Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-06-16
Teerner Accused of Fraud.



The democratic state and district conven-
lions OF Vermont Will be hello at Montpelier
July 21.
The thermometer recorded 96 degrees at
Minneapolis, Mimi, Friday, and there were
several cases OF sunstroke-One fatal. At Rock
port, H., Monday tine mercury rose to 1O5
degrees.
A London dispatch says Judge Fulerton's
arguments before the House committee at
Washington have been used to stimulate deal
ings in confederate bonds with small effect.
Mrs. Matilda DOrau, George, her seyen-year-
old son, and Laura kee1er, aged %, of Jersey
City. were drowned In the Hackensack river
by the eapsIzing OF sail boat Sunday after
moor.
Cardinal Gibbons confirmed 81 youths Mt the
cathedral in baltimore sunday, and Bishop
Paret confirmed classes at two churches in Bal
The sale Of cigars and tobacco on Sunday has
been stopped by the Baltimore police.
Capt Francis Jeffrey Dic5ens, son of the late
Charles Dickens. The English novelist died sud-
denly at Moliere, ILL.,, sunday OF paralysis of
the heart
Collector Hedden has decided on the removal
OF all offensive partisans" from the New York
custom house.
Andrew :. Perry and Leroy Plaisted, boys,
while playing near sand bank at Chandon,
bank
Frederick Hermann, late director of the Gin.
cirnau City infirmary, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary FOR twelve years Tor misappro-
prlatins funds OF the infirmary.
Robert Robinson, aged 16, of Wadesboro, s.
C., was bitten by "A mad dog on the left arm two
years ago. lew days ago he was sLung by
bees on the same arm. On sunday he died
with symptoms OF hydrophobia.
Bishop Duhamel of the diocese OF Ottawa
has issued "A circular warning Catholics against
joining the Knights OI Labor.
By the destruction OF Payne's mattress
factory by fire in Chicago Monday three women
Were dangerously burned.
Most OF tine delegates To- the Kansas republic
can convention favor the denomination OF Gov.
Martin
The Baltimore corn and flour exchange has
appointed a committee 10 confer with Congress
men in reference TO legislation against dis
examination In railroad Ire iEht rates.
Mr. " hite, Canadian minister of the interior,
says u commission will doubtless be appointed
TO settle the fisheries question.
The vatican has intimated TO the Irish bishops
desire 10 have them abstain from political
party strife.
Juarez Selman has been elected president of
the Argentine Republic.
Asiatic Cholera has appeared at Trieste.
In ST. Louis warrants have been issued for the
arrests of forty-seven Knights OF Labor for con-
A local assembly of Knights of Labor. $50
strong, has been formed by 81. Louis servant
girls
HUME, TUE SPIRITCALIST, a WRECK.-A Bos-
ton special To tEe y. \. Tribune says: \ few
weeks ago Dr. Donald kennedy of Boston
Highlands, visited Hume, the noted spiritual
Isl, IA Paris. He was then harmleSsy insane
He did not know even his WIFE lis sI,i.,aI col
uInn was bent and curved like a Turkish cine
Ter Ills articulation childish, and he
seemed at deaths door. lie had spells of con-
sclOu<ue>s, but they were brief, ana after "a few
coherent sentences he would fall back into
insanity. tie had one OF these DIR. Kennedy
orset IL the next moment. 1t Is u remarkable
lact IN the history al spiritualIsm that two of
IL most gIited mediums became insane. The
Itne- Was roster, VINO died IN an insane asy-
lum at Salem few months ago. Foster was
gross in his habits, bui Hume was the incarna-
Iion OF purely ana genteness.
SUING HER FATHER FOR BREACH OF PROM
ISE--Niss Ella " ilcOX, of Mount Holly N l.
has commenced a novel suit against her father
She was engaged tO be married with his con-
sent To- Mr.. john Cook but three DAYS before
the wedding flt her *
refused Ia allow the ceremony To take place
Her lover became disguised. and vowed never
again 10 enter the house. Sne is now plaintiff
In a suit Tor breach OF promise against her
father, placing her damages at $4,000 The
case Is without a parallel.
sENSATT0SAL SUICIDE OF BALTIMORE
Fo1sGER-Nel~On Palmer, confidential clerk in
Tie DFoheF once OF Andrews, Peters * Co., of
Baltimore, committed suicide in "a cell in the
central police station in that city Saturday.
Palmer mad teen arrested FOR raising the
amounts OF bonds which he had purchased Tor
customers OF the firm. This he did in an at
tempt To cover losses he had made in specula-
ton ON his own account Palmer was librarian
OF Brown Memorial Presby terrain sunday
SCHOOL, and Was .. orlsn. young man.
FRANKIE FOLSOM AssExBIY.-Hueh Came
ron, a member OF the cooperative board,
knlShtS OF Labor Is in Cleveland for the pur-
pose of organizing local assemblies among the
farmers in tue neighbOrhood. Several days ago
he organized AN assembly at Cnagrin Falls and
the members decided Ia call IL Frankie Folsom
Assembly, IN honor Oh the wife OF the President.
LAvIsHISG HOSoRs on DIR. HoLMEs-Dr
Holmes continues I'd receive the high hest honors
that the English people can lavish upon a
favored guest At "A dinner given in his honor
Dy The great surgeon sir Henry Thompson Mr.
Holmes recently met such IA notable cumpany
As Mr. Gladstone. John Morley, Robert Brown
ins, the Rignt Hon. sir James Hannen Judge
ol the court OF probate, Alma Tademst and Du
aaurier. the artists, and sir James Paget and
Ernest Hart, the eminent medical writer's. DR.
ftOiineS mas now gone on "A visit To Iennyson at
the laureate . Island home.
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a LoRBYISG SCANDAL AT MoSTREAL-I.
lawyer named Archsnbault to recover $ 800
lnerusted 10 the latter TO bride La Pune OF
Montreal, and lie LecfeuF, of Quebec. To- suI-
port bill IN the Quebec legislature granting
SENEGAL the privilege of constructing a tunnel
under 81. Lawrence river. The bill did not pass
and SENEGAL never got an accounting for the
$1,000. Archambault testified that ne had
paio senator Ihibeaudeau SouO. and 81 600 to
rroiontalne a lawyer and liberal candidate Tor
the legislature. Senator TheDeaudeau in his
evidence stated that he had received the
money, but as he had advanced the amount
previously Tor Archambault in connection
with politics he Kept the money to repay him
$1,000, but his receipts from the proprietors of
the Outtg JoSar,iU mentioned that he divided
the fuli amount between them for their patron.
age OF the scheme.
ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE CHICAGO Rror
Officer Neis Hansen, VINO was wounded in the
recent Haymarket riot in Chicago died Mon.
day. In the hope OF saving his lille the doctors
undertook the operation OF transfusng into
the wounded mans veins blood from the arm
Of his brotber-in-Iaw, Erich ESeries, but Han
sen died about two hours alter the operation