When bill was put In for rent there
| was always charge for the police. The agents
claimed they could not get along without pay.
ing the police.
Rev. ]. d. Dudley, aged GO, a prominent
| Presbyterian minister, died suddenly yester.
day afternoon at his homo in DinwiddiC
| County, Va. Deceased was native OF Rich
mond and was educated At the University OF
| Virginia. He was member OF the East Han
over Presbytery OF Virginia. For number o.
years he was pastor OF church near Phila
delphia, and had been In the ministry over
| thirty years.
A petition has been prepared in Pitts
burgh, Pa, and Will DO presented TO the trades
unions for Endorsement, setting forth that tn
| worktngmen have not been benefited by the
tarin, but that they have suffered horizontal
| reduction OF twenty per cent. In their wages
| and praying that Congress enact only sucl
| tariff laws as Will Insure Just division o.
| benefits. The petition 10 not regarded favor
ably by the prominent labor leaders.
A serious fight occurred between sheriff
| on a Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad train Sltur
| day In Kentucky. Sheriff William Dawson, Of
| Maysvllle, had q prisoner on route 10 tina
| place who was also wanted In Rowan County
| Sheriff Day, OF Rowan County, with foul
| deputies, boarded the train, oyerpowered
| Dawson, beating him severely, took the prls
| oner, delivered him to the jailor at MoorheaC
| and got a reward OF $50.
Considerable progress was made on Sat
| urday by States Attorney Henry In unravel
| ing the threads OF the mystery attending the
| murder OF Miss Celia Bush, near Federal5
| burg, Nd, but the circumstances OF the trag
edy as yet are by no means clear. chain o
circumstantial evidence has been woven abou
colored man living In the neighborhood, ant
the theory Is that robbery was the solo motiv,
OF the crime, II has not been determined
however, whether moro persons are impll
ted.
At a meeting of the Italian Benevolent
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