The Evening critic., 1884-07-28
MORNING NEWS,

Captain Blake of the steamer w. w. Corco-
ran, has purchased Marshall Hall, on the Po.
tomac, and Will improve 1t.
A number Of speeches were delivered in
Baltimore yesterday In favor OF st. John and
Daniel on the Prohibition ticket.
Browns Iron 'B,fteN will enable you to
throw on that tirp feshng SO common.
The camp meeting of the colored Metho-
dist churches OF this city and Maryland be-
gins at Irving Park on August 10.
There is a conflict between Mr.. Parnell
and Michael Davitt as to the policy of holding
the convention at Belfast Tuesday.
On and after to-day the Connelsville Coke
Producers Association have decided to op.
crate their ovens every day In the week.
The Dean Wooden Company, Newark,
Del, has notified its employees OF reduction
IN wages OF 10 per cont, beginning August L.
Mr.. Jacob Tome, of Port Deposit, Nd,
has given $4,000 for the endowment OF new
scientific school at Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pa.
man named Miller, residing in York
County, Pa, shot his sistor-in-law on Satur.
day because, as he said, she had bewitched
him.
The first case against liquor dealers under
the Ohio Scott law, in Cincinpati, has been de-
cided in Justices court in favor OF the county
treasurer.
The Progressive and International Cigar
makers Unions, OF New York, yesterday APP
pointed committees to prepare plan OF con-
solidation.
Daniel II. Hopkinson, the editor aud pro-
prietor OF the "Jewellers Circular and Horo-
logical Review" died Saturday In Brooklyn,
N. Y, aged DO.
Near Pocomoke City, Nd, Saturday even
ing, L. t. O. Davis was shot and killed by Irv-
ing Mile, travelling salesman for Balti-
more grocery house..
vegetable tonics. ~ cqhnot intoxlcate.
Thomas McGaan, aged II. stabbed and
killed John sullivan, aged 10, at Meriden,
| Conn.,. Saturday, during dispute over the
merits OF baseball players.
The Democratic Congressional Conven-
| tion OF the Fourteenth Missouri District ad.
| 1ourned Saturday after taking Az ballots
| without nominating candidate.
Warsaw has been placed in minor state
OF siege owing to the recent plot against the
| made about the middle OF August.
Over so arrests have been made at Pitts
burgh OF railroad laborers engaged In the
| Lizzie Bradley outrage. All her jewelry has
| been recovered and she is improving.
The Georgia Press Association arrived In
| this city on Saturday evening, spent yesterday
| in sightseeing and left carly this morning.
| They stopped at the Metropolitan Hotel.
The work of repairing tho break in the
| Chesapeake Ohio Canal at the Burnt Ware
| house, near dam No. A. has been sufficiently
| completed to permit the passage OF boats.
| There were 10000 persons at the Liberal
meeting at Manchester Saturday. Mr.. John
Bright presided and made spirited attack
| upon the peers for their opposition to the
Franchise bill.
| Michael Mcclure, aged 32, while bathing
| In the Potomac River at Piedmont, W. Va,
Saturday night, was attacked with cramps
about three months.~~
vigorates the whoif systeD.
| An exciting ganfe-sv@ played Saturday
between the Nationals and Bostons, which re-
suited in victory for the homo club by 8 to z.
| The Washfngtons sustained defeat at the
bands OF the Baitimores Saturday by score OF
Stod.
At the request of the United States Gov
eminent the two Americans, VIM. HARDWOOD
and Edward Velach, who were recently ar
rested in Mexico upon the charge OF OBTAINING
the President OF that country, have been re-
| leased.
A number of hod-hoisting engineers and
| plasterers In New York refused to go to work
Saturday in places whore the brickiayers and
laborers are striking. More men Will go out
| to-day. Otherwise the nine-hour strike re-
mains unchanged.
The case of w. s. Canett, charged with
assaulting his daughter, at Franklin, Ky.
had to be continued Saturday owing 70 the
daughter, who are thought to have been in
duced to stay away.
An inquest on the body Of jeremiah
Cronin at philadelphia, Saturday, developed
l
club and struck his stepson, Joseph McGonl
gal, who stabbed him with table knife. Nc
Gonigai was committed.
Mr.. L. ID. Wright one Of the Distric
delegates to the Democratic convention, left TO
New York Saturday night, to Join the commit
tee OF which he is a member, 10 notify Cover
nor Cleveland OF his nomination. The com
| mittee will notify Governor Cleveland at Al
| bany tomorrow.
Browns Iron BitnkBSpres dyspepsia in It
worst forms. DryEgisVs sell 1t.
Eight men am tsh women, members @
! the salvation Army were arrested at Roche!
ter, N. Y, yesterday for singing while parad
ing the streets. In the police station they OF
cupied the time with prayer-meetings an
singing. A request TO have six tambourine
brought in to the prisoners was denied.
Z. ]. Todd, son of Congressman Tod
attempted TO commit suicide at Carlisle, Pa
on Saturday. Be and his father had quarre
when young Todd seized bottle OF solution
areenic and swallowed portion OF II. III
. father knocked the bottle out OF his hand an
an antidote was forced into him and his IL
saved.
The first electric railroad for public vi
/, | in America went into operation In Clevelan
Ohio, Saturday, In connection with the Ea
Cleveland Street Railroad Company, who hal
Just completed mile road. The experimel
| was 60 successful that the management o
a | pect to change their entire system, or over 2
miles, into electric roads.
Colonel VIM. II. Belts, q native of AL
city, died in Alexandria, Va, Saturday nigh
OF Brights disease. He once testified, as
witness In New York court, that he had
his lifetime killed six men In the discharge
duty. He was once acquitted OF being a
cessory 10 the killing OF Hussey by Slater,
. Baltimore.
u q. ID. Roberts, who is interested flna
cially In the Bennett. Mackay Atlantic cab
says the cable will be ready for public seryl
on October /. The cost OF the cat
will reach $7,O00O00. company has be
organized TO lay cable from Bra
= 10 New Orleans, via st. Thomas, TO cost 800
" 00O, which Will work In connection with
Bennett. Mackay cable.
rBrown's Iron Blpets hoes not injure or ey
blacken the teetfHs -
>, A terrible cyclone passed over EdentC
n. O., yesterday, blowing down the hardwt
house OF 3. Dickinson Co. and uhrooung
stores Of j. II. Wood, general merchandl
and Hooper & Co., drugs, aud Barnes Hot
A warehouse and several wharyes were
IR strOyed. one child was killed and sevel
persons Injured by falling timber.
A handsomely dressed young woman v
found wandering about Central Park, N
York, yesterday, behaving In a strangely 1
roarious manner. She was taken In char
no | by The police aud gave her name ~
Id | Brooks, an actress, aged 81, OF Bunalo, IL "
atterwRrd discovered that she had taken
heavy dose CT opium. Her real name Is SO
10 DO Briggs.
" The surgeons at the County Hospit
- Chicago, have under treatment a Mrs. Nj
- phy, who 10 suffering from disease VIII
10 affects cattle known as "Iumpy Jaw" II Is
lie form OF an abscess on her Jaw, and q