The Evening critic., 1884-03-17
THE MORNING NEWS,


THE MORNING NEWS,
Local and General, Boiled Down,
Worked Over and Furnished Zip
Fresh.
There were III deaths in Baltlmsrssfsst
week. .urre.
v, If you s. xsst s.'stdsOmO spring over'0At
-s~Tffs. T.. b. Russell entered upon her du-
ties as matron AT the jail yesterday
Chief Mate John Wilson, Of the bark
Lillian, was Killed on Saturday In Chesapeake
Bay by August Petersen, seaman.
The Woman's Christian temperance
Union held their regular Sunday afternoon
meeting yesterday and had a large attendance.
The Germania Mmnnerchor last evening
gave an entertainment at Abner's Hall In
honor Of their director, Professor Emile L.
Mort.
The alarm Of fire from box 80, at o'clock
yesterday morning, was for the discovery of
IRE In 1888 Pennsylvania avenue. Damage,
800.
Miss Hattie Whiting, of Boston, took
part In the vesper music at ST. D0mlnic'5
Church yesterday. Tho music was unusually
line.
Fine specimens of the leather carp are
being caught in the Potomac In largo numbers,
having escaped from tho carp ponds during
the freehet.
Mr.. John A. Ryder lectured to large
afternoon on "Protoplasm In the Light OF Re-
cent Investigation"
Deputy Coroner Pattersons horse ran
away from the corner OF seventh and streets
Saturday evening and demolished q lamp
post and the buggy.
United States Minister Sargent has &C.
cepted an invitation TO dine with Emperor
william on the occasion Of the Emperor's S7th
birthday, on March %.
The county and town of Londonderry and
Ia 80 No Enr fna arh I.n md
Armagh, Ireland, have been proclaimed under
the Crimes act in Wow OF possible riots to-day.
The Secretary of War has decided to al
low General Newton to continue In charge OF
the He'll Gate and New York Harbor Improve.
ments In addition to his duties as Chief OF En-
gineers.
Rev. w. S. Ross, A. NJ, secretary of the
Irish societies, yesterday explained to the
congregation OF the Church OF tho Incarnation
the condition OF the disappearing population
OF Ireland.
A young man, named Lucien Beach, fell
| In q fl on the platform OF street-car, at the
corner OF Nineteenth street and the Avenue,
| yesterday. He was removed to Baldus' drug
| store ana afterward to his home.
Hugo Schenk, who confessed to having
| murdered four women In Vienna whom no
had married for tho purpose Of plunderlng,
| and Karl Schenk and Karl Schlossarck, his ac-
| completes, have been sentenced to death.
A private letter received in the city from
| Miss clara Barton, president OF the Red CrQaa
Association, states that the relief steapnDt'ot
mat 9 org II Doing good rsoy
floods. ILL.,
100 Jerseys, sIk$$fs, at Youngs, 7ae 9TH st
Archbis1cT Gil bdhs preached at the Ca
Ises In Batlao Yesterday to very
OF his trip abroad. He expressed the greatest
satisfaction at his safe return to this country
and was glad to be at home again.
Republican conventions were held in
to elect delegates to the Republican State Con-
ventioD. The result was clean sweep every
where for the friends OF Blaine. In York every
ward went for the Blaine delegate.
| At Charleston, w. Va, Saturday, Judge
| jackson OF the United States District Court
| rendered his decision extending the power Of
Thomas r: sharp as receiver over that portion
| OF the Ohio Central Railroad lying between
| Corning Ohio and the Ohio River.
A brutal assault in Brooklyn, N. Y, was
| committed yesterday upon a young woman
named Margaret Meehan by u gang OF rum.
ans, who dragged her into a stable In Nassau
alley. The police arrested John 1. Savage,
| Robert T. Baldwin, James Mulholland and
Robert Daily.
The Rev. DIR. W. II. Green, of Princeton
Theological Seminary, VIII attend as dele,
Of Reformed Churches holding the Presby.
terrain system, at Belfast, Ireland. The council
Will meet on June 81, and continue In session
until July 9.
Information has been received at Ash
land, Pa, that Professor Wilson, geologlst, OF
Chicago, has discovered 3S-inch vein OF
| sapphire corundum on the farm of Samuel
| Herb, near the Line Mountain, Northumber.
land County. This is the second discovery OF
| the Kind In America.
The Grace Reform Mission Sunday school,
| on Fifteenth street, near street, celebrated
Its seventh anniversary last evening with In
terestlng exercises. The programme EN-.
| braced solos, readings, etc. Mr.. j. H. Lichlter
gave review OF the history OF the institution
since Its organization.
At the house of John Cassidy, in Brook
| Ign, N. Y, yesterday, Dennis Reilly playfully
| pointed pistol at Celia Renney, a young lady
OF IL, and pulled the trigger. The weapon
| was discharged, ana Miss Renney was shot
through the head and killed. Reilly thought
tho pistol was not loaded.
1t is announced that Mrs. Frank Leslie,
widow OF the publisher, is engaged to the Mar.
quis de Lenvllle, OF France. The Marquis ia
an Anglo-Frenchman, born In England, ana
traces his title back to 1855 from tia 1oHse OF
Oliver do POurncourX Mrs. %u<Hs, 1t is I'M
deistood, VIII conti1( n Assfeaperyision of her
EASTER caTafHtXa dould's, 421 9th st.
Thesstffken lot Sn New Jersey avenue,
la3dst north OF the Capitol grounds, formerly
used as the Washington Georgetown Rail
| road car stables, has been filled up and leased
| 10 the National Baseball Club as the grounds
| for the game. II comprises over three acres