The Evening critic., 1884-01-21
OF the MORNING News.

Queen Victoria is now able to tax G short
walks.
Meetings were hold in Paris yesterday at
which speeches were made In favor of social
revolution.
1t is expected that the elections in Spain
will take place In April, and the new COrtes
will assemble in May.
The disabled steamship Germanic has
been spoken at sea 400 miles west OF Fastnot
with all well on board.
NJ. de Giers has arrived at Vienna, where
no has been received by Emperor Francis 10.
seph, who gave dinner In his honor
The Richard Mansfield Company, which
has been playing "a Partisan Romance" In
Cincinnati, has disbanded, Mr.. Mansfield pay
ing the salaries Of tho members of the COM
pany.
Senator Warner Miller was among the
speakers at the reception OF the Saturday
Night Club In New York Saturday evening. He
made strong speech In favor OF a protective
tariff.
The Bricklayers' International Union
has Just closed session at Cincinnati. They
voted to urge the passage OF the bill now pend
Ing In Congress TO prevent the importation OF
alien labor.
Seven members of the family of Henry
Kendall, resident OF Louisville, Ky. have
been poisoned by rat poison, which had been
put In biscuit by mistake. Mr.. Kendall aud
ono eon cannot recover.
Caroline Mulligan and Ida Curley, said
10 be her daughter, the former OF Emerson's
minstrel troupe, were arraigned IN New York
Saturday, charged with stealing 1897 from
Jane Benton, an English woman.
The body o. August Rosenberger, who
was murdered by Robert Roehl, was fouHd In
Union Greek, Egg Harbor, N. j., Saturday. 1t
appears that Roehl shot his victim, and then
dragged him quarter OF q mile to the creek.
The murderer has disappeared.
A fight occurred in New York last night
among party OF drunken italian laborer5.
Joseph Rlcco received Ave stab wounds, Anto'
vanni Philippe III tho left side and thigh.
Ricco is accused OF doing the shooting.
The appointment of General Gordon Is
generally welcomed I'm Egypt, and the London
papers express unqualified satisfaction over
The departure Of General Gordon for Egypt
and the Soudan. II 10 reported that negotia-
tons have boon opened between Egypt and
Abyssinla.
Tho Rev. Edward Fontaine died Satur-
day at his residence, near Pocahontas Station,
La. He was tho author OF show the World
Was Peopled," and a contributor to the
science or hydraulic engineering. He frat
suggested ietties at tho mouth OF tho Mlssls-
sippi River.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, Friday, George Gra-
hams three children, william, Jennie and
George, z, 4 and 10 years, respectively were
taken I'll after breakfast with symptoms of
poisoning. Their lives we're saved by prompt
medical attention, but their mother, VINO was
Ill az the time, died from the shock.
The officers of the Cltizens' League Of
| Chicago, an association whose object is tho
suppression OF the sale or liquors TO minors,
have challenged the right OF number OF
| Raloon-ksepere TO servo on the grand Jury.
| Tho liquors dealers have called a mass meet
| Ing for next Tuesday night to protest against
| this action.
| Rev. John P. Newman, pastor of the
| Madison Avenue Congregational Church, New
| York, preached yesterday In his pulpit. He
| made no reference whatever 10 the trouhlea
/ htmqnlf a Of
| CATION. DR.. Newman Will be rendered a re-.
| ceptlOn on Tuesday evening In the vestry
room OF the church, tho invitations being
signed by General u. 8. Grant, Alexander
| Nicoll, Joshua 8. Cooley, Sheppard Knapp and
| four more OF the trustees.
Mike Cuddihie and wife, living near
| Oursy, COL, three months ago adopted Mary
| Rose Matthews from tho Denver Catholics
| Orphan Home A week ago tho child died and
| was buried by Cuddihie. She had been cruelty
treated by tho couple, and tho coroner had her
| body disinterred. II was covered with knife
wounds, one log was brokon, her skull was
crushed and her limbs were frozen. Cuddlhle
and Wife were arrested, aud Friday they were
convicted OF murder. Saturday morning at
| O'Clock masked men hanged them near Ouray,
ON opposite sides OF the road.
A circular from Archbishop Lynch was
read yesterday In all the Catholic Churches In
Toronto, stating that he had received "a letter
from Rome, asking II It were true that the
Froemason Society was engaged In recruiting
large numbers OF Catholics In that province,
al reported In tho FreeHldSOn's Journal and
that he hed answered that very fow Catholics
had Joined that society, and those only who
had neglected their paschal communion and
were otherwise irreligious, looking only to
worldly gain, and not 10 the eternal salvation
OF their souis. The circular pointed out the
penalties for Joining that forbidden society.