The Washington critic., 1886-07-14
General News Notes.


The Brazilian Prince Augusta has gone
to Niagara Falls.
Lord Salisbury, It is said, has accepted
Lord Hartington's home-rule policy.
Henry c. De Rivera, the missing sugar
merchant, is believed to be in Montreal.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
rejected the navigation treaty with Italy.
Switzerland will arbtrate the frontier dis
putes between France and the Congo Free
State.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will preach
next Sunday In the Westminster Chapel,
London.
There was serious riotng In. Belfast last
night, and elsewhere in Ireland the previous
evening.
The Vatican has asked an explanation
OF passage In recent letter Of Prince
Luitpold.
Polling in the Newmarket division OF
Cambridgeshire was postponed yesterday in
consequence Of rioting.
New York merchants are elated over the
passage by the Senate of the bill to provide
a harbor commission for New York.
Mr.. 7. NJ. Healy, addressing a National
League meeting, declared that coalition
government could not exist three months.
One hundred houses have been destroyed
by fire in the town Of Koden, Poland. Throe
hundred families have been rendered home
less.
Mr.. Parnell publishes denial of Lord
Hartington's charge that the Irish party and
National League are In union with Ameri-
| can Fenians.
1t is stated that General Master Work.
man Powderly has consented to accept the
| Democratic nomination for Governor of
| Pennsylvania.
| TIM chnlaro rattIrpc for yaetar1au
Brindisi, 147 new cases, As deaths Fontana,
| 70 cases, &c deaths; Latiano, 33 cases, 12
| deaths; San Vito, II cases, deaths
| One hundred dry goods merchants OF
| New York met yesterday and expressed In
| dignation at the refusal of the trunk lines
to adopt more equitable classification of
cotton piece goods.
| A plumber making excavations under an
areaway in New York dug up the skeleton
OF man, probably seven feet high in life
and which is supposed to have been buried
nearly thirty years.
The 400 rug weavers who have been on
strike at the rug and carpet manufactury Of
John Bromley IL Sons, Philadelphia, re-.
| turned to work yesterday under protest
The strike was caused by the refusal of
the firm to lay oil a learner until Wednes-
day.
AT the Forty -thrdstreet crossing of the
| isuhc cnOrt hdllToau, near SnlcapO, MOuuay
evening, Louis Schooye was shot and badly
wounded by Pinkerton detective because
Schoove remarked contemptuously as he
passed by that the detectives gun looked as
If 1t had come from pawn shop.
The Green Glass Blowers League OF the
Eastern District are In session at Atlantic
City, N j. Yesterdays session was taken
up in discussing the proposition to go as II
body into the knights Of Labor and the
question OF asking for an advance In rates.
No vote was taken ON either subject.
The Lonsdale Company's cotton mill at
Ashton, X, J., shut down Monday in conse-
| quenco Of the strike of twenty-eght spin
ners, locking out 800 employees. The
trouble arose over insufficient pay and the
discharge Of the oyerseer for incompetency.
4 The strike at Knights cotton mills at Ma
tick has extended from the l75 weayers to
sixty other hands.
Niuely-twO delegates, representing all the
Eastern States, aud also Minnesota, Mchi-
gan, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio and Indiana, were
present at the third annual convention OF
the Newsdealers and Statloners' National
Association In Chicago yesterday. The OBJ
| 1ect OF the association is to obtain au open
market for the periodicals which the trade
throughout the country handles.