Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-09-27
Bisroe Uneasy.
vIRoINIANS CLAIM HIN AND THREATEN TO |


the homicide was committed IN the fotomac
river about a mile from the Virginia shore,
while the sIoop was being steered towards Piney
Point lighthouse. This gives Maryland juris-
dIction Col. Robert NJ Mayo, n Virginia lawyer,
residing in Westmoreland county. Va, in whose
waters some claim the murder was committed,
says the statements OF Biscoe must be received.
Capt John Murphy, commonwealth attor-
ney In Westmoreland county, Va, has written
to the 81. Mary's county authorities that he will
send witnesses TO LeOnardtown To prove that
the homicide was committed in Virginia. Dur
ing the delay in deciding the question OF Jur1S-
diction there has been some excitement IN
Leonardtown about the fate of the prisoner.
Forty OF the Leonardtown militia company are
guarding the Jail day and night. Last sunday
Two boats filled with Nirginians went up TO
Leonardtown. They visited the Jail and be-
came much excited. They told the guards they
wanted Biscoe hung. and that If the jury failed
to convict him they would like TO hang the
jury. GRAN, ,rrv q, 1sor,ro,own On Friday
indicted Biscoe for murder, the jurors having
satisfied themselves that the crime was COM
mitted within their jurisdiction
News Briefs.
1t is stated that when Prince Alexander was
still in power, Mr.. Mackay, the American
millionaire, offered to advance a large loan to
the Bulgarian government.
France has restored TO King Norodom the en-
tire administration OF affairs in Cambodia ex-
cepting the control of the opium monopoly and
the customs.
The steerage rate war between Atlantic
steamship companies is about to be brought to
Q close, the lines having effected q compromise
The San Francisco authorities have refused to
grant license for the glove fight between Jack
Burke and Jack Dempsey until the state cleo
tons are over.
Lewis E Davis, charged with killing Police
man Peterson, in Wilmington, Del, in June,
1855, was sentenced to prison tor life and fined
$4,000.
tOnal Association, at a secret meeting in New
York Friday to consider the great Whining
ton strike, resolved on warfare against the
knights OF Labor.
One hundred pounds of gun cotton and nitro
giycerine exploded at the giant powder works
near san Francisco, Cal, and two Cinnamon
Mrs. Ella T. Hough and Mrs. Margaret A.
White, sisters, and Edward White, husband of
the latter, have been arrested at Fayette City,
near Pittsburg, charged with conspiring to place
their brother, w. ii. Todd, in an insane asy-
lum.
York, has assigned. Liabilities over Sis, 900.
Prince Regent Luitpold, OF Bavaria, Is ex-
pected to visit Emperor William, at Berlin, in
October. This will be the first official visit of
Bavarian ruler TO Berlin since the uniication
OF the German states.
The Repubii2r1e FTancdtse insists that the
French should remain in the New Hebrides
islands. IL says: 'The presence of German gun
boats in the New Hebrides shelling native vii
lagos renders ii impossible for to evacuate
without dishonor to the French flag.
Mr. Parnell intends to make a special appeal
To lrishmen fnAmerica to assist tenan evicted
during the coming winter TO hold out against
the landlords.
The body of David Wilkerson, colored, who
was lynched week ago for Outraging a white
GIRL was found hanging in the woods near Mill
Ian, Ga, Wednesday.
Col. Black, of the British army, now In Win
nipeg. says the imperial government means to
make Esquimatt, in British Columbia, an i'm
war.
The German gunboat Albatross recently fired
upon the natives OF the New Hebrides Islands,
out OF revenge for the killing OF two white men,
Klein and cullen. The natives were slaugh-
tered like sheep.
The executive committee of the Lehigh and
Schuylkll coal exchange yesterday agreed
TO advance the line and city and harbOr prices
niteen cents on all sizes except lump, steam
boat and pea on October LIST.
RI Rev. jeremiah Francis Shanahan. d. d..
bishop OF the Catholic diocese of Harrisburg,
Pa, died Friday.
Miss Esther Richardson, of Norfolk. Va. was
severely and perhaps fatally burned Friday
while attempting to kindle a fire with Kerosene
lightning Friday struck and set fire to the
Italian bark Nicola, while she was being laden
win oenzine at Fiume, and eight men persisted
In the flames.
IL has been finally settled that Sir William
white, now British minister at Bucharest, will
succeed Sir Edward Thornton as British ambas.
saQOr Al COnStantinOple.
The International cricket game ended at
Philadelphia Saturday the gentlemen of Eng.
land winning by one inning and twenty-five
The National Shoe and Leather bank of New
HorS has obtained a Judgment against
promissory note tor 81, $50 made by him and
1ndorsed by Charles H. Field and Maurice b.
George NJ Fabler, city marshal of Long View.
Ie4as, was killed at the Capitol hotel, in Mar
snai Texas, Friday in difficulty with L. l..
and l.. W. league, father and son.
Nicholas Doyle, aged hfty-five, gate-tender
on the pennsylvania railroad, in New Bruins
Wick, Nj, tor over thirty years, who has saved
more than a dozen lives, was struck Friday
by train and killed,
A. G. Strong, of Naperville, ILL.,, a knight Tenn
plar in attendance upon the conclaye i'm St
Louis, was killed Friday by being run over
Dy passenger train at Cheltenham, near ST.
Louis.
Frank 5. Humphreys was hanged Friday
at Miiledgeville, Ga, for the murder and out
rage OF two ladies, Carrie Raines and Ella Hum
phreys (his kinswoman) on March Attn.
John j. Orr, of the Louisville Tent and AVN
Ing company, was arrested Thursday at Sarnia
Ont, on the charge of taking S4,7OO stolen
money into Canada.