Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-01-08
News Briefs.


Col. F. {. Setchell proprietor OF jacksonville.
Fla, sporting house. Was Killed yesterday 10y ID H.
Chandler. of South Carolina
The boilers in Hood a Parsons mil at Merrill,
Saginaw county. Michigan. exploded yesterday
wrecSing the mill and killing the engineer and
anOt her man.
man on the Philadelphia, Wilmington aud Ralti-
more railroad. WAS run over 10y engine and killed
yesterday in Baltimore
AT the conservatory Lake. New York. the curliug
match between the Manhattan and Thistle clubs
began YESTERDAY. Tomorrow will he a big club
maica day. as the north viii then meet the south,
and Inc americans Wi try conclusions with the
Scotch
john West. who IS said to have fought nine years
under the first Napoleon. was struck and pain
fliiF wounded 10y Il mail train at Freehold on Sat-
friday
Fred Sneurenan. the young man who was ar
rested in Boston on SATURDAY for forgery WAS 1al
to Jersey 1y yesterday. lie was Indicted, on com
paint 81 David t1lrOy. one OF The dcsi;o rs In tie
frovi"nt Institution for savings, whose naIne lie
forged 10 4 rerFut Tor $3.50.
The report hat the st Petersburg police had ar
rested JaiiO,lSl;r, one III the murderers OF Lieut.
col Sudeikln. is coIiIradcted-
Al Il meeting of the Australian. Canadian and
British Colombian agents-eeneral. held Ia London
yesterday, The Pike OF buckingham. Who presided.
urged the British colonies 10 participate IN the
s aay '00a AND education exhibition to be held in
Ii is stated that the Pruss1an government Will
submit Ia the diet a bill canoeing the NAY laws.
Paul Tagiioii. the ballet coInpos-r and ballet
master OF tie Royal theater, Berlin died yesterday,
An International trades-union OF men ernploved
in winhow-giass manufacture is said 10 have been
Organized, with HEADQUARTERS at Pittsburg, Pa and
a membership OF ~ tsN.
The trial o. James Mutt has been set for the lith
instant. AT Pltf>bulg. AMI VIII probably continue
for a week. The prisoner Will be brought from
Uniontown and lodged In the P1tisburg jail on Sat
urday next.
Three hunters. Henry Shields. Edward Shields
and James Anderson. were frozen 10 death on the
prairie. In Chichasaw nation, on the night OF the
5th instant.
Riley Burgess died at Erie. Pa, yesterday. under
peculiar circumstances. saturday ne was kicked
In the stomach by horse. but, after an hours
pain. recovered. While drinking a cup OF coffee
to-day he sprang from his chair ana fell dead.
The Virginia senate yesterday seated George B.
keeZle, democrat OF Rockingham county. in place
OF Or. J. B. Webb. coalitionist OF the same county
Mr.. Keeze qualified and took his seat yesterday.
AT meeting OF the Stockholders and directors OF
the Baltimore q Ohio Telegraph company yester-
day David H. Bates was unanimously elected lr-Si-
dent and general manager OF the Baltimore d
Ohio Telegraph company.
The De kalb statue viii beput in place at Annar,-
oils about July. 1856. In time tor the anniversary az
De kalb'S death, which occurred on the 10th OF
August, a hundred years before.
Mr.. ChaS- Santley, the weIl-known baritone
singer, was married I'm London Sunday tc Miss
Elizabeth Innes. a wealthy American LADY,
The sum OF 100000 f1orins has been stolen from
the post Office at Pesth, Hungary. Four clerks
have been arrested on suspicion OF being concerned
in the robbery.
A Catholic priest was brutaly attacked In the
Place Madeleine Paris yesterday, receiving several
violent blows His condition Is now serious One
OF his assailants was arrested.
During the past year charters have been issued
for the construction OF fftyve railroads I'm Penn
sylyania, with an aggregate length or 1850 miles
and capital stock OF $50, 736 COO