The Evening critic., 1884-01-22
Pith of the Morning News.

George II. Sturcke wholesale grocer
New York, has made an assignment.
E. Harper Jeffries, Comptroller of Phia-
delphia, died yesterday morning after a short
illness.
VIM. Holmes, Liberal member of Parlia.
ment, from Paisley, has resigned on account OF
Ill health.
A Nationalist meeting has been held In
Loughrea, Ireland, despite tho prohibition OF
the government
The reports received from Cairo of whole
eale massacres In the Soudan are generally
discredited in london.
John S. Happen charges that his brother,
Edmund, and VIII Lamberson murdered the
Maybees at Brookvllle, Il. I.
The National Telegraph Company or
ganized in New York yesterday, and elected
George T. Williams general manager.
Another cold wave struck Florida Satur-
day night, and Sunday night the mercury fell
to 80 degrees, and Ice formed at Jacksonville.
At the annual meeting of the Interna-
tional Exhibition Company in Philadelphia
yesterday 1t was resolved to dissolve the com
pany.
The proprietor of the London Globe has
been committed for trial on the charge Of libel
Ing Mr.. Colledge, British vice-consul at
Kertch.
A large meeting in opposition TO the
eight.hour law was held at the rooms OF the
Merchants and Manufacturers Association IN
Baltimore yesterday.
Petitions for local option arc being in
dustriously circulated In upper Fauquier,
Va. The temperance party is very strong and
active In that section.
Eight ballots were taken in the Ken
lucky Senatorial caucus yesterday Without
change. The ballot stood Williams, 81;
Blackburn, Do; Sweeney, "a.
A special from Catlettsburg, KY, reports
the arrest OF Miles Hall, charged with bigamy.
Hall Ia only 10 years old, but It is said he has
four wives, and was about to marry a NTH
when captured.
Max Shields, driver of beer wagon,
| while carrying q cask OF beer into the base.
ment OF a saloon at Nantlcoke, Pa, yesterday,
slipped and fell to the bottom OF the stairs the
| cask striking him on the head and Instantly
| killing him.
The National Zeitung, of Berlin, comment
Ing upon the situation between England and
| tho other European powers and Egypt says It
ia evident that the Gladstone government has
been unwillinely compelled to say to France,
Islands ofrl"
NJ. Waddington, tho French Ambassado
10 London, reports that Earl Granville, Min.
lister OF Foreign Affairs, approves tho action OF
the French Government In ignoring the claims
OF China until the TOnquin mission has been
accomplished.
Seven hundred black recruits for the
Egyptian army had to be driven by cavalry TO
the cars for SueZ. The Governor OF the Soudan
reports that when tho garrison OF senuaar
reaches Khartoum the town Will be able to re-
pulse any attack.
Axel POulsen, champion skater of Nor
way, Issues a challenge TO all corners, for Il
hfty.mile race, at Washington Park, Brooklyn,
for the entrance money and the championship.
or, II preferred, he will skate with anybody
| nifty miles for 500.
| II is denied at Mobile, Ala, that the cold
| weather OF the sth instant was attended with
disastrous results to the crops reported, Lit.
tie damage was done TO the early garden truck
and IL ia claimed that the orange orchards
| were not greatly injured.
A dispatch from Las Vegas, N. NJ, saws
| Jacob Shafner, OF New York, while on his way
to St.Louis to visit his brother George, learned
| that the latter was dead. Tho news drove him
| insane, and he jumped from the train at
| Springer Station, where his body was found
| frozen on Sunday.
Edward s. Peck, president of tho insol-
| vent bank at Patchogue, L. l., while at his
| ONCE yesterday, was threatened with lynching
by an excited crowd. He went home and fred
| three pistol shots at himself without effect,
evidently not intending TO Kill himself. Ho
was arrested and placed 10 jail.
VIM. @. +. Price, reporter of the New
York Tribune, was before tho Court OF Oyer
and Terminer In New York yesterday, TO an-
| swer for refusing 20 give to the grand Jury the
name OF the person who furnished Information
published IN the, the Tribune regarding the De-
ems 10 commit him for contempt II he does not
answer to-day.
1t seems from all accounts of the wreck
| OF the steamer City OF Columbus that no Of.
fort was made 10 save the women and children.
| This Is borne out by the fact that none were
saved. A passenger, speaking OF the Incidents
| OF the wreck, says; ~ saw young woman In
the companion-way holding up a baby over
her head. She was shrieking, oh, my baby,
around her, and spray leaped over her head.
| Then monstrouB wave seized her and carried
| both her and her baby into the sea-