The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-06-09
MINOR News NOTES.

-CongrcSsman-cl elect Cole of Baltimore,
is very i'll at Atlantic City.
The reported loss of the French gun.
beat Rcnard is not confirmed.
Minister Phelps has invited Senator
Ednunds to be his guest during his SO.
iourn in London.
-Ierdinand Ward pleaded not guilty to
two indictments against him Jointly with
Fisk yesterday morning.
The French man-of-war Rcnard
with crew of nincty-two souls, is believed
to have foundercd i'll the Red Sea.
The bursting of q sewer in London
last night flooded a portion of the aristo-
cratic quarter. The new residence of Min
lister Phelps was among those flooded.
The Gd1slois says that Russia declines
all offers of Americans and Irishmen sent
through the Russian Minister at Washing
ton to cquipa privatee fleet against Eng
land
"A mass meeting of citizens in favor of
the entrance of the Baltimore x Ohio Rail
road into Philadelphia was held last even
ing at the Philadelphia Academy of
Music
The New York Daily Commercial Bulle-
Ha places the aggregate loss of fires in
May in the United States and Canada at
SS,I50,C0O, or 10 per cent. increase in fire
waste during the same month for ten
years.
A large delegation of printers from the
International Convention went from New
York to Philadelphia yesterday as the
guests of Mr. G.. W. Childs. They were
given Il sumptuous banquet at Paramount
Park.
Sullivan, who is travelling with q
minstrel troupe, posing as ancient satu-
AIRY. made his first appearance in that role
in Philadelphia last night. One of his
l,,
self in pri2e-tighting position.
The judgment against the personal
property of Mrs. Della 4. Parnell was can
celled in the Court of Chancery at Trenton
yesterday by friends from New York
There was, therefore, no sale at her home
in Bordentown. The sheriff did not ap,
pear. The residence was tightly closed at
| the hour appointed for the sale.
Walter c. Whipple, son of General
| Whipple of General Hanoook's staff, com
mitted suicide in New York last evening
by shooting himself through the heart
| He was % years of age and student al
the New York Medical College. Over tax
| alton of the brain is said to have been the
cause of suicide, Young Whipple was
well known in this city. His father was
on duty in the War Department here fol
number ofyears.
"A Richmond dispatch to the Baltimore
| ziWcftUN Sil tiiut tOll5TcHSlllul
John S. Wise and Captain Ta2ewell Elicit
engaged in a street rencontre, growing out
Of suit about a patent on gentlemen
drawers. Captain Elicit met Wise yester
| day morning, and commented severely
upon the decision which had been rem
dered without any notification to him. HI
used and reiterated harsh condemnation
| of Wise, who then struck him, and lively
| fight ensued. Before the combatants wert
| Spporatpd they were arrested
The motion for new trial in the cast
| of Cluverius was denied yesterday.
motion was made for an arrest of iudg
ment; that is, that the sentence Of thu
court should not be pronounced To
morrow week was fixed for argument OF
this motion. Cluverius' counsel are busil,
engaged in preparing bills of exception L
carry his case to the Court of Appeals. |
is hardly probable that that tribunal cal
hear this case before the October or No
vember term. If this is the case, the dealt
sentence, which will be passed upon hin
by the Hastings Court, can hardly b.
executed before the latter part of tn
year