The Evening critic., 1884-02-23
THE MORNING NEWS,
Local and, General, Boiled Down
worked over ana Furnished Vi
Fresh.


worked over and Furnished UP
Fresh.
Mound City, ILL.,, is threatened with in
undntion and destruction.
A false alarm Of fire was sounded from
box 612 at o'clock last night
The Qgeen has approved the appointment
OF a commission on the housing OF the poor OF
London.
Mr. Parnell's motion criticising tho Irish
policy OF the Government has been defeated In
Parliament.
Between fifteen and twenty bands of
music were a feature OF the procession at
Frederick, Nd, yesterday.
Mr.. Irving, tho actor, who is an advanced
radical in British politics, has boon elected
member OF the London Reform Club.
AT meeting in Paris the Suez Canal
stockholders yesterday dlsapprlvei NJ. do
Lessep's agreement with tho British ship
owners.
DIR. Roe, prominent citizen of Birming-
ham, Ala, In quarrel yesterday with Samuel
Harrison, a lawyer, cut his throat, killing him
Instantly.
A colored boy named William West was
slightly injured by being run over by buggy
at the corner OF Seventh and + streets yester-
day afternoon.
Tho United States training-ship Ports.
mouth, which has boon detained in Hampton
Roads, Va, awaiting fair weather, sails to-day
for the West Indies.
Mrs. Katie Shewell, aged 80 years, of
Shrewsbury, York County, Pa, was burned to
death yesterday. Her clothes caught IRE
accidentally while she was lighting candle.
The Union Veteran Corps held their sec
ond annual military and civic reception last
night nj Masonic Temple. The occasion was
| an enjoyable one and q large number were
| present.
Yesterday afternoon buggy containing
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Robey collided with cart
at the corner OF Tenth street and Pennsylvania
| avenue. Mrs. Robey was thrown out, receiv-
| ing slight injuries.
DIR. Friedenwangep, a retired Army sur
| geon, and his wife, child and servant, have
| been murdered by robbers at Hermausta1t, In
| Pennsylvania Before decamping the rob-
bers lighted fires under the beds OF the VIC
| Tins.
| James Stinson was f0nnd dead on the
| railroad track, near Big Island Station, near
Lynchburg, Va, yesterday, with his body ter:
| ribly mangled. 1t Is thought no was murdered
and his body placed on the track to cover up
the crime.
A lady, whose name could not be ascer-
toined, was knocked down by cab at the
corner OF Eighth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. yesterday afternoon and slightly injured.
The cabman who ran against her conveyed
her to her homo.
Estimates place the loss from the floods
In Los Angeles County, Cal, at $750000, but
THIS Will be moro than compensated by the
| good done TO the wheat and fruit crops. The
| present indications point TO a golden year for
| Southern California.
L 3
| whose moulders are on strike against a ton
| per cent. reduction, announce that they Will
Introduce moulding machines, by which one
| man and an inexperienced boy can do the
| work OF three full hands.
Commander Goodrich leaves the Thetis,
recently purchased In England by America
for the Greedy Relief Expedition, and takes
command OF the Alert, the sloop-ofwar which
the English Government adds to the expedi.
ton. The Thetis Will sail for America next
week.
l l.
| paire, has been directed to lay an under
| ground telegraph cable from the Smithsonian
| Institution TO connect with the line on street;
also a line to the carp ponds In the monumen
| grounds, under directions from PROBES 3or
| Baird.
Oliver Edes, the originator of the vast in
dusiry OF machine rivet making In this coun-
1 zinc manufacturing In Massachusetts, and
also CONNIE cted with extensive Zinc mining on
tsrprises IN virginia and Tennessee, died In
1t has been learned, in connection witt
the secession movement In Manitoba, tina
there are secret organizations 10 the States II
sympathy with the movement. Secession
convention will be held at Winnipeg on Marct
| 3, and already many leaders In the movomen
from the Eastern states are arriving in Fargo
| Dakota.
Considerable excitement exists in Scran-
ton, Pa, over the elopement and marriage o.
John Farr, a well-known journalist OF tha
city, and Mics Justine Levy, pretty Hebrew
|
which they say: "Gone and forgotten. We
mourn the marriage of our sister, Justin,
Levy, to John Farr as death, and disown hor
| for life."
A number of society gentlemen gave a
german last evening at the National Rides
| Armory. The afrair was under the manage
mentor Messrs y Sonn W; thompson, chairman
Smith, DR.. +. @. Van Vliet, II. s. Chase, Walker
Maury, Alexander q. Bell, l.. X. Reynolds, W
A. l.. Gresham,T. f. Burgdorfr and J. d. Doyle
4 n II III.
killed Thursday by freight train on the Soutt
Carolina Railroad, between Augusta, Ca, ant
Charleston, 8. @. Mr.. seares was one OF The
in the southsra sates was
| for some years Jewish rabbi, and then en-
braced the Christian religion and became
| powerful preacher.
Benjamin McCloud, mine boss of the
, Comet Coal Works, was found terribly man
gled on the track OF the Cincinnati, Washing
ton Baltimore Road, near jackson, o.
Thursday. Examination showed that hi
, throat had been cut, and physicians say h
: | was dead before being placed on the track
. George Johnson has been arrested on tn
| charge of the murder, also woman who I'D
7 mits her knowledge OF the murder.
The discovery of fire in the frame hous
No. 612 Four-and.a-half street southwest, 0
, $50 o'clock last night, occasioned the alarr
{ | from box 40. The house was occupied b
\ Isaac Sternberg and owned by John Hi
!. The fire spread 10 houses Nos. Cid and GIL
n owned by Mrs. Cohen and Charles Lloyt
|
4 ington respectively. Damage TO the built
: ings, $40.
!, At meeting of the executive committC
( OF the poor relief fund last night, Major Dy
Il reported that on an average twenty-five fam
Q lies had been relieved daily since the la
Z meeting. The total number OF families r.
: lieved 10 date was 3,042, at an expense
$4,000. vote OF thanks was rendered Il
! little folks who gave a fair at 1919 Eigh
n street, and contributed the proceeds, $73.o
: TO the poor fund.
\ On May 80, 1881, John Coyle, jr., mu
y dered Miss Emily Myers at Coyles Ferry, Yo
n County, Pa, because she would not mar
him. Yesterday Governor Pattison issued
warrant for the execution OF the culprlt
Gettysburg, Adams County, on the 26th
/. April. Coyle was convicted twice or the mu
: der OF Miss Myers, Notwithstanding persistel
efforts to prove that he was OF unsound mil
at the time the crime was committed.
John Whiteford, missionary, was buri'
= yesterday. Rev. DR.. Peck conducted the sc
"a vices. Colonel o. II. Dunlap, OF Chicago, vi
knew Whiteford In that city, was present al
< stated In conversation that Whiteford was n
reformed man, but had been all his life OF
4 religious bent or mind. He wandered ave-
from home about ak or eight years ago
selfimposed miesionary labor. His wife, wi
lives In Chicago, was notified OF his death, b
telegraphed that she did not want TO see II
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