The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-05-12
THE MORNING NEWS,
Local and General. Boiled Down,
worked over ana Furnished Up


Fresh.
Senator Don Cameron sailed from Queens
town for New York yesterday.
June has been set for the graduating
exercises at the Naval Academy.
The gas.lamps will be lighted at 7.l5 p.
IN. and cxtingulshed Mt midnight.
Tribes of Persian nomads have been at
lacking tho soldiers on tho Russian frontier.
BENZ. Cephas, convicted of murder in
Dorcester County, Md, has been granted a
now trial.
General Wallace, United Statcs Minister
10 Constantinople, is coming home for four
months vacation.
The Empress of China wants peace with
France, but Gays that the prestige OF China
must be maintained.
Attempts arc being made TO reach GEN
eral Gordon to ask him how many troops he
requires for his escape. None Will BIO promised
him.
The Gun Foundry Board will convene at
the Navy Department on Thursday next by
order OF its president, Rear Admiral slmp-
son.
NJ. Partovin, secretary of the French
Consulate in New York, will be suspended
from ONCE and not permitted to return to New
York.
John W. Sexton, who was n partner in the
banking firm OF Jay Cooke Il Co., Philadelphia,
until 1871, died In that city Saturday OF penu-
monia.
The fetes at Pompei were continued yes
terday with great splendor. The procession
In honor OF Emperor Vespasian was brilliant
success.
Edward Fitzgerald stabbed Mathew
Fisher, probably fatally, at oohoes, N. Y, yes.
terday, because he would not allow tho former
TO enter game OF pool
The Congressional Committee on Indian
Afralrs and their families visited the Indian
Training School Mt Carlisle, Pa. Saturday, re.
turning to Washington In the evening.
Tho Siamese Embassy remained quietly
In their rooms at the Arlington Hotel yester-
| day until p. M, when they took drive out
| TO the Chain Bridge, returning about o'clock.
The telegraphers at Pittsburgh disclaim
all knowledge of the proposed reorganization
| OF the Brotherhood and strike during the
| session OF the National Convention at Chicago.
Henry Casey was shot and killed at Red
| wood City, CAL, Saturday.. while before a
magistrate, by man named Sweeny, whose
daughter Casey was charged with assaulting.
The boiler in the salt works Of Gre6n,
Ring & Co., Saginaw City, MieAss exploded
Saturday, fatally lpinrlpsS5ohn olute, the
Mourning GssdS at Youngs, 736 Seventh st.
Mrs->Mary G. Grow, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
WIS arrested yesterday on the charge OF NAL.
practice. Her victim is Mrs. Phebe Prestley,
aged 10, OF Park Avenue, Brooklyn, who died
yesterday.
Tho Pan Electric Telephone Company
made n test on the wires of the Postal rele.
| graph Company yesterday, between this city
and New York, and were well pleased with
the result.
The iron ship Lord Wolseley sailed from
| Philadelphia Saturday with 101, 900 cases OF
| refined petroleum, bound for Hiogo, Japan
| This is the largest cargo over shipped from
this country.
A colored man named John Harris while
| riding down Fourteenth street on horseback
yesterday, ran into buggy containing Mrs
| W. ii. Throckmorton and her son and daugh
ter, damaging the vehicle.
Rev. j. d. Leemau, pastor of the Germa,
Lutheran Church at McKeesport, Pa, die
| Saturday. At the request OF the deceased tn
body Will be incineiated at the Lemoyne Gre
matory, at Washington, Pa.
At Hamilton, Ont, yesterday, Jane
Wall shot his brother-in.law, Samuel Clarb
and the latter's little daughter. Clark wa
not severely injured, but the little girl wa
fatally hurt. family feud was the cause G
the shooting.
| A cock-fght is alleged to have occurre
at the other end of the Chain Bridge on Satul
day night between East and West Washingto
birds. only two battles were fought, ono be
ing won by an East and the other by u Yves
Washington bird.
Tho fifty-ninth anniversary exercises c
the American Tract Society were held In Net
York last night. Tho number OF volumes |!
sued during tho past year was 279250. Tn
| receipts for the year were $357,17O, and tn
disbursements s351,0S2.
Great anxiety is expressed about the cor
| dition Of Prince Leopold, Duke of SAKE, who
alarmingly Ill with brain fever at Coburg. II
Is 60 years of age, n cousin OF the rolgnln
Duke Ernest H. aud an honorary majorsger
0rel OF the Austrlaf srmy; g'sse'rsf1 zoo 49,,