The Washington critic., 1886-08-13
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Belfast remains comparatively quiet
The English criclctcre viii sail next
Thursday for New YORK..
Tho coal companies hnvc ordered an adj
vance In the price OF c0nl,
The funeral Of the late Richard NJ. Hoe
took place yesterday in New York.
Two companies Of volunteers to fight The
McNicaus are being formed at Shenandoah,
pa.
The Canadian Government has forbidden
American vessels to enter the bay Of
thalcur.
The police at Farrauforc, County Kerry,
were fired upon by mOonlighters Wcdn5s-
day night.
The labor organizations Of New York will
hold their State convention at Syracuse on
September 10.
The Rev. John f. Bergen, vlce-prcsldent
and chancellor Of st. Louis University is
dead, aged ~.
Bernard Martin and his wife were recently
found burned in Arizona, having been mur-
dercd aud robbed.
The Irish Times reports that Lord Ran
dolph Churchill is drafting bill to solve
the Irish problem.
Anti-Jcwish riots have occurred in the
Province OF kien, Russia, and the houses OF
many Hebrews were wrecked
Richard Boettger, gunsmlth, Lancaster,
Ia, was dangerously wounded yesterday
10y gun supposed not to be loaded.
The argument in the Bcunett-FIeld libel
case for u rohearing has been concluded;
Judgment has been reserved and execution
stayed.
The B. and o. officials deny the continued
reports that they have purchased land for
terminals in the noiglborhoOd Of Cdyen
Point and Greenyille, n. j.
The Spanish Government will subsiii2c
IN july 1857, new lines of steamers to
South, Central aud North America, Asia,
etc. The Panama canal will be used IL
opened.
Louise Michel was yesterday sentenced In
Paris to four months imprisonment aud to
| pay fine Of 100 francs for sclitiDus lan-
| guage aud melting to murder during the
| Decazyile riots
The triennial conference Of German mine
| owners will be hcld on September at Dus-
seldorf and will consider the means TO pro.
tect the German iron trade from English
competition, which threatens it with eX-
tnction.
II is stated that the B. and O Railroad
| has made traffic arrangement with the
| Jersey Central Railroad, by which the II.
and o. is to have perpetual use OF the Jcr-
sey Central tracks between Bound Brook
| aud Elizabeth.
Mr.. BradlGuph will ask the House of
| Commons to enforce the order declaring the
Interference OF peers in elections constitutes
high Infringement on the liberties and
privileges of the Commons. and will men.
tion the Dukes Of Westminster, Norfolk
Argyle ard the Earl of Leicester.
Thomas Bondy, the son of Baptist
minister at Graysvilc, Tenn, attempted to
| tVIip I,1t ~ F,ry ,,frg
| ing his sister. Davis crushed Bondy's
| skull with stone, and then the father of
Bondy interfered He and Davis fought
with knives and both were mortally
wounded.
Laura c. Holloway of Brooklyn, n. Y,
has filed u bill In equity TO restrain Bradley
Il Co., publishers Of Philadelphia, from
publishing IN connection with her book,
The Ladies Of the White House." any
sketch Of Miss Rose Cleveland or the life
and marriage of Mrs. Frances Cleveland
not written by the complainant.
Mrs. Emma Frances Shaw, wife of Isaac
| H. shaw, general manager OF the electric
light company at Wiliamsport, Pa, com
mitted suicide at the St. James Hotel, Pitts
burg, Pa, yesterday, by taking strychnine.
She gave her l0ycar.old son a cup of
poisoned coffee, but he did not drink it.
she was returning from San Francisco.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
Sarah Jane Robinson, a widow, Is under
arrest at somerville, suburb of Boston,
Mass, charged with poisoning her family
Her son, William j. Robinson, Is dying
from arsenical poison. An adopted sou
died three weeks ago under suspicious cir.
cumstances. Two daughters and son died
some years ago. The police think Mrs
Robinson poisoned by wholesale to secure
insurance money.