The Washington critic., 1885-11-04
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

Henry Sutherland, captain of the British
ship Canute, died at Mobile, Ala, yesterday.
ON Monday ninety new cases of smallpox
were reported at Montreal and forty-three
cases were verified.
"A mott on for a new trial has been filed I'm
the case of Patrick Herman, convicted ut An
napolis of murder In the second degree.
-.John Bunch, the negro jockey who shot
and killed James Riley, the driver of Richball,
at Homewood Park last July, was yesterday
convicted of murder In the second degree at
Pttsburg.
The winners at Jerome Park were Choc-
taw, Farewell, Unrest, King Arthur and Rose.
AT Brighton Beach the winners were SaXony.
Diamond, Hickory Jim. Ten strike, Kcokuk
and Harry Mann.
The dean and faculty of Trinity Medical
School, at Toronto, Canada, have offered a re-
who stole and suspended II human subject at
Il butchers stall.
Mrs. Michael Gallagher, the wife of a po-
liCcman living at No. 1901 Blddlc street, st.
Louis became the mother Monday night of
dren are all doing well.
After hearing argument in the Toledo,
Cincinnati ~ st. Louis Railroad cases, Judges
Baxter and Gresham of the United States
Court at Cincinnati ordered sale under the
foreclosure proceedings.
State Auditor Kicsewetter has instituted
suits for S2OOC0 damages each against the
Cincinnati TdWeS-Sidr and the Ficie Press for
the election fraud attempted in Columbus.
David Augsburg, feeble convict, aged n
years while being carried to the prison hos.
pital at Auburn, n. Y, dislodged his false
teeth and died of strangulation.. lie came
from Lewis County, and was serving a seven
years sentence for an attempt to kill.
The signal corps station at Atlantic CITY,
n. D., reports an unknown schooner ten miles
at sea northeast of South Brigantine station
disabled, and supposed to have been in col
lisiOn. The crew are supposed to have been
taken off by large thrcemasted schooner
yesterday. The vessel drfted out of sight
The United States Government has for
warded to the Minister of Marine at ottawa,
Ont, two gold medals for presentation to Cap
tain W. Graham of the British bark Rapid
Transit and Captain John Bard of the British
bark lIants County, for their services in res
cuing the crew of the American steamship
Hunter, in March, 1885.
Rev. Father Theophilus Ancaux, pastor
Of st. Anne's Church, Detroit, Mich, died on
Monday at the parochial residence of CON
old and Of French birth. lie was IS for eleven
years priest in Belgium. He came to Detroit
In 1861 and accompanied Bishop Borgess. on Il
visit TO the Pope In 1877.
AT the closing session of the National
Women's Christian Temperance Union in
Philadelphia yesterday, Mrs Julia q. Wal
lace of Indiana, superintendent of the fran
chise department., reported that there are
twelve States In which women are given the
right of suffrage, and said that the women
| suftragists stood ON no narrow platform, as
| God has given to all the right to rule them
| selves. \ resolution that the use of alcoholic
wines in the holy communion furnishes moral
| support to the liquor traffic and Is not n
| proper type of the blood OF Christ, was
| adopted.
A strike Of considerable magnitude was
| begun at Galveston, Texas, yesterday by the
| Knights of Labor. The trouble arose from the
refusal of the agent of the Mallory Line of
| steamers to withdraw the colorod lOngshore-
| men from the Mallory wharf, where they have
| been working for the past two weeks having
| been put ON TO replace striking lOngshoremen.
| All the knights of Labor employed by the
| Gulf, Colorado IL Santo Fe Railroad and by
| the Missouri Pacific line in Galveston and in
have struck, and four great cotton presses
| are idle. The handling of freight by the rail
| roads Is for the time being paralyzcd.